5 Responses to “Finale PrintMusic 2010”

1. Zurlo Teodorico Says:
   July 19th, 2010 at 6:24 pm

   se si cerca un software di notazione musicale adatto al 98% delle esigenze quotidiane Finale Print Music 2010 è la soluzione;
   
   economico, potente, non avido di risorse, completo, ricco di dotazioni che si spingono fino all’integrazione di un modulo di scansione per l’acquisizione delle partiture stampate, viene offerto ad meno di un quinto del prezzo di campioni come lo stesso Finale o il suo diretto antagonista Sibelius (entrambi potentissimi ma sovradimensionati per l’utente medio) complimenti quindi a chi ha pensato a questa modulazione di prodotto.

   consigliatissimo

   Teodorico Zurlo
   
   Roma, Italia
   Rating: 4 / 5

2. I. Senn Says:
   July 19th, 2010 at 8:22 pm

   I am sure that Finale PrintMusic 2010 can do everything I will ever need it to do. I just need a long enough amount of concentrated time to practice the different ways of getting a composition on the page. I’m still learning!
   Rating: 5 / 5

3. RAC Says:
   July 19th, 2010 at 8:37 pm

   I purchased Finale PrintMusic primarily to scan in printed music to facilitate arranging edits, transpositions, etc. The product does a poor job of accurately scanning printed music, and the correction process is at best tedious. The scanning software included with PrintMusic is Smartscore LITE by Musitek, which is apparently a crippled version of the top-of-the-line scanning software. In any event, it does not scan within reasonable ranges of accuracy. If the sheet music is in near perfect condition, I find the accuracy to be marginally adequate. In the last page of printed music that I scanned (32 measures), there were more than three dozen errors, including missing slurs, missing measure bars, incorrect notes, and no titles or chords. If you need reliable music scanning capabilities, buy other software. I never tried the MicNotator feature and never will, because the PrintMusic box is now in a round file marked “trash.”
   Rating: 1 / 5

4. Scott Reeves Says:
   July 19th, 2010 at 9:27 pm

   I am a retird professional musician that now works in upper-level network management. This is the best product for the price that I haev ever seen! Absolutely, no doubt. You must try it.
   Rating: 5 / 5

5. A. Sadovnikov Says:
   July 19th, 2010 at 11:05 pm

   I run Finale PrintMusic 2010 on Vista OS computer for a month. I bought it for very specific project: 1) to scan high-quality printout of a score, 2) make a few small changes to score (and correct scan errors), 3) insert lyrics in cyrillic (Russian). Here are my observations:
   
   1) Scan quality is O.K. – I have to correct only 2-5 notes per page. However, sometimes it misses important things (e.g. it thinks that duration sign 12/8 is a cord of half notes) and scan becomes quite useless.
   
   2) Simple Edits (i.e. changing note location and duration, adding new notes) are easy. More complicated ones (like breking systems and measures, changing durations)are very un-intuitive and can lead to un-predicive results. I have read manuals, watched videos and still have great difficulty doing this.
   
   3) What is really bad in this software is handling cyrillic font. Built-in TimeNewRoman/cyrillic font does not allow to cut-and-paste text in text tool and lyrics tool does not work at all. I downloaded another font and now I can type-in using “blind” method, i.e. cyrillic letters appear as latin letters during typing – very inconvenient. Vendor admitted this bug and promised to correct it in the next release. Remains to be seen.
   Rating: 3 / 5

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