SCORING SOFTWARE Coda Finale 2002 |
What's New in Finale
2002
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Improved Simple Entry. Faster, more intuitive
and more powerful. Common keyboard shortcuts can
be accessed from the number keypad. Select notes
for editing - drag notes, beam, slash grace notes, add accidentals,
and more!
You control the size of the Speedy Frame. With Auto Launch
frame, you’ll never have to click the
measure to get started entering music with Speedy Entry.
Don’t let barlines come between you and editing! Most Speedy Edit commands
apply to the previous note when you’ve jumped to the next blank measure.
Take command from your keyboard! Specify durations, navigate and other
commands can be sent from your keyboard while in Speedy Entry.
Beams stay put in Simple and Speedy Entry. Custom beaming won’t
change when you add or delete notes in the measure.
Easy to use Exercise Wizard makes
lesson creation easy. Customize for any combination of
instruments. A band director’s dream come true!
Smarter Smart Shapes! Multiple handles for easier editing of
Smart Shapes, like crescendos, slurs and brackets.
Contextual menus in Smart Shapes - align hairpins, force shapes to be
horizontal,
maintain the angle of shapes over a system breaks and more.
Smart Slurs avoid collisions with articulations set to “Inside slur.”
Engraver Slurs - avoid collisions with stems, beams, noteheads,
articulations, and
accidentals
for the most beautiful slurs ever!
Absolute Staff Sizing. Finer control over the resulting staff
height. Resize the music without changing page margins, fonts, etc.
Copy articulations, expressions, slurs and more to other rhythmically
identical regions with SmartFind and Paint.
We’ve made it easier to select just the
notes you want to use in a percussion map.
Contextual menus in the Time Signature and Key Signature tools make it easier for you
to set time and key signatures on the fly.
The Setup Wizard will create
percussion staves with percussion noteheads, where
appropriate,
when you select a percussion instrument.
Percussion maps can be applied while importing MIDI
files. Choose the clef, choose a playback channel and choose
which MIDI notes get percussion noteheads.
Now you can save your Finale or MIDI
files as SmartMusic Accompaniment files. With the SmartMusic Studio® 7.0 subscription,
you’ll be able to open your own custom files and have the accompaniment follow
you!
Search Plug-in for Acrobat Reader included on the CD to search the entire User
Manual.
Improved Selection Tool! Select, edit, delete and move items using
only the Selection Tool. Click on an articulation and drag it around without
needing to switch tools. Right-mouse-click on handles for more editing options.
Even more items recognized by the Selection Tool: Tuplets, Time and Key
Signatures, Clefs and Ossias.
Composer’s Assistant Plug-ins. These incredibly liberating tools were
created with IRCAM, Pierre Boulez’ Computer Music Compositional Laboratory. Ten
plug-ins for rapidly generating many musical possibilities..
1. CHORD MORPHING - generates a variety of
smooth between-chord transitions
2. CHORD REORDERING - finds new placement options
for chords
3. CHORD REALIZATION - generates four-part
realizations of a triad based on major key & scale degree
specified
4. CHORD SPLITTING - creates subsets of the
original chord
5. COMMON TONE TRANSPOSITION - creates a series of
transpositions of the chord where one note is
equal to one note of the
original chord
6. FREQUENCY MODULATION CHORD GENERATOR - generates a series of chords
with increasing
complexity and texture
7. MELODIC MORPHING - creates a melodic transition
from one melody to another
8. RHYTHM GENERATOR - instantly creates up to six
staves of percussion that can accompany your score
9. TIE COMMON NOTES - inserts a tie between any
two successive notes if the notes have the same pitch
10. VIRTUAL FUNDAMENTAL GENERATOR - automatically gives the
appropriate “root” for any selected
group of staves
TGTools Plug-ins.These plug-ins are a sample of the immensely useful
TGTools plug-in collection.
1. ALIGN/MOVE DYNAMICS - vertically align all
selected dynamics, expressions and hairpins
2. EASY HARMONICS - string harmonics fast and
easy
3. EASY TREMOLOS - easily create tremolos for
display and playback
4. MENU SHORTCUTS - write your own script to
automate common tasks
5. SMART PLAYBACK - adds a playback effect to
glissandi, hairpins and trills
More Plug-ins!
1. BAND-IN-A-BOX AUTO-HARMONIZER - add new voices to an
existing melody, based on chord
symbols
2. PATTERSON BEAMS - apply additional beaming
options for the most elegant beams imaginable
3. EXTRACT LYRICS - save your lyrics to a text
file and share
We’ve added a Save Special to unclutter the File Menu.
Expanded and
improved Help! Click on the Table of Contents button and get back on
track. A picture of the dialog box accompanies dialog box topics. Each button
and checkbox is explained in detail.
You control Playback and Music Spacing on a layer, measure
or note level.
Make Rehearsal Letters that automatically
break multimeasure rests! Also, more
flexibility
with “Do Not Print Text In <Angle Brackets>.”
Edit Ossias in any View. Whether in Page View or Scroll View, you
can always edit your ossias.
New Templates included with Finale 2002:
1. Kodály - One staff for
stick notation, one for solfège
2. Kodály Auto-Stick - One
staff for simple stick notation
3. SATB (Two Staff) with Piano
- Four staves (SA on Treble, TB on Bass, plus piano)