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Finale 2004 for Mac OS X

Wednesday August 6, 2003 3:24 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
MakeMusic.com announced that Finale 2004 will be released for Mac OS X (native) on October 20, 2003:



    Now Finale takes full advantage of Mac OS Xs functionality, ease of use and great beauty. A new reality in Finale 2004. Complete with built-in USB MIDI.



Mac OS X CoreMIDI support, Long/Unicode filename support, PDF saves, Applications Services are listed among the OS X native features.



Finale is a popular music notation application. Previous versions have only provided Classic support under Mac OS X.

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MacBytes
111 months ago
Category: 3rd Party Software
Link: Finale 2004 for Mac OS X shipping on October 20, 2003

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Chealion
111 months ago
More OS X software is always a good thing.
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MacViolinist
111 months ago
it's about friggin' time. the carbon version was really buggy and pretty much sucked. Sibelius is good, but not yet widely accepted for publication. now i can never boot to OS 9 again (well after October)
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cheadley
111 months ago
Finally!!! I've been watching friends in the ministry switch to Peecees because that was cheap for their church, their churches were already full of beige boxes, and because the software we so desperately need for arranging each week only worked in Classic.

Agreed, the classic version was buggy and crashed often.




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crenz
111 months ago

Now Finale takes full advantage of Mac OS X’s functionality, ease of use and great beauty. A new reality in Finale 2004.


Beauty? They must be joking. Just check out the screenshot on the site. The tool bars look as if someone made a deliberate effort to make it look unlike any application on OS X I know.

*sigh*. At least I don't have to fire up OS 9 anymore.
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mahermusic
111 months ago
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE!
I switched to Sibelius a year ago when the native OS X version (2.0) came out to arrange and orchestrate music for my Marching Band. Would've been with Finale, but instead they decided to wait a year.

Now Sibelius has already had an update to make it even faster, and with more features. Good riddance Fin(ish)ale!
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sparkleytone
111 months ago
BOUT DAMN TIME.

i mean sweet jebus, coda, how long have we been waiting for you to get this show on the road? anyways, i'll definitely be getting this.
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Grimace
111 months ago
Finale is the most ridiculous software program out there.

Sibelius software is so much more advanced - don't even both with Finale!
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macomposer
111 months ago
Hopefully, the new version will exorcise the numerous bugs that have always existed in Finale. I've used it since 1991, and have stuck with it because of familiarity. If the new version is still problematic, though, I would finally consider a switch to Sibelius.
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kickapoobd
111 months ago
I switched to Sibelius a year ago. The ease of use was a true selling point. After the first month, I was faster notating in Sibeliius than Finale. All my Finale files transfered with ease.

You will love the print quality. No regrets leaving os 9!

Sorry coda. I'd love to send all my multi-book manuals back so you could turn them back into trees so you could save your sinking ship.
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