Finale Allegro is a lower cost alternative to Finale 2007, giving educators, performing musicians, composers, arrangers and worship directors all the MIDI and notation tools they need to create publisher-quality scores, while leaving out the detailed engraving options found in Finale.
Create music the way you do with paper and pencil - writing all the music as you go with one utensil. It is all the function of Simple Note Entry as you knew it, plus the power of Speedy Note Entry, with additional control. It may become the way you get most things done in Allegro.
Click notes onto the staff or use MIDI to indicate pitch. Or input notes with the numeric pad and keys 'A' 'B' 'C' 'D' 'E' 'F' and 'G.' Change octave. Enter rests. Add accidentals. Add notes in a chord to an existing note. Create triplets. Now add grace notes.
But entering notes is just the start. Enter articulations on the fly or 'lock-in' an articulation to place on several notes. Change the key or time signature simply with key commands. Re-pitch existing notes, regardless of their durations, using any of the note-entry methods to re-pitch these rhythms. Change layers or create multiple voice lines on the staff as you write or edit.
Getting Started
Launch Window puts the power of Allegro within a single mouse-click Setup Wizard and pre-designed templates help quickly create new music Quick Start Videos show you how ñ on your computer screen
Entering Notes
Enter notes with your mouse, computer keyboard, and/or MIDI keyboard (including sustain pedal) in step- or real-time
Enter notes by playing your brass or woodwind instrument into a mic with Allegros exclusive MicNotator
Scan sheet music with SmartScore Lite (included) and import or export MIDI files
State of the Art
Universal - Allegro runs natively (and quickly) on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Macs as well as Windows computers
Composing and Arranging
Automatically add two- and three-voice auto-harmonization from Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing
Automatically add Drum Grooves (and easily expand your choice of styles)
Teaching Music
Exercise Wizard instantly creates warm-ups for the whole band, orchestra, or choir
Setup Wizard includes diverse options, including Orff instruments and marching percussion
Create quizzes and tests that students can open, edit, print, and play with the free, down loadable Finale NotePad
Playing Your Music
Play back with integrated software sounds (including Row-Loff marching percussion) or via external MIDI devices
Human Playback adds expression, phrasing, swing, and dynamics ñ automatically
Powerful mixer offers control of volume, panning, patch, and reverb as well as the choice of mute, solo, or record
Editing Your Music
MIDI tool allows you to edit your MIDI data
Transpose, edit page layout, and add chord symbols, guitar fretboards, guitar tablature, lyrics, slash, or rhythmic notation
Sharing Your Music
Print your score or parts: Finale technology ensures world-class output
Collaborate - Allegro files can be opened, edited, printed, and played by others using Finale NotePad (a free download), Finale Songwriter, Finale Print Music, and Finale
Save as audio file (including MP3) to create Cd's
Export TIF graphics files to add music to word processing documents
- Finale Allegro 2007 for Windows
- Windows 2000/XP
- 800X600 minimum monitor resolution
- CD-ROM drive
- Minimum 256MB RAM recommended
- 200 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual
- Finale Allegro 2007 for Macintosh®
- OS 10.3.9 and higher
- 800X600 minimum monitor resolution
- CD-ROM drive
- Minimum 256MB RAM recommended
- 200 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual
- Optional
- MIDI interface
- MIDI input and/or playback device
- Printer
- Scanner
- Microphone required for use of MicNotator®
- Windows Users: Although our current notation products do not officially support Vista, we have completed limited testing without encountering any significant problems. We look forward to integrating Vista into our standard testing routines in the coming months and expect to officially support Vista with notation software released in the summer of 2007.
- Macintosh Users: Allegro 2007 runs natively on Intel-based Macs.