Powerful enough for professionals, yet affordable enough for everyone write songs up to 24 staves perfect for beginniners create lead sheets with lyrics, chord symbols & guitar fretboards create scores and print out parts scan sheet music for transposing or rearranging

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The Setup Wizard helps you select instruments/voices, key/time signatures, pick-up measures and more, then sets up your score automatically.

 

 
Find the way that's easiest for you:

	Play your MIDI keyboard and watch the exclusive HyperScribe® feature notate as you play.
	Scan your music directly into PrintMusic! with the included FREE SmartScore Lite 3.0® technology.
	"Click" your notes into place while you hear them with Simple Note Entry.

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	Accurately enter notes when you play your acoustic instrument into a microphone using our exclusive MicNotator®.
	"Click" in notes from your computer or MIDI keyboard with Speedy Note Entry.

 

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Just click the PLAY button and hear your music with all the feeling, phrasing and nuance you intended.

 

 
You can even print in color or post your score on the Internet.

 

  *Finale is available for $299 special academic pricing for students, academics & qualified religious/educational institutions.

	Finale	Finale Allegro	Finale Guitar	Finale PrintMusic!	Finale NotePad Plus	Finale NotePad
	$600/$300*	$199.95	$99.95	$69.95	$24.95	FREE!
Overall power and flexibility.	Very High	High	High	Medium	Easy	A Great First Taste
Ease of Use.	Easy	Very Easy	Easy	Easier	Even Easier	Easiest
Multi-user Discounts (licenses for more than one user per serial number).	Site Licenses & Lab Packs	Lab Packs available	Lab Packs available	Lab Packs available
Can open files created by same or earlier versions of NotePad, NotePad Plus, PrintMusic!, Finale Guitar, Allegro, or Finale.
Number of Staves.	Unlimited	32	32	24	8	8
Video Tips on CD that shows you how to get started.
Lyric Verses Allowed.	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	1	1
Automatic Chord Symbols and Guitar Fret boards.					Text only	Text only
Transpose to any key, scale, interval or instrument anywhere.		Standard keys only	Standard keys only	Standard keys only	Standard keys only (for entire piece)	Standard keys only (for entire piece)
Step-time entry (one note at a time) from mouse/ touchpad.
Step-time entry (one note at a time) from computer keyboard.
Real-time (as you play) entry from MIDI device/keyboard.
Real-time entry from an acoustic single-line instrument.
Real-time entry without a click track (HyperScribe®).				With click track only	No Real-time entry	No Real-time entry
Import/Export MIDI files.
Imports SmartScore, Encore, and Rhapsody files.
FREE Sheet Music Scanning technology included.	(SmartScore Lite)	(MIDIScan)	(SmartScore Lite)	(SmartScore Lite)
Pre-designed templates.	68	50	53	31
Save as audio file.
Save as SmartMusic Accompaniment
Human Playback (multiple styles)