Features
This Item Can Be Purchased By The General Public. Academic Qualifications Are Not Required.
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
QuickStart Videos show you how – 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 Allegro's 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, downloadable 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 – 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 PrintMusic®, and Finale
Save as audio file (including MP3) to create CDs
Export TIF graphics files to add music to word processing documents
Features:
Powerful New Mixer
Integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume
and panning as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. Adjust
parameters for all staves using convenient knobs and faders for each
staff- all in real-time during playback.
Mixer Controls
Plus you can now audition real-time changes to volume, panning, and instruments with controls added to the Instrument List.
Reverb
Customize the room size and reverb level to control the overall reverb effect in playback.
Improved Playback Allegro's Playback Controls have been enhanced with a
repeat pass indicator and improved counter. Also select a region to
export as a MIDI or Audio file.
Mac-Intel Support-Universal Binary
Allegro runs natively on both Intel- and PowerPC- based
Macintosh computers to take full advantage of today's most powerful
computing programs.
Mac Momentum
Both Mac Intel and PowerPC users will experience new speed and redraw enhancements in Allegro.
Mighty Mouse Support
Mac-friendly support for horizontal and vertical scrolling makes viewing your score easier and faster.
Roll-Over Tool Tips
Just mouse-over an icon to view a tool tip.
Smoother On-Screen Graphics (anti-aliasing)
Now slurs, beams and other graphics have the same smooth appearance on-screen as they do when printed.
Create Codas
Automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as controls playback.
Textured Paper
Choose from over a dozen different paper textures and colors
so your onscreen page is easy on the eyes and aesthetically pleasing.
More New Features:
Auto-Slur Melismas
Allegro analyzes your lyrics, and automatically places slurs
anytime a syllable lasts for more than one note. Allegro even adds
dashed slurs for secondary verses.
Chord Analysis
Allegro analyzes the harmonic progression of a selected region of your score and adds chord symbols automatically
Auto Insert Copyright Symbol
Do you know how to type a ©? Let Allegro do it for you!
Auto Resize When Printing
Need to print an A4 document to an 8.5 X 11 page? Allegro resizes the page automatically.
Score System Divider
Automatically inserts or removes score system dividers to mark separations between staff systems on the same page.
New Key Signature Contextual Menu
More time-saving control at your fingertips to easily change a key signature. You can also select a region to change.
Composite Library Files
Now, you can save more than one type of library element in a
single file. No need to save multiple libraries for clefs,
articulations.
Improved Pickup Measures
Pickup measures now include improved tuplet compatibility:
Entering extra notes for tuplets or grace notes in pickup measures has been simplified.
Enhanced support for pickup measures in extracted parts.
Additional improvements to copying, pasting, and inserting pickup measures and partial measures.
Engraver Tuplets
Take control of tuplets with Allegro's Engraver Tuplets.
Default positioning looks great, even when the tuplet begins with
rests, and tuplets now automatically reposition when notes are raised
or lowered on the staff. Tuplet brackets avoid rests and staff lines.
Brackets follow the angle of the stems when on stem side and follow the
angle of notes when on the note side.
System Requirements
Finale Allegro for Windows®
- Windows
2000/XP/Vista 32-bit
- 800X600 minimum monitor resolution
- CD-ROM drive
- Minimum 256MB RAM recommended
- 200 MB hard drive space required for software and user manual
Finale Allegro 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 Allegro does not officially support Vista, we have
completed limited testing without encountering any significant problems.
Macintosh Users: Allegro runs natively on Intel-based Macs.
*Macintosh OS Leopard Users - Click here for Macintosh OS 10.5 compatibility information.
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