Finale Allegro 2007 from Make Music is perfect for educators, performing musicians, composers, arrangers, worship directors and students who wish to create scores and parts. Allegro shares many of its features with the flagship Finale program, but with reduced staff lines available, no video support and a smaller sound library.
Enhancements over previous versions include a powerful mixer with integrated controls for each staff that enables the user to set volume and panning as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. Reverb level can also be customized. Chord analysis looks at the harmonic progression of a selected region of a score and adds chord symbols automatically.
Pickup measures now include improved tuplet compatibility and entering extra notes for tuplets or grace notes in pickup measures has been simplified. The software can also create codas and automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as controls playback. New textured paper backgrounds make on-screen page easy on the eyes.
- Launch Window puts the power of Allegro within a single mouse-click and provides easy access to the Installation and Tutorial Guide
- Setup Wizard and pre-designed templates help quickly create new music
- QuickStart Videos show how to get started right on the computer screen
- Notes can be entered using the mouse, computer keyboard, and/or MIDI keyboard (including sustain pedal) in step or real-time
- Using a microphone and Allegro's MicNotator, brass and woodwind parts can be entered by simply playing them
- Sheet music scanning with SmartScore Lite (included) and MIDI and MusicXML file import
- Automatically add two- and three-voice auto-harmonization from Band-in-a-Box Auto Harmonizing
- Drum Groove easily adds custom drum parts in a variety of styles
- Add to the list of available styles by placing any MIDI file into the Drum Groove folder
- Multiple Undo allows for reversing any number of changes made in the current session
- Transpose to any key and extract parts
- 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 by exporting music as a TIFF file into a word processing program
- Play back with integrated software sounds, including Row-Loff marching percussion, or via external MIDI devices
- Human Playback automatically adds expression, phrasing, swing and dynamics
- Powerful mixer offers control of volume, panning, patch, and reverb as well as the choice of mute, solo, or record
- Customize the room size and reverb level to control the overall reverb effect in playback
- Unlimited number of lyric verses
- Lyrics space themselves and the notes they're attached to automatically
- Lyric hyphens wrap to the next staff system auto
- Allegro analyzes the lyrics, and automatically places slurs anytime a syllable lasts for more than one note
- Adds dashed slurs for secondary verses
- Add dynamics, tempos, chord symbols, guitar fretboards and tablature, and more
- Print scores or parts and Finale technology ensures world-class output
- Save as audio file, including .mp3 to create CDs
- Export MIDI and MusicXML files
- Export entire pages as TIF graphics files to add music to word processing documents