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 enlarge | From: MakeMusic!
Category: Software
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $43.00
You Save: $6.99 (14%)
New (3) Used (1) from $42.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 611
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.6 x 1.9
MPN: 606776001090
Model: MM0010
UPC: 606776001090
EAN: 0606776001090
ASIN: B0009RENAW
Release Date: May 20, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 I realy dislike this program October 31, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I tried to put in a simple piano accompianiment. The automatic features were so overriding that I could not do the simplest things. If a beat contained a quarter note in the upper of the baseline but two eighth notes for the bottom, it assumed that the second eighth note went with the upper line and would not budge. It would not let me put a whole note in the bottom of the baseline combined with a moving part above it. I would have had to written each line as a separate score, making it -- no longer piano accompaniment. Seemingly the only notation it would allow was locked chords or what it predicted would happen. It also would not let me tie a whole note to another note in the next measure.
Maybe these things are possible but buried in a terrible manual, which doesn't seem to realize that laptops don't have numeric keypads.
I think it would be a particularly bad teaching device because it would encourage students to write only only in very staid, ultra-conventional ways.
Finally, there's no way to email them that I can find. Perhaps there is but they have buried the information. That also is not user-friendly.
 lousy handbook February 1, 2007
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
Although I was originally amazed at the ability to convert a midi file to paper, I was later very disappointed in the ability to make changes to the music.
There is certainly a lot more in the program than I know of, but the handbook is poorly organized and not very helpful. It does not even explain what the cursor symbols mean. I had to call technical support for that. Their answer to my problem: purchase their other products.
For $30 more, I could have purchased a more powerful product from Intelliscore.
Not very simple to use January 25, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Finale songwriter seems to have very little consideration for people who change their minds after the first set-up. I have not found ways to add an instument/voice or change the tempo gradually to the speed I like. I do not really recommend it.
 No Complaints January 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought Finale Songwriter to make lead sheets with chord symbols. It worked well for my project. I have no complaints.
bros gift January 9, 2007
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
purchased it for a gift for my brother and got it two days after I ordered it.
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