Designed especially with song writers in mind, Finale SongWriter is the fast, easy way to create and print professional-quality sheet music.

Enter notes with your mouse, computer keyboard, or MIDI device - or import MIDI and/or MusicXML™ files. Create great-sounding and -looking sheet music that plays back, then share your music in more ways than ever before.

You know that changing the key or adding an intro means starting over. When your music is in SongWriter it's easy to change keys, add measures, and move things around any way your creative impulses move you.

With SongWriter music notation software, you can listen to the results before the rehearsal. When you can hear what you've written you can quickly refine your music to sound exactly the way you want.

SongWriter does the heavy lifting, like managing how each staff plays back and transposes, so you don't have to. Simply select the instruments you wish to write for and get started!

Should you ever have a question, SongWriter includes QuickStart Videos and other resources, right in the Launch Window.

Features

• Print sheet music
• Create MP3, WAV, or AIFF audio files
• Get free music education worksheets (included) or create music worksheets of your own
• Exchange music with users of other Finale family software, including Finale PrintMusic, and the free Finale NotePad and Finale SongBook
• Send MIDI files (and more powerful MusicXML files) to users of other software programs

System Requirements

Windows

• XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 (64-bit compatible)
• Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon, Intel i3 or AMD Athlon II X2 and above recommended
• 2 GB of RAM, 4 GB or above recommended
• 800X600 minimum monitor resolution, 1366×768 and above recommended
• Internet connection for download install or DVD-ROM drive for DVD install
• 600MB hard drive space required for software and user manual with an additional 2GB hard drive space is required for Garritan Instruments for Finale

Macintosh

• OS X 10.7 - 10.9
• Intel Core 2 Duo or better, Intel i3 and above recommended
• 2 GB of RAM, 4 GB or above recommended
• 800X600 minimum monitor resolution, 1366×768 and above recommended
• Internet connection for download install or DVD-ROM drive for DVD install
• 700MB hard drive space required for software and user manual with an additional 2GB hard drive space is required for Garritan Instruments for Finale