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Finale Mailing List - This is a great discussion forum
for discussing general Finale-related issues. Although the information about this
list is available on Coda's WWW site, Coda is not in any way affiliated
with this list.
Finale Productivity Tips - Mailing
list service for this WWW site. Select this if you want to have all future Finale
tips sent directly to your e-mail address when they're added on this site. This
is not a discussion forum, just an announcement service.
Plug-in Developer's List - A
mailing list dedicated to Finale plug-in development topics.
The
HJ Owen's Tutorials - In Acrobat format. Great tutorials for
the beginner and a nice complement to Finale's own Tutorials. Available in versions
for Finale 3.7, Finale 97, Finale 2000 and Finale 2001. The file names are as
follows:
Fin97/PC: tut97.zip
Fin97/Mac: Tut97.sit.hqx
Fin2000/PC:
tut2kpc.zip
Fin2000/Mac: Tut2k.sit
Fin2001/PC: tut2k1.zip
Fin2001/Mac: tut2k1.sit.hqx
Matthew
Hindson's Tutorials - In Acrobat format. Covering the fundamental
areas of Finale 98.
Brian Almeter's Tutorials
- WWW-based tutorials, based on Finale 97 (but should work with any recent Finale
version).
The
Get the best out of Finale page - A great page to get tips
on how to make professional-looking scores in Finale! Maintained by Johannes Gebauer.
Finale:
IWBNI - A very extensive Finale Wish List maintained by John
Greschak. (IWBNI is the abbreviation for "It would be nice if".)
The SHSU Finale
ftp site - A Finale ftp site at Sam Houston State University.
Lots of fonts, utilities, tutorials etc.
Third
Party Finale Resources at RPM Seattle - A large, and very up-to-date,
collection of Finale-related links.
The Finale Forum
- Discussion forums, Links, and a Wish List (without forward to Coda Support)
PC
FinKey
(Quadrivium software) - Rotation of text at any angle, precise vector measurements
directly on score, scale score to screen width and other useful interface issues
not covered by the official PDK. (Shareware $30)
Fintool
- One-click solutions for all major Finale tools. For Finale 97/98. (Now freeware.)
FinaleTweak
- Rearrange the keyboard layout in Speedy Edit and change the settings in FINALE.INI.
For Finale 97b/98/2000. (Freeware)
PDFmus
- Utilities for tweaking PDF files, distilled from Finale. (freeware)
FCP Font Editor
- (Shareware $30-$50)
Softy Font
editor - (Shareware $25/£15)
Macromedia Fontographer
- Font editor ($349)
Fontlab - Various
font editing products at different prices
Macro Express
- Keyboard macro program ($34.95)
QuicKeys -
Keyboard macro program ($49.95)
Adobe
Acrobat - On-line Publishing ($249)
MAC
KeyQuencer
- Keyboard macro program ($49.95)
One-click
- Keyboard macro program ($59.98-$79.98)
QuicKeys 4.0
- Keyboard macro program ($99.95)
Macromedia Fontographer
- Font editor ($349)
Fontlab
- Various font editing products at different prices.
Adobe
Acrobat - On-line Publishing ($249)
Please also
refer to the 3rd party font solutions listed in the Fonts chapter in the Finale
Reference.
BlueNotz
- A handwritten-style music font. ($60)
Brahms & Franck
- Fonts by Florian Feuser. Franck is a Petrucci replacement, and Brahms include
lots of nonstandard music symbols. (Shareware $39.95)
DVM Publications
- Includes the fonts Metronome/MetTimes (great fonts for mixing music with text,
as in metronome markings, $24.95) and Kidnotes (educational, $39.95).
FinalFontSolutions
- An impressive collection of professional fonts (and font solutions) by Ansgar
Krause. Includes FinalFiguredBass, FinalSmartTools, FinalGuitarTools and FinalLyrics
($15-$60).
GoldenAge
- A font with a "hand-written" look and feel, designed for Finale. Suitable
for jazz and popular music. Includes text/music fonts. ($65)
Handbell
- Font for the special handbell notation symbols. ($7)
Jazz Font
- Another font with a "hand-written" look and feel, designed for Finale. Suitable
for jazz and popular music. ($49.95)
Matthew Hindson's fonts
- Fonts available for free download, including Clefs, Tempo Indications Font,
Harp Pedals Font, Recorder Fingering Font, Saxophone Fingering Font, Times+Musical
Symbols and Tuplet Numbers font.
MidiDesign
- 6 free music fonts for the contemporary composer created by Christian Texier
- of very high quality. The fonts are: Acoustica, Concreta, Controla, Electronica,
Microtona and Sonora. Page and documentation are in French.
Ronald Caltabiano's
fonts - Shareware fonts: Ghent Percussion, Rehearsal Numbers
and Sicilian Numerals ($20 ea.)
Toccata &
Fughetta - 400 musical symbols. Registered version includes
Finale libraries and some other stuff. (Shareware $30)
The
Big Site of Music Notation and Engraving - A very good site for
info on how to use general engraving conventions with a computer. If you don't
have a good book on the subject, this site is a must.
Common
music notation and computers - Information about some general
computer music notation formats (such as NIFF).
npc
Imaging's Directory of Music Engravers - A comprehensive list
of computer engravers.
Geniesoft
- Overture
Graphire -
Music Press
G-VOX - Encore
Sibelius Software
- Sibelius
Sincrosoft
- Opus
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