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MakeMusic Offers Finale Notepad for FREE!

02/15/12 By 3 Comments

Today, the people at MakeMusic announced the release of Finale Notepad for FREE. If you have never tried the Finale notation software, now is your shot to try it!

This software gives you the ability to notate, play back and print music. As stated by Karen van Lith, MakeMusic CEO, “MakeMusic shares our customers’ devotion for creating music, and we are pleased to offer our entry-level app as a free download. Hobbyists, students, educators and musicians will find NotePad fun and easy to use.”

This is an awesome service provided by MakeMusic, and gives students, teachers and people in all aspects and levels of music an opportunity to express their musical ideas for FREE! Check out the links below to download Finale NotePad and read more about it!

For you MusicEdMajors out there, this is a great piece of software to take advantage of! Finale does a great job of offering a platform that can help you get the job done and is fairly user-friendly. As Music Ed Majors, this is just a really handy to have if you like to compose, or to have on hand in case you would ever need it. And what do you have to lose? – It’s FREE!

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Read more about this in MakeMusic’s offical Press Release!

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  • Atheistdiva

    Okay, I don’t get this.  I thought that Finale Notepad already offered a free version.  I used to use it until I became frustrated within the inability to change keys within a piece.  At that point, I switched to MuseScore, which makes me perfectly happy.  What’s different about this version of Finale Notepad?

  • Andrew Ritenour

    Hello – thanks for your comment! Finale offered a free version of Notepad in the past (2007 I believe), but then started charging $9.99 for the software. They are once again offering this software for free this year. While Finale Notepad 2012 is a great notation tool, it does not have all of the options and functional capabilities that the regular software has. In order to access these more advanced functions, you have to pay for the Finale 2012 software. Musescore is an excellent piece of open-source software and offers many of these same options. In my limited experience with Musescore, the advantage to Finale Notepad is that it has less of a learning curve than Musescore (things are a bit easier to find in Notepad). Since Notepad is free, I encourage you to download it and see what’s different! Thanks for reading!

  • EinsZweiDrei

    @b498176cbcfa81f12282ceb3f212baed:disqus
    You were probably using Finale Reader, a reader designed for viewing Finale scores. In Finale Reader, you can only read music, not edit it.