Note also that you can search for appropriate symbols by name. The name of each symbol is also displayed (highlighted in green below): Symbol selection dialog, showing glyph categories on left To help navigate this brave new world of fonts, the symbol selection dialog from places like the Articulation Tool or Notehead Selection now has a sidebar where you can quickly navigate by glyph category. For example, it’s super-easy to switch to the freely available Bravura font from Steinberg, or MuseScore’s Leland. SMuFL compatibility in Finale 27 is a welcome addition not only because it standardizes the layout and adds numerous new glyphs to use in your music, but because it makes it easier than ever to experiment with using different fonts. Note that the SMuFL version of Petrucci, however, is called ‘Finale Legacy’.
For example, the combined accent-tenuto mark was in glyphs 137 and 138 in Maestro, but 240 and 251 in the Engraver Font Set: Accent/Tenuto in Maestro font (characters 137, 138) Accent/Tenuto in Engraver Font Set (characters 240, 251)įinale 27 ships with SMuFL compatible versions of Maestro, Engraver, Petrucci, Jazz, Broadway, and Ash (a popular “handwritten” font that used to be sold by ExpressMusic but has been unavailable for a number of years), which are distinguishable from their legacy counterparts by prepending ‘Finale’: ‘Maestro’ becomes ‘Finale Maestro’, and ‘Jazz’ becomes ‘Finale Jazz’, etc. Even within Finale’s traditional fonts there has not been a 1:1 mapping of all the symbols. The standard layout is important, as well. Compare that with the old Maestro font, which has just over 200 unique symbols.
If you’re not already familiar with SMuFL, you can read more about it here, but the short version is that it is a standardized layout of almost 2,600 separate musical glyphs, each with a unique name. Can you imagine what the music industry if the MIDI standard had not been developed? I’m not sure if SMuFL is quite up there with MIDI… But it’s pretty great. Of all of Finale 27’s new features, this is the one I have been the most excited about… And maybe also the most worried about. I confess that I have looked at SmartMusic several times in the past as a choir director, and have always given up on it for various reasons… But the ease with which I could share music with my choristers in a format that can help them learn pieces may just make a believer out of me! Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) Support The Good Once I did that and saved the file in Finale, I selected Share again, and was shown exactly who I was sharing with, and given the option of updating the music directly: Updating shared music For example, astute observers may note that in the second screenshot above I added a few exclamation points at the end of the lyrics. These are not new tools to SmartMusic what is new is the absolute ease with which you can add and change content with students or fellow performers. Red notes are out of tune or wrong pitch, yellow notes have poor timing. It will also give visual feedback about the accuracy of the performance, with an adjustable level of strictness about pitch and timing. SmartMusic will play the file back, as well as give the user the ability to record themselves. I tested this out with my work email, and when I went into my SmartMusic account my test file did indeed show up as expected. Recipients get an email with a link to create a SmartMusic account and to open up the shared content. Once you have signed in, you are given an option to either simply upload to your own account, or to add email addresses.
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Selecting this will prompt you for a SmartMusic username and password (you can create an account for free). Up in the file menu there is now an item called Share. Interactive music sharingįinale 27 gives you the ability to share your work with others using the SmartMusic platform, which offers some benefits beyond simply printing or sharing PDFs of your music. Here are my first impressions of Finale 27 and these new features. MusicXML 4.0 support, including the ability to export/import linked parts.An Improved instrument list, including new instruments as well as better automatic configuration of sounds for playback.Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL) support, including new SMuFL-compatible versions of Finale’s default music fonts.
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