Product Description

Finale Allegro is perfect for educators, performing musicians, composers, arrangers, worship directors and students.

Getting Started/b>
- Launch Window puts the power of Allegro within a single mouse-click.
- Setup Wizard and pre-designed templates help quickly create new music.
- QuickStart Videos show you how - on your computer screen.

Entering Notes
- Enter notes with your mouse, computer keyboard, and/or MIDI keyboard (including sustain pedal) in step- or real-time.
- Enter notes by playing your brass or woodwind instrument into a mic with Allegro's exclusive MicNotator(R).
- Scan sheet music with SmartScore(R) Lite (included) and import MIDI and MusicXML files.

Composing and Arranging
- Automatically add two- and three-voice auto-harmonization from Band-in-a-Box(R) Auto Harmonizing.
- Automatically add Drum Grooves (and easily expand your choice of styles).
- Transpose to any key and extract parts.

Teaching Music
- Exercise Wizard instantly creates warm-ups for the whole band, orchestra, or choir.
- Setup Wizard includes diverse options, including Orff instruments and marching percussion.
- Create quizzes and tests by exporting music as a TIFF file into a word processing program.

Hearing Your Music
- Play back with integrated software sounds (including Row-Loff(TM) marching percussion) or via external MIDI devices.
- Human Playback(R) adds expression, phrasing, swing, and dynamics - automatically.
- Powerful mixer offers control of volume, panning, patch, and reverb as well as the choice of mute, solo, or record.

Adding Markings, Lyrics, and More
- Unlimited number of lyric verses.
- Add dynamics, tempos, chord symbols, guitar fretboards and tablature, and more.

Sharing Your Music
- Print your score or parts: Finale(R) technology ensures world-class output.
- Save as audio file (including .MP3) to create CDs.
- Export MIDI and MusicXML files.
- Export entire pages as TIF graphics files to add music to word processing documents.

What's New in Allegro 2007

Powerful Mixer and Reverb Options
Integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume and panning as well as choose to mute, solo, or record.
Learn more.

Textured Paper
New textured paper backgrounds to make your on-screen page easy on the eyes.

Chord Analysis
Allegro analyzes the harmonic progression of a selected region of your score and adds chord symbols automatically.

Create Codas
Allegro automatically creates space, text, and symbols as well as controls playback.

Improved Pick-up Measures
Pickup measures now include improved tuplet compatibility and entering extra notes for tuplets or grace notes in pickup measures has been simplified.

More
Universal binary support for Intel-based Macs, Auto-Slur Melismas, and auto insert copyright symbol.