PrintMusic 2008 has improved mixer, new document styles, more
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Oct 8, 2007 at 5:13pm
Make Music has released Finale PrintMusic 2008, music notation software that’s Mac OS X compatible. Targeted to songwriters, students, teachers, church musicians, and band leaders, the update beefs up the software’s features for creating, hearing and printing music.
The upgrade has an improved mixer; integrated controls for each staff enable you to set volume and panning as well as choose to mute, solo, or record. You can adjust parameters for all staves using knobs and faders for each staff—all in real-time during playback.
PrintMusic 2008 has improved recognition and accuracy with XML Technology. Users can scan directly from SmartScore Lite from within PrintMusic. With a compatible scanner, PrintMusic 2008 provides an auto-preview and automatically chooses resolution and contrast settings. PrintMusic 2008 also has improved recognition of multi-measure rests, grace notes, and repeat measures (slash & dot symbol) and enhanced recognition when scanning scores with optimized staves.
There are an enhanced set-up wizard, new and expanded documentation, new document styles, more powerful templates, a new Selection Tool and cut/copy/paste improvements. With PrintMusic 2008, you can import TIFF graphics into your score. Imported graphics are embedded to make it easy to share your files.
You can create quizzes, textbooks, worksheets, hymnals, dissertations and more by exporting music into word-processing software. PrintMusic now allows you to save entire pages or any part of a page as a TIFF file.
PrintMusic 2008 is Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. PrintMusic costs $99.95; upgrades from previous versions cost $29.95.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
