Why I buy this one ?
- Click notes onto the staff and hear the pitches -- drag them up and down to find the pitches you want
- Play a MIDI keyboard and see the music appear instantly -- or import and export MIDI files, adding your own lyrics and verses
- Type a chord name to hear how it sounds and see its guitar fretboard - Try any tempo, transpose to any key and add automatic harmonies
- Print great-looking sheet music - Add chord symbols and fretboard diagrams, with up to 6 lyric verses; Add dynamics, slurs, articulations & transpose to any key

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What our customer's say!

"Songwriter", It was shipped promptly and arrived in no time. The Product works great and i am satisfied.

"DNA's Opinion", Finale Songwriter---The ideal solution for those who wish to produce
music manuscripts with that professional appearance. Would have had 5 stars --- BUT --- it would have been good to know about the import duty
and to have paid off all expenses in one transaction. Still, I suppose we must support our Lords and Masters in the style to which they have become
accustomed.

DNA

"I expect a much better user interface experience from Mac software", I'm spoiled by Mac software that follows Apple's UI guidelines. This software is, frankly, ugly. My wife was disappointed that you can only play one handed to input your notes. Getting both hands in requires more effort and coordination.

If you're a beginner you may not truly have the need to get notes to paper. If you're more advanced, I think you could spend more money and get a better product.

"I realy dislike this program", I tried to put in a simple piano accompianiment. The automatic features were so overriding that I could not do the simplest things. If a beat contained a quarter note in the upper of the baseline but two eighth notes for the bottom, it assumed that the second eighth note went with the upper line and would not budge. It would not let me put a whole note in the bottom of the baseline combined with a moving part above it. I would have had to written each line as a separate score, making it -- no longer piano accompaniment. Seemingly the only notation it would allow was locked chords or what it predicted would happen. It also would not let me tie a whole note to another note in the next measure.

Maybe these things are possible but buried in a terrible manual, which doesn't seem to realize that laptops don't have numeric keypads.

I think it would be a particularly bad teaching device because it would encourage students to write only only in very staid, ultra-conventional ways.

Finally, there's no way to email them that I can find. Perhaps there is but they have buried the information. That also is not user-friendly.

"lousy handbook", Although I was originally amazed at the ability to convert a midi file to paper, I was later very disappointed in the ability to make changes to the music.

There is certainly a lot more in the program than I know of, but the handbook is poorly organized and not very helpful. It does not even explain what the cursor symbols mean. I had to call technical support for that. Their answer to my problem: purchase their other products.

For $30 more, I could have purchased a more powerful product from Intelliscore.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Worship song rewriter", Word space for the other language is not work performed or designed.
For english OK!
work's good.

"Still not terribly user friendly", This is the second Finale product I have purchased. The first was the full-blown version of the music writing software. I found it too difficult to learn to be of much use. Now several years later I thought I'd try again. Finale has fantastic capabilities in terms of what a composer can create on paper, but, again, I have found it to be rather user unfriendly. Things like an ability to use your mouse to scroll down a printer page of music appear to be absent. Ability to change the size of your document on the page (analogous to a "font" tool) are likewise missing. Thankfully, I have previous experience of working through a few basic concepts of the software to assist me with this new product.
I found the tutorial of limited value since it only covers some very basic steps while leaving the user to figure out things like how to create a pick-up measure or how to eliminate the extra measures in a document.

"Okay For The Money, But...", This is my first experience with notation software. Perhaps my expectations were a little high. Bottom line, the HyperScribe (Notate As You Play) feature is useless. There's no problem with my equipment e.g., computer, keyboard, or MIDI Interface. The software isn't capable of reproducing 'real time' play. Talk about "Lost in Translation!" Uploading data from floppy disk, CD, or a Flash Card is better, but far from acceptable. I've also tried to load music directly from the hard drive. Regardless the media used to interface with this program, your song won't come close to sounding the way you want. Get ready to spend countless hours editting your song. Even then, it won't reproduce audibly the way it's written. I'll take the hit for trying to make sheet music inexpensively, but SongWriter doesn't live up to the hype -- at all. It's fun to play with, but don't expect too much. Save your money & time. Incidentally, the problem isn't with the users. Between us, my wife & I have over ninety-years music experience.

"Best deal for the money.", Look, notation software is notoriously expensive. All musicians know that. So, when you see SongWriter and its price, it's a relief. Everything you need is in this program. I only have one complaint.

When adding an expressive dynamic (p,mp,mf,f,ff,etc.) you have to add one to EACH note to insure proper playback. That is a concern of mine since I use SongWriter to notate songs and export them in MIDI for recording purposes. It leaves an ugly looking score.

Other than that, this is the best deal on the market for what it is.

"Mozart had this software...", ...in his head! (Well actually he probably had the several hundred dollar professional version of Finale). This is fantastic software, perfect for the beginner or amateur songwriter or arranger. The only drawback for me is the limit of 8 staves, but that would not be a problem for your typical band, only if you want to try orchestral composition and arranging (you would need the professional version). The Human Playback feature is great, it truly sounds realistic, not like MIDI. I cannot recommend this software enough!