Finale
Finale is a professional music notation software used by composers, arrangers, music teachers, students, and publishers to create, edit and print sheet music. It offers a full suite of tools for entering notes, managing instruments, applying articulations and dynamics, handling lyrics, creating parts, and generating publication-quality scores and parts. Finale integrates playback via Garritan virtual instruments, supports plug-ins for extended functionality, and is widely considered the industry standard in the professional music notation space alongside Sibelius.
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1 suggestionMakeMusic began shipping Finale as a Universal Binary (native Apple Silicon support) starting with version 27.2, released in 2023. If you are running Finale 27.2 or later, your app already runs natively on Apple Silicon — no action needed beyond keeping it up to date. However, the bundle ID in your system (com.makemusic.Finale26) indicates you are still on Finale v26 or an earlier version, which are Intel-only and depend on Rosetta 2 to run on M-series Macs. Since Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), you should upgrade to Finale 27.4 or later as soon as possible to ensure your app continues to work. Upgrading is straightforward: check MakeMusic's website or your copy of Finale's Help menu for download and activation options. Existing scores and preferences are fully compatible across versions. Given the nearly two-year gap between the release of the native build (early 2023) and today, Finale v27.4 is stable and widely used by professionals without known major issues.
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