Finale
Finale is a professional music notation and composition software used by musicians, composers, arrangers, and music educators worldwide. It lets users create, edit and publish sheet music with support for unlimited instruments, complex rhythms, custom fonts, articulations and expressions. Finale integrates with notation libraries like Garritan for playback and offers tools for transposition, part extraction, and PDF export. It is the industry standard in academic and professional music publishing workflows.
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1 suggestionFinale has shipped as a native Apple Silicon application since version 27.2 (released in 2021), so you should update to the latest version to take advantage of native performance on M-series Macs. If you are running Finale v27.1 or earlier, those are Intel-only builds that require Rosetta 2 and will stop working when Apple removes Rosetta in macOS 28 (September 2028). The simplest path forward is to download and install the latest Finale version from MakeMusic's website or use the vendor's auto-updater if you already have a recent build installed. Verify you are installing the correct architecture by checking System Preferences during installation, or confirm in Finale's About dialog after launch (it should say "Apple Silicon" or "Universal Binary"). Current Finale versions are natively compatible with Apple Silicon without any additional setup.
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