MakeMusic Is Sunsetting Finale After 35 Years

Photograph Credit score: Stefany Andrade

Music tech firm MakeMusic has introduced it’s solar setting its music notation software program Finale, Finale PrintMusic, and Finale Notepad.

First launched beneath its Coda Music Applied sciences model greater than 35 years in the past, Finale supplied a groundbreaking and user-centered method to creating music notation. For over 4 a long time, MakeMusic’s engineers and product groups have crafted the software program that rapidly turned the gold customary for music notation.

“4 a long time is a really very long time within the software program business,” says Greg Dell’Period, President of MakeMusic & Alfred Music. “Expertise stacks change, Mac and Home windows working programs evolve, and Finale’s hundreds of thousands of traces of code add up. This has made the supply of incremental worth for our prospects exponentially tougher over time.”

“Right this moment, Finale is now not the way forward for the notation business—a actuality after 35 years, and I wish to be candid about this. As an alternative of releasing new variations of Finale that will provide solely marginal worth to our customers, we’ve made the choice to finish its improvement. I’m satisfied Steinberg’s Dorico is the most effective dwelling for our loyal Finale customers, and is the brilliant way forward for the music notation business.”

Beginning at present, there can be no additional updates to Finale or any of its related instruments (PrintMusic, Songwriter, Notepad). It’s now not potential to buy or improve Finale within the MakeMusic eStore. Finale will proceed to work on units the place it’s presently put in, barring any OS adjustments that render it damaged.

After one yr on August 2025, MakeMusic says the next adjustments will go into impact:

• Will probably be not possible to authorize Finale on any new units
• You can’t reauthorize Finale on a brand new set up
• Help for Finale v27 or different variations will now not be out there

MakeMusic is encouraging its loyal Finale customers to take into account upgrading to Dorico Professional with a limited-time crossgrade low cost on the software program. The low cost will allow Finale customers to buy Dorico Professional for $149 as a substitute of the retail worth of $579. The provide is offered instantly and for a restricted time, although the MakeMusic Retailer.

“We stay up for welcoming many Finale customers into the Dorico consumer neighborhood,” provides Clyde Sendke, Managing Director, Steinberg. “Though we all know it’s troublesome to go away behind a trusted instrument, we’re assured that they may quickly come to answer on the highly effective, environment friendly workflows supplied by Dorico Professional. Our workforce can be by their facet each step to supply assist and assist.”