

The price for Finale users who wish to upgrade is $149. The cost of acquiring Finale v27 is the same as it’s been recently, ranging from $99 for university and college students, $350 for a new academic or theological license, to the full retail price of $600. Tighter SmartMusic integration, playback improvements, and user interface enhancements round out what’s new. Headlining the new features in v27 are deep support for the two open standards championed by the W3C Music Notation Community Group: Standard Music Font Layout (SMuFL), and MusicXML. Version 27.0 is the first major upgrade to Finale since the v26 release in October 2018, and the first update of any sort in nearly a year.

Today MakeMusic released version 27 of Finale, its flagship music notation software.
