Click on Setup Wizard, choose the instruments or voices you want (or select an ensemble), specify the key and time signature, type in a title and composer’s name and Allegro automatically sets up your score for you. Save your score as a default document or choose from dozens of templates.

Allegro can play back via your MIDI device or through the SmartMusic SoundFont (included), providing the same professional grade instrument sounds found in the award-winning SmartMusic practice system.

Also included are terrific marching percussion sounds (Bass Drums, Crash Cymbals, Snare Drum, Tenor Drums and more) from Row-Loff™ Poductions — foremost in marching and concert percussion literature.

Allegro gives you more options for getting music on the page. Enter notes by:

• Clicking the mouse
• Typing on your computer keyboard
• Playing your MIDI keyboard
• Playing an acoustic instrument
• Scanning existing sheet music
• Importing a MIDI file
• All notes, lyrics, slurs and ties automatically space to fit the music.

Easily edit all of your MIDI data. Transpose; add lyrics, chord symbols and guitar fretboards;
place dynamics, articulations and slurs; extract parts and do everything else you’d expect from a professional level otation program—right at your fingertips.

• Print the score or parts
• Save as an audio file (including MP3) for creating CDs
• E-mail your files to others who can see and hear the music by using our free downloadable Finale NotePad®
• Save as a SmartMusic Accompaniment® for your practice needs
• Save as a MIDI file

Allegro includes a number of tools that make your music sound great without a lot of tweaking:
Human Playback™ plays your music as you would want it to be performed, with dynamics and phrasing, even if you enter notes with a mouse.
Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing adds two- and three-voice harmonies to your melodies.
Add Drum Grooves automatically (and the list of available grooves and styles is easily expanded).