Finale 1988 promotional video

A promotional video from Coda Music Software, created to market the first version of Finale, released in 1988. Featuring Finale's creator Phil Farrand and colleagues.
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[@JehanStefanFR]

RIP FINALE 1988-2024

[@jazzhotline]

Hi Dorico ;-)

[@pdecentmusic]

From innovation to extinction within 36 years

[@stewie3128]

Hell of a lot longer than most apps last. When they were developing Finale, Lotus and WordPerfect were still dominant.

[@markbrooks7157]

I make my living as a Finale copyist and have been using it since version 1. This news has been devastating. Not sure how I’ll proceed. Don’t know yet what the publishing house I work for plans on doing. I do know Sibelius as well and use it when needed but much prefer Finale. At 70 years old I’m not feeling especially anxious to start learning Dorico which is a whole other paradigm.

[@ScottLawrenceLawson]

at 8:15 - "post that through the mo-dem or electronic mail service" How quaint! 😂

[@MatCampbellMusic]

RIP Finale. Also, want a fun way to stay hydrated? Drink every time you hear that hip saxophone riff.

[@bmomusical]

What a weird time to live and see Finale's finale.

[@briansadler5225]

I've been using Finale since I was in middle school when I got a copy of Finale 3.0 on a set of floppy disks. I am not devastated by Finale's passing because, honestly, it has really failed to adapt and change over the years. The software was remained relatively the same since, what, 2010? Earlier? Today, there's no app for tablets, there is no touch screen support, there is no longer any video playback for film scoring (and the reWire introduced in 2014 was garbage and eventually removed), and from year to year they barely changed a thing and expected people to upgrade once they stopped supporting the previous version and it was rendered useless by an operating system upgrade. I did get a lot out of Finale but I'm ready to move on to something more modern so good riddance.

[@havokmusicinc]

RIP, it's been a good run

[@mjears]

I still have this videotape. I only watched it twice, but I couldn’t forget that stupid sax melody, and Phil Farrand stating how he “believes in a Master Architect”. And how about that state-of-the-art redraw speed at 15:50! What‘s most interesting to me about this 36 years later is the focus on connecting playing and scoring, trying to make it automatic and effortless … which it certainly still is not. Almost everyone has used Finale to manually write and publish scores. And dozens of companies are still trying to do what this video talks about.

[@enriquesanchez2001]