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Dolet was a famous French translator of the 16th-century. Our Dolet software is also a translator, but this time between different music programs that previously would never talk to each other.

Dolet 4 for Finale is a plug-in for the Finale music notation program that reads and writes MusicXML 2.0 files. With Dolet software, you can finally read files created in Finale 2008 with Finale 2006. Read music from Sibelius into Finale by using Dolet for Finale together with our Dolet 3 for Sibelius plug-in. MusicXML files created with Dolet 4 for Finale usually import into Sibelius 4 and 5 better than Finale ETF files do.

Even if you're using Finale 2008, Dolet 4 has three big advantages:

  • It can save files as MusicXML 2.0 files, as well as MusicXML 1.1 and 1.0 files. This lets you take advantage of MusicXML 2.0's improved features like compressed files, improved formatting control, and graphics support.
  • It allows you to translate an entire folder of Finale or MusicXML files at one time - an enormous time savings when you have to move a lot of files from one program to another.
  • The Dolet for Finale plug-in is updated much more often than Finale. Finale releases typically have one or two maintenance updates. In our previous release, Dolet 3 for Finale had nine updates which kept making file translations even more accurate.

Do you want to read files from scanners like SharpEye Music Reader and capella-scan? Exchange files with Sibelius users? Create files for use in digital sheet music players like musicRAIN and MuseBook Score? Dolet 4 for Finale lets you exchange music between applications more accurately than ever before. Finally, the limits to digital sheet music exchange are gone.

The Mac OS X version of Dolet 4 for Finale is a Universal Binary. It will run on Intel Macs when used together with Finale 2007 or 2008.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.0:
  • Dolet 5 for Finale adds support for Finale 2010, including the following features:
    • Finale 2010 percussion maps.
    • Finale 2010 chord symbols.
    • Export of Finale 2010 auto-sequenced rehearsal marks.
    • PNG, JPEG, GIF, and BMP graphics formats.
    • Broadway Copyist font family.
  • Dolet 5 for Finale also improves import of MusicXML files exported from Sibelius with the Dolet 5 for Sibelius plug-in, including the following new features:
    • Improved import of optimized systems that use default staff spacing.
    • Import of text in glissando lines.
    • Improved import of jazz articulations.
    • Improved import of arpeggios.
    • Import of feathered beams.
    • Import of German and Scandinavian chord styles.
    • Credits on blank pages, with an approximate location based on the center of the page.
    • Import and export of more notehead styles, including arrow up, arrow down, slashed, back slashed, and shape notes.
  • Dolet 5 for Finale also improves support for MusicXML 2.0 and Open Score Format features:
    • Per-system, per-measure, or no measure numbers displaying per part, using MusicXML 2.0's measure-numbering element.
    • Accidentals in part and group names and abbreviations, using MusicXML 2.0's name-display elements.
    • Open Score Format support is updated to Version 1.0. For more information on Open Score Format, see http://openscoreformat.sourceforge.net/.
  • Other new features include:
    • Specifying both a named and generic (engraved vs. handwritten) default music font.
    • Improved export and import of trills and glissandos.
    • Improved import of:
      • Stems in percussion staves.
      • Transposed instruments without key signatures.
      • Cutaway staves.
      • A4 and other metric page sizes.
      • Nested tuplets.
      • Unknown fonts as text fonts for lyrics and words.
      • Percussion clefs in documents using the Jazz font.
      • Major seventh and half diminished chords in documents using the JazzCord font.
    • Improved export of
      • Non-printing key signatures.
      • Endings over empty measures.
      • Total pages text insert.
      • Number of instruments per part.
    • Support for the Kousaku Percussion font.
    • Non-TIFF graphics now import into Finale 2009 as well as Finale 2010.
    • On Mac, the export dialog changes the file suffix on .mus files when the MusicXML format changes.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, Finale 2004 to 2008.

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Developer:Recordare LLC.
Downloads:1,947
  - Version d/l:257
Home & Personal:Music
License:Demo
Date:23 Sep 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$149.95
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Dolet for Finale User Reviews (3 posts)Write A Review
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Mar 18 2009

KRIS  $149.95? That seems quite a lot for a plug in. I can understand a Photoshop plugin, but when you pay $99 each YEAR for a regular Finale upgrade, this starts getting expensive.  
(Version 4.7)

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Jan 10 2009

DAWGDRUMMER  Waaaay too expensive...cheaper to update.  
(Version 4.6)

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Sep 7 2007

HOLYPOLY  "Dolet" in Latin also means "it hurts" :>D

Sorry, couldn't resist this one  
(Version 4.0.1)

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