Dolet 7 for Finale Beta Now Available

We are happy to announce that beta versions of the Dolet 7 for Finale plug-in are now available from MakeMusic. You can download both the Mac installer and the Windows installer.

Dolet 7 for Finale adds support for reading and writing MusicXML 3.1 files. MusicXML 3.1 is the latest version of the MusicXML format and the first one to be developed within the W3C Music Notation Community Group.

By making Dolet 7 for Finale available for beta testing, we hope to assist other music software developers who want to add support for MusicXML 3.1 by being able to test exchanging MusicXML 3.1 files with Finale.

The MusicXML 3.1 features that Dolet 7 for Finale supports include:

• Uncompressed MusicXML 3.1 files are now saved with a .musicxml file extension by default (issue 191).
• Finale expressions with a mix of Maestro musical symbols and text are now exported and imported (issue 163).
• Finale expressions with a mix of text and note symbols from other Finale built-in fonts are now exported (issue 163).
• Unexpected symbols in Finale articulations can now be exported in a way that can be exchanged with other applications (issue 107).
• Unexpected symbols in MusicXML files can now be imported into Finale articulations (issue 107).
• Parenthesized accidental marks are now supported (issue 218).
• Circled noteheads for percussion notation are now supported (issue 91).
• The two styles of percussion clef are now distinguished during export and import (issue 64).
• The n dynamic character is now supported (issue 52).
• The sfzp and pf dynamics now use the corresponding new MusicXML elements (issue 52).
• Highest / lowest notes without leger lines now use the standard MusicXML 3.1 feature for greater interoperability (issue 184).
• Arrowhead characters in the Engraver Text fonts are now supported (issue 183)
• Enclosures with 5 to 10 sides are now supported (issue 86).

The Dolet 7 for Finale plug-in is a 32-bit plug-in that works with Finale 2009 through Finale 2014.5 on Mac and Windows.

Please share your experiences with MusicXML 3.1 and the Dolet plug-in at the W3C Music Notation Community Group. If you find a problem with MusicXML 3.1 in your testing, please post an issue at the MusicXML GitHub repository.

Thank you for your help in making the MusicXML format an ever more powerful way to exchange scores between applications that use music notation.