Dolet 5 for Finale

Dolet^® for Finale is Recordare's most complete MusicXML™ product. 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. Purchase it now!

Dolet 5 for Finale is a Finale plug-in that reads and writes MusicXML 2.0, 1.1, and 1.0 files. It works with Finale 2000 to 2011 on Windows, Finale 2007 to 2011 on Intel Macs, and Finale 2004 to 2011 on Power PC Macs running OS X. Use the Dolet translator to:

Exchange music with Sibelius users. Dolet 5 for Finale is designed to work together with our Dolet 5 for Sibelius plug-in to provide the best transfers ever from Sibelius to Finale. Dolet 5 for Finale provides the best results for sharing Finale files with Sibelius users - especially with Sibelius 6 no longer reading Finale files directly.
Import music scanned with SharpEye Music Reader or capella-scan into Finale
Read files created by capella professional and other programs (requires third party software).
Write files that can be used by Legato, OrganMuse, capella playAlong, SCORE, and other programs (requires third party software).
Exchange music created in later versions of Finale with users of earlier versions of Finale: back to Finale 2000 on Windows, Finale 2004 on Power PC Macs, and Finale 2007 on Intel Macs.

In the past, music interchange between these programs has been limited to MIDI files. MIDI is a great format for electronic musical instruments, but not for printed music. MusicXML lets you exchange the vast majority of information contained in a notation file, including rests, correct accidentals, repeats, dynamics, articulations, slurs, and much more. With MusicXML 2.0, you can now exchange much more of the formatting of a musical score as well as its contents.

The Dolet translator is a plug-in for the Finale notation program. To use it, you must have a supported version of Finale installed on your system.

If you have used the MusicXML capabilities that come with Finale, you will find that upgrading to Dolet 5 for Finale will give you faster and more accurate file translations. What does Dolet 5 have that Finale 2011 does not?

Better file exchange with Sibelius. Dolet 5 for Finale adds support for importing feathered beams, text in glissando lines, credits on blank pages, engraved vs. handwritten music fonts, and German/Scandinavian chord styles. It improves support for importing jazz articulations and optimized systems. Dolet 5 also exports locked system formatting more accurately than Finale 2011, giving more reliable conversion of page layout.
More formatting control. Dolet 5 for Finale lets you import a MusicXML file into an empty document with your own specific template settings. The MusicXML import will then respect the formatting settings in your empty document as much as possible. Finale 2011 always opens a new document, so you always getting the formatting from your default Finale file.
Full batch translation. Dolet 5 for Finale lets you translate an entire folder of MusicXML files into Finale files, or an entire folder of Finale files into MusicXML files. If you have a lot of files to transfer, this is an enormous time saver. Batch translation requires Finale 2004 or later and is not included in the 10-day free trial.
MusicXML XSD schema support. Dolet 5 for Finale includes an option to validate against the MusicXML XSD schema definition. This is a stricter definition of the MusicXML 2.0 format, and will catch more errors during validation than the original MusicXML 2.0 Document Type Definition.
Open Score Format support. Dolet 5 for Finale includes an option to read and write Open Score Format files. Open Score Format is a new MusicXML-based format that adds features for structured metadata, digital signing, improved multimedia packaging, and profiles for common content types.
Works with more versions of Finale. Dolet 4 works with Finale 2000 to 2011 on Windows, Finale 2007 to 2011 on Intel Macs, and Finale 2004 to 2011 on Power PC Macs running OS X.
More frequent updates. Dolet 5 includes regular maintenance updates to keep making translations ever more accurate. Our current Dolet 5 release has had four maintenance updates. Finale releases typically have one or two maintenance updates. Check out the changes in our full Dolet 5 release.

Dolet software comes with a 10-day free trial under the terms of Recordare's software license agreement. Download it now! To continue using Dolet past the 10-day trial, purchase it at the Recordare Online Store.

More information about installing and using Dolet 5 for Finale is available in the readme files for Windows and Mac OS X. The version history lets you know what issues have been addressed in each version of Dolet for Finale. Purchase it at the Recordare Online Store.

For common support questions, see our Frequently Asked Questions for Version 5.

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Last updated June 18, 2010.