Dolet 4 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. Download it now!

Dolet 4 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 2009 on Windows, Finale 2004 to 2009 on Power PC Macs running OS X, and Finale 2007 to 2009 on Intel Macs. Use the Dolet translator to:

Import music scanned with SharpEye Music Reader or capella-scan into Finale
Exchange music with Sibelius users. Sibelius 4 and 5 can read MusicXML files created by Dolet 4 for Finale, and Dolet 4 for Finale can read MusicXML files created by our Dolet 4 for Sibelius plug-in.
Read files created by capella professional, Notation Composer, and other programs (requires third party software).
Write files that can be used by musicRAIN, MuseBook Score, 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 or Finale 2004 on Mac OS X.

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. Finale 2007 through 2009 is required for Intel-based Macs as Dolet 4 does not run under Rosetta. Mac OS 9 is not supported.

If you have used the MusicXML capabilities that come with Finale, you will find that upgrading to Dolet 4 for Finale will give you faster and more accurate file translations. What does Dolet 4 have that Finale 2009 does not?

Batch translation. Dolet 4 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 30-day free trial.
Better transfer to Sibelius. Dolet 4 exports locked system formatting more accurately than Finale 2009, giving more reliable conversion of page layout. Dolet 4.5 now imports fretboard positions from files exported from Sibelius.
More formatting control. Dolet 4 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 2009 always opens a new document, so you always getting the formatting from your default Finale file.
MusicXML XSD schema support. Dolet 4.5 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.
Works with more versions of Finale. Dolet 4 works with Finale 2000 to 2009 on Windows, Finale 2004 to 2009 on Power PC Macs running OS X, and Finale 2007 to 2009 on Intel Macs.
More frequent updates. Dolet 4 includes regular maintenance updates to keep making translations ever more accurate. Our previous release, Dolet 3, had nine maintenance updates. Finale releases typically have one or two maintenance updates. Check out the changes in our full 4.0 release compared to the MusicXML features included in Finale 2009. For instance, version 4.5 greatly improves the import of chord symbols into Finale.

Dolet software comes with a 30-day free trial under the terms of Recordare's software license agreement. To continue using Dolet past the 30-day trial, purchase it at the Recordare Online Store.

More information about installing and using Dolet 4 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 4.

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Last updated September 11, 2008.