MakeMusic! Releases Finale NotePad 2005; Downloadable Freeware Music Notation Software Offers New Features and Support for Files Created in Finale 2005

Business Wire, Sept 20, 2004

MINNEAPOLIS -- MakeMusic!(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:MMUS) announced today the release of Finale NotePad(R) 2005, the latest version of the popular freeware. Based on their award-winning Finale(R) music notation software, NotePad allows users of both Windows(R) and Macintosh(R) OS X computers to create, play back, and print out sheet music. Downloads are available at http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/index.asp. NotePad software has been downloaded nearly 1.5 million times from musicians in over 200 countries worldwide.

Finale NotePad 2005 offers a variety of powerful and timesaving features for educators, students and hobbyists including compatibility with Finale 2005 files. NotePad is especially popular with music educators because they can create assignments in Finale and share them with their students via NotePad.

NotePad users can set up a music score and enter clefs, time signatures, key signatures, notes, rests, lyrics, markings and musical instructions. The Finale technology automatically arranges the many elements on the page just like an engraver would and prints the sheet music with the same high quality publishers enjoy. New in NotePad 2005 is the ability to easily create and edit Guitar and Bass tablature. Finale NotePad also offers "Human Playback(TM)", a feature introduced in Finale 2004, which transforms the playback of music entered via the computer keyboard into an expressive performance, allowing arrangers and composers to hear their work as it was intended to be performed.

NotePad also serves as an introduction to the entire Finale family of music notation software. Many NotePad users decide they would benefit from additional features and upgrade to more advanced Finale products. Because all these products can share files (including between Windows and Macintosh computers), music created in NotePad is fully compatible with Finale, Finale Guitar, Finale Allegro(R), Finale PrintMusic!(R) and Finale NotePad(R) Plus. For years thousands of Finale files have been shared on the Internet and now, with Finale NotePad, anyone can access those files and distribute their own.

About MakeMusic! Inc.

MakeMusic!(R) Inc. is a world leader in music education technology whose mission is to enhance and transform the experience of making, teaching and learning music. Among its leading products are Finale, the world's best-selling music notation software, and SmartMusic(R), the complete music practice system that features Intelligent Accompaniment(R) and the world's largest interactive accompaniment library. MakeMusic! maintains its corporate headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company can be reached at www.makemusic.com.