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MakeMusic, Inc. Announces Finale NotePad 2012Free music notation software empowers anyone with a computer to create
Minneapolis - January 18, 2012 - MakeMusic, Inc. (NASDAQ: MMUS) today announced the upcoming release of Finale NotePad® 2012, which will be available for free download on February 15, 2012. NotePad is music notation software that enables users to create, play and print sheet music.

"Finale NotePad fosters creativity and exploration by empowering students, songwriters, worship directors and other musicians to easily create electronic and printed sheet music," said Karen van Lith, MakeMusic CEO. "Providing NotePad at no cost is especially exciting for music educators. Now their students can use NotePad for free to complete any assignment the educator has created in any version of Finale, MakeMusic's flagship professional music notation software."

Finale NotePad 2012 also includes select features new to Finale 2012, including Unicode font support (providing access to all characters in any font and facilitating the creation of music in any language) and aspects of Finale's new ScoreManager, which simplifies the control of playback sounds.

More information can be found from Finale's Community page, which offers access to the Finale Blog, Forum and links to Finale's presence on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

About MakeMusic, Inc.
MakeMusic®, Inc. is a world leader in music technology whose mission is to develop and market solutions that transform how music is composed, taught, learned and performed. For more than 20 years, Finale ® has been the industry standard in music notation software, enabling composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and publishers to create, edit, audition, print and publish musical scores. MakeMusic is also the creator of SmartMusic ® education software that is transforming the way students practice. With SmartMusic, students and teachers have access to thousands of band, orchestra and vocal pieces allowing students to practice with background accompaniment and get immediate feedback on their performance. SmartMusic allows teachers to individualize instruction and document the progress of every student. The SmartMusic ® Inbox, an Android™ and Apple® mobile application, provides additional access for teachers to review, grade, and comment on student assignments. MusicXML is an Internet-friendly way to publish musical scores, enabling musicians to distribute interactive sheet music online and to use sheet music files with a wide variety of musical applications. Garritan sound libraries provide musicians with state-of-the-art virtual instruments with the playback quality of a live performance. Additional information about this Minnesota company can be found at www.makemusic.com.

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