Download Patterson Plug-In Collection

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With any third-party plug-in, including these, you should try it out first with a document that you do not care about saving. You can learn about the plugin and make sure it works on your system at the same time.

August, 17, 2002 Mac Users: The filenames no longer have " 2k" appended to the end of them. Make sure to delete the old ones before installing the new ones.

January 13, 2003 Finale 2000 and higher: The plugins are now contained in a folder called "Patterson Plug-Ins". It is recommended that you drop this folder in your Finale plug-ins folder.

June 13, 2003. The current release is ready for Finale 2004 and compatible with previous versions back to Finale 2000. Note that Mac Finale 2004 requires a separate download because Finale 2004 is a carbonized OSX-native application. Click here for instructions on how to convert your OS9 plugin settings to OSX.

February 26, 2006. Please note that the uploads on this date mark the end of support for Mac OS9.

June 1, 2006. Patterson Plug-Ins Version 3 and Copyist's Helper Version 2 require new registration codes from the previous versions. You can install the newer versions for a 30-day trial. This trial does not affect your registration of the older versions. See the new version announcement here.

Plugins tested thru Finale 2008 Windows
(from Finale 2000)
MacOS X
(from Finale 2004)
Patterson Plug-Ins (U. S. English) Version 3 zip-file (1.8 MB) zip-file (7.3 MB)
Copyist's Helper Version 2 zip-file (152 KB) zip-file (546 KB)
Patterson-Balken (German) Version 3 zip-file (156 KB) zip-file (542 KB)

You can download MacOS-compatible versions of JW Plugins here. If Jari Williamsson asks me to remove these links, I will. These are offered as-is, with no guarantee or support. For a history of changes, see this link.

PDKTools (Win v2.16)
PDKTools (Mac v2.16, PPC Only).
JW Space Systems v1.12 (Mac Universal Binary: does not use PDKTools).
JW Tempo v1.03a (Mac Universal Binary: does not use PDKTools).
JW Time Sig v1.02 (Mac Universal Binary: does not use PDKTools).

Earlier Patterson plugin versions are not supported, but they may be downloaded here:

Patterson Plug-Ins (U. S. English) Version 2 Windows MacOS
for latest Finale versions (tested thru Finale 2006) zip-file (1359 KB) sit-file (1669 KB)
for older Finale versions:
for Finale 2004 running Mac OS9 (last update Feb. 26, 2006) sit-file (1549 KB)
for Finale 2000–2003 for Mac OS (last update Feb. 26, 2006) sit-file (1449 KB)
for Finale 97/98 (last update June 13, 2003) zip-file (1031 KB) sit-file (909 KB)

Copyist's Helper Version 1
for latest Finale versions (tested thru Finale 2006) zip-file (137 KB) sit-file (172 KB)
for older Finale versions:
for Finale 2004 running Mac OS9 (last update Feb. 26, 2006) sit-file (160 KB)
for Finale 2000–2003 for Mac OS (last update Feb. 26, 2006) sit-file (152 KB)

Patterson-Balken (German) Version 2
for latest Finale versions (tested thru Finale 2006) zip-file (136 KB) sit-file (170 KB)
for older Finale versions:
for Finale 2004 running Mac OS9 (last update Feb. 26, 2006) sit-file (160 KB)
for Finale 2000–2003 for Mac OS (last update Feb. 26, 2006) sit-file (150 KB)
for Finale 97/98 (last update June 13, 2003) zip-file (124 KB) sit-file (112 KB)

Patterson Plug-Ins Documentation (Version 2) pdf-file (445 KB)