The Properties Tool is your key to customizing the look and sound of your score. Simply click on any symbol, note or staffline to change its playback or graphical properties. Apply to one or all instances. Multiple Undos and Restore Defaults ensure everything is reversible.
Transpose and print by key or by clef. Transpose by pitch only. Transpose the entire score or select a range by measures. Choose from several strategies for the cleanest look… all within seconds after scanning.
Add drum track grooves to accompany your score’s playback. The extensive library includes MIDI drum intros, styles and fills from 1-measure pickups in 4/4 time to 12-measure trance fills in 12/8… and everything in between. Simply choose a meter, style and groove, then where to start and where to stop.
“Send to Finale®”. Just one button saves the current SmartScore file, exports and opens it in Finale with all elements intact. Choose to replace the “Lite” version of SmartScore with the full copy when you select “Scan music” in Finale.
Adjust horizontal and vertical page margins by dragging tabs. Change and unify line, staff and system spacing just as easily.
It can’t all be work… Let your hair down and sing along to your favorite sheet music in Karaoke view. Select whether lyrics scroll or have the ball jump from syllable to syllable. Have a singalong party...Hey, you only live once…
New OCR module ensures text and lyrics are recognized accurately. Editing and modifying text and lyric fonts is quick and easy.
Record playback to .WAV files and burn to CD. A great way to make practice CDs of parts and even contrapuntal vocal lines. Change tempos without affecting pitch for repetitive learning practice.
Adjust horizontal and vertical page margins by dragging tabs. Change and unify line, staff and system spacing just as easily.
Control your print output. Automatically center the music for loose-leaf pages or select offset margins for folio/spiral binding.
Score structures of one or more scores can be visualized graphically in a unique hierarchical view. Remove or change sequence of parts. Insert parts from one score and into to another. Extract a part to a new document without affecting the original. Combine score-parts into conductor’s score, all with drag and drop ease.
Smart scanning and recognition. Auto resolution and multi-page / single-image file scanning takes the guess and the work out of it. Recognize almost any PDF file including those optimized for the web. Focus recognition on the type of score you are scanning. Super-fast parallel page processing (with dual-core machines).
Full MIDI support. View score in familiar “piano roll”, event list and track overview modes. Apply Tempo, Velocity and other controller changes graphically. Insert instrument (program) changes with one click. Changes in MIDI automatically update the notation.
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Precision music scanning & world-class scoring.
Imagine the world's fastest and most accurate music scanning technology. Now imagine a professional-grade scorewriter that is just as friendly as it is powerful. One with enough intelligence built in that no advanced degree is requred to use it. Then think of all the possible ways you'd like to experience your printed music... push-button scanning, realistic playback, key/clef transposition, part extraction, page reformattting, auto-drum grooves, karaoke, CD burning, integrated MIDI visualization and file conversion including support for PDF, Finale® and MusicXML formats. Welcome to SmartScore X. There is simply no faster way to get printed music into your computer and no simpler way to transform it for print, web or audio output. Band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts and scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning. Nearly all PDF files are accurately recognized, including those in low-resolution and color. With more accuracy on more symbols than any other music scanning software, SmartScore X is an indispensable tool for arrangers, performers, music educators and church ministries worldwide. Download the demo and discover it for yourself.
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• Special pricing for schools and churches
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See what’s special about SmartScore X…
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More accuracy, more features and even more simplicity
- Smart scanning interface with automatic scanner settings. No expertise required. Automatic resolution (dpi) selection. Simplified multi-page scanning within a single file.
- Recogntion accuracy exceeds 99% on well-printed scores.
- Recognizes more musical symbols more accurately.
- Improved text and lyric OCR.
- Complex structures recognized including repeats, segnos, coda signs, broken systems (coda breaks), cross-staff beaming/voicing, optimized systems, ossias and grace notes.
More accurate playback
- Realistic nuance. Most all tempo, dynamic and articulation marks are recognized and automatically applied to playback.
- Assign different instrument sounds to parts with a single click. Assign different sounds to contrapuntal voices!
- Graphical velocity and tempo controllers for varying dynamics/tempo.
- Automatic Drum Groove instantly adds rhythms based on style and beat. Insert unlimited number of grooves.
- Graphical velocity and tempo controllers for varying dynamics/tempo.
- Control default playback behavior of trills, accents, ritards, hairpins, accelerandos, pickup and closeout measures.
- MIDI editor includes familiar Piano Roll, Overview and Event List. Two-way Notes-MIDI-Notes transparency.
Advanced music editing
- New scoring environment rebuilt from the ground-up for maximum ease and simplicity. Now it's easier than ever to edit scanned in music or to create professional scores.
- Flexible score displays: Continuous horizontal view or Multi-page view.
- Error check automatically highlights problem measures
- System width tabs. Plus line, staff and system spacing tabs.
- Advanced page layout controls and print previewing. Create production-quality page formats for print or PDF output.
Text, Lyrics and Chord Symbols
- Precision recognition of lyrics, text, fretboards and chord symbols including chord names written as text.
- Fretboards and chord symbols update when transposing to new key.
- Control text and lyric properties.
- Guitar Chord Library includes over 700 chords. Change or add your own
- Modify notehead shapes (shaped notes)
More Useful Functions
- Transpose by key or by clef for diverse instruments
- Extract parts out of scores or combine parts into a conductor’s score
- Program and Document preferences. Change the look and feel of the interface to suit your needs.
- Karaoke view with moving or stationary bouncing ball and moving or refreshed lyrics.
- Add "hidden" obects from view and from printing.
- Create musical scores from preset templates or from imported MIDI files
- Create Audio-CDs from finished files. Save to MusicXML, Finale, MIDI, NIFF and PDF file formats.
$399 / $299 (Academic)

WIN
Windows Vista / XP / 200x
Pentium I or better
256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space
MAC
OS 10.4 (Tiger)
G3 or better / Dual Core for Universal
256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space

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Features (click images to enlarge)
| Create Scores From Scratch |

SmartScore is also a full-featured scorewriter. Compose scores with simplicity and ease using one of 16 pre-formatted templates from solo instrument to full orchestral layouts. Respace and resize staves and systems on the fly. Change number of measures. Create optimized scores. |
| Chord Editor |

Chord symbols and guitar fret are recognized with astonishing accuracy...even when written as text. Recognized chord symbols transpose as if by magic when key signatures are changed. Add new fingerings and edit any of the 700 chord and fret patterns included in the library. |
| Score Structure |

Visualize and manipulate your score's structure. Extract parts to new documents, turn parts into a conductor’s score or a score into parts. Optimized parts and systems can be linked and re-linked. |
| Page Layout |

Complete page layout control. Center, right or left align with or without header pages. Create your own custom page layouts for professional print and PDF output. |
| MIDI View |

Visualize and edit underlying MIDI structure. Familiar piano roll, overview and MIDI event list are fully linked to the music notation view. Velocity and Tempo graphical controllers allow for smooth dynamic shading. Import and transform MIDI files to music notation. |
| Nudge Mode |

Move
the position of notes, rests, text, barlines and guitar frets. Change
beam angles. Reposition and alter curve angles of legatos. Fine-tune
final score layout before printing for a polished, professionally-engraved
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