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List Price $399 Academic Price $299 Lab Pack of 5 $879	SmartScore 5 Hybrid The worlds most versatile music software tool Don't copy another note of music, Let SmartScore do the Work! Super fast and super smart, "SmartScore" scans music and has it in your computer within minutes for editing and transposing. You get complete control over spacing and layout, plus you can export scores directly into Finale 2007 to print out. "SmartScore" now has advanced recognition in Windows and Macintosh. Lyrics are automatically associated with the proper noteheads. MIDI tracks are automatically linked to expanded parts. SmartScore's incredible 98 percent accuracy rating will minimize editing and get your music done right fast! SCAN / SCORE / SEQUENCE SmartScore has fully integrated music scanning, music scoring and MIDI sequencing. Whether you are copying music, importing MIDI files or composing, there is absolutely no faster way to get music into your computer. Fully integrated music scanning, scoring & MIDI sequencing with advanced recognition intelligence Playback, transpose and print out entire scores or individual parts within minutes of scanning Create complex scores easily using your mouse, keyboard, MIDI instrument or scanner input On-screen playback of repeats, dynamics and articulations with automatic instrument assignments Automatic linking of collapsing and expanding parts to MIDI tracks. Maintains playback continuity Complete control over page layout, spacing and irregular systems. Instant part and voice separation. Full MIDI-to-notation-to MIDI implantation with real-time MIDI instrument or MIDI file input New 32-bit code for Win95 and Mac PowerPC Fast, Easy to learn, Multiple Undoes Up to 32 staff lines / MIDI channels per system Compatible with all MIDI-based software Easy scanning with automatic skew correction TWAIN-compatible. Supports multipage TIFF files Works GREAT with FINALE SmartScore's precision music-scanning module has an accuracy of up to 98%. Playback, transpose and print out scores within minutes after scanning. Compose engraver-quality music using SmartScore's feature-rich music scoring editor. Import Standard MIDI files into SmartScore's own music format or record from a MIDI instrument. Edit in a feature-rich "piano-roll" Midi display or in SmartScore's own notation environment. Scanning copyright music without permission is illegal. Return to Top of Page
PhotoScore Professional 4 Academic Price $249 Kontakt Player Gold $139 PhotoScore Pro & Sibelius 4 Package Price $478 Lab Pack of 5 $899	PhotoScore Pro 4 PhotoScore Professional is the most advanced software package of its kind. Capable of reading thirty-two staves of music per page, two polyphonic voices per stave, as many as eight different types of clef, seven different kinds of accidentals, and articulation marks like staccato, tenuto, hairpins, and fermatas. PhotoScore Professional even reads text and dynamics, which is included in your score for editing in Sibelius.   System Requirements Windows: Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP, Pentium or faster, 64Mb+ RAM (128Mb+ for Windows 2000/XP), 70Mb hard disk space. Scanning may need more RAM. Mac: OS 9.1/9.2/10.1.5 or later, iMac/G3/G4/G5,128Mb+ RAM (OS 9) or 192Mb+ RAM (OS X), 70Mb hard disk space. Scanning requires TWAIN-compatible scanner and may need more RAM Extensive scanning improvements: Automatic scanning (including automatic resolution, cropping etc) – it is now possible to click ‘Scan pages’ and leave PhotoScore 4 to scan and read pages (multiple ones if using a sheetfed scanner) and automatically come up with the output. Windows: WIA driver support Mac OS X driver support Much improved easier-to-use interface Automatic ‘Read pages’ after scanning/opening option. GPL Ghostscript 8.15 now supported for PDF importing. Auto-rotate on PDF files Windows: Now opens and saves TIFF files TIFF files containing multiple images can now be opened Extensive stave selection improvements in scanned image window: Real time update of where PhotoScore thinks a stave is, and how many lines (1 to 6) it has as it is dragged around/resized. PhotoScore clearly displays staves that do not fit exactly, and clearly alerts the user during dragging to when it has ‘locked on’ Shows warning message if some staves cannot be located exactly Undo/redo on stave editing in scanned page (also delete and deselect all on Edit menu). Handles 64 staves (previously 32) ‘Notehead size reference’ editing when all staves on a page are one line. When many pages are opened or scanned at once, PhotoScore keeps a record of pages in which it had difficulty locating staves and gives the user the option to go through them (holding down Ctrl/Command while using previous/next buttons) before reading. Extensive recognition improvements: Incredible general recognition engine improvements allowing PhotoScore Professional to accurately deal with a far wider range of scores of varying qualities 4 voices per staff recognition More accurate voice recognition algorithm 1, 2, 3 and 5 line percussion stave recognition Recognition of appoggiaturas and cue-sized notes Extensive editing improvements: Magnified display and less on-screen clutter for a quicker, easier, much less fiddly editing session. Automatically resizes scanned image bar at top of output window. Automatically resizes editing area of highlighted stave in real-time. Tab etc now cause window to scroll if new object is off screen. Full editing of virtually all musical objects – now guitar chord diagrams & symbols, slurs, hairpins, fingering can be created and edited Right-click/Double-click on most musical objects now brings up the appropriate dialog box or menu for quick editing. Double-clicking on a chord adds a note to it. Selection of more than one note in a chord Individual notes in a chord can be changed to different voices by selecting them and selecting the appropriate voice from the keypad Timing for bars over two systems now correctly shown on latter system. A warning vertical red dashed line is now displayed at the end of the former system Paste replaces current selection and only goes into paste mode if nothing selected. Ctrl + Cursor up/down now moves note by octave Shift + Cursor left/right now adds previous/next objects to current selection Ctrl + Cursor left/right now selects object at start of previous/next bar Ctrl + Shift + Cursor left/right now adds objects up to previous/next barline to current selection Sibelius 4 skin for keypad Escape while dragging reverts to original state. Removed problem of not being able to highlight a stave in output when they are very close together. If no time signature present, PhotoScore now assumes 4/4 when calculating and drawing bad timing errors. Various other improvements/fixes Playback\saving improvements: Saving of .wav (Windows) or .aif (Mac OS X) files for burning to CD. Playback of percussion staves with instruments selected for each staveline based on instrument name Correct playback of bars going over two systems MusicXML/NIFF bug fixes and improvements, and support for 4 voices, appoggiaturas and percussion staves Auto-saving of current document to back up file. Miscellaneous improvements: Windows: Separate preferences now stored for multiple user accounts on a machine User guide now more in-depth and in PDF format Fixed memory leak Various other improvements leading to a more streamlined and less-stressful user experience.   Neuratron PhotoScore Pro is a music scanning program - the musical equivalent of a text OCR program. Scans and reads printed music Results can be used in Sibelius and MIDI editing software Uses the latest technology available Reads a wide range of musical markings Is fast and accurate Available for both Windows and Mac   Scanning text is difficult for computers to do, and has only achieved reasonable accuracy in the last few years. Music scanning is much harder because of the more complicated range of symbols involved, because of the complex two-dimensional ‘grammar’ of music, and because some markings such as hairpins and phrase-marks are of a variable shape and size. The difficulty with scanning music or text is that by scanning a page, a computer does not ‘understand’ it. As far as the computer is concerned, scanning a page merely presents it with a grid of millions of black and white dots, which could be music, text, a photograph or anything else. The process of actually reading or interpreting music, text or pictures from this grid of dots is extremely complex and poorly understood. A large part of the human brain, containing many millions of connections, is devoted solely to solving this ‘pattern recognition’ problem. For this reason, only a handful of music scanning programs have ever been developed, and past attempts have generally been very slow, very inaccurate, or unable to recognize many standard musical markings. PhotoScore 2 represents a significant advance, being able to read a wide variety of music with high speed, accuracy and a good range of music symbols. It can read most musical markings, including: Notes & chords (including stem direction, beams & flags), rests Accidentals, articulation marks Clefs, key signatures, time signatures 5-line staves (normal and small), barlines The format of the page, including the page size, staff size, margins, and where systems end Slurs, ties and hairpins Text including lyrics, dynamics, instrument names, tempo and technique markings Once the music has been read, it can be opened within a separate music notation editing package and be: Edited further Proof-read (e.g. just by playing it!) Transposed Re-arranged Saved Played back Parts extracted Printed out Scanning copyright music without permission is illegal. Return to Top of Page