SmartScore X Songbook Edition allows you to watch as fretboards and chord symbols are recognized, then change as you transpose keys.
Choose a style for automatic drum accompaniment or create new ones. Sing along with friends in Karaoke view. It`s every songster`s dream!
Scan multiple pages of printed sheet music and see it reconstructed onscreen in seconds, ready for playback, transposition or part extraction. Re-format, reprint and export finished scores to other music programs via MusicXML or MIDI.
An elegant interface includes split screen or continuous horizontal viewing of both the original scan (in yellow) and the editable SmartScore window (in white).
Here are some key features of "SmartScore X Songbook Edition":
· Smart scanning interface with automatic scanner settings. No expertise required. Automatic resolution (dpi) selection. Simplified multi-page scanning within a single file.
· Recognition 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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)
· 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" objects 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.
Requirements:
· G3 Processor or better
· 256 mb of ram
Limitations:
· Only 1 track can be converted.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Scanning:
· Improved scanner connectivity and control for Canon LIDE and PIXMA scanners when using SmartScore`s scanning interface.
· Implemented smart sensing for non TWAIN-compliant scanners.
MusicXML Export:
· Improved chord symbol / guitar fretboard placement. Symbols now position directly above corresponding note clusters.
Improved exported page handling:
· >Music automatically centers to middle of page: (Program Preferences > Printing & XML > Center to Page = On)
· >XML pages now export according to default page size
Notation Editing:
· Transposition bug fixed: When a pair of notes with accidentals were tied across a bar line, transposing by key signature would break the tie.
· First scan: "Select Scanner Driver" appears (initial pass only)
· Staff Properties added to Layout Properties control (right-click on any staff line).
· sf and sfz dynamic markings now appear below and not above staff line per convention.
· Problem with chord names not scaling when zooming out now fixed.
· View > Part Names...
