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Its PhotoScore Ultimate 7 reads virtually all markings in printed music, and most in handwritten music. It can handle scores up to 64 staves and 400 pages in length. To compare product features, go to PhotoScore by Neuratron has been a worthy competitor to SmartScore for the past 18 years.
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At the same time, we’ve spent an equal amount of effort in creating a powerful and easy-to-use notation editor within SmartScore which can transpose, extract parts or voices, print and playback complex as well as simple scores with Garritan virtual instruments.” A SmartScore demo program can be downloaded for free and is fully functional, except for the print and file saving functions: MIDISCAN, the lite version of SmartScore that is included in versions of Finale, is also powerful OCR program, but it is restricted to converting notes, rhythms, ties, key, and time signatures. Musitek CEO, Chris Newell, says, “Musitek has invested many engineering man-years in music recognition. Even back in early scanning programs in the 1990s, music scanning was still faster than hand-input, and the technology has only improved since then.Īlmost as important as accuracy is the ability to correct and modify the score after it is recognized.
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Both companies offer a 30-day free trial version for evaluation so you can give it the “John Henry Test.” As good as John Henry was at driving steel, the steam driver was 10 times faster.
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My two favorite music scanning publishers are Musitek, publishers of SmartScore Pro X2 (their MIDISCAN Lite edition is bundled in Finale Professional), and Neuratron, publishers of PhotoScore Ultimate (their PhotoScore Lite edition is bundled with Sibelius).

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It is also able to convert PDF files to editable and playable notation.

Music scanning or optical character recognition (OCR) can digitize printed music into musical notation for editing, printing, and playback purposes, going far beyond the capabilities of printed music. All of this can result in dynamic interactions between teacher and students, creating a first-class teaching environment that will improve performance techniques for an unlimited repertory that could only be duplicated in traditional, segmented instruction through tedious efforts of the teacher. Through these tools, music teachers can create assignments of the music that they are actually teaching/performing along with assessment recordings, note and rhythm accuracy, and a unique way to improve intonation.
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The focus here is to explain the “power” and provide tips, tricks, and techniques for music scanning, notation software editing, and the implementation of SmartMusic practice files.

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