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With the packaged CD, you will be able to install SmartScore an unlimited number of times onto your computer. Application files should not be copied to other computers. SmartScore will operate only when installed correctly. Both the Internet and CD installers are copy-protected as a precaution against software piracy. Internet installers can be installed up to 5 times (using ID and Password) before it becomes necessary to call Customer Service to obtain a new download ID.
b. (Windows) Push Start > Run and Browse to find your CD drive under "Look In". Double-click SS3INSTALL.EXE.
d. Follow all installation steps including entering Serial Number, Customer ID and registering your copy of the product.
SmartScore includes several pre-scanned TIFF files. Launch SmartScore by double-clicking its icon. We will start the tutorial with the sample pre-scanned file, FANDANGO.
FIGURE 2 - 1: Navigator toolbarThe Begin Recognition window opens. This is the window you will use to select previously-scanned music for recognition.
b. Press Add Files to List. In the Open dialog box, double-click on the sample file, FANDANGO.TIF, inside the SmartScore folder.
c. This will return you to the Begin Recognition window. Turn off Triplets, Endings and Text Recognition. Press Begin Recognition. SmartScore will begin to recognize the sample file. When Recognition is complete, the name FANDANGO will appear in the Save As filename window with SmartScore's own filetype listed as ENF (Extended Notation Format). The ENF extension will automatically be added to all filenames after recognition. Click on Save.
This window will indicate to you how many systems were recognized as well as the number of parts found in the largest and smallest systems. See "Post-Recognition"0 for more details. Press OK after studying the report.
The Unify function unifies all key and time signatures based on choices listed in the dialog box. See See "Unify Key, Time and Clefs (U)"1 for more details.
Most SmartScore keyboard shortcuts are identical on both Windows and Mac machines. These include "Ctrl + Click" or "Ctrl + key + Click". Occasionally, however, an entirely different command is required, specifically the familiar Windows Right Mouse Click. Since most Macs do not have a right mouse button, the Windows right-click function is performed on the Mac version of SmartScore with "Option + Click"
The original scanned image is displayed in the upper window and the newly recognized ENF file appears below it. Use the scroller bars, mouse wheel, or arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll up and down the page. Notice the image and ENF windows are synchronized for comparison .
In ENF, only one staff line is active at a time. The active staff displays black while inactive staff lines display as grey. To make a staff line active, move your cursor to within the boundary of the staff until it highlights black. If you want all staves to display in black, go to the View menu and uncheck Show Active Staff. If you do this, remember to move your cursor within a staff line first before doing any editing within a staffline.
As accurate as SmartScore is, you should always check for errors in recognition. Sometimes only a few simple edits are all that is required.
To see all staff lines in black, go to the View menu and un-check "Show Active Staff". Editing is done a staff-to-staff basis. If you are unsure to which staff a note belongs, turn this back on. To quickly check for errors, select Error Check (Ctrl + "E").
a. Move your cursor to the "Notes" tool palette on the left of your screen. Select a 16th note (The number "5" key on your computer keyboard will do the same). Hit the "C" key and toggle to Insert mode (displaying only a note). In both Insert and Change modes, your cursor becomes the selected object.
b. Press the "A" key to change the beam direction until it points towards the right.In the "Notes" palette, click on the "Grace note" button. Move your cursor into Measure 1 and position the notehead of the grace note on D. Press the "S" key to flip its stem direction. Click to insert the first grace note. Notice the cursor's beam direction has gone from right to left. Position the cursor notehead on F and click to insert the second grace note. See "Insert and Change modes" on page 76.
NOTE: Grace notes can play back either on the beat (accaciatura) or before the beat. To change, go to Playback > Sound Grace Notes.
TIP: The "F1" key will reset all windows and palettes to their default positions. This is especially useful when windows, palettes and tool bars become too scattered or too numerous.
a. Move your cursor over any tool palette on the left side of your screen and right-click (Win) / Ctrl + click (Mac). This allows you to select any available SmartScore tool palette.
Choose the "Dynamics" Palette (F8).
b. Select Mezzo forte (mf) in the "Dynamics" palette. Click in Measure 15 to insert the new dynamic marking.
d. Hit the "X" key and click on the false "P" in Measure 17 to delete it. Toggle the "C" key to return to Insert mode.
e. Select Piano (p) in the "Dynamics" palette to activate Piano mark. Click to insert the mark in Measure 17.
NOTE:To Undo any editing action, select the Undo button in the toolbar (Ctrl + Z (Win) / Cmnd + Z (Mac)).
a. In Measure 3, the beamed triplet was recognized with 16th notes. Hold down the Control button of your keyboard and click the first 16th note of the eighth-note triplet in Measure 2. Notice how the cursor changes to an "eighth note-start beam". This action is what we call Quick-Select (Ctrl + Click). Hit the "C" key to toggle to the Change mode (with white arrow) and click on the first note in Measure 3 to correct.
b. Ctrl + Click again on the middle note of the triplet in Measure 2, hit the "C" key and click the middle note of the triplet in Measure 3 to change its value. Repeat with the last note of each triplet.
A note is missing from the chord in the treble clef of Measure 9.
a. Press the "Z" key to activate the Cluster Tool. The Cluster Tool is used to build chords or remove single noteheads from a chord.
NOTE:To delete one notehead from any chord, first hit "Z" (the cluster tool), then "X" (the delete mode). Clicking on any notehead will remove it without deleting the entire note cluster.
c.Hit the "O" key to activate the Select tool. Drag to highlight the beamed grace notes you entered in Measure 1 earlier. When only the two notes are highlighted, hold down Ctrl + C to copy (Edit > Copy is the same).
d. Now, hold down Ctrl + V (Edit > Paste). Position the mouse pointer to left of the first note in Measure 23 and click to insert the copied grace notes. Holding the Shift button down, move the first grace note from D to E.
e. Quick-Select (Ctrl + Click) the flagged eighth note from the last note in Measure 22. Push the Grace Note button in the "Notes" palette and click to insert the grace note in Measure 24.
f. Go to Measure 23, Quick-Select the sharp to the left of the C# notehead and then click on the grace note in Measure 24 in insert.
Just hit the spacebar to playback this fine little piece by Antonio Soler. SmartScore has scrolling playback, so you will be able to see which notes are sounding while the file plays. The TIFF window closes during play.The Spacebar acts as a Playback / Pause toggle control. You can also control ENF playback with the floating Mini Console. Transport controls are colored and there is a handy tempo controller that smoothly speeds up or slows down playback the further the slider is moved away from the center. Letting go returns the "spring-loaded" slider back to the center and the default tempo resumes.
We will now process a second sample of music and see how SmartScore helps you edit parts, assign instrument sounds and isolate a part. Most scores have parts joined together into "systems". Each horizontal staff of each system represents a "visible" part or active instrument.
a. Push the Recog button in the Navigator. If you have any open documents, you will be asked to save them. In the Begin Recognition window press Add Files to List. In the Open window, double-click GLUCK.TIF inside the SmartScore folder.
b. In the Begin Recognition window, click to remove the check mark next to "Text" checkbox Since there are no lyrics or text to recognize.
c. Press Begin Recognition button to start the recognition process. Save the recognized ENF file when prompted.
In the flute part of Measure 3, an eighth note of a beamed group needs to be a pitch higher. While holding the SHIFT button down, drag the notehead of the first beamed note up from A to B.
Activate the Select tool ("O" key). Click and drag to highlight both the slur and the tie above the staffline in Measure 10. Hit the Delete key to remove them.
a. Ctrl + click on the dotted half note in the previous measure to Quick-select it. Move the mouse pointer to the beginning of Measure 10 and click to insert the dotted half note.
b. Hit the "V" to activate ties. Click on the dotted half notes in Measure 9 and again in Measure 10 to insert each tie.
NOTE: Right-click while inserting a tie (Mac: Ctrl + click) will reverse the default orientation of its arc.
c. There is a spurious dot in the eighth note beam sequence inside Measure 10. To delete the dot, toggle the "D" key until the cursor appears as a greyed-out dot and arrow. Click on the notehead with the dot to remove.
d. In Measure 18, Quick-select (Ctrl + click) the natural sign in the right hand piano part. Move your cursor up to the flute part and click on the half-note B to insert the natural.
e. Right-click (Win) / Ctrl + click (Mac) on any open tool palette. Click on Articulations and select Trill ("tr"). Click on the quarter note at the end of Measure 19 to insert the trill.
a.Select the Properties Tool button from the SmartScore toolbar. Click onto the trill you just inserted. A properties window will open that allows you to change playback properties of the trill. Move the "Permutations" slider to 8 and select "Fixed Number of Durations".
NOTE: The Properties Tool works for most articulation, dynamic and tempo markings. See "Properties Tool" for more information on how to edit these object's properties.
b. Go to Playback menu and select Select Play Range. Change the beginning measure to 19. Select OK. In the Mini-console, press the Rewind button then Play to hear the changes you just made.
Voice color mode will display contrapuntal voices in different colors. This allows you to view secondary voices (both notes and rests) in red and tertiary voices in green.
b. Notice in each staff how notes and rests appear as either black or red. This represents the two voices in each staff line.
c. To see how multiple voice colors are represented in MIDI, reopen the Playback Console (Ctrl + 9 / Cmnd + 9).
Notice that Track 2 (PianoR in System Manager) has two voices: Black = Voice 1 / Red = Voice 2.
The left and right-hand piano parts have been automatically recognized as piano and assigned the General MIDI patch of Grand Piano. By default, the solo part was automatically assigned the Flute patch. Let's say you want to hear the solo part as a clarinet sound instead.
a.Push the speaker button to open the Playback Console or use the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + 9 / Cmnd + 9.
b. In Track 1, click on Flute in the Instrument column and scroll up 2 instruments and select Clarinet. Push the spacebar or Play button to hear the solo part played as clarinet. Move volume slider left or right to increase or decrease volume on one or more parts. Reset Track 1 to Flute or some other instrument. Close Playback Console.
The System Manager is a very powerful editing tool. It controls part and voice visibility, part name and template assignment, staff and system spacing as well as instrument assignments at the voice level within a part. Here, we will isolate the solo part and copy it to a new document.
NOTE: Normally all parts, represented by staff lines, play simultaneously. SmartScore considers each staff of a system as a "Part" and also as a MIDI track. A given part may or may not be visible in every system. These irregular or expanding & collapsing systems are sometimes referred to as "optimized" systems. See "Part visibility" and "Re-link Parts" for more details on controlling visibility and linking of parts.
b. Remove "Visibility checkmarks" for PianoR and PianoL parts in the far-left column. Check "Visibility" in the Apply region. Push Apply to New to create a new document which will include only the part(s) selected by visibility checkmarks.
We will now use System Manager to select parts and assign MIDI sounds. MIDI instrument assignments can be changed in the System Manager either by choosing one of a number of preset Part Names or by changing the MIDI instruments assigned to any particular voice.
a. Return to the original Gluck score, hit Ctrl + M / Cmnd + M. Go to the Part Name column and click on the first Part Name, Flute. Scroll down the list and select Oboe. Notice Voice 1 becomes Oboe. NOTE: Default instrument names and linked MIDI sounds are obtained from Instrument Templates.
b. Even more interesting is to assign different instrument sounds to contrapuntal voices within a single part (staff line). Refer to the next figure, Changing MIDI Instrument of a voice in System Manager.
c. Select Harpsichord instrument for Voice 2 of the PianoR part. Each voice (V1, V2, V3 or V4) can each be assigned a unique MIDI sound simply by clicking on its current instrument name and selecting one of 128 MIDI instruments.
e. Now hit the spacebar to play back. Whenever the secondary voice in the right hand is played, you will hear a harpsichord sound. This technique is ideal for distinguishing "inner voices" of parts that are written contrapuntally.
NOTE: Changing MIDI instrument assignments of parts and voices can also be accomplished in the Playback Console (Ctrl + 9 / Playback Menu > Console).
Many scores are written with multiple voices within a staff line. Solo piano, guitar and choral music typically include at least a few measures that include different voices moving independently. What we refer to as "Voiceline Threading" allows you to track and manipulate contrapuntal (polyphonic) voices easily. SmartScore treats voices as fundamental entities, not simply as notes with stems pointed in different directions.
The sample file, CHORALE, is a famous Lutheran chorale. It has four voices: Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass written in two staff lines (SA/TB).
b. Press the Add Files to List button in the Begin Recognition window. Select CHORALE.TIF from the SmartScore folder in the Open window and then press Open. In Options area, leave Triplets, Endings and Text Recognition unchecked.
c. Press the Begin Recognition button. Once Recognition is complete, save the new ENF file, CHORALE.ENF.
In the upper staff, the Soprano voice is in black and the Alto voice is in red. Because it is the first voice in the lower staff, the Tenor line is displayed in black and the Bass line is displayed in red. SmartScore allows up to 4 voices per staff: black (V1), red (V2), green (V3) and blue (V4).
e. Change MIDI Instrument assignments for PianoR (Voice 1) to Choir Ahs and PianoR (Voice 2) to Voice Oohs.
d. Now push the Apply to New button. This creates a new ENF document containing only the soprano and alto voices. The original file will remain unchanged.
e. Press the spacebar to hear only the women's voices. Now, we will extract the alto voice and hear it by itself.
a. Hold down Ctrl + "M" (Cmnd + M for Mac) keys to open the System Manager. Select the PianoR part by clicking on the black dot to the left of the part name. Voice Visibility check boxes become active.
b. Uncheck the box under Voice 1 to make the soprano part invisible. In the Apply region below, check the Visibility box since the only change we are making in the System Manager is to visibility.
b. Press the Add Files to List button in the Begin Recognition window. Select SONGBOOK.TIF and press Open. In the Options area, check the box to the left of Text Recognition. Change Language to English.
c. Press the Begin Recognition button. Once Recognition is complete, save the ENF file, SONGBOOK.ENF.
f.Press the L (Lyric) button in the Text and Controllers toolbar. With the lyric cursor activated, click on half note in the top staff line. The cursor will insert at the beginning of the lyric block associated with that note.
g. Using the arrow keys, move the cursor down to the next lyric line and then right to the end of the lyric block. Hit "?" to insert it.
Solo classical guitar and solo violin scores are unique in the world of published music. Usually more than two voicelines are present; each voiceline represented by notes with opposite stem directions. In classical guitar notation, different voices represent the four plucking fingers of the right hand and in solo violin music, notes with stems in opposite directions represent the four strings of the instrument. A closely-spaced cluster of three or four disconnected notes, stems pointing in either direction with their noteheads slightly offset represents a "chord". Such interesting formulations pose real challenges to intelligent music-scanning software...
a. Push the Recognition button in the Navigator. In the Begin Recognition window, push Add FIles to List and select GUITAR.TIF from the SmartScore folder and press Open (or double-click the filename). Press Begin Recognition.
b. Push spacebar to Play. Notice as the music plays, notes have three colors, including green. The green notes represent the third or tertiary voice. Hit spacebar again to Stop.
c. With the Select Tool ("O" key), click on the text "MY" in Measure 5 to highlight. Hit "Delete" to remove it.
d. Open the Playback Console (Ctrl + 9 / Cmnd + 9). Click into Instrument selection for Track 1 / Voice 2. Change Nylon String Guitar to Tango Accordion. Push the spacebar and listen to how contrapuntal voices become more distinct when they are assigned to different instrument sounds.
a.In the Navigator, push the MIDI button. This will open the MIDI environment for the guitar score.
b. With view Type of Overview selected, push OK. Overview displays all ENF staff lines represented as MIDI tracks.
c. Push MIDI button in the Navigator again. This time the option of opening Piano Roll appears. Push OK. The score is now displayed in a "piano roll" configuration where note lengths appear as long bars. Notice that contrapuntal voices maintain their color.
a.Click on the "Tile Windows" button in the Main Toolbar to view all windows that are open in SmartScore.
c. Clicking into any window activates it. You may zoom, edit and scroll as you would if it were the only open window.
TIP: Viewing both the ENF and MIDI windows simultaneously allows you to visualize both sides of the SmartScore equation: The graphical environment and the time-based environment. Whenever you have a playback problem that doesn't appear to be resolved in ENF view, open MIDI piano roll view, tile the views and compare data. Often you will visualize the problem in MIDI; e.g. Incorrect note or rest values may cause MIDI to create more beats than what is written in the ENF view.
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Editing Gluck
In the SmartScore Toolbar, push the "Voice Visibility" button.
Select