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With SmartScore, you are able to scan, recognize and playback sheet music in just minutes. To listen, just hit the space bar! Assign different MIDI sounds to each instrumental part and recreate a band or an orchestral performance. Assign different sounds to contrapuntal voices to create interesting and unusual textures of sound or to emphasize inner voices in complex arrangements. Recognition of dynamics, articulations, repeats and endings gives added nuance and realism during playback. Students can listen to an unfamiliar piece before learning it. Practice along while playing back at various tempos without altering pitch or key. Mute or solo one or more parts on the fly. Parts selected by name are automatically assigned proper MIDI instruments and maintain playback continuity even with optimized scores. Transposed instruments notated in different keys will play back in tune. Automatically add drum tracks to playback... choose from many preset styles or create your own drum tracks from imported MIDI files. You can even record playback to audio-CD with the built-in CD burner.
While playback of sheet music has its uses, it is just the beginning. SmartScore has intelligent tools that will enable you to transform your scanned score into virtually any configuration. You can transpose and print out your music into a new key including any changes of key, time and clef. Transpose globally or by selected region; by key or by clef. Transform a viola part in C to a horn part in F. Recognized guitar frets and chord symbols automatically transpose along with notes and key symbols. Instrumental parts or contrapuntal voices can be extracted to new SmartScore documents using Visibility in the System Manager. Solo part scores can be scanned in and joined into a conductor's score with drag-and-drop ease using Score Structure. Preserve proper playback of instruments that appear and disappear throughout the score by using Part Linking tool. Printed output can be reformatted by resizing staffline, staff and system spacing and page margins. It's all possible with SmartScore.
Transform your favorite MIDI files into engraver-quality music notation. If the MIDI file contains complex voicing in a track, SmartScore can separate them into independent voicelines. If voices are joined into chords, use SmartScore's voice-splitting tool to separate them into discrete contrapuntal voices.
By selecting one of 15 templates, you can create musical scores from scratch. Drop in one key and time signature, press a button and the entire score is updated. Need more space between staves? Change one setting and apply to the current system, subsequent systems, page, part or entire score. For easy score editing, refer to the Quick Key card.
View and edit the MIDI data of your scanned music in the familiar Overview, Piano Roll and Event List format. Record your MIDI performance either as an accompaniment to your scanned music or in layered tracks and transform it into musical notation. Record drum tracks from your computer keyboard while listening to the playback using Virtual Drums.
Print ENF file / Create PDF file / Export to Finale® / Export MusicXML files to other scorewriter programs / Export MIDI files / Export to NIFF files / Record playback to CD
Not all SmartScore editions can accomplish everything listed above. Excluding SmartScore Pro, all other editions have limitations. The following chart lists the limitations of each edition.
An excellent way to start using SmartScore is to turn to "Installation and Quick Tour". As you scan, recognize, play back and edit your files, turn to the corresponding chapter in this manual. Later chapters will help you to work with text and symbols, to change the structure of your score, to do detailed editing and to operate in a MIDI environment.
This manual is fully indexed and cross-referenced. The easiest method of obtaining information on any topic is to look it up in the Index then turn to listed page(s). Detailed descriptions of SmartScore menu items can be found in the Referencechapter.
This manual is written for all editions of SmartScore. Features described that do not apply to all editions will have a symbol in the left margin.
No restrictions. All features and descriptions in this manual apply to SmartScore Pro Edition.
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When you register your copy of SmartScore, you become eligible for technical support for as long as you own the product. But before you reach for the phone, try to solve your issues first by referring to this manual. E-mail is the most efficient method of communicating with Musitek Technical Support. It is likely that we will ask you to e-mail us any scanned image files and/or SmartScore files along with a brief description of the problems you are encountering.
Technical Support E-mail address is: tech@musitek.com
Telephone Support number is: 805-646-5841
Musitek's Support mailing address is:
Musitek Technical Support
410 Bryant Circle, Suite K
Ojai, CA 93023If you must phone in for help, we ask that you have a few things ready before calling Technical Support:
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