Thinking about upgrading to SmartScore X2 ?

Fixes and improvements our engineers have made since Version X (10.3.x) :


  • Improved Recognition accuracy of notation: (50-75% increase in accuracy with Musitek's new Prodigy® Recognition Engine)
    - Poorly printed / poorly scanned originals
    - Jazz fonts / Fake books
    - All rests (whole, half, 8th, 16h, 32nd, 64th)
    - Accidentals
    - Whole notes
    - Whole note clusters
    - Half notes
    - Half note clusers
    -     Multi-measure rests
    - Less false positives
    - Triplets including angled and bracketed tuplets
    - Ties
    - Dots of prolongation
    - Multi-measure rests
    - Trill (tr) symbol
    - Notes with broken stems
    - Beamed groups with broken stems
    - Improved recognition of numbered endings
    - Flags in single notes
    - Beamed groups having very thick or very thin beams
    - Localization and recognition of Percussion and TAB staffs
    - Improved accuracy on various beamed groupings
    - Barlines
    - Key signatures and change-of-key signatures
    - Time signatures and change-of-time signatures
  • New symbols recognized, fixes and attributes applied
    - Fixed: Reduction of false positives including dots of prolongation, Numbered endings and Ped markings
    - Fixed: Dots being assigned to notes with staccatos
    - Fixed: Multiple Recognition crash issues
    - Fixed: Suppress Chord Symbols bug
    - New: Recognition of string fingerings
    - New: Assign a blue color to slurs (legatos)
    -     New: Recognizes umlauts for German characters
    - Recognition Option > Reset to default when new SmartScore session is opened.
    - Recognition Option > Join Offset Voices default = "Within 1/8 of a notehead"
    - Recognition Option > 4-line staves now default to TAB (Choose Percussion option added)
    - Recognition Option > Recognition of "heavy beams" removed
  • Playback Improvements and Fixes
    - New: Gariitan sounds and Aria player (for SmartScore's VST & AU playback drivers)
    - New: Insert MIDI Instrument change <program change> on-the-fly anywhere in ENF score
    - New: "Set Playback Range" now floats and includes PLAY function
    - New: Custom orchestral, pop and jazz instrument sound set from Garritan
    - New: Custom Aria "Ensemble" presets for quick instrument assignments
    - New: Recording playback thru Aria = Ssettings in Playback Console are applied
    - New: Playback of dynamics in Aria playeer improved
    - New: Karaoke view displays both moving lyrics and moving notation
    - New: Default playback tempo reset to 100 BPM
    - New: Select All (Ctrl+A) activates voice splitting ("H") and stem direction change ("S") globally
    - New: Changed Staff Properties to Score Properties - Insert / Delete Part added
    - New: Save and Open now browse to last directory accessed
    - New: Streamlined menu selections
    - New: Layout Properties changed to Score Properties (Insert/Delete Part added. TAB added.)
    - New: Add "None" to VIEW Menu > Show > Chord Symbols
    - New: "Change Line / Staff Spacing" button added to Staff Properties Window
    - New: Unify Key Signature default automatically resets according to score structure
    - New: Individual velocites for each note event are now visible and editable in MIDI Event List
    - New: VIEW and WINDOW (Items swapped for clarity)
    - New: Improved dynamic range for Hairpins, Cresc. and Decresc. Markings
    - New: Reset Permuation default for trills to 8
    - New: Playback Console can now be suppressed (EDIT > Program Preferences).
    - New: Pause feature added to Jukebox
    - Fixed: Correct Playback Pan problem
    - Fixed: Base transpositions for various instruments fixed
    - Fixed: Muted track are now supressed properly
    - Fixed: Truncated .WAV recording bug fixed-
    - Fixed: Edit > Page Setup: Bug fixes and wording change
    - Fixed: EDIT (Insert / Delete System, Part & Staff moved to Score Properties)
    - Fixed: "Format Score" button added to System Manager Window
    - Fixed: Base transposition for Bass and Alto Part Names
    - Fixed: Playback console & Instrument Templates now return a tranpose value of 0
    - Fixed: Playback Console Pan problem
    - Fixed: .WAV / .AIFF recording bugs:
    - - Muted track are now supressed properly
    - - All settings in Playback Console are now applied during Aria recording
  • ENF to MusicXML (.XML) Fixes and Improvements
    - Fixed: "MusicXML export bug = Bb transposition <diatonic> attribute problem
    - Fixed: "Guitar fret symbols no longer write <empty> frames
    - Fixed: "Quick-select (Ctl+Click) for selecting existing mordants.
    - Fixed: "Nested tuplets" now translate properly to MusicXML
    - Fixed: "PianoR was listed twice when exported to MusicXML files
    - New: Convert "Cresc" and "Decresc" markings to hairpins in MusicXML
    - New: Multi-measure rest symbols fully supported
    - New: Write chord extensions and augmentations to MusicXML files.
    - New: Exports beamed tremolos
  • ENF Editing Improvements and Fixes
    - New: "Score Structure" heirarchy displays all voices
    - New: Insert MIDI Instrument change <program change> anywhere in ENF score
    - New: Delete or assign any attribute (staccato, tenuto, etc.) to selected range of notes (Select range with right click or all with Ctrl+Al)
    - New: - DVD Installers - SmartScore Pro no longer the default selection- Fixed: Overapping noteheads now offset properly during editing
    - New: File > Open: Set "File Type" to "All Readable Files" as default.
    - Fixed: Default location of Mini Play Console (Mac) reset
    - Fixed: Mac keyboard shortcuts for Rests and Accidentals fixed.
    - Fixed: Overlapped notes behavior fixed.
  • Bug fixes
    Crashing on poor-quality image files improved
    Karaoke -> Options -> Scroll ball = Crash
    Crash While Editing Percussion Staff Lines
    Error when allocating memory during recognition of tabulatures
    Page Setup > Page Layout > Custom layouts are now saved (Windows only)
    Alto, Tenor and Bass "instrument" part names - Restore playback transposition to "0"
    Mac keyboard shortcuts for Rests and Accidentals not working
    Image editor freezes when saving (Mac Yosemite)
    SmartScore Pro no longer the default selection
    Piano Edition Save As.. bug fixed ("ENF not implemented"    )
  • Installation
    - Quick-Reference introductory guide included
    - All installers and demos now digitally code signed (Mac and Windows).
  • General
    - Help menu > User Manual =     "Using SmartScore X2" user manual rewritten
    -     Interactive online help (HTML) updated and improved
  • MIDI Edition Only
    - Editing note events in Piano Roll bug fixed.
  • SmartScore Player
    - All available toolbars now visible.
    - TIF-to-ENF files automatically associated.