Musitek: What's New In SmartScore 3

Two years ago, Musitek designers and engineers began transforming SmartScore into the most accurate and most useful music scanning solution in the world...

What's new in SmartScore 3?

SmartScore 3 raises the bar once again! Accuracy and usablilty are significantly enhanced. More musical symbols are recognized with more precision than ever. New features have been added that make SmartScore easier and a lot more fun to use.

For a complete list of added features and improvements, click here.

SmartScore 3 users: To get your free 3.3 update, click here.

More Accuracy

99+% recognition accuracy on well-printed pages
More symbols are recognized and applied to playback: Both marked and
implied triplets, arpeggios, glissandos, cross-staff beaming, pedals
Precision recognition of guitar fretboards and chord symbols
Improved recognition of triplets, whole notes, chords and endings
New options for hymnal fonts, pedals and tightly-spaced notes

More Useful Tools

Change playback properties of nuance markings locally or globally
Better control of page layout and symbol repositioning
Properties Tool allows you to change playback parameters of articulations, hairpins, dynamics and legatos locally or globally.
Automatic drum track library. Add new patterns with MIDI import
Greatly expanded guitar chord library
Better MIDI integration. More powerful MIDI editing tools
New Karaoke view with bouncing ball and moving lyrics
Burn ENF playback to Audio CD. Convert ENF to PDF files
(Win and Mac OS X)
Export lyrics, chord and guitar symbols to Finale 2004
Export NIFF files to Sibelius 3 keeping page layout intact

Less Problems

Specific transposition issues fixed
Jumps, codas and repeats improved
Improved Image Editor

	Pro Edition: Now, more than ever... there is simply no faster way to get sheet music, opera, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts and scores into your computer. Spend more time with the music and less time correcting mistakes. From start to finish, SmartScore 3 makes your work easier, faster and a lot more fun. Now, lyrics, guitar fretboards and other symbols all export to Finale® 2004.

	SongBook Edition: Songbook owners... this one's for you. Transpose and print entire songs seconds after scanning. 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 your friends in Karaoke view. It’s every songster’s dream! Identical to Pro; Limited to 3 staff lines.

	Piano Edition: Now, pedal markings (Pedal down, Pedal up, Sustain, Damper) are recognized. Along with higher accuracy, your finished piece will appear more polished. Automatically recognizes and plays back arpeggios and glissandos.

	Midi Edition: Your scanned music will play back with more fidelity quicker and with less editing than ever before. MIDI Editor is expanded with more useful features.

	Guitar Edition: Improved differentiation of contrapuntal voices. Better control of tightly-spaced originals avoids misalignment of voices. Improved flagged note recognition.

SmartScore 3 is now available for downloading.

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Special Pricing for Finale/MakeMusic Customers

System Requirements (Win):

Win 98 / 2000 / NT / ME / XP
Pentium II or later
128 Mb RAM (recommended) + 32 Mb disk space

System Requirements (MAC):

OS X: Any computer that runs OS 10.2 (Jaguar) or later
OS 9: System 9.1 with QuickTime 3.0 or later
PowerPC or later
128 Mb RAM + 32 Mb disk space

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New Features In Version 3

Recognition Options: Recognition accuracy is what SmartScore 3 is about. Precision recognition of guitar chord symbols makes transposition of song sheets nearly instantaneous. New options for marked or implied triplets, special lyric layout and other options to make scanning more accurate than ever before.

Properties Tool: Change playback properties of hairpins, dynamic marks, legatos, trills and other symbols. Apply change to a single object or to all similar symbols. Store customized changes to symbols as new default for future SmartScore files.

Select Drum Accompaniment: Automatically apply up to 30 up-to-date drum patterns to accompany your song. Or create your own to add to the library.

Create Drum Pattern: Create your own drum patterns from scratch to add to the accompaniment library.

Edit Shapes: More fine control of objects in Edit Shapes mode. Move headers, text, frets and chord symbols, change beam angles, fine tune legato/slur end points and arc curves. Nudge notes and rests for a more polished, professional finish.

Karaoke View: Did we mention SmartScore is also fun? Sing along with your friends to the moving lyrics and bouncing ball. Go ahead. Let your hair down.

CD Writer (Win and Mac OS X): Create audio CDs from SmartScore ENF files. Sort, restack and burn multiple songs onto CD. Great for practicing or just listening in your car.