- ACADEMIC version : special discount for teachers, schools, hospitals and religious communities (proof can be requested)
- STANDARD version : identical version for private clients

SmartScore X PC
SmartScore X MAC

PC / MAC version.

Imagine the world's fastest and most accurate music scanning technology. Now imagine a professional-grade scorewriter that is just as friendly as it is powerful. One with enough intelligence built in that no advanced degree is required to use it. Then think of all the possible ways you'd like to experience your printed music... push-button scanning, realistic playback, key/clef transposition, part extraction, page reformatting, auto-drum grooves, karaoke, CD burning, integrated MIDI visualization and file conversion including support for PDF, Finale® and MusicXML formats. Welcome to SmartScore X. There is simply no faster way to get printed music into your computer and no simpler way to transform it for print, web or audio output. Band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, orchestral parts and scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning. Nearly all PDF files are accurately recognized, including those in low-resolution and color. With more accuracy on more symbols than any other music scanning software, SmartScore X is an indispensable tool for arrangers, performers, music educators and church ministries worldwide. Download the demo and discover it for yourself.  
 
More accuracy, more features and even more simplicity  
- Smart scanning interface with automatic scanner settings. No expertise required. Automatic resolution (dpi) selection. Simplified multi-page scanning within a single file.  
- Recognition accuracy exceeds 99% on well-printed scores.  
- Recognizes more musical symbols more accurately.  
- Improved text and lyric OCR.  
- Complex structures recognized including repeats, segnos, coda signs, broken systems (coda breaks), cross-staff beaming/voicing, optimized systems, ossias and grace notes.  
 
More accurate playback  
- Realistic nuance. Most all tempo, dynamic and articulation marks are recognized and automatically applied to playback.  
- Assign different instrument sounds to parts with a single click. Assign different sounds to contrapuntal voices!  
- Graphical velocity and tempo controllers for varying dynamics/tempo.  
- Automatic Drum Groove instantly adds rhythms based on style and beat. Insert unlimited number of grooves.  
- Graphical velocity and tempo controllers for varying dynamics/tempo.  
- Control default playback behavior of trills, accents, ritards, hairpins, accelerandos, pickup and closeout measures.  
- MIDI editor includes familiar Piano Roll, Overview and Event List. Two-way Notes-MIDI-Notes transparency.  
 
Advanced music editing  
- Scoring environment rebuilt from the ground-up for maximum ease and simplicity. Now it's easier than ever to edit scanned in music or to create professional scores.  
- Flexible score displays: Continuous horizontal view or Multi-page view.  
- Error check automatically highlights problem measures  
- System width tabs. Plus line, staff and system spacing tabs.  
- Advanced page layout controls and print previewing. Create production-quality page formats for print or PDF output.  
 
Text, Lyrics and Chord Symbols  
- Precision recognition of lyrics, text, fretboards and chord symbols including chord names written as text.  
- Fretboards and chord symbols update when transposing to new key.  
- Control text and lyric properties.  
- Guitar Chord Library includes over 700 chords. Change or add your own  
- Modify notehead shapes (shaped notes)  
 
More Useful Functions  
- Transpose by key or by clef for diverse instruments  
- Extract parts out of scores or combine parts into a conductor’s score  
- Program and Document preferences. Change the look and feel of the interface to suit your needs.  
- Karaoke view with moving or stationary bouncing ball and moving or refreshed lyrics.  
- Add "hidden" obects from view and from printing.  
- Create musical scores from preset templates or from imported MIDI files  
- Create Audio-CDs from finished files. Save to MusicXML, Finale, MIDI, NIFF and PDF file formats.  
 

From Version 5 to X…  

Improved Lyric and Text recognition  
- Significantly improved OCR recognition (75% more accurate).  
- Significantly increased recognition accuracy of alpha/numeric music symbols (e.g. Dynamic markings, Tuplets, Octavas, Multi-measure rests, Expressions)  

More Recognized Symbols (also applied to playback)  
- Guitar Tablature and multi-line percussion staves recognized.  
- Percussion lines (Single and multi-staff) recognized and automatically linked to MIDI Drum Map.  
- Multi-measure rests  
- Octavas (8va and marked extensions)  
- Sharps and flats in chord symbols improving chord symbol accuracy  
- “Non-triplet” tuplets  
- “Repeat-previous-measure” symbol  
- Mordants  
- Unusual time signatures (e.g. 9/8)  
- Damper pedal lines (Horizontal pedal lines)  
 
Improved Notation Recognition (Compared to Version 5)  
- Beams (75% more accurate)  
- Numbered endings (50% more accurate)  
- Triplets and other tuplets (50% more accurate)  
- Chord symbols and guitar frets symbols (75% more accurate)  
- Improved recognition of dynamics, articulations and expressions (50% more accurate)  
- Improved application of dynamics, articulation and expressions to playback.  
- Improved handling of pedal markings and horizontal damper pedal lines.  
- Parallel (multiple) page processing when run on dual-core machines.  
 
Improved PDF file Recognition  
- Most PDF files are now recognized including web-optimized pages.  
- Color and screen resolution PDFs recognized  
 
Improved Page Handling  
- More scanners supported. Web scanners now output page-sized files.  
- Improved margin control. Adjust left and right as well as top and bottom margins inside Page Setup.  
- Improved layout and print control (e.g. vertical –to-horizontal reformatting and printing).  
 
Playback  
- Extend playback options with virtual instruments. Selected VST instruments (Windows) and Audio Units (Mac) now supported including Garritan and MOTU Mach Five virtual instruments.  
- Jumps logic improved (e.g. segnos, d.c., d. s., etc.)  
- Part Name field in Playback Console now dynamically linked to Instrument Templates. MIDI Transposition of transposed instruments simplified.  
- Playback properties of nearly every symbol can now be changed using Properties Tool.  
- ENF Part Names & abbreviations and MIDI Instruments (including transposed instruments) automatically update when new Part Name is chosen.  
- Added Randomizer playback option. Adds human feel to playback. Control the amount of random changes applied to timing and loudness of notes.  
- Change MIDI instruments (Program Change) of any track on-the-fly in MIDI Piano Roll view.  
- Transpose Step Counters dynamically linked. Transposed instruments now properly transposed value in Playback Console.  
- Voice assignment registers in Playback Console improved.  
- Ritards (rit) and a tempo markings are more precisely interpreted.  
- Dynamic markings can be assigned to MIDI Volume or to MIDI Velocity  
- Select any region within score for playback or looping  
 
Editing  
- More symbol properties available with Properties Tool:  
- Tuplet properties:  
- Change number of divisions, values and visibility  
- Show tuplet number inside or outside of bracket / arc.  
- Trill Properties  
- Multi-measure rest properties added  
- Convert staff lines from notation to tablature (TAB) format with correct fingering. Convert TAB staff lines to notation.  
- Fast and easy-to-use TAB editor. Includes multi-voice editing and cues.  
- Export score and open in Finale 2008 with a single Toolbar push-button.  
- Shaped notes (non-standard noteheads): Globally change standard notation to alternative noteheads (e.g. shaped notes) with Notehead properties.  
- Import full scores from other notation programs via MusicXML  
- Globally scale chord symbols and guitar fret grids (Edit > Document Preferences > Chord Symbols > Scale).  
- Voice color assignment algorithm improved. Notes more accurately assigned to correct contrapuntal voicelines. Voice color override tool can now be applied to tuplet and slur markings.  
- UNIFY > System, Staff and Line spacing  
- Use mouse to highlight any range of measures to apply special edit functions (e.g. playback, auto-spacing / auto-beaming)  
- Show clefs in all systems or first system only (for solo lead sheets).  
- Automatic Tuplet Finder. Insert a few tuplets and similar note groupings will automatically be assigned the same tuplet if accepted. Perfect for scores with many “implied tuplets”.  
- Key document display options (e.g. Systems, Score Symbols, Measure and Page Numbering) can be set as default in Program Preferences.  
- Part Name display options expanded. Abbreviations now the default.  
 
Viewing
- ENF-on-TIFF “overlay” mode with variable transparency control. (Mac only)  
- Tool Palette configuration can be saved “as is” when closing ENF files (Program Preferences > User Interface)  
- ENF/TIFF view panes now split either horizontally or vertically (best choice for multiple monitor display.  
- Staff and System tabs color coded  
- Color printing (of color-coded voicelines) supported  
 
Printing  
- Improved and simplified printing when scores are reformatted in different page orientations  
- Automatically rescale page sizes to optimize score printing (Edit > Format Score > Scale Entire Score > Optimize).  
 
MIDI  
- Insert, change and delete Program (MIDI Instrument) Changes on the fly in Piano Roll view.  
- Event List fully editable. Changes are dynamically linked to MIDI playback.  
- MIDI Editor improved including more edit and delete functions.  
 
Finale Integration  
- Launch SmartScore full version instead of SmartScore Lite when “Scanning…” is invoked in Finale or PrintMusic.  
 
MIDI to ENF  
- Drum Tracks (Channel 10) correctly interpreted and reconverted to drum clefs with appropriate number of staff lines.  
- MIDI to notation interpretation improved. Applies key signature to each MIDI track (Type 0 MIDI Files)  
- Part Names written to MIDI files now import when converted to SmartScore files.  
 
Image Editor  
- Selected margin tolerance improved  
 
Bug Fixes  
- Recognition  
- Problem with triplets and slurs sometimes being applied to the wrong contrapuntal voice fixed.  
- Problem with triplets being recognized and having “3” remain as text fixed.  
- Transposition  
- Problem with accidentals when change-of-key signature = C major fixed.  
- Part Linking  
- Part reassigning stabilized. Logic improved.  
- MIDI  
- MIDI file import from certain programs improved.


System requirements

WIN
Windows Vista / XP / 200x
Pentium 1 or better
256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space

MAC
OS 10.4 (Tiger) or better
G3 or better / Dual Core for Universal
256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space