Musitek SmartScore X2 Pro Mac PC Music Scanning Software

DESCRIPTION

Imagine a professional-grade scorewriter with the world’s most accurate music-scanning engine at its core, and enough intelligence built in that no degree is required to use it.

SmartScore X² Pro recognizes scores without any restriction on the number of parts. Process band arrangements, operas, hymns, musicals, instrumental and solo parts as well as full conductor’s scores. A selection of Garritan band an orchestral instrument sounds is included free so your music will sound rich, nuanced and true-to-life. SmartScore X² is an indispensable tool for any arranger, performer, music educator or church minister. Buy it today  and discover its powers for yourself.

Recognition accuracy is the heart of any music-scanning program and Musitek’s new Prodigy Engine® is at the heart of SmartScore X² (Version 10.5). Musical scores, whether scanned or downloaded as PDF files, are read and interpreted more accurately, more completely and more quickly than any other music scanning software.

Accuracy is one thing. Use-ability is another. SmartScore X² offers an even larger set of useful tools and features than ever before while maintaining its easy-to-use profile. We’ve worked hard over these past few years to make this the most exciting and most useful SmartScore upgrade ever…

What's New:

• Improved recognition of musical symbols, especially on poorly-printed scores and from scanners with less-than-optimum optics.
• Improved text, lyric and number recognition (OCR).
• Garritan® sound library and Aria® player now included FREE
• Improved CD burning and .WAV / .AIF recording with Garritan sounds.
  
• Change instrument sounds anywhere in the ENF notation view window.
• Simplified menu layouts
• Improved page layout and printing controls
• Improved scanning interface works with more scanners

Significant improvement in music recognition accuracy with the addition of new Prodigy Engine®. Accuracy is improved for:

• Poorly printed / poorly scanned originals
• Jazz fonts / Fake books
• Lyric / text recognition (OCR)
• Barlines
• Key signature and change-of-key signatures
• Time signatures and change-of-time signatures
• Triplets including standalone (without brackets)
• Non-triplet tuplets
• Notes with broken stems
• Beamed groups with broken stems
• Accidentals Improve recognition accuracy of scores having overly "thin" or "thick" lines
• Recognizes umlauts for German characters

Scanning Interface improvements: Improved Canon & Epson performance, MacOS 10.6/7/8 optimization

• Improved recognition options PDF processing improved
• User controls thresholding

Playback

• Includes orchestral, pop and jazz instrument sound set from Garritan
• Includes Aria player from Plogue (VST & AU)
• Pause feature added to Jukebox
• Karaoke view displays both moving lyrics and moving notation

ENF Editor improvements

• "Insert MIDI Instrument change" anywhere in ENF score
• Unify Key Signature default automatically resets according to score structure
• Select All (Ctrl+A) activates voice splitting ("H") and stem direction change ("S") globally
• Changed Staff Properties to Score Properties - Insert / Delete Part added
• Save and Open now browse to last directory accessed
• Streamlined menu selections
• EDIT (Insert / Delete System, Part & Staff moved to Score Properties)
• Layout Properties changed to Score Properties (Insert/Delete Part added. TAB added.)
• Add "None" to VIEW Menu > Show > Chord Symbols"
• Edit > Page Setup: Bug and wording change
• "Format Score" button added to System Manager Window
• "Change Line / Staff Spacing" button added to Staff Properties Window
• VIEW and WINDOW (Items swapped for clarity)
• Fix Recognition Option > Join Offset Voices = Never

Help / Manual

• Using SmartScore X2 manual rewritten
• Interactive online help (HTML) updated and improved

SmartScore X2 conveniently works on both Macs and PCs.

Musitek SmartScore X2 Precision Music Scanning Software Features:

• Unlimited staves recognized
• Smart scanning interface with automatic scanner settings
• 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
• 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
• 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
• New scoring environment rebuilt from the ground-up for maximum ease and simplicity
• 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
• 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 guitar chords
• Modify notehead shapes (shaped notes)
• 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" objects 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

Included Garritan Software Instruments:

Keyboards

Concert Grand Piano
Harpsichord
Pipe Organ Baroque
Vintage Electric Piano

Woodwinds

Flute Solo
Flute Section
Piccolo Solo
Oboe Solo
Bb Clarinet Solo
Bassoon Solo
Alto Sax
Alto Sax Section
Tenor Sax
Bari Sax
Recorder

Brass

French Horn Solo
French Horn Section
Trumpet Solo
Trumpet Section
Trombone Solo
Trombone Section
Euphonium Solo
Tuba Solo

Orchestral Strings

Violin Solo
Violins Section
Viola Solo
Violas Section
Cello Solo
Cellos Section
Dbl Bass Solo
Basses Section
Full Strings Pizzicato

Orchestral Percussion

Basic Orch Percussion
Marimba
Glockenspiel
Xylophone
Vibraphone
Timpani

Rock/Pop/World

Acoustic Guitar
Electric Guitar
Fusion Drum Kit
Upright Bass
Jazz Fretted Bass

Vocal

Choir Oohs
Choir Ahhs

System Requirements

• Win:
• Windows 8/7/Vista/XP/ 200x
• Pentium I or better
• 1Gig RAM
  
  Mac:
• OS 10.4 (Tiger) / 10.5 / 10.6 / 10.7/ 10.8
  
• G3 or better/Dual Core for Universal
• 1 Gig RAM