SmartScore Pro

Category Education and composition / Scores & tablatures
Version 10.5.4
Format App
Compatibility SmartScore ProMacOS X UB
License Commercial Software
Price $399  /  373€
Rating
Updated On May 1, 2013
Total Downloads 1,698
Mac Downloads 1,215
Category Education and composition / Scores & tablatures
Version 10.5.4
Format App
Compatibility SmartScore ProWindows
License Commercial Software
Price $399  /  373€
Rating
Updated On May 1, 2013
Total Downloads 1,698
PC Downloads 483

Music Scanning

SmartScore Pro is a "scan & play" software : with SmartScore your scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form after scanning.
OS 10.4 or later, G3 or better / Multi-Core for Universal, 1GB RAM recommended
Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 200x, Pentium I or better, 1GB RAM recommended
SmartScore Pro SmartScore Pro v 10.5.4 May 1, 2013 MacOS X UB
Improved recognition with Prodigy Engine
  • All rests (whole, half, 8th, 16h, 32nd, 64th)

  • Whole notes

  • Whole note clusters

  • Half notes

  • Half note clusers

  • Multi-measure rests

  • Less false positives

  • Piano Edition Save As.. bug fixed ("ENF not implemented).
  • Musitek SmartScore Pro SmartScore Pro v 10.5.3 Mar 25, 2013 MacOS X UB
    Improved recognition with Prodigy Engine
  • Whole notes

  • Whole note clusters

  • Half notes

  • Half note clusers

  • Piano Edition bug (ENF not implemented) fixed
    Musitek SmartScore Pro v 10.5.1 Mar 10, 2013 MacOS X UB
    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 signatures 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 always controls thresholding.


  • Playback
  • Includes custom orchestral, pop and jazz instrument sound set from Garritan

  • Includes Aria player from Plogue (VST & AU)

  • Includes custom Aria "Ensemble" presets for quick instrument assignments

  • Insert change-of-instrument in the ENF notation window (MIDI playback only)

  • Pause feature added to Jukebox

  • Karaoke view displays both moving lyrics and moving notation

  • Default playback tempo reset to 100 BPM


  • ENF Notation Editor
  • "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 fixes 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 = Exactly aligned


  • Help menu / User Manual
  • "Using SmartScore X2" manual rewritten

  • Interactive online help (HTML) updated and improved
  • scanning SmartScore Pro v 10.3.2 Jun 29, 2010 MacOS X UB
    PDF Creation / MusicXML / Finale Export
  • Bug fixed during PDF creation when Program Preferences > Printing & XML = Center on page.

  • Fixed: Intermittent crashing (1 in 30) during .XML file creation.
  • smartscore SmartScore Pro v 10.3.0 Jun 11, 2010 MacOS X UB
    # Scanning
  • Improved scanner connectivity and control for Canon LIDE and PIXMA scanners when using SmartScore's scanning interface.

  • Implemented smart sensing for non TWAIN-compliant scanners.

  • # MusicXML Export
  • Improved chord symbol / guitar fretboard placement. Symbols now position directly above corresponding note clusters.

  • Improved exported page handling:

  • - >Music automatically centers to middle of page: (Program Preferences > Printing & XML > Center to Page = On)

  • - >XML pages now export according to default page size

  • # Notation Editing
  • Transposition bug fixed: When a pair of notes with accidentals were tied across a bar line, transposing by key signature would break the tie.

  • First scan: "Select Scanner Driver" appears (initial pass only)

  • Staff Properties added to Layout Properties control (right-click on any staff line).

  • sf and sfz dynamic markings now appear below and not above staff line per convention.

  • Problem with chord names not scaling when zooming out now fixed.

  • View > Part Names default reset = 1st System Abbreviation

  • Claified wording for Edit > Auto-spacing and Auto-beaming: "Select all. Then Apply".

  • # Printing
  • Music automatically centers to middle of page: (Program Preferences > Printing & XML > Center to Page = On)

  • # Image Editor
  • Greyscale Thresholding control default = Apply to all pages = On
  • download SmartScore Pro v 10.2.5 Jan 27, 2010 MacOS X UB
    # MusicXML
  • Bug in assignment of ENF Voices (Layers in Finale) fixed. Voices now import properly as Finale Layers.

  • ENF Parts now export transparently to Finale Instruments.


  • # ENF Editing
  • FILE > Open: "Last looked" directory reinitialized. (Win only).

  • Page Setup > Center on Page > Apply: Margin tab controls highlight green for visibility.


  • # Demos
  • Demos now convert PDF to TIFF for recognition.
  • mac SmartScore Pro v 10.2.4 Oct 25, 2009 MacOS X UB
    # ENF Editing
  • EDIT > Program Preferences: New category added: MIDI.

  • Includes MIDI Channel color and MIDI Instrument defaults.
  • EDIT > Document Preferences > Measure numbers:Beginning measure number added. Default = 1.

  • Staff Properties: Percussion Map access button added to "Apply Staff Type" option.


  • # Playback > Automatic Drum Track
  • (Mac Only): Drum track list now refreshes when opened and when reordering.


  • # MIDI View > Piano Roll > Changing velocities of selected range of events
  • Problem with files crashing when attempting to change velocities of selected MIDI events in Piano Roll (Edit > Velocity/Duration) now fixed.


  • # CD Burning
  • (Win Only): Problems with some CD burning devices not recording fixed.


  • # Printing with Hidden Symbols
  • Problem with Hidden Symbols printing in Print Preview mode fixed.


  • # MusicXL Export
  • Problem with major seventh chords (e.g. Gmaj7) being interpreted as dominant sevenths (e.g. G7) fixed.
  • windows SmartScore Pro v 10.2.3 Jul 12, 2009 MacOS X UB
    * Fixes
    - Transposition: Beamed notes now adjust stem direction after transposing across the middle staff line.
    - Score Structure: "Apply to New" now creates new ENF document inherit staff line and system width distances, visibility and instrument properties.

    * ENF Editing
    - System Manager and Score Structure buttons now appear inside the Navigator bar.
    - Expanded and improved Auto Drum accompaniments. Better and hipper grooves

    * Playback
    - Garritan "Aria" player now integrated with SmartScore VST and AU environments.
    - Playback Range: Functionality improved. "Play All" option removed.

    * Tablature (TAB) Editing
    - Dynamics, dynamic markings and articulations correctly resized
    - Auto-spacing of TAB staves now defaults to OFF.

    * MusicXML and Finale Export
    - Cross-staff beaming logic improved in exported SmartScore (ENF) and MusicXML files.
    macintosh SmartScore Pro v 10.2.1 Apr 18, 2009 MacOS X UB
    Fixes
  • Win: DLL installation routines improved.

  • Mac: Error traps improved (Image Editor and MIDI Editor).
  • pc SmartScore Pro v 5.1 Jul 22, 2006 MacOS X UB
  • Universal Binary


  • Fixes:
    Recognition:
  • Remove "Override Grey" recognition option. SmartScore now scans in grey.

  • Improved ties recognition including ties across systems and pages

  • Chord clusters in different voices are more precisely aligned

  • Offset voices more precisely aligned

  • Improved recognition of cross-staff voices

  • Improved differentiation between lyric and text recognition

  • Improved recognition of dynamic markings. No longer recognized as dumb text.

  • System brackets recognition improved and are more properly assigned

  • Recognition stability improved on "marginal-quality" scans


  • ENF Editing:
  • Expanded Guitar Chord Library

  • Display of half-beams are now dynamically controlled based on distance

  • Half-beam direction control (Swap with Select + "F" key)

  • Stability during editing improved

  • Auto-recover process improved. Simply rename recovered file and continue.

  • Barline removal at end of systems stabilized


  • Text and Lyrics:
  • Lyrics more precisely associated to noteheads

  • Changes in text styles can now be modified and saved as new styles

  • Melissmas at end of staff line now supported Playback

  • Jumps (codas, segnos, etc.) now work when repeat barlines are not present

  • Karaoke view improved

  • On-the-fly changes made in Playback Console are retained

  • Problem with latency and/or note drop after a jump or a repeat now fixed


  • MIDI Editing:
  • MIDI Editing (deleting, cutting and pasting events) stabilized

  • MIDI Recording stabilized. Save function improved.

  • MIDI events now sound when pitch is shifted

  • MIDI Type 1 files now supported in more third-party applications


  • Printing:
  • Rehearsal marks as letters now print correctly


  • Image Editing:
    Cut, paste and move functions improved
    more...
    SmartScore Pro v 5.1 Jan 22, 2006 MacOS X PPC
    Greater Accuracy

    99+% recognition accuracy on well-printed pages
    Improved OCR of text and lyrics
    More symbols are recognized and applied to playback:
    Grace notes, segnos, jumps, dynamics markings, tempo markings, cross-staff beams, cross-staff voices, trills, broken systems (codas), ossias, even chord names written as text are automatically converted to transposable guitar fret symbols
    Better Playback

    Click-to-change Playback Properties of:
    Notes, trills, staccatos, tenutos, arpeggios, tremelos (also beamed tremelos), tempos, dynamics, barlines and repeats
    Greatly improved jumps control (codas, segnos, repeats, etc.)
    Two-way MIDI-ENF and ENF-MIDI transparancy
    Changes to MIDI events instantly update in ENF window
    Greatly expanded guitar chord library (660 chords)
    Increased accuracy of chord symbol recognition
    Improved Karaoke view
    Smoother action, moving lyrics or moving ball, colored backgrounds and lyrics
    Drag to select region for playback
    Score Editing and Layout

    Flexible formatting
  • Horizontal View or Page View displays

  • Dynamic system scrolling

  • Change measures per system locally or globally

  • Line, staff and system spacing control tabs and rulers

  • Resize measures while keeping relative symbols spacing

  • Changable defaults: Program and Document Preferences

  • Improved editing interface
  • Simplified interface. Attractive easy-to-see controls

  • Single click to insert or change symbols (no "change" mode.)

  • Color-assisted symbol editing. Auto-error display.

  • Simplified cross-staff editing and beaming

  • Easily create ossias and split systems (codas)

  • Staff and System Properties

  • Changable defaults: Program and Document Preferences

  • New Expressions tool: over 100 musical expressions in various languages: Italian, French, German and English

  • Document Layout Control

    Instantly center pages to standard or customized paper formats
    Select and modify left/right aligned page layouts
    View layout changes dynamically in Print Preview
    Output Options

    Export MusicXML (Sibelius, Cubase, Personal Composer, etc.)
    Export to Finale 200x in its native file format
    Burn ENF playback to Audio CD or save to .WAV files
    less...
    SmartScore Pro SmartScore Pro v 10.5.4 May 1, 2013 Windows
    Improved recognition with Prodigy Engine
  • All rests (whole, half, 8th, 16h, 32nd, 64th)

  • Whole notes

  • Whole note clusters

  • Half notes

  • Half note clusers

  • Multi-measure rests

  • Less false positives

  • Piano Edition Save As.. bug fixed ("ENF not implemented).
  • Musitek SmartScore Pro SmartScore Pro v 10.5.3 Mar 25, 2013 Windows
    Improved recognition with Prodigy Engine
  • Whole notes

  • Whole note clusters

  • Half notes

  • Half note clusers

  • Piano Edition bug (ENF not implemented) fixed
    Musitek SmartScore Pro v 10.5.1 Mar 10, 2013 Windows
    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 signatures 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 always controls thresholding.


  • Playback
  • Includes custom orchestral, pop and jazz instrument sound set from Garritan

  • Includes Aria player from Plogue (VST & AU)

  • Includes custom Aria "Ensemble" presets for quick instrument assignments

  • Insert change-of-instrument in the ENF notation window (MIDI playback only)

  • Pause feature added to Jukebox

  • Karaoke view displays both moving lyrics and moving notation

  • Default playback tempo reset to 100 BPM


  • ENF Notation Editor
  • "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 fixes 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 = Exactly aligned


  • Help menu / User Manual
  • "Using SmartScore X2" manual rewritten

  • Interactive online help (HTML) updated and improved
  • scanning SmartScore Pro v 10.3.3 Jul 11, 2010 Windows
    * Improved Epson Perfection scanner control
    - Horizontal cropping problem fixed. Pages now scan 8.5" wide.
    smartscore SmartScore Pro v 10.3.2 Jun 29, 2010 Windows
    PDF Creation / MusicXML / Finale Export
  • Bug fixed during PDF creation when Program Preferences > Printing & XML = Center on page.

  • Fixed: Intermittent crashing (1 in 30) during .XML file creation.
  • download SmartScore Pro v 10.3.1 Jun 14, 2010 Windows
    * MusicXML / Finale Export
    - Bug fixed where .ENF files created from scratch (from SmartScore templates) failed to convert to XML when Program Preferences > Printing & XML = Center on page.
    mac SmartScore Pro v 10.3.0 Jun 11, 2010 Windows
    # Scanning
  • Improved scanner connectivity and control for Canon LIDE and PIXMA scanners when using SmartScore's scanning interface.

  • Implemented smart sensing for non TWAIN-compliant scanners.

  • # MusicXML Export
  • Improved chord symbol / guitar fretboard placement. Symbols now position directly above corresponding note clusters.

  • Improved exported page handling:

  • - >Music automatically centers to middle of page: (Program Preferences > Printing & XML > Center to Page = On)

  • - >XML pages now export according to default page size

  • # Notation Editing
  • Transposition bug fixed: When a pair of notes with accidentals were tied across a bar line, transposing by key signature would break the tie.

  • First scan: "Select Scanner Driver" appears (initial pass only)

  • Staff Properties added to Layout Properties control (right-click on any staff line).

  • sf and sfz dynamic markings now appear below and not above staff line per convention.

  • Problem with chord names not scaling when zooming out now fixed.

  • View > Part Names default reset = 1st System Abbreviation

  • Claified wording for Edit > Auto-spacing and Auto-beaming: "Select all. Then Apply".

  • # Printing
  • Music automatically centers to middle of page: (Program Preferences > Printing & XML > Center to Page = On)

  • # Image Editor
  • Greyscale Thresholding control default = Apply to all pages = On
  • windows SmartScore Pro v 10.2.6 Feb 21, 2010 Windows
    # MusicXML
  • Improved XML page formatting: Page and system breaks now included.

  • # Page Setup
  • "Format Score" button added to Page Setup window. Format Score environment allows for re-scaling printed output as well respacing and resetting number of barlines per system.

  • # .WAV creation (Windows)
  • Problem with random crashing fixed.
  • macintosh SmartScore Pro v 10.2.6 Feb 21, 2010 Windows
    # MusicXML
  • Improved XML page formatting: Page and system breaks now included.

  • # Page Setup
  • "Format Score" button added to Page Setup window. Format Score environment allows for re-scaling printed output as well respacing and resetting number of barlines per system.

  • # .WAV creation (Windows)
  • Problem with random crashing fixed.
  • pc SmartScore Pro v 10.2.5 Jan 27, 2010 Windows
    # MusicXML
  • Bug in assignment of ENF Voices (Layers in Finale) fixed. Voices now import properly as Finale Layers.

  • ENF Parts now export transparently to Finale Instruments.


  • # ENF Editing
  • FILE > Open: "Last looked" directory reinitialized. (Win only).

  • Page Setup > Center on Page > Apply: Margin tab controls highlight green for visibility.


  • # Demos
  • Demos now convert PDF to TIFF for recognition.
  • more...
    SmartScore Pro v 10.2.4 Oct 25, 2009 Windows
    # ENF Editing
  • EDIT > Program Preferences: New category added: MIDI.

  • Includes MIDI Channel color and MIDI Instrument defaults.
  • EDIT > Document Preferences > Measure numbers:Beginning measure number added. Default = 1.

  • Staff Properties: Percussion Map access button added to "Apply Staff Type" option.


  • # Playback > Automatic Drum Track
  • (Mac Only): Drum track list now refreshes when opened and when reordering.


  • # MIDI View > Piano Roll > Changing velocities of selected range of events
  • Problem with files crashing when attempting to change velocities of selected MIDI events in Piano Roll (Edit > Velocity/Duration) now fixed.


  • # CD Burning
  • (Win Only): Problems with some CD burning devices not recording fixed.


  • # Printing with Hidden Symbols
  • Problem with Hidden Symbols printing in Print Preview mode fixed.


  • # MusicXL Export
  • Problem with major seventh chords (e.g. Gmaj7) being interpreted as dominant sevenths (e.g. G7) fixed.
  • SmartScore Pro v 10.2.3 Jul 12, 2009 Windows
    * Fixes
    - Transposition: Beamed notes now adjust stem direction after transposing across the middle staff line.
    - Score Structure: "Apply to New" now creates new ENF document inherit staff line and system width distances, visibility and instrument properties.

    * ENF Editing
    - System Manager and Score Structure buttons now appear inside the Navigator bar.
    - Expanded and improved Auto Drum accompaniments. Better and hipper grooves

    * Playback
    - Garritan "Aria" player now integrated with SmartScore VST and AU environments.
    - Playback Range: Functionality improved. "Play All" option removed.

    * Tablature (TAB) Editing
    - Dynamics, dynamic markings and articulations correctly resized
    - Auto-spacing of TAB staves now defaults to OFF.

    * MusicXML and Finale Export
    - Cross-staff beaming logic improved in exported SmartScore (ENF) and MusicXML files.
    SmartScore Pro v 10.2.1 Apr 18, 2009 Windows
    Fixes
  • Win: DLL installation routines improved.

  • Mac: Error traps improved (Image Editor and MIDI Editor).
  • SmartScore Pro v 5.1 Jul 22, 2006 Windows
    Recognition:
  • Remove "Override Grey" recognition option. SmartScore now scans in grey.

  • Improved ties recognition including ties across systems and pages

  • Chord clusters in different voices are more precisely aligned

  • Offset voices more precisely aligned

  • Improved recognition of cross-staff voices

  • Improved differentiation between lyric and text recognition

  • Improved recognition of dynamic markings. No longer recognized as dumb text.

  • System brackets recognition improved and are more properly assigned

  • Recognition stability improved on "marginal-quality" scans


  • ENF Editing:
  • Expanded Guitar Chord Library

  • Display of half-beams are now dynamically controlled based on distance

  • Half-beam direction control (Swap with Select + "F" key)

  • Stability during editing improved

  • Auto-recover process improved. Simply rename recovered file and continue.

  • Barline removal at end of systems stabilized


  • Text and Lyrics:
  • Lyrics more precisely associated to noteheads

  • Changes in text styles can now be modified and saved as new styles

  • Melissmas at end of staff line now supported Playback

  • Jumps (codas, segnos, etc.) now work when repeat barlines are not present

  • Karaoke view improved

  • On-the-fly changes made in Playback Console are retained

  • Problem with latency and/or note drop after a jump or a repeat now fixed


  • MIDI Editing:
  • MIDI Editing (deleting, cutting and pasting events) stabilized

  • MIDI Recording stabilized. Save function improved.

  • MIDI events now sound when pitch is shifted

  • MIDI Type 1 files now supported in more third-party applications


  • Printing:
  • Rehearsal marks as letters now print correctly


  • Image Editing:
    Cut, paste and move functions improved
    SmartScore Pro v 5.0 Jan 22, 2006 Windows
    Greater Accuracy

    99+% recognition accuracy on well-printed pages
    Improved OCR of text and lyrics
    More symbols are recognized and applied to playback:
    Grace notes, segnos, jumps, dynamics markings, tempo markings, cross-staff beams, cross-staff voices, trills, broken systems (codas), ossias, even chord names written as text are automatically converted to transposable guitar fret symbols
    Better Playback

    Click-to-change Playback Properties of:
    Notes, trills, staccatos, tenutos, arpeggios, tremelos (also beamed tremelos), tempos, dynamics, barlines and repeats
    Greatly improved jumps control (codas, segnos, repeats, etc.)
    Two-way MIDI-ENF and ENF-MIDI transparancy
    Changes to MIDI events instantly update in ENF window
    Greatly expanded guitar chord library (660 chords)
    Increased accuracy of chord symbol recognition
    Improved Karaoke view
    Smoother action, moving lyrics or moving ball, colored backgrounds and lyrics
    Drag to select region for playback
    Score Editing and Layout

    Flexible formatting
  • Horizontal View or Page View displays

  • Dynamic system scrolling

  • Change measures per system locally or globally

  • Line, staff and system spacing control tabs and rulers

  • Resize measures while keeping relative symbols spacing

  • Changable defaults: Program and Document Preferences

  • Improved editing interface
  • Simplified interface. Attractive easy-to-see controls

  • Single click to insert or change symbols (no "change" mode.)

  • Color-assisted symbol editing. Auto-error display.

  • Simplified cross-staff editing and beaming

  • Easily create ossias and split systems (codas)

  • Staff and System Properties

  • Changable defaults: Program and Document Preferences

  • New Expressions tool: over 100 musical expressions in various languages: Italian, French, German and English

  • Document Layout Control

    Instantly center pages to standard or customized paper formats
    Select and modify left/right aligned page layouts
    View layout changes dynamically in Print Preview
    Output Options

    Export MusicXML (Sibelius, Cubase, Personal Composer, etc.)
    Export to Finale 200x in its native file format
    Burn ENF playback to Audio CD or save to .WAV files
    less...
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