Musitek SmartScore X Guitar Edition Software (Mac and Windows)

SmartScore X represents a revolutionary departure in music scanning technology. In addition to recognizing and reconstructing nearly any scanned musical score or PDF file with astonishing thoroughness and accuracy, it is also one of the easiest music-writing solutions available. Powerful and useful tools are never more than a button away. Complete layout control is at your fingertips. Change staff and system heights, horizontal and vertical margins, line spacing and note size simply by dragging control tabs. Center, offset and unify score layout with a single click. No other program handles scanned-in music so accurately, so simply and completely as SmartScore X. Other than the human artist, nothing applies so much nuance and realism to the performance of printed sheet music.

Highly accurate recognition of contrapuntal voices make Guitar Edition a powerful and useful tool for any classical guitarist. Assign a unique sound to each voice; bass guitar to the thumb, French horn for the middle finger and pizzicato string for the melody line. Mute or solo any contrapuntal voice to reveal inner voicings. Practice along at slow speeds without affecting pitch.

Fake Books Become Guitar-friendly
Fake books with chord names written as text are recognized as actual guitar fret symbols. Chord fret symbols automatically transpose when single-line songs are transposed to a new key.

Playback Properties
Change playback properties of barlines (pickup, closeout and split measures), hairpins, dynamic marks, legatos, trills and other articulations. Apply changes to one or all.

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.
- Recogntion 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:
- New 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.

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.

Technical Info

System Requirements
Windows:
Windows Vista / XP / 2000x

Pentium I or better

256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space

Mac:
OS 10.4 (Tiger)

G3 or better / Dual Core for Universal

256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space