![]() Although PhotoScore is connected with Sibelius, scores can be saved as MusicXML files and imported to Finale. PhotoScore Ultimate has done a terrific–but not perfect–job of converting choral scores that are in PDF format, whether I have scanned them, or they come from a source like CPDL. PDFtoMusic Pro exports to MusicXML, which can be imported into Finale. Older music, some on, for example, doesn’t always result in such a good conversion. In these cases, with music that was recently generated, PDFtoMusic Pro does a great job of conversion. When my choir sings one of these songs (always purchased!), I download the PDF from the website and unlock them, and then use PDFtoMusicPro to convert them to Finale/SmartMusic. There are several music publishers who put scores online for perusal. PDFtoMusicPro only works on PDFs that were created by a notation program (Finale, Sibelius, MuseScore), and accuracy is really unpredictable. Those other two programs would be PDFtoMusicPro ($199) and PhotoScore Ultimate 7 ($249). This summer, I invested a bit of money into two other programs to allow me to convert music to MusicXML files so that I could bring them into Finale/SmartMusic. SmartScore Pro X (the previous version) did not scan music with a high enough level of accuracy for me (when I spend more time fixing problems rather than recreating a score, there are too many issues), so I searched for other alternatives. In summary, SmartScore is a non-MakeMusic program that is bundled with a lot of MakeMusic features, and I still wonder how long it will be before SmartScore is outright purchased by MakeMusic. SmartScore Pro also brings in text, although hyphenation causes a lot of issues (very common in choral music). SmartScore X2 Pro is an odd mix of products…it contains a scanning engine, but you can also use the app to write music (music notation) and to play back audio (now with some Garritan sounds, which are owned by MakeMusic, Inc.). At a music conference this past fall, I was surprised to hear (from a reputable source) that a Finale user is better served by using SmartScore Lite and not upgrading to Smart Score Pro X. I own the full version of SmartScore Pro X (the previous version), and have used SmartScore Lite over the years with Finale. It has been over two years since SmartScore has been updated, and as a person that scans music on a regular basis (to bring into Finale and SmartMusic), I was very excited to try out the program. > Sent from the User mailing list archive at night, SmartScore X2 Pro went “live” on the Musitek website. > It depends on what your needs are, how often you use it, budget, etc. > I've used Photoscore but I prefer SmartScore. > computer lab off-site to re-enter everything manually. > to get this done, and the alternative is a lot of time spent commuting to > Please let me know asap if any of you do. > it needs to, without all this import/export buggery, it would save huge sib file that even just *mostly* contains what > If so, would you be willing to help me by scanning in the Lilypond scores > My question for the list is: do any of you have this program? Does it ![]() But it's around $400, and (obviously) doesn't have a linux version. > "Photoscore" that can take scanned scores and produce Sibelius files from > However, my partner tells me that there's a commercial program called > Problem is, MusicXML is turning out to be somewhat … sub-functional, so > re-import into Sibelius into something that only requires a reasonable > going to try to copy the latter into the former, hoping that we can > exported to a MusicXML file, as do the parts from the. ![]() > individual voices of the score from the. > file with all the voices and measures and meter changes, and then the > have a sort of hacky solution that might work: I start with a blank sib > I don't have Sibelius (I roll linux), but my partner does, so Urs and I > that I need to produce such a file in a week or two "or else." sib file, and the project lead just told me yesterday > publisher that is dead-set on Sibelius. > look great, but for a project that was financed by a large commercial > Namely, I've spent the last year engraving a set of scores with Lily that > trying to work with entrenched commercial interests. > involves all the worst things about doing engraving work with Lily while > I've unfortunately run up against a suddenly very urgent deadline, that I just downloaded the SmartScore X2 Pro demo for Mac, but it tells me that my
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