It may be better, but not much better -- I just tried to scan a 24-staff, finale-printed score and smartscore won't accept it. Reading the documentation for Finale, it states right from the start, don't scan anything with more than 16-staves in it. So anybody who bought the program hoping to be able to scan in large scores and edit them and modernize them or whatever would definitely have been lied to by the marketing hype, supporting my original thesis that scanning into Finale represents a marketing lie as bad as any I have read on the Sibelius publicity.
I do notice nobody has jumped in to defend Micnotator at all. :)
I think you neglected to send your "original thesis" post to the list.
But, FWIW, in my experience Sibelius's scanning isn't any better than Finale's, and both have made similar claims about its efficacy. So effectively, if you're tallying each company's marketing lies, those two cancel each other out. There's still all of Sibelius's blatant claims along the lines of "Finale can't do this," or "Sibelius is the *only* music notation program that does that."
Also, I have to admit that scanning and Micnotator and all that have zero interest for me, partially because I know in advance that the marketing hype is almost entirely hot air. It's hard for me to even take these "features" seriously enough to evaluate Coda's claims about them one way or the other.
- Darcy
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