I just scanned the first page of the old hit Nola. It is written in cut time with lots of triplets.
Not a single triplet shows up, although there are 8th-notes in groups of 3.
The bass clef is just quarter note chords, the first 14 bars scanned perfectly. The next to last bar on the page, however, is supposed to contain 8th-note chord, 8th-rest, quarter rest (as start of triplet), 8th-note D(to complete the triplet), then triplet-8ths on e, d, b. What this scanned as is: 8th-note chord and 8th-rest(as it should be), then quarter rest (no triplet marking), 8th-note D (but no indication that it is part of a triplet), then dotted-8th b, 8th-note a, 8th-note f. The d and b are completely missing.
The treble-clef is a total disaster -- the only measure which is correct is the 16th measure. Within each of the screwed-up first 15 measures, there is at least one beat wrong, and in 8 of them the final quarter-note's worth is completely missing.
Which means that the amount of time saved for me by scanning this in is basically zero since I will have to go in and enter the missing beats, change the notes which are showing up as the wrong note value, enter all the fingering numbers and slurs and hairpin as well as the cautionary key signature which ends the final bar on this page.
And I changed the quantization settings to be sure to include tuplets and re-imported the scanned image and got the same results.
Then I just re-scanned at 600dpi (I had scanned at 300dpi) and re-imported and got no better results.
So, I stick to my claim that it is only good for simple rhythms.
I am glad it works well for you.
Had I purchased the program based on my thinking I would be able to scan in a lot of older music and have an easy time editing it for whatever uses I wanted I would have felt I had been screwed.
David H. Bailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 10.02.2004 17:14 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote
It doesn't really seem like fair marketing to make a "Now Finale can scan in music and allows you to edit it, right in Finale" only to have somebody purchase the product and THEN find out customers have to spend another $200 to really get scanning capability that is worth anything.
In this particular case of scanning, however, you seem to consider scanning capability to be only "worth anyting" if it supports more than 16 staves. That's definitely not my understanding. I don't need more than 16 staves anyway, and for me scanning capability in Finale is _better_ now in 2k4 than I ever expected.
Have you actually tried scanning in 2k4?
Johannes
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