I have used Finale's Smart Score Lite and found it better than I expected. I was scanning in harpsichord music and, in many cases had very few errors. Usually the measures that were wrong were VERY wrong and had to be redone completely with Speedy, but overall this was faster than doing it all in Speedy. Some features are poor (triplets as I recall, and less common time signatures, and repeats bars almost always were attached to the wrong measure). The full Smart Score may be better.
Richard Yates ----- Original Message ----- From: "Giovanni Andreani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Finale S.H.S.U. Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 6:06 AM Subject: [Finale] Music Recognition Programs > The previous topic related to scanning music pushed me to post the > following, just to hear if anyone can give an update about importing > music software's reliability. On Macworld of september 04 there's 'n > article by Christopher Breen called "Music Recognition Programs", where > SmartScore 3.2 and Photoscore 3, both in their professional version, are > compared. I understand that there's still much to do, but, I'll have to > work (starting in february 05) with a lot of music from the 17/18th > century, most of which is already available in my personal library, so > I'm eventually looking forward for an alternative solution than Finale's > normal notation entry methods. > What do you think about these softwares, and, is there anyone who makes a > (intense) use of them? > > Thank you > Giovanni Andreani > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale