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Available for both Mac and Windows. You will receive the version you specify in the check-out process.
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Accurate
Accuracy is Photoscore’s fundamental goal. More than 14 years experience in recognition technologies have enabled Neuratron to design and create the formidable OmniScore˛™ dual-engine recognition system, incredibly making PhotoScore Ultimate 5 over 99.5% accurate on most originals!
Versatile
PhotoScore Ultimate picks out virtually every detail from a scanned page or PDF file and recognizes 4 and 6 line guitar tablature, 1, 2 and 3 line percussion staves, in addition to standard 5 line staves. It is importantly the world's first and only commercial program available that is designed to also read handwritten scores. Currently optimized to read freshly written music it gives musicians the freedom to compose music away from their computer, perhaps next to their favorite instrument or relaxing in a field!
Easy to Use
Neuratron has always understood that musicians have more creative matters to attend to than reading computer manuals! Ease-of-use has been a central design aim right from the start, and with automatic scanning and recognition, plus licensed Sibelius- and G7-style editing interfaces, PhotoScore Ultimate 5 even becomes fun and exciting to use!
Features:
- Scans and reads printed music using the OmniScore˛™ dual-engine recognition system (a powerful hybrid of an updated PhotoScore OmniScore™ engine and the highly acclaimed Liszt music scanning engine as used in SharpEye 2)
- Recognizes handwritten music for note entry away from a computer
- Opens and reads PDF files containing scores
- Highly accurate, quick and easy to use
- Even percussion staves, guitar tablature and chord diagrams are picked up!
- Automatic scanning and recognition - removes the hard work of choosing scanner settings
- Transposes all scanned notation
- Plays back scanned music with astonishing realism using the Espressivo™ feature licensed from Sibelius
- Prints scores in high quality
- Results can be used in almost any music editing program. Send directly to Sibelius or G7, or save MusicXML and NIFF files for Finale and other notation products. Save MIDI files for MIDI sequencing programs such as Cubase and Sonar. Save WAV or AIFF files for burning to CD.
- Reads text from score in up to 120 different languages. Windows version can even read Greek and Russian.
- Available for both Windows and Mac OS X (Universal Binary)
PhotoScore Ultimate 5 can read most printed musical markings, including:
- 5-line staves (normal and small), 4- and 6- line guitar staves, 1-, 2- and 3-line percussion staves
- Notes (including appoggiaturas, cue-sized and cross-staff notes), chords (including stem direction, beams & flags) and rests in up to 4 voices per staff
- Accidentals and articulation marks
- Clefs, key signatures, time signatures
- Tuplets/triplets
- The format of the page, including the page size, staff size, margins, and where systems end
- Slurs, ties and hairpins
- Text including lyrics, dynamics, fingerings, instrument names, tempo and technique markings
- Guitar chord diagrams
- Various other markings such as codas, segnos, ornaments, pedal markings and repeat endings
- 64 staves per page
- 400 pages per score
It can read the following handwritten markings:
- Notes, chords (including stem direction, beams & flags) and rests
- Accidentals (expected in a free update in Autumn 2007)
- Time signatures are calculated from the music (not specifically read)
- Systems, 5-line staves, barlines
- Ties (expected in a free update in Autumn 2007)
- The format of the page, including the page size, staff size, margins, and where systems end
Once the music has been PhotoScored you can...
- Transpose
- Play back (using Espressivo™ technology licensed from Sibelius for astonishing realism!) - Guitar chord diagrams/frames are not played back, although guitar tablature staves are.
- Print out
- Send directly to Sibelius or its guitar cousin, G7
- Save as a MusicXML or NIFF file* and open in Finale or another music program for:
- Re-arranging
- Extracting parts
- Save as a MIDI file and open in Cubase, Sonar or another sequencing program*
- Save as a WAV (Windows) or AIFF (Mac OS X) file for burning to CD or converting to MP3
- Use the performance mode and a foot controlled page turner such as Bili Footime™ to easily read music off the screen whilst you are performing
File Formats Produced by PhotoScore:
Scanned Music (.opt) (PhotoScore's native file format):
Scanned Music files contain all information picked up by PhotoScore.
MusicXML (.xml):
Information about guitar chord diagrams (guitar frames) is not stored, in addition to the position of absolute text (e.g. title, composer, lyricist). Only the first instance of absolute text is stored. If a measure is split across two systems, i.e. there is no barline at the end of the first system, it is output as if it were two separate measures. Fingering markings are not stored.
NIFF (.nif):
NIFF files contain all information picked up by PhotoScore. If a measure is split across two systems, i.e. there is no barline at the end of the first system, it is output as if it were two separate measures. Fingering markings are not stored.
MIDI (.mid) (Almost all music programs can import this format):
MIDI files are primarily designed for playback and not notation. There are certain types of musical features that cannot be stored as distinguishable objects. Instead these are intelligently simulated by PhotoScore and include articulation marks, accidentals, clefs, time signatures, key signatures, ties and dynamics.
WAVE (.wav) (Almost all audio based music programs can open this format):
Wave files contain audio information in the same way that a CD does. They are useful if you want to create MP3s or CDs from music scanned into PhotoScore. Note that they contain no notation or page layout information and most notation based music programs are unable to open this format.
Music Software Importing these File Formats:
- Acid Pro – Recommended Format: MIDI
- AudioScore – Recommended Format: Scanned Music
- Cakewalk – Recommended Format: MIDI
- Cubase/Cubasis – Recommended Format: MIDI
- Digital Performer – Recommended Format: MIDI
- eJay Studio – Recommended Format: MIDI
- Finale 2000 onwards – Recommended Format: MusicXML
- (Use the Dolet plug-in in Finale 2005 and earlier. Finale 2006 and later support MusicXML opening from the File menu)
- Percussion staves – incorrect vertical note placement on 2- or 3- line staves.
- FruityLoops – Recommended Format: MIDI
- G7 – Recommended Format: Scanned Music
- (direct transfer also supported)
- Igor 1.7 – Recommended Format: NIFF
- Does not import guitar tab staves, guitar chord diagrams, guitar chord symbol text, absolute text, small noteheads or cross noteheads. Key signatures become incorrect on transposed instruments. It is necessary to manually configure instruments, and assign parts to those instruments. So for percussion staves, it is necessary to manually select say ‘Bongo drums’ and assign the Bongo part to that instrument. Even then, there is no guarantee that the default number of staff lines for that instrument is the same as that in the original score. Igor only appears to support 1-line percussion staves.
- Lime 8.12 – Recommended Format: NIFF
- Guitar chord diagrams and guitar chord text are not imported. Does support 1- / 2- / 3-line staves, but notes imported onto wrong staff lines.
- Logic Audio – Recommended Format: MIDI
- Mozart 8.0.7 – Recommended Format: NIFF
- Tab staves, small noteheads, cross noteheads, guitar chord diagrams, guitar chord text, hairpins, slurs and lyrics are not imported. Grace notes are not imported. 1- / 2- / 3-line staves not supported.
- MusicEase 8.1b – Recommended Format: MusicXML
- Small noteheads, cross noteheads, tab staves, guitar chord text, slurs and lyrics are not imported. Only title absolute text is imported. Some problems with multiple voices. No percussion staff support. Serious staff alignment problems.
- Overture 4 – Recommended Format: MusicXML
- Personal Composer 2.1 – Recommended Format: NIFF
- Limited tab staff support. Guitar chord diagrams are not imported. Single grace notes do import, but are displayed vertically aligned with the note they are supposed to precede. Percussion staves – incorrect vertical note placement on 2- or 3- line staves.
- PhotoScore – Recommended Format: Scanned Music
- PowerTracks Pro Audio – Recommended Format: MIDI
- QuickScore Elite Level II v12 – Recommended Format: MusicXML/NIFF
- Both NIFF & XML: Some problems with grace notes. Does not properly interpret runs of grace notes (adjacent grace notes are superimposed on one another).
NIFF: No absolute text (title etc).
- Score – Recommended Format: NIFF
- (MidiScorWrite NIFF importer required)
- Score Writer 4 – Recommended Format: MusicXML
- Sibelius – Recommended Format: Scanned Music
- (direct transfer also supported)
- Sonar – Recommended Format: MIDI
- TaBazar 3.1 – Recommended Format: MusicXML
- Small noteheads, cross noteheads, hairpins and slurs are not imported. No percussion staff support. Does not support multiple voices. No grace note support (import as normal notes).
- Toccata 1.2.3 – Recommended Format: NIFF
- Does not import absolute text, small noteheads, cross noteheads, tab staves, guitar chord diagrams or guitar chord text. Imports grace notes but not cue notes. No percussion staff support.
- Turandot 1.0.0.18 – Recommended Format: MusicXML
- Cross noteheads cause Turandot to crash. Timing errors cause bad alignment. Tab staves, guitar chord text, small noteheads and absolute text are not imported. Percussion clefs cause it to crash on import. No percussion staff support.
More about music scanning...
Scanning text is difficult for computers to do, and has only achieved reasonable accuracy in the last few years. Music scanning is much harder because of the more complicated range of symbols involved, because of the complex two-dimensional ‘grammar’ of music, and because some markings such as hairpins and phrase-marks are of a variable shape and size.
The difficulty with scanning music or text is that by scanning a page, a computer does not ‘understand’ it. As far as the computer is concerned, scanning a page merely presents it with a grid of millions of black and white dots, which could be music, text, a photograph or anything else.
The process of actually reading or interpreting music, text or pictures from this grid of dots is extremely complex and poorly understood. A large part of the human brain, containing many millions of connections, is devoted solely to solving this ‘pattern recognition’ problem.
For this reason, only a handful of music scanning programs have ever been developed, and past attempts have generally been very slow, very inaccurate, or unable to recognize many standard musical markings.
PhotoScore represents a significant advance, being able to read a wide variety of music with high speed, accuracy and a good range of music symbols.
Neuratron has always been pushing the boundaries of this technology with PhotoScore and has made it the world’s first dual engine music scanning software. By combining the recognition results of two independently developed recognition engines PhotoScore’s accuracy is much greater than twice that of each engine alone!
PhotoScore is able to read virtually all markings on a page and is the only product available capable of reading guitar tab and percussion staves.
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Mac
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An IBM compatible Pentium or higher PC with Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista
At least 192MB RAM - 256MB is recommended or 512MB if using Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
At least 40MB free hard disk space
Adobe Reader 6.0 or later to view PhotoScore’s PDF help
A scanner (probably connected to your computer via a USB, Printer or SCSI port), and installed TWAIN or WIA driver software.
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An Apple Macintosh Intel/G4/G5 with Mac OS X 10.3 or higher.
At least 256MB RAM and 512MB is recommended.
At least 40MB free hard disk space
Apple Preview or Adobe Reader 6.0 or later to view PhotoScore’s PDF help.
A scanner (probably connected to your computer via a USB, Printer or SCSI port), and installed Mac OS X TWAIN driver software
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