You guys need to also remember that the version of SmartScore we ship is SmartScore *LITE*, which we simply licence from the company who makes it. SmartScore Pro will import more than 16 staves at a time. I've had pretty good luck with it like Johannes says: if the source is clean the scanning is good enough to edit. I've dumped parts in through it and turned it into a score.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gebauer, Johannes Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 10:54 AM To: Finale 3 Subject: Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius On 09.02.2004 16:58 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote > 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. Now come on! Yes, you are probably right that it doesn't handle more than 16 staves. But that is a limitation, not a quality mark for scanning. I used it to prepare parts for a Haydn String Trio from a score. The amount of extra work needed was far less than having to reenter everything. That makes it useful for the first time, and I would say this qualifies to be called "much better" - much better indeed! No it probably won't do as well as advertised. We all know that. But it is useful now (something which I don't think can be said about MicNotator). Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
