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?
Sharpeye is a terrific scanning program, as well, available through www.recordare.com -- it generates MusicXML code which can be imported into Finale via the Dolet plug-in, also from www.recordare.com -- I've found that Sharpeye is better than smartscore, at least in the small sample of comparisons I've done.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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