Klarinet Archive - Posting 000307.txt from 2001/01

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Music Programs for PC??
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 20:20:42 -0500

The most recent version of SmartScore produces a format called .fin, which
can be imported directly by Finale 2001 (not earlier versions). You no
longer need to use MIDI files, which preserve none of the formatting and
introduce many inaccuracies. Finale 2000 can import files directly from
MidiScan, again without intermediary MIDI files. Of the two scanning
programs, SmartScore is much faster and more accurate, and the ability of
Finale 2001 to import files from it is, to me, one of the biggest reasons
for upgrading to v.2001. It works quite well, though most dynamics and text
markings need to be re-entered once your music is in Finale. You _need_ a
good original and a good scan for this to work well.

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sandusky [mailto:daves@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:26 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Music Programs for PC??
>
>
> I would like to know if anybody has had any luck with converting
> SmartScore files directly into anything. It is supposed to work with
> Finale, but before I upgrade from Allegro, I would like to know how well
> it works.
>
> SmartScore (I have the Piano Edition) scans in music from your scanner
> into a limited editor, so you can fix bad recognition. Then you can
> play it back as a MIDI file. The problem is that for Finale to read it,
> you have to save it as a MIDI file, then read it into Finale as a MIDI,
> which wrecks the actual notation that was scanned in (leaves the MIDI
> interpretation, like dotted quarter + 16th for stuff that is swung, for
> example). The newest version of both these programs is supposed to let
> you save the scanned version in a format that Finale can read directly.
>
> Any insight would be great,
>
> Dave Sandusky
>
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