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Improved Lyric and Text recognition

• Significantly improved OCR recognition (75% more accurate).
• Significantly increased recognition accuracy of alpha/numeric music symbols (e.g. Dynamic markings, Tuplets, Octavas, Multi-measure rests, Expressions)

Newly Recognized Symbols (also applied to playback)

• Guitar Tablature and multi-line percussion staves recognized.
• Percussion lines (Single and multi-staff) recognized and automatically linked to MIDI Drum Map.
• Multi-measure rests
• Octavas (8va and marked extensions)
• Sharps and flats in chord symbols improving chord symbol accuracy
• “Non-triplet” tuplets
• “Repeat-previous-measure” symbol
• Mordants
• Unusual time signatures (e.g. 9/8)
• Damper pedal lines (Horizontal pedal lines)

Improved Notation Recognition
(Compared to Version 5)

• Beams (75% more accurate)
• Numbered endings (50% more accurate)
• Triplets and other tuplets (50% more accurate)
• Chord symbols and guitar frets symbols (75% more accurate)
• Improved recognition of dynamics, articulations and expressions (50% more accurate)
• Improved application of dynamics, articulation and expressions to playback.
• Improved handling of pedal markings and horizontal damper pedal lines.
• Parallel (multiple) page processing when run on dual-core machines.

Improved PDF file Recognition

• Most PDF files are now recognized including web-optimized pages.
• Color and screen resolution PDFs recognized

Improved Page Handling

• More scanners supported. Web scanners now output page-sized files.
• Improved margin control. Adjust left and right as well as top and bottom margins inside Page Setup.
• Improved layout and print control (e.g. vertical –to-horizontal reformatting and printing).

Playback

• Extend playback options with virtual instruments. Selected VST instruments (Windows) and Audio Units (Mac) now supported including Garritan and MOTU Mach Five virtual instruments. Get special discounted deals at musitek.com
• Jumps logic improved (e.g. segnos, d.c., d. s., etc.)
• Part Name field in Playback Console now dynamically linked to Instrument Templates. MIDI Transposition of transposed instruments simplified.
• Playback properties of nearly every symbol can now be changed using Properties Tool.
• ENF Part Names & abbreviations and MIDI Instruments (including transposed instruments) automatically update when new Part Name is chosen.
• New Randomizer playback option. Adds human feel to playback. Control the amount of random changes applied to timing and loudness of notes.
• Change MIDI instruments (Program Change) of any track on-the-fly in MIDI Piano Roll view.
• Transpose Step Counters dynamically linked. Transposed instruments now properly transposed value in Playback Console.
• Voice assignment registers in Playback Console improved.
• Ritards (rit) and a tempo markings are more precisely interpreted.
• Dynamic markings can be assigned to MIDI Volume or to MIDI Velocity
• Select any region within score for playback or looping

Editing

• More symbol properties available with Properties Tool:
  - Tuplet properties:
     - Change number of divisions, values and visibility
     - Show tuplet number inside or outside of bracket / arc.
  - Trill Properties
  - Multi-measure rest properties added
• Convert staff lines from notation to tablature (TAB) format with correct fingering. Convert TAB staff lines to notation.
• Fast and easy-to-use TAB editor. Includes multi-voice editing and cues.
• Export score and open in Finale 2008 with a single Toolbar push-button.
• Shaped notes (non-standard noteheads): Globally change standard notation to alternative noteheads (e.g. shaped notes) with Notehead properties.
• Import full scores from other notation programs via MusicXML
• Globally scale chord symbols and guitar fret grids (Edit > Document Preferences > Chord Symbols > Scale).
• Voice color assignment algorithm improved. Notes more accurately assigned to correct contrapuntal voicelines. Voice color override tool can now be applied to tuplet and slur markings.
• UNIFY > System, Staff and Line spacing
• Use mouse to highlight  any range of  measures to apply special edit functions (e.g. playback, auto-spacing / auto-beaming)
• Show clefs in all systems or first system only (for solo lead sheets).
• Automatic Tuplet Finder. Insert a few tuplets and similar note groupings will automatically be assigned the same tuplet if accepted. Perfect for scores with many “implied tuplets”.
• Key document display options (e.g. Systems, Score Symbols, Measure and Page Numbering) can be set as default in Program Preferences.
• Part Name display options expanded. Abbreviations now the  default.

Viewing

• New ENF-on-TIFF “overlay” mode with variable transparency control. (Mac only)
• Tool Palette configuration can be saved “as is” when closing ENF files (Program Preferences > User Interface)
• ENF/TIFF view panes now split either horizontally or vertically (best choice for multiple monitor display.
• Staff and System tabs color coded
• Color printing (of color-coded voicelines) supported

Printing

• Improved and simplified printing when scores are reformatted in different page orientations
• Automatically rescale page sizes to optimize score printing (Edit > Format Score > Scale Entire Score > Optimize).

MIDI

• Insert, change and delete Program (MIDI Instrument) Changes on the fly in Piano Roll view.
• Event List fully editable. Changes are dynamically linked to MIDI playback.
• MIDI Editor improved including more edit and delete functions.

Finale Integration

• Launch SmartScore full version instead of SmartScore Lite when “Scanning…” is invoked in Finale or PrintMusic.

MIDI to ENF

• Drum Tracks (Channel 10) correctly interpreted and reconverted to drum clefs with appropriate number of staff lines.
• MIDI to notation interpretation improved.
  Applies key signature to each MIDI track (Type 0 MIDI Files)
• Part Names written to MIDI files now import when converted to SmartScore files.

Image Editor

• Selected margin tolerance improved

Bug Fixes

• Recognition
  - Problem with triplets and slurs sometimes being applied to the wrong contrapuntal voice fixed.
  - Problem with triplets being recognized and having “3” remain as text fixed.
• Transposition
  - Problem with accidentals when change-of-key signature = C major fixed.
• Part Linking
  - Part reassigning stabilized. Logic improved.
• MIDI
  - MIDI file import from certain programs improved.

WIN
Windows Vista / XP / 200x
Pentium 1 or better
256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space

MAC
OS 10.4 (Tiger) or better
G3 or better / Dual Core for Universal
256Mb RAM + 50Mb disk space

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