eMedia Musitek SmartScore X2 Guitar Edition Notation Software, DVD-ROM

Musitek's SmartScore x2 represents a revolutionary departure in music scanning technology. In addition to recognizing and reconstructing nearly any scanned musical score or PDF file with astonishing thoroughness and accuracy, it is also one of the easiest music-writing solutions available. Powerful and useful tools are never more than a button away. Complete layout control is at your fingertips. Change staff and system heights, horizontal and vertical margins, line spacing and note size simply by dragging control tabs. Center, offset and unify score layout with a single click. No other program handles scanned-in music so accurately, so simply and completely as SmartScore x2. Other than the human artist, nothing applies so much nuance and realism to the performance of printed sheet music.

Start with astonishingly accurate recognition of standard notation, text/lyric, dynamic/tempo markings. Codas, jumps, repeats and numbered endings all playback with uncanny accuracy. How about multi-staff tablature and percussion part recognition with its elegant new TAB editor? They bring a new standard of usability and logic with support for 2, 3 and 4-voice counterpoint. Try out the demo and discover what SmartScore x2 can bring to your home studio, church or school.

What's new in SmartScore x2?
• Improved recognition of musical symbols, especially on poorly-printed scores and from scanners with less-than-optimum optics
• Improved text, lyric and number recognition (OCR)
• Garritan sound library and Aria player now included FREE. Click the "Instruments" tab above to view the instrument list.
• Improved CD burning and .WAV/.AIF recording with Garritan sounds
• Change instrument sounds anywhere in the ENF notation view window
• Simplified menu layouts
• Improved page layout and printing controls
• Improved scanning interface works with more scanners
• Karaoke view displays both moving lyrics and moving notation
• Ability to export as PDF

Professional Scoring Software
Imagine a professional-grade score writer with the world's most accurate music-scanning engine at its core and enough intelligence built in that no degree is required to use it. Scan, Play, Transpose & Print! There is no faster way to get printed sheet music into your computer and there is no simpler way to capture, transpose, play back, edit, transform and export music back out. SmartScore's SmartScan interface operates with almost any scanner and adjusts each setting automatically. No guesswork or expertise required. SmartScore x2 recognizes more musical symbols more accurately and more quickly than any other music-scanning software.

Songbooks, band arrangements, lead sheets, operas, hymnals, musicals, orchestral parts and conductor's scores appear on-screen in editable and playable form within seconds after scanning. Nuances written into scores are accurately captured resulting in astonishing playback realism. Output to Finale, Sibelius, MusicXML, PDF, MIDI and audio (.WAV) file formats. Nearly any PDF file is accurately recognized, including those optimized for the web. Used by students, hobbyists, arrangers, copyists, music ministers and educators worldwide, SmartScore is a complete music software solution, not just half of it. From scanning, recognition and playback to editing, scoring, layout and print control, SmartScore x2 stands apart as the only fully integrated music-processing tool.

TAB recognition/editing
In the Pro, Songbook and Guitar Editions, you get super-accurate TAB and percussion staff recognition including revolutionary 2-voice counterpoint display. Converting Notation-TAB-Notation is instant. TAB editor is powerful, elegant and easy to use.

High Quality OCR
OCR (text and lyric) accuracy meets the standards of professional-quality OCR systems. Includes accurate German character recognition.

Supports VST and AU Libraries
Supports VST (Win) and AU (Mac) audio instrument libraries (including Garritan Personal Orchestra and MOTU Mach5 plug-ins).

Garritan Sound Library
SmartScore x2 includes a large subset of Garritan jazz, pop and orchestral instrument sounds. Garritan sounds are state-of-art digitally sampled sound libraries that realistically reproduce musical instruments in performance. Garritan sounds are carefully recorded samples of actual musical instruments. They are not electronically synthesized.