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1. 135 Flags and beams F 135 Stem direction S 135 Accidentals Soe SSeS 2 Se oe SS oe a a 136 Rests R eee eee eee eee eee 137 Batliness l ace eentacere yoni ae sa E SSS See ee Bee 137 Dynamics P lt and gt 137 Tuplets T 137 Unify Signatures Clefs U 137 Note values Number Pad 137 Navigator 138 Transposition 139 System Manager 5 143 Instrument Templates 147 Working with Voices and Colors 149 Playback Console 154 Hidden Symbols 155 Dynamics Articulations and Tempo Markings 156 Properties Tool 162 Repeats and Multiple Endings 165 Unify Key Time and Clefs U 168 MID to BNE A a S322 2S ee tee coe eee 170 Troubleshooting ENF Problems 172 128 USING SmartScore Chapter 9 Detailed ENF Editing 9 1 More ENF navigating 9 1 1 Split screen and Zoom Window Viewing The default view is the split screen view immediately following rec ognition An alternative view is the floating Zoom Window FIGURE 9 1 Zoom Window To use the Z
2. 137 Dynamics P lt and gt 137 Tuplets T 137 Unify Signatures Clefs U 137 Note values Number Pad 137 USING SmartScore 4 Table of Contents Navigator 138 Transposition 139 System Manager 143 Instrument Templates 147 Working with Voices and Colors 149 Playback Console 154 Hidden Symbols 155 Dynamics Articulations and Tempo Markings 156 Properties Tool 162 Repeats and Multiple Endings 165 Unify Key Time and Clefs U 168 MIDI to ENP 4 2 5 2 2 aise ee ee ee ele Ses a s 170 Troubleshooting ENF Problems 172 Chapter 10 MIDI Editing and Sequencing 177 ENF Notation and MIDI Editor Relationship 177 Opening Changing and Closing Multiple MIDI Views 179 Track Overview lt 6 2 See S000 2 SS ess Ge ee eee 180 Playback 182 Spacebar lt 6 e he ee ee ee ee 182 Mini Console 182 MIDI Devices 183 Playback Range 184 Piano Roll Gs 2 eGo liek ee eRe SE eee ek 1
3. What Edition does what Parts and Voices in SmartScore What to do when this manual does not help USING SmartScore Chapter 1 Introduction to SmartScore 1 1 What SmartScore does 1 1 1 Scan and play With SmartScore you are able to scan recognize and playback sheet music in just minutes To listen just hit the space bar Assign different MIDI sounds to each instrumental part and recreate a band or an orchestral performance Assign different sounds to contrapuntal voices to create interesting and unusual textures of sound or to emphasize inner voices in complex arrangements Recognition of dynamics artic ulations repeats and endings gives added nuance and realism during playback Students can listen to an unfamiliar piece before learning it Practice along while playing back at various tempos without altering pitch or key Mute or solo one or more parts on the fly Parts selected by name are automatically assigned proper MIDI instruments and maintain playback continuity even with optimized scores Transposed instruments notated in different keys will play back in tune Automati cally add drum tracks to playback choose from many preset styles or create your own drum tracks from imported MIDI files You can even record playback to audio CD with the built in CD Writer 1 1 2 Scan and work While playback of sheet music has its uses it is just the beginning
4. 25 Scanning in Windows 25 Using the SmartScore Scanning Interface 26 Automatic image enhancement functions 27 Scanner settings 29 Choosing an alternative scanning interface 30 Working with HP Scanners in Windows 31 Scanning for Macintosh 32 Scanner drivers for Mac 32 Selecting a scanner 33 Selecting the SmartScore Scanning Interface 33 Choosing Your Scanner s Interface Automatic 34 Scanner settings 35 Choosing Your Scanner s Interface Manual 36 Recognition Sequence 37 Recognition Options 38 Post Recognition 4 Scanning Outside of SmartScore 42 Selecting Pre scanned Files for Processing 43 Scanning Part Scores Score Parts 45 Recognition Accuracy 46 Troubleshooting Scanning and Recognition 48 Image Editor 50 24 USING SmartScore Chapter 3 Scanning and Recognition 3 1 Scanning Music Be sure you have the necessary scanner drivers installed before attempting to scan from inside SmartScore Most scanners come wit
5. FIGURE 4 16 ENF Tempo Controller 4 5 6 Normalize controllers Playback may result in greater than desired changes after altering either tempo or velocity controllers If so you may globally reduce the effects of either controller by applying normalizing USING SmartScore 69 ENF Playback Normalize Tempo controller Before imi Tempo controller after normalizing by 80 FIGURE 4 17 Normalizing Tempo To reduce effects of either Tempo or Velocity graphical controllers a Choose Playback gt Graphical Controller b Select either Normalize Tempo or Normalize Velocity c Choose amount of reduction desired 20 40 60 or 80 Controller display and playback will change accordingly d Choosing Reset removes all controller changes and resets the default settings NOTE Additional Tempo markings inserted into ENF will still take affect The end result is an averaging of tempo values 4 5 7 Controller background views e Invisible Graphical controllers are not visible in this view It is the default view e Line In Line view controller is displayed in the foreground with notation displayed in grey in the background 70 USING SmartScore ENF Playback e Filled In Filled view notation is obscured entirely with controller in fore ground e Background In Background view notation is displayed in the foreground and the graphical controller appears in grey in the background 4 5 8 Se
6. USING SmartScore 99 Editing Text and Symbols You can easily change mis recognized fret diagrams in the ENF editor To change an existing guitar fret chord symbol a Ctrl click on any existing fret symbol or select the fret symbol from the Text and Controllers Toolbar Your cursor should change to a fretboard b Toggle the C key to Change mode fretboard with arrow c Click on any existing fretboard symbol The Guitar Chord library will open with the selected symbol displayed If the selected fret is not found in the Guitar Chord Library a C major chord will be displayed te T Long ree Foon bent mii eee TI mh S gone afi m cm FIGURE 6 6 Guitar frets and chord symbols library d Select the desired chord from Root pull down menu e Select sharp flat Tonality Extension and Augmentation NOTE More than one chord can apply to the same parameters When Primary is checked that chord pattern will be selected before other chords having duplicate parameters f Click OK The fret diagram and chord symbol will update To insert a fret chord symbol from the Guitar Chord library a Push the fretboard symbol in the Text and Controllers toolbar Insert Guitar Chord Symbol FIGURE 6 7 Guitar Fret Symbol 1 00 USING SmartScore Editing Text and Symbols b Click above the staff line where you wish to insert the symbol 6 5 1 Creating and changing chord symbols in the GC
7. 4 7 Instrument Templates Instrument Templates makes up the pool from which instruments are assigned to stafflines in System Manager To open Instrument Tem plates select Edit gt Instrument Templates or hit Ctrl F Win Cmnd F Mac Most common musical instruments are listed in the Names column Abbreviations MIDI instruments and transposed play back have been preassigned but may be changed leabriment Temjlaies maia Piara Gora Pi acii Fana Pibodas E Piara WB amei Hapit E A Chunh Goa HS ii i Church Grgar GB Fei Inutureand J ettrco tao Appi hect eligi m ia al juhan Fler FIGURE 4 19 Instrument Templates Part Names in System Manager are directly linked to instrument Names in Instrument Templates When a Part Name is selected in the System Manager all playback parameters are derived from Instrument Templates 4 7 1 Transposed instruments Since transposed instruments do not actually play the pitches notated in the score to play them back in tune with the other non transposed instruments they must have their playback adjusted up or down by cer tain intervals This playback transposition is already preset in Instru ment Templates for most transposed instruments USING SmartScore 73 Lyric Koracke ENF Playback 4 7 2 Adding instruments You can add new instruments with unique names and playback param eters as well as change existing names and parameters in any template
8. Continue to select parts for any other type of group Any selected group can overlap parts of another selected group Click Break Barline by Brackets checkbox to have barlines break according to instrument families which are already desig nated by braces groups and grand staffs Choose Clear Sel or Clear Selected Parts in selected group or Clear All to remove groupings 104 USING SmartScore Editing Text and Symbols USING SmartScore 105 Percussion clef Clefs Palette Automatic Drum Patterns Virtual Drum Kit 106 USING SmartScore ol MIDI Me d coc om D Chapter 7 Working with Drums SmartScore has some really nice drum features including MIDI support for the percussion clef automatic drum patterns and a drum kit which records a drum track by tapping keys on your computer keyboard 7 1 Percussion clef Clefs Palette When the Percussion Clef is entered on a staffline the MIDI channel assignment for that staff and part switches to 10 the default drum chan nel Notes can be entered deleted and pitch shifted normally and will playback as MIDI drums The percussion clef works in den tic ally as all other clefs including Unify Clefs See Section 9 15 3 on page 170 7 1 1 Playback gt Drumset Drum sounds are associated with every line and space of the drum clef staff Accidentals are ignored regardless of the key of the
9. and hitting the L key The rel ative positions of these joined notes will be swapped without altering voice color or playback ia Highlight with Select Tool Positions swap with L key FIGURE 4 11 Swapping horizontal positions of offset notes 4 4 6 Options gt Align Joined Voices Offset voices that are joined will have simultaneous start times for playback By default joined notes and rests become vertically aligned Sometimes especially in cases where notes are particularly dense you may not want horizontal movement To keep joined notes and rests off set go to Options gt Align Joined Voices and remove the check mark 66 USING SmartScore ENF Playback 4 5 Altering Playback 4 5 1 Lock to Time Signature SmartScore allows for two kinds of playback Play what s there or Lock to Time Signature With Playback gt Lock to Time Signature check marked every measure plays back with the exact number of beats indicated in the default time signature If the ENF file contains editing errors this may result in dropped notes during playback or in the case of pickup measures and split measures it will cause a pause to be heard With Lock to Time Signature turned off whatever is writ ten in each measure will be played back regardless of the current time signature If the ENF file contains errors this option may result in irregular meter lengthened or shortened measures Either option is use fu
10. O key to activate the Select tool b Click and drag a box around any series of notes c Press the S key to reverse the stem direction of the highlighted notes In Change mode an existing note stem can be reversed by right click ing Windows on any existing notehead Option click for Mac 9 3 8 Accidentals To insert an accidental a Select any accidental from the Notes or Articulations palette bb b Toggle the C key to Insert mode sa c Click on the notehead that is to receive the marking To change an accidental e Select an accidental from the Notes palette Toggle the C key until a white arrow appears and click on a notehead to change To delete an accidental e Press the X key with any accidental active in cursor and click on a notehead to remove its associated accidental A courtesy accidental is bounded by parentheses and acts as a reminder that a note has an accidental normally used when notation becomes dense MIDI playback ignores these redundant accidentals To insert a courtesy accidental e Press the parentheses button when any accidental is selected before clicking a notehead 136 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing 9 3 9 Rests R Press the R key to automatically select a quarter rest for editing Shift R will select an eighth rest 9 3 10 Barlines I Hit the I key to select a standard barline fo
11. Tche bh Tm JEg ef ar foo 5 k FIGURE 10 14 Select Event window Select All tracks or an individual track or voice to highlight for cut paste pitch shifting or assigning parameters Choose Full time to dis play the full length of the MIDI file or designate a portion of the file to display by entering the measure beat and tick into the From and To fields NOTE Edit gt Select All is only available from a Piano Roll or Event List view Selecting MIDI events using mouse click and drag can be done from any view Mouse functions work the same in all views To select a note or group of notes e Click on the individual note or click and drag to Group Select many notes To add note s to the Group e Hold down the Control key and click on the unselected note s To select note events within a given time frame a Click in Piano Roll to mark the beginning of the time frame b Hold down the Shift key and click again to set the end of the timeframe The selected range will highlight in grey USING SmartScore 189 MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 5 7 Changing MIDI event characteristics To change the start time of selected note event s e Click and drag the left edge of the note s to the position you want FIGURE 10 15 Editing MIDI note on off events To change the duration of selected note event s e Click and drag the right edge of a note to change a note s
12. palette FIGURE 5 4 Creating a Tuplet or Slur USING SmartScore 85 Editing Notes and Rests a Click and drag down to insert the tuplet or legato above the notes to be selected b Click and drag up to insert the tuplet or legato below the notes to be selected c Press the X key and click on the tuplet or legato to delete it NOTE To move a tuplet bracket up or down use Edit Shapes mode e Nested tuplets tuplet within a tuplet Choose the value required from the Rhythmic Groups palette Click and drag the mouse pointer to select a tuplet group within another tuplet A bracket will drop identifying the nested tuplet e User defined Tuplet Other than the common triplet quintuplet etc it may be necessary to create a unique rhythmic group Divisions the number of equally divided notes Value total duration equal to one undivided note times the number selected E g a quarter note triplet defaults as follows Divisions 3 Value 2 Total duration of 2 quarter notes divided equally into three 5 4 12 Ties Ties connect contiguous notes of the same pitch causing the first note to sound for the duration of both notes Ties are not the same as slurs a While in the Insert mode hit the V key or press a Tie button in L the Notes palette b Click on the notehead of the first note of a tied pair to insert the tie with a downward arc c Right click option click
13. 249 210 USING SmartScore E s i Chapter 11 Reference 11 1 Properties Tool Playback properties of many markings including dynamics and articu lations may be adjusted singly or globally with the use of the Proper ties Tool located in the SmartScore toolbar See Section 9 12 Properties Tool on page 162 for more details 11 2 Tool Palettes 11 2 1 Notes and rests See General Note Editing on page 80 11 2 2 Articulations Turn to Articulations and Trills on page 159 for editing details e Slur Legato Note durations associated with slurs are increased about 10 giving an overlapping or connected effect when played back Turn Click on note head or note stem apply a turn Turns play back as fol lows a a F feete FIGURE 11 1 Turn e Fermata bird s eye Click on note head or note stem to apply a fermata Tempo is slowed by 50 for the duration of the note to which the fermata is attached e Staccato USING SmartScore 211 Reference Click on note head to apply a staccato Duration of the associated note is shortened by 25 e Tenuto Click on note head to apply a tenuto Duration of the associated note is extended by 125 e Accent Click on note head to apply an accent Accent increases the velocity of its associated note by 150 e Soft Accent Click on note head to apply a soft accent Soft accent increases the velocity of its associated note
14. 3 ag Orientation inches inches Portrait h First System Indent Do not change ai bs bed S Scope Score Zi Bottom 0 0 inches Cancel FIGURE 11 10 Page Setup To open Page Setup go to File gt Page Setup a Adjust margins if necessary by either dragging margin line in page preview window or by setting amount in top bottom or side fields b Apply changes using the Scope pull down menu Select Score to apply changes to the entire ENF file Choose Part to apply changes only to current score part Choose Page to apply to cur rent page 11 3 9 File gt Print Preview Selecting this option gives you a page views in a horizontal format See page 231 View gt True Scrolling for more information about pre viewing pages in horizontal or vertical format 220 USING SmartScore Reference 11 3 10 File gt Print Ctrl P Cmnd P To Print the active ENF document e Only the active topmost ENF file will print To print other open EMF files select click on the desired ENF file first 11 3 11 File gt Save As PDF If you are using Windows or Macintosh OS x you can save your SmartScore ENF files as Adobe Acrobat PDF files Windows Only PDF995 exe resides in the SmartScore folder and is installed during normal installation PDF995 launches automatically when invoked in ENF The utility appears in your list of printers whenever you invoke Print in an other applications hare Qareec Poti
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16. For more information on Instrument Templates turn to Instrument Templates on page 147 For more information on the System Man ager turn to System Manager on page 143 4 8 Add drum tracks Adding an automatic drum track will add more pizazz to the mix Push the Drum Pattern button in the SmartScore toolbar to select an appropriate pattern for your piece For more information on adding or creating drum tracks go to Automatic Drum Patterns Section 7 2 on page 108 4 9 Karaoke View Feel like singing out loud Hey you only live once To view moving lyrics with familiar bouncing ball a Press the Karaoke View button in the floating Navigator palette b Use the floating mini console transport buttons to control play back c Open the Playback Console Ctrl 9 Cmnd 9 for Mac to adjust tempo and change instrument assignments for parts and voices 74 USING SmartScore ENF Playback USING SmartScore 75 Navigating Inside an ENF Document 77 Preliminary Cleanup 78 ENF Editing Modes 79 General Note Editing 80 Undo 80 Tool Palettes F2 F9 keys 81 Grace Notes Ssss 2 oie e siana a E eiae EE Ss es EE 81 Select tool O key 81 VOICECOlOP Gib a SSG SS Sl Sy Gere es oS 82 Error Check 83 Pi
17. Gem a To A Joce a FIGURE 8 2 System Manager displaying active system USING SmartScore 115 Changing Score Structure c Check the box Visibility in lower left hand corner of the win dow This informs the System Manager of the kind of action we are taking d Now we will choose which parts to extract To the left of the parts you do not wish to extract remove the visibility check marks This leaves only the part s you wish to extract with checkmarks e Press Apply to New to create a new score leaving the current file unaffected Or press OK to remove parts from the open docu ment FIGURE 8 3 is the result of the System Manager settings made in FIGURE 8 2 FIGURE 8 3 Extracted vocal Part 8 1 2 Extracting voices using Visibility Let s go back to the original ENF document in FIGURE 8 1 Let s say we want to extract a contrapuntal voice from the right hand part To extract a voice from an existing part a Select Edit gt System Manager Ctrl M Cmnd M Mac b Click the dot next to the Part Name to highlight the target part Remove checkmarks of all parts and voices except for the part and voice you wish to target 116 USING SmartScore Changing Score Structure M Petre T i r Specng iope ta fia o id cay a ST S FIGURE 8 4 Selecting Voices to be extracted c Make sure Visibility in lower left hand corner is checked d Press Apply to New to create
18. Rests palette c Click on any existing note or rest to change to selected value NOTE When you QuickSelect Ctrl Click on any object inside the active staff the palette associated with the object will open 132 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing 9 2 3 Delete by Group Delete Any X Press the X key of your computer keyboard to toggle between the Delete by Group and Delete Any modes In the Delete by Group mode the cursor becomes an arrow with the selected object type in grey In the Delete Any mode the cursor becomes an arrow with an X next to it e Delete by Group mode removes any object clicked on that is found in the active Tool Palette but no other object Sl e Delete Any mode removes any notation object that is clicked with the mouse NOTE This delete will remove an entire chord To remove a single note from a chord hit the X then Z cluster key Click a note To delete any object in the active staff a Toggle the X key to Delete Any mode b Click on any object i Y TIP For the occasional object that does not respond to normal click p to delete action use the Select tool O key Hit the Delete key to remove all selected objects 9 3 Select Tool O 9 3 1 Using the Select tool for quick deletions Use the Select tool letter O key to highlight more than one object Many functions including mass delete mass pitch shift vertical align ment
19. b With the mouse pointer drag to select notes in the active staff FIGURE 11 8 Octava 214 USING SmartScore Reference Notice that the Octava or Octavo mark will appear at the beginning of the range of selected notes an the applied range will be indicated by a dashed line above the selected notes When the Percussion clef is entered on a staffline MIDI channel assignment of the staff switches to 10 the default drum channel Notes can be entered normally but will playback only as MIDI drums Note pitch to MIDI drum assignments are mapped in Drumset option under the Playback menu Refer to Playback gt Drumset on page 107 to assign drums e Percussion clef 11 2 4 Barlines and Repeats See Repeats and Multiple Endings on page 165 11 2 5 Signatures Key and Time To change an existing key or time signature to another signature NOTE It is possible to change one or all key signatures in a system In Insert mode all staves of the system are updated to the inserted key signature In Change mode only the staff line where the change is made will be affected This is particularly useful for transposed instruments a Select a new signature from the tool palette b Hit the C key to toggle to the Change mode c Click on the signature to be change NOTE The key of C major A minor does not have a visible sign to indicate its presence If no key signature is visible in the first measure of the
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21. Insert Above Insert Below Remove NOTE When an ENF score structure is changed by adding or delet ing staves and or systems from the Edit menu synchroniza tion with the scanned images will be lost We recommend that you complete all needed edits corrections or save a copy of the ENF file before using the Edit menu to change struc ture of your scanned music See View gt Associate Image Files on page 232 for information on keeping synchroniza tion Use this feature to insert an entire empty system above or below the currently active system Use to delete a system if you need to USING SmartScore 225 Reference a Position the mouse pointer over the current system to make it active b Hit the CapLock button On and select the function you want from the Edit menu Press CapLock again to release active staff TIP Hitting the CapLock button On keeps the active staff selected an until CapLock is pressed again Off Use this Hold Active Staff feature before selecting any of the Add or Remove staff and system functions under the Edit menu c To remove a system from a score position the cursor over the system you wish to delete and select Edit gt System gt Remove 11 4 14 Edit gt Staff gt Insert Above Insert Below Remove Use this feature to expand or collapse a system This will add a new part to the system and also add a new part to the Super System Make sure you hold down the Ctrl button before mo
22. O key and highlight a group of horizon tally offset notes or rests See FIGURE 4 9 b Press the Y key to group the selected offset notes into a single vertical event Selected voices may move or jump slightly closer To globally join offset voices automatic method NOTE The following procedure is global and may result in joining voices which do not belong to the same vertical event Use caution when employing this procedure Less is better USING SmartScore 65 ENF Playback a Press the J key or select Join Voices from the Edit menu CE Isi peran hanria kiser io misi aw ii bakea TT i L Je FIGURE 4 10 Join Voices b Notes and rests belonging to different voices will be joined to the same vertical event based on the distance selected 1 through 20 These units are arbitrary The default is 6 It is recommended not to change distance more than 2 or 3 units at a time NOTE Be careful not to overdo it You may inadvertently join voices that ought to be syncopated Always playback and listen after joining voices If you wind up with sewing machine or worse you can always UNDO Ctrl Z Win Cmnd Z Mac c Press OK and hit the spacebar to audition 4 4 5 Swapping offset voices Select L Occasionally you will want to swap the horizontal positions of a pair of joined offset notes This can easily be done by selecting a vertically aligned pair with the Select Tool O
23. SmartScore has intelligent tools that will enable you to transform your scanned score into virtually any configuration You can transpose and print out your music into a new key including any changes of key time and clef Transpose globally or by selected region by key or by clef Transform a viola part in C to a horn part in F Recognized guitar frets and chord symbols automatically transpose along with notes and key symbols Instrumental parts or contrapuntal voices can be extracted to new SmartScore documents using Visibility in the System Manager Solo part scores can be scanned in and joined into a conductor s score with drag and drop ease using Score Structure Preserve proper play back of instruments that appear and disappear throughout the score by USING SmartScore 1 Introduction to SmartScore using Part Linking tool Fine object repositioning in Edit Shapes refines the look of your score giving you a professional finish Printed output can be reformatted by resizing staffline staff and system spac ing and page margins It s all possible with SmartScore 1 1 3 Turn MIDI files into music notation Transform your favorite MIDI files into engraver quality music nota tion If the MIDI file contains complex voicing in a track SmartScore can separate them into independent voicelines If voices are joined into chords use SmartScore s voice splitting tool to separate them into dis crete contrapuntal voices 1 1 4 Create
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25. c Push the Adjust Quality link and change Resolution to 300 350 or 400 as required d Push Scan Image will be transferred to SmartScore for saving and recognition If a warning that resolution is 7 dpi appears reset resolution NOTE If problems still occur scan outside of SmartScore See below Refer to basic settings Scanning Outside of Smart Score on page 42 3 3 3 Scanning Outside of SmartScore with HP scanners e HP PrecisionScan scanning interfaces Win Only For HP scanner models 5100 5200 and 5300 PrecisionScan a Choose Settings gt Preferences from the main program window USING SmartScore 31 Scanning and Recognition b Click the tab labeled Auto Detect c Remove the check mark for Detect regions on the page d Set Resolution to 300 to 400 dpi For HP scanner models 5370 6200 6300 and 7400 PrecisionScan Pro a Choose Output Type from the menu bar b Select Black and White c Set Resolution to 300 to 400 dpi For HP scanner models 3200 3300 4100 and 4200 PrecisionScan LT and for HP scanner models 2100 2200 3400 and 4300 Preci sionScan LTX a Choose Settings gt Output Type menu option b Select Black and White c Set Resolution to 300 to 400 dpi 3 4 Scanning for Macintosh NOTE Mac Scanning Notification Many Mac scanners are not fully TWAIN compatible In order for SmartScore to control a scanning device it must be
26. from Voice Tool combo button in the SmartScore Toolbar b Locate the note or rest for which you want to change voice color c Click on the note or rest to change it to the selected color and voice TIP When editing a measure containing multiple voices voice col ors may change to green and blue as you insert or delete notes and rests Ignore these changes until the entire measure is fully edited Once edited correctly colors should appear normal that is mostly black Voice 1 and red Voice 2 NOTE Ties between notes belonging to different voices will not sus tain during playback 9 8 3 Options gt Color Mode gt Part In Part mode all notes within a staffline become assigned to a single MIDI channel stem directions vertical events and other characteristics that differentiate contrapuntal voicelines are ignored In Color by Part mode each staff assumes a unique color as defined in Instrument Tem plates This is most useful in orchestral scores that contain one part per staff allowing for quick visual referencing of each instrument by its color 15 0 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing To change default staff colors when Color Mode gt Part gt Color a Select Options gt Define Colors gt Part Color b Instrument Templates will open Double click the color of a given part and choose a new color you want associated with that part Push OK 9 8 4 Changing colors of hidden symbols and backgrounds To
27. go to File gt Scan Music and select a plug in for your scanner if it is visible Then push the Scan but ton in the Navigator or select File gt Scan Music gt Acquire b If you do not see your plug in listed in File gt Scan Music gt Select Scanner go to your scanner s installed directory folder look for a Plug in file with an Escher icon and make a copy of it Cmnd D Drag the copied plug in to the Plug Ins folder inside the SmartScore folder To search for plug ins click on the desktop select File gt Find and search for plug in NOTE If you own Adobe Photoshop your scanner plug in will be found inside Photoshop gt Plug ins folder NOTE Older plug ins and drivers may not work with SmartScore If so try downloading the most current TWAIN driver or plug in from your scanner manufacturer s web site 3 4 3 Selecting the SmartScore Scanning Interface Default scanning control is set to SmartScore s interface File gt Scan Music gt Choose Interface gt SmartScore s USING SmartScore 33 Scanning and Recognition a Push the Sean in the Navigator or select File gt Scan Music gt Acquire The SmartScore scanning interface should open Func tions available within this interface are described in Using the SmartScore Scanning Interface on page 26 Navigator FIGURE 3 6 Scan Button Macintosh b After you have scanned in one page you will be given several opti
28. see Articulations and Trills on page 159 4 5 11 Swing This very cool feature applies standard swing rhythm to straight 8th and 16th notes notated in beamed groups If the header in the original music says swing or gives a similar marking SmartScore will modify playback and the underlying MIDI representation as follows Te 4 5 12 Refresh MIDI ENF and MIDI Views are tightly integrated Occasionally data in one view may conflict with data in another resulting in playback that is not anticipated If this happens select MIDI Refresh from the Playback menu MIDI Refresh will update playback based only on the ENF View Any changes made in MDI view including tracks added during MIDI recording Step Time or Real Time will be lost You will be given a chance to save the pre refresh playback as a MIDI file before updating based on ENF display For more information about MIDI Refresh refer to Updating and refreshing playback and display on page 177 4 6 Repeats and Endings Repeat signs including Repeat Last Measure and ending markings including Codas and Segnos from the Barlines and Repeats palette 66 a22 will alter playback accordingly Using the n repeat barline will allow 72 USING SmartScore ENF Playback you to set beginning and ending measures of a multiple ending For more details on repeats multiple endings and Codas and Segnos see Repeats and Multiple Endings on page 165
29. voice splitting flipping stem directions and copy paste work with the Select tool Its button can be found in the SmartScore toolbar To delete a group of objects including notes rests and symbols a Use the Select tool O to select only the range of objects to delete Do not highlight an entire system b Hit the Delete key Occasionally you might find an area full of incorrectly recognized ties and or slurs or hairpins Use this tool to mass delete these objects USING SmartScore 1 33 Detailed ENF Editing To mass delete ties and articulations a Use the Select tool O to select an entire region for cleanup Edit gt Select All Ctrl A will select everything on the current page b Hit the G key Only articulations will be deleted All other notation objects remain unaffected To delete an entire system a Use the Select tool O and highlight an entire system b Hit the Delete key The system will be deleted All subsequent systems will scroll upwards replacing the gap 9 3 2 Using the Select Tool O to edit selected objects A group of selected notes on the same staff can be transformed into one beamed group if they are flagged or they can be pitch shifted at once To convert a sequence of flagged notes into one beamed group a Use the Select tool O to select a group of adjacent flagged notes to be beamed together b Hit the B key to form the flagged notes into a beamed group To
30. 5 Edit Shapes repositioning Lyrics TIP Rather than repositioning a lot of lyrics try reducing lyric font size See Changing styles of Text and Lyrics on page 96 6 4 3 Using Edit Shapes to verify associations Nudging note heads horizontally is a great way to verify that a particu lar lyric block is indeed associated with a note stem Besides verifying notes with lyric blocks Edit Shapes is extremely useful in verifying that vertical events are properly aligned Refer to Vertical Alignment and offset voices on page 64 for more information To verify vertical alignment of two or more voices a Open Edit Shapes Horizontally nudge the upper note Voice 1 of a vertically aligned set of notes and or rests All vertically aligned joined notes or rests will move together b To exit Edit Shapes mode push the Edit Shapes button again 6 5 Guitar Frets and Chord Symbols Guitar fret diagrams are recognized automatically Frets and their asso ciated chord symbols also update with key transposition You can choose to display either the chord symbol or the fret diagram or both It is important to understand that each corresponding chord symbol is automatically tied to the fret diagram For a chord symbol to have intelligence by itself that is for it to change with key transposition its associated fret diagram must be recognized or inserted first Alpha numeric chord symbols may be recognized but only as dumb text
31. Ae a ee Sa ced j FIGURE 10 13 Instrument Settings USING SmartScore 187 MIDI Editing and Sequencing Select the MIDI Port of the MIDI instrument you will be adjust ing with the MIDI Port pull down menu Choose a specific Instrument Bank or all Banks from the selected MIDI Port if numerical banks are supported by your MIDI device Select the type of MIDI Instrument GM MT32 GS Yamaha XG Numeric or Custom from the Instrument pull down menu Use the radio buttons to activate or deactivate specific MIDI channels for selected Instrument set and Drum set The default MIDI channel for drums is 10 Use the Drum pull down menu to select the type of MIDI Drum set your device supports GM No Drums Roland GS Drums Yamaha XG Drums Numeric or Custom Push Custom to create a formatted text document for displaying custom instrument names for your MIDI device Edit to change Save will save Custom patch names as a formatted text docu ment TXT Save this file then open it in a word processing application and enter your patch names Then save as a text docu ment Load will allow you to load the Custom text file Your custom patch names will display throughout SmartScore s MIDI patch selection windows Instrument Templates and Playback Con sole 188 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 5 6 MIDI event selection Under the Edit menu choosing Select opens the Select Window
32. ENF display the key signature will be C major A minor by default To to change C major to a new key signature selected from the palette you must still toggle to Change mode and click on or to the right of the clef sign Simply inserting a new key will not work To create a custom time signature to Insert or Change n F a Select the Custom Time button from the Signatures palette USING SmartScore 21 5 Reference b Using numeric scrollers select a new numerator beats per mea sure and a new denominator note value receiving the beat c Click to insert signature immediately following any barline To insert a new key or time signature in the body of a score e With a time or key signature selected from the Signatures pal ette Insert mode click to the right of any barline To insert a new key or time signature at the end of a system According to the conventions of music notation a change of key or a change of time signature that begins on a new line should be indicated at the end of the previous line FIGURE 11 9 Time Signature at the end of a system e Insert a barline about 1 2 to the left of the end of a system Insert the new time signature anywhere to the right of a barline e Ifa barline closes the system you may click to the right of the last barline to insert a signature It will appear outside and to the right of the system e A final option is to simply insert the change o
33. New will create a brand new ENF document leaving the original file untouched To the left a new empty Score Part was Inserted you could also re link parts to an existing Score Part Here the new Score Part is given a name Win Right click Mac Option click to open its Properties To relink any struc tural object click on the object and drag it to another object in an adjacent column Here the three exist ing parts are relinked to the newly created Score Part named Conductor s New Conductor s Score Apply to New FIGURE 8 7 Creating a Conductor s Score Highlight the unlinked Score Parts and push Remove Push Apply to New The modified structure is transformed to a new ENF document NOTE Newly created documents will have the same name of the source file plus 1 2 etc 8 4 3 Joining open ENF files You may discover that you have edited two ENF files that really belong together as a single section movement or song ENF files can be joined appended to a single ENF file USING SmartScore 125 Changing Score Structure To append two open ENF files into one e Click to highlight two open ENF files Click Join Press Apply to New A new ENF file will be created from both selected files 8 4 4 Creating Part Scores from Ensemble Scores Extracting instrumental parts out of a conductor s score in Score Struc ture is similar to creating a conductor s score from
34. Photoshop does not currently support CCITT Type 4 files TIP When you Save a file SmartScore will continue to save to that directory until you change it The same is true when you Open a file Remember that SmartScore will look in one directory when opening a file and may default in a different one when saving a file Once changed the new path becomes the default 3 5 1 Recognition Options Opin Tima lawl dan e Wome E Tima Fsi Linking M pka iiia PP Eriga r Pi inad ling E Paik F heg A Hra g _fape Hrag FIGURE 3 9 Recognition Options The following section describes options you can choose for recogni tion When satisfied with your choices push Begin Recognition 3 8 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition NOTE If Recognition fails refer to Troubleshooting Guide on page 48 e Language SmartScore OCR interprets unique characters belonging to individual languages To exclude the possibility of recognizing characters that do not belong to the language of a piece choose its appropriate language e Text Check this box if you wish to recognize lyrics and text in the music TIP If you are scanning in single line parts for the purpose of joining them into a conductor s score it is recommended not to recog nize text Otherwise text from every score part will be overlaid on the pages of the conductor s score e Lyrics Under Last Staff of Systems Check this box if you are recogniz
35. Preview or the View gt True Scrolling function See page 231 View gt True Scrolling To page forward or backward in an ENF document e Use the paging buttons located in the Main Toolbar or push the Next page Previous page arrows at the lower right hand corner of the SmartScore window USING SmartScore 77 Editing Notes and Rests 5 1 3 Status Bar The status bar in the lower right corner of the SmartScore window con tains information about the current page being viewed such as Part Number Page Number Cursor Position Page Size and Zoom View Clicking inside any of these fields will open a control window Go To Part Page Cursor Page Setup Page Size or Zoom Level Zoom 5 1 4 Active staffline In SmartScore only one staff is capable of being edited at a time A staff becomes activated when the mouse pointer crosses into it If Show Active Staff is checked all other staves display as greyed out inac tive You may display the active staff highlighted or show all staves in black To allow every staff to display in color or in black e Go to the View menu and uncheck Show Active Staff For additional information on navigating inside an ENF document go to More ENF navigating on page 129 5 2 Preliminary Cleanup Many new symbols are recognized in SmartScore 3 In order to limit false positives we ve added options that selectively narrow the set of objects to be recognized See R
36. Pula oe me reye Fata were O Where Cores Fins C Kee FIGURE 11 16 Auto Save To change backup intervals for Auto Save e Select Auto Save from the Options menu The active topmost ENF file will be saved as follows e Every minutes even if no editing takes place e Every 7 actions based on number of editing actions e g Insert ing Changing Deleting etc e Whichever Comes First based on which is first the number of minutes selected or the number of actions performed e Never deactivates Auto Save of the ENF file 11 6 12 Options gt Reset Tools and Palettes Resets all toolbars and palettes to the default choices set at installation 236 USING SmartScore Reference 11 6 13 Options gt Reset Tools and Palettes Reactivates all warning windows that can be permanently disabled by user This applies to warning windows that have a Do not show this warning again checkbox option If selected again warning win dows will not appear again until program is reinstalled or until Rest Warnings is selected again 11 7 ENF PLAYBACK Menu 11 7 1 Playback gt Set Playback Range Refer to Set Play Range on page 71 11 7 2 Playback gt Play Stop Rewind Used to control playback functions from menu 11 7 3 Playback gt Thru Sets MIDI device to play live without MIDI Record on 11 7 4 Playback gt Console Opens Playback Console Ctrl 9 Cmnd 9 11 7 5 Playback gt Mini Console Opens
37. Resolution off Manually set to value acceptable to scanner 300 to 600 dpi l bit image only or Cannot process grey images Scanner was set or forced by scanner software to scan in Grey Color or Photo Re scan in SmartScore interface with Over ride Grey ON Win Recognition failed for this page Scanner set to screen res olution of 50 100 dpi Scan again accepting Auto resolution settings for best results Manually set resolution to 350 dpi and scan again Scanner was set or forced by scanner software to scan in Grey or Color Re scan in SmartScore interface with Over ride Grey ON Win 48 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition Table 3 Troubleshooting Guide Problem Probable Cause Fix Recognition failed for this page cont d Scanner was set or forced by scanner software to scan in Grey or Color Rescan in Your Scan ner s interface 350 dpi Black amp White Text Line Art Music not fully scanned or is severely skewed Rescan making sure all the music is selected Scan music straight or use Deskew function Image too large for selected resolution Re scan ensuring Auto Resolution is ON Scanner hangs or crashes Driver conflict Ensure latest scanner drivers are installed Scan outside of Smart Score using scanners soft ware Poor
38. Scanner settings 35 Choosing Your Scanner s Interface Manual 36 Recognition Sequence 37 Recognition Options 38 Post Recognition 41 Scanning Outside of SmartScore 42 Selecting Pre scanned Files for Processing 43 Scanning Part Scores Score Parts 45 Recognition Accuracy 46 Troubleshooting Scanning and Recognition 48 Image Editor 50 Chapter 4 ENF Playback 57 Getting Started 57 Error Check 61 Playback Console 61 Working with Voices 62 Altering Playback 67 Repeats and Endings 12 Instrument Templates 73 Add drum tracks 74 Karaoke View 74 Chapter 5 Editing Notes and Rests 77 Navigating Inside an ENF Document 77 Preliminary Cleanup 78 ENF Editing Modes 79 General Note Editing 80 USING SmartScore 2 Table of Contents Undo 80 Tool Palettes F2 F9 keys
39. See Error Check on page 83 for details on this option 4 3 Playback Console In the Playback Console you can make changes to MIDI Instruments tempo transposition muting soloing and pan settings To open the Playback Console fie e Press the speaker button in the SmartScore Toolbar Or hold g down Ctrl 9 Win Cmnd 9 Mac or select Playback gt Console FIGURE 4 6 Playback Console The first column Track lists the MIDI track assigned The second col umn Ch V lists the MIDI channel number within a colored box repre senting one of 4 possible voices black red green and blue The Playback Console will display just tracks parts in black only when Options gt Color Mode Part If Options gt Color Mode Voice is selected all voices in colored boxes will be displayed Refer to Working with Voices and Colors on page 149 for more informa tion on controlling voices USING SmartScore 61 ENF Playback e Play button plays the current ENF file Once playback has begun the Play button changes to Pause e Pause suspends playback Play resumes where pause was selected e Stop button stops playback of the ENF file e Rewind button resets playback to the start of the playback range EEE E 4 3 1 Adjustable Playback Console settings e Scroll to any beat in the score using the Measure Beat slider e Adjust the overall or individual volumes of playback with the Volume sliders Use the P
40. See FIGURE 4 9 on page 65 Prior to recognition you will have the option of varying the distance that SmartScore uses to determine whether to join these offset notes to one vertical event or not See Join Offset Voices on page 40 for more details 64 USING SmartScore ENF Playback TIFF Window I Ar ENF Window 4 Joined Voices Vertically Aligned FIGURE 4 9 Vertical Alignment TIP In Edit Shapes environment vertically joined events are cd glued and will move together when nudged To verify whether or not offset voices are actually joined to the same ver tical event press the Edit Shapes button in the Main Toolbar and nudge one of the notes horizontally For more info see Edit Shapes on page 87 4 4 4 Correcting Vertical Alignment The best way to test if offset voices are not vertically aligned is to examine them in MIDI view Push the MIDI button in the Navigator Select Overview or Piano Roll Unless there are changes in time signa MIDI tures all measures should have the same number of beats marked by vertical lines within measures Tiling ENF MIDI views may alos help You may also listen to the playback uncheck Lock to Time Signature first If you find offset notes that should but don t play together you can join offset voices manually or they can be joined with a global Join Voices command To vertically align offset voices manual method a Use the Select tool
41. System Manager Use the System Manager to add or delete parts change part names PANO GUITAR apply visibility to parts and voices extract parts and voices assign MIDI instrument sounds to parts and voices and to control staff and system spacing The System Manager displays information about what is found in the active system the highlighted system A special display called the Super System which is a sort of mother system is also accessible See Active System vs Super System on page 117 for more details Changes made can be applied to the current system cur rent and following systems active Score Part or to the entire score FIGURE 9 8 System Manager To open the System Manager l a Position the mouse pointer over a given system in the ENF view TIP To verify an active system go to View gt Show Active Staff USING SmartScore 143 Detailed ENF Editing b Press Ctrl M Cmnd M or select Edit gt System Manager from menu All parameters of the active system will be displayed including part name visibility instrument and staffline staff and system spacing Parts run vertically along the left column along with checkmarks that identify whether they exist in the active system Voices run horizon tally 9 6 1 Part Names Part Names in System Manager are directly linked to instrument Names in Instrument Templates When a Part Name is selected in the System Manager all playback parameters are
42. TWAIN compatible This is true for both Mac OS 8 9 and OS X As of this publication only a handful of OS X scanners have successfully imple mented TWAIN Tests performed at Musitek on many Mac OS X scanners indicate that currently only the newer lines of HP and Epson OS X scanners are fully TWAIN compat ible See Selecting a scanner below and Selecting the SmartScore Scanning Interface on page 33 for details 3 4 1 Scanner drivers for Mac Make sure you have installed the scanner drivers that came with your scanner Often it is necessary to select Custom Installation and then choose TWAIN and or Plug ins to install these specialized drivers 32 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition 3 4 2 Selecting a scanner a Go to File gt Scan Music gt Select Scanner If your scanner s icon is visible click it NOTE Ifyou have installed all available scanner driver software and you still do not see a scanner driver listed it will be necessary to scan outside of SmartScore In that case turn to Scanning Outside of SmartScore on page 42 If your scanner works disregard the Plug ins option below b Test scanner by pushing the Scan button in the Navigator or by choosing File gt Scan Music gt Acquire e Plug ins If your scanner does not include a TWAIN driver or if it does not respond properly try operating your scanner with a Plug in instead a To quickly test your scanner
43. a measure by its harmonic direction and possibly its timbre Contrapuntal voices reside in the same measure of the same staff Voices are often distinguished by stem direction and sometimes by offsetting the hori zontal position of notes For the purposes of SmartScore a voice written in its own staffline is referred to as a Part Score Part Scores that are printed in sets for each individual instru ment Players read from their own unique set of pages For example a duet for guitar and flute would be printed in two separate sets one for the flute player and one for the guitar Staves of part scores flow like a book where each staff line appends to the one above it Ensemble Scores that have multiple staff lines connected by a verti cal bar or bracket usually along the left hand edge of the music When joined in this way each staff line represents a different part or instrument All parts are played ensemble Piano music with left hand and right hand staves are joined into one system is regarded as ensemble SmartScore assigns each stave to separate MIDI tracks Landscape Some scores are wider than they are high These land scape layouts need to be rotated prior to processing USING SmartScore 251 Glossary Folio Large sized and conductor scores may need to be scaled down during scanning or reduced on a copy machine before scanning If the score must be reduced more than 50 in
44. a drum accompaniment or you can add customized patterns to the drum library yourself 7 2 1 Play back with automatic drum pattern To select an instant drum pattern for ENF playback a With any ENF file open click on the Drum Pattern button in the SmartScore toolbar 108 USING SmartScore Working with Drums b Sort any column by clicking on its name in the column header FIGURE 7 3 Automatic Drum Pattern Library c Click on a pattern that matches the time signature and style of your ENF file Enter a starting measure in the from measure no window Push the Insert button d To insert another drum pattern select it from the pattern library set a starting measure and press Insert Use the Insert Silents button to enter measures without drums rh o To change a start or ending measure highlight an inserted pattern and use the Begin or End scrollers to reset start or end measures Press OK to accept the selection a ga Press the spacebar to hear your file playback with a drum track 7 2 2 Adding custom drum patterns from ENF The drum pattern library is expandable You can add new patterns that you have either created yourself or imported from a MIDI file which contains a drum track on MIDI Channel 10 To add an ENF drum pattern to the automatic drum pattern library a Open an ENF file which contains a percussion part written with a percussion clef or b Open an ENF file in which you have cr
45. abiiy FIGURE 4 13 Setting Default Tempo e Change of tempo Creating a change of tempo is accomplished by inserting tempo mark ing or a metronome mark from the Tempo palette anywhere you wish the tempo to change See Tempo Markings Metronome Mark on page 156 You may also alter playback tempo continuously with the use of the ENF Tempo graphical controller See ENF Tempo Controller on page 69 68 USING SmartScore ENF Playback 4 5 3 Graphical controllers With the Velocity graphical controller you can vary note velocities of each note cluster quickly and smoothly With the Tempo controller you can draw in tempo variations smoothly over time Controllers can be accessed either in the ENF Text and Controllers toolbar or below the Piano Roll window in MIDI view TLE O a A FIGURE 4 14 ENF Text and Controllers Toolbar 4 5 4 ENF Velocity Controller sy In ENF score view push the V button to activate Velocity controller Click and drag your mouse up or down along the vertical bars which represent each note s velocity The higher the bar the more the veloc ity an i ie ak AK ertt ta FIGURE 4 15 ENF Velocity Controller 4 5 5 ENF Tempo Controller z Push the T button to active tempo controller The horizontal line in the topmost staff represents default tempo To vary tempo click and drag your mouse up or down The last tempo point will be fixed until changed
46. aff ep fo aE e FARA e TO aB eo EIRA ere e a eho a aa FIGURE 9 12 Playback Console The Playback Console controls tempo transposition muting soloing volume panning and MIDI Instrument assignments to parts when Options gt Color Mode Part or to voices when Options gt Color Mode Voice To open the Playback Console e Select the speaker button from the SmartScore Toolbar Or hold down Ctrl 9 Win Cmnd 9 Mac or select Console from Playback menu The first column Track lists the MIDI track assigned The second col umn Ch V lists the MIDI channel number within a colored box repre senting one of 4 possible voices black red green and blue When Options gt Color Mode Part only tracks will be displayed If Options gt Color Mode Voice is selected all tracks and all voices will be displayed TIP When Color Mode Voice each voiceline becomes assigned to a discrete MIDI channel That is why you may see many channels within one MIDI track To reduce the number of chan nels to equal the number of stafflines found in ENF change Options gt Color Mode to Part If changes are made to MIDI instrument assignments the System Manager will become updated Changes to other parameters will be stored as MIDI data for the ENF file The default MIDI instrument sets are General MIDI Instruments and General MIDI Drums 154 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing To reassign MIDI instrument sets a P
47. and Quick Tour d In Measure 18 Quick select Ctrl click the natural sign in the right hand piano part Move your cursor up to the flute part and click on the half note B to insert the natural e Right click Win Ctrl click Mac on any open tool palette Click on Articulations and select Trill tr Click on the quarter note at the end of Measure 19 to insert the trill Using the Properties Tools and Selecting Playback Range a Select the Properties Tool button from the SmartScore toolbar Click onto the trill you just inserted A properties window will open that allows you to change playback properties of the trill Move the Permutations slider to 8 and select Fixed Number of Durations NOTE The Properties Tool works for most articulation dynamic and tempo markings See Properties Tool on page 162 for more information on how to edit these object s properties b Go to Playback menu and select Select Play Range Change the beginning measure to 19 Select OK In the Mini console press the Rewind button then Play to hear the changes you just made Visualizing contrapuntal voices Voice color mode will display contrapuntal voices in different colors This allows you to view secondary voices both notes and rests in red and tertiary voices in green a In the SmartScore Toolbar push the Voice Visibility button b Notice in each staff how notes and rests appear as either black or red This
48. and properly cropped for each page previewed 3 5 Recognition Sequence Win Mac Choose Scan Next Page or Save As and Begin Recognition to initiate the recognition process Choose Open Pages in Image Editor to view scanned pages and to make alterations such as cropping deskew line drawing cutting and pasting etc Choose Cancel to stop Scan Pied ape Opes Pages i bmgge Eriks Seed well Bags Placer Can FIGURE 3 8 Scan Next Page Finish window NOTE If you select Open Pages in Image Editor turn to Image Editor on page 50 to learn about editing scanned images USING SmartScore 37 Scanning and Recognition To save your scanned image file and begin recognition sequence a Push the Save As and Begin Recognition button b Browse to a location for saving your SmartScore working files You may wish to add a unique directory at this time c Give the image file a name If you are using Windows the exten sion TIF will be added automatically d Push OK to begin the recognition process The image file you have just saved contains all pages you scanned The default filetype is Compressed TIFF CCITT Type 4 a multi page single file TIFF compression format This type of TIFF file is approxi mately 10 times smaller than an uncompressed TIFF image file NOTE If you are going to open the scanned image in Adobe Photo shop you may want to save in the larger uncompressed TIFF format
49. and select Unify Key and Time based on First System Hit OK Now you need only fill in the missing notes Remember to use Copy and Paste functions whenever possible USING SmartScore 119 Changing Score Structure 8 2 Page Setup Any or all the actions listed in this chapter will alter the layout of the ENF file Be mindful that synchronization with the original scanned pages will probably be lost after one or more of these actions are applied Therefore it is recommended you thoroughly edit the ENF file using the associated image views before altering score structure See View gt Associate Image Files on page 232 for information on reasso ciating ENF and scanned image views Controlling individual page layout can be done in Page Setup To change page layout of single pages parts or entire scores a Select File gt Page Setup Page Setup Margins Page Layout Tee ih inches Page Width 3 inches Page Height Sj inches Type of Page Left Right Legal 8 5x14in v 0 5 E 3 a Orientation inches inches Portrait h First System Indent Do not change v Scope Score x Bottom 0 0 inches Cancel FIGURE 8 1 Page Setup b To set page size to correspond to a particular page format choose the desired format from the Type of Page pull down menu c Click and drag with your mouse or use the numeric scrollers to change existing margins as required d To reorient
50. associ ated with the active system Larger systems may require scrolling down the list The program will not allow you to select more or less parts than actually appear in the active system c To view adjacent systems press Next or Prev System d In the Apply To box press Apply to apply to active system Sys tem will apply to the active system plus all subsequent systems NOTE Revise part names in System Manager or Instrument Tem plates 122 USING SmartScore Changing Score Structure Pave 2 of Orchestral Secs FIGURE 8 4 Re linking an orchestral score In this example the first page consists of one sys tem having 15 parts 15 staves per system With the cursor positioned over the system and Re link Parts opened 15 parts will be checked The second page contains 3 systems each with 6 staves Many parts that appeared on the first page have dropped out With the cursor positioned over one of the systems 15 Part Names will be listed but only 6 will be checked in the Re link Parts win dow In this case it was necessary to remove all check marks and then check the top six parts to reestablish proper part linking See Figure 7 2 on page 122a Notice that the re linked parts were applied to all subsequent systems System from the topmost active sys tem USING SmartScore 123 Changing Score Structure 8 4 Score Structure 8 4 1 Structure and hierarchy Score Structure Edit gt Scor
51. b In the New MIDI View window New Track is selected Press OK c A MIDI Record view will open Test drum sounds by hitting the center keys on the two front rows of your computer keyboard d When ready hit the Record button You will hear a metronome sound for one measure Playback and drum recording begins e Hit Stop when finished Close the MIDI window to return to ENF USING SmartScore 111 Working with Drums 7 3 2 Defining Virtual Drum Kit To change a MIDI drum and link to your computer keyboard a Select Options gt Virtual Drum Kit Definition rs ue Hep panikas Eu ae a pal ash FIGURE 7 5 Virtual Drum Kit Definition b Click on an instrument key in Instrument list c To reassign a MIDI drum instrument push Change Instrument and make another MIDI drum selection in the pull down menu d To reassign a keyboard key for that instrument push Change Key and press any keyboard key to be linked to that instrument e When finished press OK To add a MIDI drum and link it to your computer keyboard Push Add Press a key to become associated with the sound Select a new drum sound from the pull down menu When finished press OK a ao o 112 USING SmartScore Working with Drums USING SmartScore 113 Controlling Structure from the System Manager 115 Page Setup 120 Re link Parts 121 Mergin
52. by 125 e Trill With r trill selected click on a notehead to insert a single trill mark ing To create an extended trill toggle the C key to enter Change mode Click and drag horizontally to select a region The length of the extension is determined by how far you drag the mouse fr E Trill Insert mode Extended Trill Change mode FIGURE 11 2 Trill and Extended Trill e Sharp Flat and Natural With one of these modifiers selected clicking on a trill marking will cause playback of the trill to flatten sharpen or neutralize certain pitches within the context of the active key signature The modifier also appears above the trill marking when inserted e Mordent Click on notehead to apply a mordent Mordents play back as follows m 2 FIGURE 11 3 Mordent 212 USING SmartScore Reference Inverted Mordent Inverted mordent play back as follows FIGURE 11 4 Inverted Mordent e Tremolo single double triple quadruple Tremolos repeat the note affected by dividing the associated note by four times the selected tremolo value i S FIGURE 11 5 Tremolo Double e Arpeggio Arpeggiated chords will offset the start time of all members of a cluster and will keep them sustained throughout the duration of the chord 1 I r EE Be Written Played FIGURE 11 6 Arpeggio e Glissando Glissandos divide connecting notes into equal notes of 1 4 base val
53. click and drag the mouse to highlight the range of notes over which you wish to apply the dynamic change FIGURE 9 17 Inserting a crescendo marking c Dragging downward while selecting the range of notes will insert the marking above the staffline Dragging upward will insert the marking below the staffline NOTE Playback properties of articulations and dynamics may be changed using the Properties tool See Properties Tool on page 162 To delete a dynamic or tempo marking e Press the X key and click on the marking An alternative to using the X key is to use the Select tool O key highlight the mark and hit Delete 9 11 3 Articulations and Trills Articulations affect the playback of selected notes These include slurs turns fermatas mordents trills accents and tremolos For a complete description of each articulation s playback function turn to Articula tions Section 11 2 2 on page 211 To insert a legato slur a Push the Legato button in the Articulations palette F A i I a Jd b Drag to select range of notes to be associated with the legato Dragging downward places the legato above notes Dragging upward positions legato under the notes To insert turns fermatas accents and mordents Turns fermatas accents and mordents can be positioned near the top of a note head or near the tip of note stem a Select the articulation USING SmartScore 159
54. derived from Instrument Templates See Instrument Templates on page 147 for additional information To select a Part Name a Highlight a part by clicking on the black dot next to its name Choose a desired instrument in Part Name column Notice that MIDI instruments for each voice become updated b If you wish to add a new part name with a unique MIDI instru ment assignment select Add New Part from the top of the pull down list This will open Instrument Templates and allow you to add a new template name it and assign any MIDI instru ment to it 9 6 2 Assigning MIDI Instruments to Voices Voices inherit MIDI instrument assignments from Instrument Tem plates initially You can change MIDI instrument assignment for voices in Voice mode or parts Part mode in the System Manager or Play back Console TIP Assigning each voice a different MIDI instrument adds richer sound texture and helps in hearing inner voicings of the music Highly recommended for classes in composition NOTE Playback Console and System Manager are linked Changes made to MIDI instruments in one environment will update the other MIDI instrument assignments in Instrument Tem 144 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing plates are not changed automatically They can only be changed manually To change MIDI instruments for voices in System Manager e In System Manager click on any voice of any part and select a new MIDI instrume
55. down while holding the Shift button down and then clicking and dragging any lyric block Push L again Text and Controllers toolbar to exit Lyric Edit 6 2 1 Dashes spaces and underscores Dashes spaces and underscores are special characters used to separate lyric blocks Typing any of these characters will move the cursor to the next block The Backspace key deletes dashes spaces and underscores In the following example the block der was missed in recognition The cursor was positioned at the end of the previous block A dash was entered to create a new syllabic block and the correct text was then entered g Fm wonde Hf FIGURE 6 2 Editing Lyrics USING SmartScore 95 Editing Text and Symbols Dash Moves the cursor to next lyric block and inserts a dash Normally used to connect multiple syllables within a single word Space Moves the cursor to the next lyric block Normally used to separate words Does not insert a dash or an underline Underline Normally used as a melisma an underline indi cates that one vocal sound should be extended over two or more beats Inserting creates an underline up to the next block Enter ing multiple underlines will string them together over several lyric blocks Backspace Deletes characters inside a lyric block Also deletes hyphens when backspacing from one lyric block to the next Carriage Return Creates a new lyric line and positions cursor i
56. dura tion To change the velocity loudness Mote attack of selected note event s e Drag the top and bottom edges of a note adjust the note s veloc ity Changing note velocity Changing note pitch FIGURE 10 16 Editing MIDI note velocities and pitches To change the pitch or position of selected note event s e Click and drag the center of the note to change pitch vertical drag or note placement horizontal drag NOTE The arrow keys on your computer keyboard can also be used to adjust the pitch and start time of the selected note NOTE To realign MIDI events to the nearest starting point quantiza tion go to Options gt Snap to and select the base rhythmic value To delete selected note event s e Hit the Delete key to remove any highlighted notes 1 90 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing To change the velocity and or the duration of selected note s a Select the Velocity Duration option from the Edit menu The Velocity and Duration window will open Velocity and Duration x o Sa Oo p E J FIGURE 10 17 Velocity and Duration window b Use the sliders or type in numbers to increase or decrease the velocity or duration of the selected note s by a percentage Example You wish to double the duration of a group of selected notes In the Velocity Duration window move the Duration slider to 200 c Press OK 10 5 8 Note Event window Double clicking on
57. final repeat or ending Segnos are usually positioned early on in the piece after a repeat To mark a final repeat with Segno a Select Segno from the Barlines and Repeats palette b Insert the Segno by clicking the barline that begins the last repeated ending or section c To stop a final repeat or ending return to the Segno and continue on to the Coda select d s al Coda meaning from the sign to the Coda To have a final repeat or ending return to the beginning of the piece and terminate at the Segno sign e Select d c al Segno meaning from the beginning up to the sign and insert it by clicking on the barline in the last ending or repeat where playback is to return The repeated section will USING SmartScore 167 Detailed ENF Editing return to the beginning of the score and play through to the Segno NOTE To Coda Segno d s al Coda D S D C and d s al Fine signs are all ignored until an ending or repeat is played once 9 14 5 Working with the da Capo D C dal Segno D S and Fine signs D C da capo means from the beginning or return to the begin ning To have playback return to the beginning of the piece and play through to the end e Select the D C button from the Barlines and Repeats palette D S dal Segno means from the sign or return to the sign To have a final repeat or ending return to the Segno and play through to the end a Select the
58. folder PIANO ab c This will return you to the Begin Recognition window Turn off Triplets Endings and Text Recognition Press Begin Recogni tion SmartScore will begin to recognize the sample file When Recognition is complete the name FANDANGO will appear in the Save As filename window with SmartScore s own filetype listed as ENF Extended Notation Format The ENF extension will automatically be added to all filenames after recognition Click on Save 2 2 1 System Report This window will indicate to you how many systems were recognized as well as the number of parts found in the largest and smallest systems See Post Recognition on page 41 for more details Press OK after studying the report 2 2 2 Unify Key and Time The Unify function unifies all key and time signatures based on choices listed in the dialog box See See Unify Key Time and Clefs U on page 169 for more details Hit OK 1 0 USING SmartScore Installation and Quick Tour 2 3 Editing an ENF File 2 3 1 Macintosh Windows shortcut conventions Most SmartScore keyboard shortcuts are identical on both Windows and Mac machines These include Ctrl Click or Ctrl key Click Occasionally however an entirely different command is required specifically the familiar Windows Right Mouse Click Since most Macs do not have a right mouse button the Windows right click function is performed on the Mac version of SmartScore with
59. gt Save Ctrl S Cmnd S to update the current ENF file 218 USING SmartScore Reference 11 3 6 File gt Scan Music e Acquire Initiates scanning Same as Scan in Navigator e Select Scanner Opens list of available TWAIN drivers to select e Choose Interface Windows only gt SmartScore s selects the SmartScore scanning interface Refer to Scanning in Windows on page 25 for details gt Your Scanner s selects the image scanning software included with your scanner 11 3 7 File gt Import SmartScore imports standard NIFF files Notation Interchange File Format which conform to the NIFF 6b Specification NIFF is an open standard for the exchange of music notation files between music nota tion programs The NIFF standard supports both graphical and time based data Unlike MIDI files which are only time based NIFF attempts to logically integrate both page layout and playback informa tion USING SmartScore 219 Reference 11 3 8 File gt Page Setup Page Setup allows for several adjustments of how your music will appear on screen and on the printed page Since SmartScore is WYSI WYG What you see is what you get your pages will print just as they appear on screen albeit sharper provided you have a high resolution printer Page Setup Margins Page Layout ee 1 inches Page Width 3 6 3 inches Page Height 3 inches Type of Page Left Right Legal 8 5 x 14 in X 0 5
60. move a selected group of notes upwards or downwards in pitch a Use the Select tool O to select an entire region for cleanup Edit gt Select All Ctrl A will select everything on the current page b Hit the G key Only articulations will be deleted All other notation objects remain unaffected 9 3 3 Dots D Hit the D key This toggles between Insert a dot and Delete a dot modes Notice how the cursor alternates between a solid insert dot and grayed out delete dot Any note or rest may be selected with dots of prolongation assigned to it Select a note or rest from the appropriate palette then click on the single or double dot button inside the palette In Insert mode the new note rest will have a dot In Change mode a clicked note rest will acquire a dot 134 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing 9 3 4 Ties V Hit the V key This toggles you between the solid Insert tie and grayed out Delete tie modes To tie two contiguous notes of the same pitch click on the first note The V tie tool will also insert multiple ties from one chord cluster to the next as long as note pitches match NOTE To over ride default arc direction insert ties with a right click option click for Mac Inserted ties will have reversed arc directions To insert only one tie at a time select the single tie button from the Notes palette 9 3 5 Beam direction A With any single flagged note chose
61. notes To create beam groups first select a flagged note value and the right beam option from the Notes palette Toggle the C key to enter Insert mode Multiple clicks inside a staff will form beamed groups of two notes Deleting an end beam note will cause adjacent beamed groups to connect To join multiple 2 beam groups into larger groups use the Select tool O key and then hit the B key All selected beam groups will reform e Inserting an inside beamed note To insert an inside beamed note be sure you are in the Insert mode Select the proper note value from the Notes palette and then push the Middle Beam button Position the cursor inside a beam and click e Forming flagged notes into beamed notes To transform a group of flagged notes into a beamed group use the Select tool O key to highlight any group of flagged notes adjacent to each other Hit the B key to join the notes into a beamed group e Forming a beamed group from mixed flagged and beamed notes Any number of flagged or beamed notes may be reformed into a new multiple group by first selecting a group of adjacent flagged or beamed notes using the Select tool Then hitting the B key e Quick beam Using any Beam tool you can quickly insert and edit a series of beamed groups e With any beam tool selected clicking from left to right will cre ate 2 note beamed sets e With middle or r
62. of the triplet in Measure 3 to change its value Repeat with the last note of each triplet To edit chord clusters A note is missing from the chord in the treble clef of Measure 9 a Press the Z key to activate the Cluster Tool The Cluster Tool is used to build chords or remove single noteheads from a chord b To insert the new note click where the D belongs below the F NOTE To delete one notehead from any chord first hit Z the clus R j ter tool then X the delete mode Clicking on any note head will remove it without deleting the entire note cluster Mlle USING SmartScore 1 3 Installation and Quick Tour Select tool Copy and Paste Quick Delete c Hit the O key to activate the Select tool Drag to highlight the beamed grace notes you entered in Measure 1 earlier When only the two notes are highlighted hold down Ctrl C to copy Edit gt Copy is the same d Now hold down Ctrl V Edit gt Paste Position the mouse pointer to left of the first note in Measure 23 and click to insert the copied grace notes Holding the Shift button down move the first grace note from D to E e Quick Select Ctrl Click the flagged eighth note from the last note in Measure 22 Push the Grace Note button in the Notes palette and click to insert the grace note in Measure 24 f Go to Measure 23 Quick Select the sharp to the left of the C notehead and then click on the grace note i
63. or Move Down buttons They may be removed from the list separately or all together with Remove or Remove All buttons d Insert an unused writable CD CD R into your CD tray Burn Method Auto Change to another method if you have trouble e Push Burn Last Track and Finalize CD to record and finalize your ENF files to CD All selected files will record on a single CD track To record individual tracks use Burn New Track as described below NOTE Finalizing a CD is necessary before a can be played back Once Finalize is applied you will not be able to record any thing more to the CD f If you wish to continue burning new selections without finalizing the CD push Burn new track Each set of converted files in the Files to Burn list will record to one track Select Burn Last Track and Finalize CD to record last track and finalize the CD 11 4 ENF EDIT Menu 11 4 1 Undo Ctrl Z Cmnd Z Reverses the last action you performed SmartScore has ninety nine layers of Undo 11 4 2 Redo Ctrl Y Cmnd Y Reapplies the last action that has most recently been Undone 11 4 3 Edit gt Cut Ctrl X Cmnd X To Cut selected objects from the score and place them on the clipboard a Hit O key or choose the Select tool from the Toolbar b Click and drag a box with the cursor c Press Ctrl X Cmnd X or select Edit gt Cut from the menu USING SmartScore 223 Ref
64. order to fit the imaging area of your scanner you may consider scanning each full sized page twice and treat each scan as one image page 12 2 Score Components System A grouping of multiple staves linked together by a solid line or bracket along the left margin is called a system All staves belong ing to a system are played simultaneously In ensemble scores each system appends to the one before it A single page of a symphony con ductor s score containing 10 or 20 staff lines per system may represent only a few seconds of music Staff Stave The field on which notes are represented is called a staff Staves is normally used as the plural At the core of every staff are five horizontal lines Each successive line and space are equivalent to a full step in note pitch The higher the note appears on the stave the higher its pitch Every staff line anomaly begins with a clef sign and a key signature Voiceline An individual melodic line formed by a voice within one measure When a staff contains more than one voiceline in any given measure note stems of each voiceline usually point in the opposite directions The sum of all note and rest values of each voiceline in any given measure should be accounted for but sometimes are not Refer to Working with Voices and Colors on page 149 for more on dealing with this rule in SmartScore Clef The clef sign at the beginning of each stave identifies which pitc
65. p i ing the Quantization value e g to 1 8th notes e Divide By Beats When ON resulting ENF file will interpret measure lengths by number of beats and insert change of time signatures if beats of each measure do not correspond to the default time signature Turn OFF to lock default time signature Smooth Voices When ON contrapuntal voices will be inter preted as continuous lines whenever practical When OFF con trapuntal voice will be interpreted loosely 9 17 Troubleshooting ENF Problems Table 6 Troubleshooting ENF Problems Problem Probable Cause Fix Notes and symbols Font association lost Reinstall Chopin04 font appear as large letters Font is located in the main SmartScore direc tory MMS YSTEMO008 MIDI Out port is not Close any other MIDI Device is in use available to SmartScore applications other than due to another open SmartScore MIDI application 172 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing Table 6 Troubleshooting ENF Problems Problem Probable Cause Fix Can t delete an object Display pixel trapping may not coincide with tip of cursor Use Select tool O key to click on or drag around an object Hit Delete How do I create a new ENF page SmartScore creates new pages by rolling over added systems Position cursor inside the last system of a page Go to EDIT gt SYSTEMS gt ADD BELOW A new page will be c
66. positions This will transpose only key signatures leaving notes unchanged good for mental games but not much more e Change Pitch This transposes notes without changing the key signature Select the number of half steps to move selected notes harmonic pitch shift Pitches are moved by a uniform interval while considering the key sig nature Change Pitch can be used in conjunction with Transpose Limits TIP To shift the pitch of a small range of notes it is easier to use the a Select tool O Click drag to highlight the range of notes Then while holding the Shift key down drag the selected notes up or down 9 5 2 Limit Transposition You may limit transposition to a part or voice or to a selected range within the ENF score To limit transposition by part voice or range a Click on the Limit tab at the top of the Transposition window Frapar Tae Lint Pet oie Fane Ba Pets F Dom Bie Fraa Paya Sd S T FIGURE 9 7 Limit Transposition 142 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing b Choose All Parts or select individual parts by name to trans pose If you select a single part you may also limit the scope of transposition to a single voiceline In the Part Voice box select the voice to transpose c To limit transposition by range choose Selected Area range must already be highlighted by the Select tool or by Measure number d Click OK to transpose with selected limits applied m M 9 6
67. recognition results Missing barlines due to light obscuring right margin or to right margin having been cut off dur ing scanning Open image file in Image Editor Use Select Tool to delete obscured regions and the Line Draw tool to restore right hand bar lines Image too small for selected resolution Scan again accepting Auto resolution settings for best results Handwritten or non stan dard notation Poor print Scan well printed stan dard sized sheet music Poorly printed music Increase Darkness level Find better original Image not straight skewed Open file in Image Editor File gt Open gt Image Use Deskew tool to straighten each page USING SmartScore 49 al falio Scanning and Recognition Table 3 Troubleshooting Guide Problem Probable Cause Fix Poor recognition results Image was dithered by See Dithered Images on contd scanner software page 28 for information 3 10 Image Editor e Begin Recognition or Open in Image Editor Following the final scan of music pages you may choose to Begin Recognition or Open Image Editor This choice will stop the Recog nition process and open the scanned images in the Image Editor NOTE The image will not be saved until File gt Save As is selected e Load an image file To open an image file you have previously scanned a Press the Open button on the Navigat
68. represents the two voices in each staff line c To see how multiple voice colors are represented in MIDI reopen the Playback Console Ctrl 9 Cmnd 9 1 6 USING SmartScore Installation and Quick Tour Notice that Track 2 PianoR in System Manager has two voices Black Voice 1 Red Voice 2 FIGURE 2 5 Playback Console with Options gt Color Mode gt Voice selected 2 3 6 Changing Instrument sounds in Playback Console The left and right hand piano parts have been automatically recognized as piano and assigned the General MIDI patch of Grand Piano By default the solo part was automatically assigned the Flute patch Let s say you want to hear the solo part as a clarinet sound instead a Push the speaker button to open the Playback Console or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl 9 Cmnd 9 FIGURE 2 6 Changing instruments in Playback Console b In Track 1 click on Flute in the Instrument column and scroll up 2 instruments and select Clarinet Push the spacebar or Play but ton to hear the solo part played as clarinet Move volume slider left or right to increase or decrease volume on one or more parts Reset Track 1 to Flute or some other instrument Close Playback Console USING SmartScore 17 Installation and Quick Tour 2 4 Working with the System Manager ONG M The System Manager is a very powerful editing tool It controls part OOK and voice visibility part name and template assignme
69. score To change default pitch to MIDI drum mapping a Select Playback gt Drum Set x Peng eee Fig cars oe n ee eee hed od FIGURE 7 1 Linking stafflines to MIDI drums in Drumset map b Using the mouse drag links from staff and ledger lines and spaces in the window and reconnect to list of General MIDI USING SmartScore 107 Working with Drums drums on left hand and right hand sides of window Press OK to finalize changes 7 1 2 Creating a drum pattern in ENF a From the Navigator palette select Score In the System Type in Score pull down menu select Solo Part Click OK b Right click Ctrl click for Mac on any open palette and select Clefs Click on the rectangular percussion clef c Toggle the C key to get to the Change mode and click on the treble clef in the first staff line All clefs should then update d Select eighth note from Notes palette and using beam direction tools create the following pattern Hit Spacebar to play back d 120 FIGURE 7 2 Creating a drum pattern NOTE Simultaneous drum sounds must be contained in the same voice Therefore you will need to use the Cluster tool to add additional drum note heads to an existing note stem Hold ing down Shift and dragging a notehead up or down will allow you to hear each drum sound associated with each space and line 7 2 Automatic Drum Patterns It s more fun if it s got a beat Simply select
70. score parts just reversed NOTE All SmartScore files ENF documents must contain at least one Score Part linked to at least one Part a Open an ENF file with 2 or more staves per system b Select Edit gt Score Structure Here is a typical ensemble score ENF Document which will contain one Score Part with several Parts linked Ensemble score having 4 parts to it n Three new Score Parts Epi Documents Som fma Patz TEETE el Insert To name Right ef et click option click for mo Mac in Properties Drag each Part child to Inserting New Score Parts new Score Parts par ent to reconfigure each SE open ENF document Push Apply to New to spawn off a new docu ment with included Naming and re inking data This will create a Parts to New Score Parts file with 4 Score Parts arranged in order Play back remains synchro nized and the original ENF document remains unchanged ETE FIGURE 8 8 Creating Score Parts from Ensemble scores 126 USING SmartScore Changing Score Structure The following table describes how various structures appear in ENF and MIDI views Understand these relationships and you will under stand how the logical structures are linked in SmartScore Table 4 Relationship between structures in ENF and MIDI views Score Document Score Part Part Voice ENF View Defined by Super Defined by Defined by P
71. scores from scratch By selecting one of 15 templates you can create musical scores from scratch Drop in one key and time signature press a button and the entire score is updated Need more space between staves Change one setting and apply to the current system subsequent systems page part or entire score For easy score editing refer to the Quick Key card 1 1 5 Sequence and record View and edit the MIDI data of your scanned music in the familiar Overview Piano Roll and Event List format Record your MIDI perfor mance either as an accompaniment to your scanned music or in layered tracks and transform it into musical notation Record drum tracks from your computer keyboard while listening to the playback using Virtual Drums 1 2 So what do you want to do e Scan and play back sheet music Scan gt Recognize gt Playback gt Karaoke e Transpose Edit gt Transpose gt Print e Create score from scratch Choose Template gt Assign Instruments 2 USING SmartScore Introduction to SmartScore e Create score from MIDI keyboard Choose real time or step time e Create score from imported MIDI or NIFF files Choose Import MIDI or NIFF e How would you like to output your score Print ENF Export to MIDI Export to Finale Export to Sibelius Export to PDF Export to NIFF Record to CD 1 3 What s new with Version 3 1 3 1 Even greater recognition accuracy and realism State of the art recognition met
72. select for playback 63 instruments selecting for playback 17 Invert Image 26 37 260 USING SmartScore INDEX J Join Voices 65 K Key Signature 253 key signature change 215 at end of line 216 unifying 169 key transposition 87 139 L Landscape 251 Lock to Time Signature 58 67 Lyrics 94 aligning 235 recognizing 39 when found under last staff 39 M Mac OS X MIDI Setup 59 Macintosh Windows shortcut conventions 11 map Quick Keys 174 Measure 253 Measure Numbers 234 melisma 235 merging ENF files 125 systems 121 metronome markings 156 MIDI closing MIDI views 180 Cut Copy and Paste 192 display controls 201 Event List 197 event selection 189 Graphical Controllers 185 importing files 170 inserting note events 198 Instrument settings 187 measure settings 193 metronome 202 note characteristics 190 Note Event 191 patch 186 255 playback 182 playback range 184 Program Change 186 recording 202 new tracks 204 Refresh 177 repeats and endings 195 select by time frame 189 shuttle tool 186 snap to 204 242 Step Time Recording 206 switching tracks 186 Track Overview 180 velocity and duration 191 Zoom 181 MIDI Devices 58 183 MIDI Event 255 MIDI Files burn to CD 222 opening from ENF document 179 233 MIDI instruments assigning 144 MIDI Menu Items 239 MIDI Refresh 61 178 MIDI to ENF 170 miniatures scanning 29 35 Mini Console 57 modes color 149 USING SmartScore 261 INDEX insert and chang
73. the recognizer attempts to identify italicized f and p marks dynamic mark ings If so these characters are classified as dynamics and their values are applied to MIDI playback See Dynamics on page 71 for infor mation about dynamics Push the T or L button to enter and exit Text or Lyric modes While in either mode it is not possible to do other sorts of edits TL ao Ma Ese E 4 FIGURE 6 1 Text and Lyric icons 6 1 Text Characters outside of stafflines are treated as dumb text blocks They are differentiated from lyrics by color Text is black Lyrics are blue NOTE Score headers are not considered text See Edit gt Score Header on page 227 for creating and editing the header line To edit a text field a Push the T button in the Text and Controllers toolbar Toggle the C and select Edit mode vertical cursor Click anywhere inside an existing ENF text block to edit text b The cursor will flash within the highlighted field Use the Left Arrow or Right Arrow buttons on your keyboard to navigate within a text field c Drag to highlight one or more characters within the field to replace with newly typed characters or to delete Delete key Highlighted characters can also be cut copied or pasted else where using standard Ctrl X C and V shortcuts Cmnd X C and V for Mac USING SmartScore 93 Editing Text and Symbols To m
74. the MIDI Thru sound If no Piano Roll is open MIDI Channel 1 is used 10 9 2 Metronome The Metronome is on by default The metronome is useful in keeping time while recording and as a count in tool to mark the beginning of the recording session Sometimes you may want to record freely that is you simply want to capture a performance in MIDI without worrying about timing or about trying to convert the performance into notation For this purpose you will want to turn the metronome off To make the metronome inac 202 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing tive during recording uncheck Metronome from the Realtime menu OR choose the Metronome Settings listed under the Options menu and uncheck Metronome On To make changes to SmartScore s metronome e Choose Metronome Settings from the Options menu The Met ronome Settings window will open i Ta oe TT ace HE Wiin FF ian I pall bid Pri BD Desa Laat rea fo Ej fii g poo Powe Dam Fia ou fh Eran Ha E f Ti re TILL e g FIGURE 10 25 Metronome Settings NOTE The Metronome On check box must be selected for the met ronome to sound during recording To record without a met ronome uncheck the Metronome On box With Synchro On SmartScore will synchronize the start of recording with the first played MIDI event Select which MIDI Port the metronome will play through Choose the metronome s MIDI Channel NOTE The de facto drum c
75. the Playback Console See Tempo on page 68 for more details To insert a tempo marking or change of tempo metronome mark a Select a preset tempo marking in the Tempo palette or select a custom tempo by pushing the Metronome Mark button at the bottom of the palette 1 5 6 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing b If using a metronome mark select a new tempo and baseline note value Preset tempo markings ranges from 30 bpm Lento to 240 bpm Prestissimo am m m w m i mes fr aLa a O Dave iene Jats Tal PP fo e jasraisisnfariisasiinbinisinti FIGURE 9 14 Tempo Change Metronome Mark window c In Insert mode click anywhere above the topmost staff of a sys tem to insert mark Tempo will adjust accordingly at that point To edit a metronome or change of tempo mark in the score h a Select the Properties tool from the SmartScore toolbar b Click on a mark in the score to edit its properties lespe Marking P rapier lisi E Agita tengo cating in al jerga eget iha pa Aby hiii terapi i fice a baa File Rasa Deisi Lik a FIGURE 9 15 Tempo Marking Properties window sanassa aag fi f c Using the horizontal slider select a new tempo for the mark Choose whether to apply the change to just the single mark all similar marks or permanently apply the change for that mark 9 11 2 Dynamics Hairpins Crescendos and Decrescendos To Insert a Dyn
76. the page select Landscape or Portrait in Orienta tion e To change the indent of the first system on the first page select 0 1 2 or 3 from the First System Indent pull down menu 1 20 USING SmartScore Changing Score Structure f In the Scope pull down menu select the range of pages you wish to apply the change to The entire Score Score Part or only to the current Page g Push OK to apply the changes 8 3 Re link Parts 8 3 1 Merging Systems For parts to be joined into a system and play simultaneously an adjoining bracket along the left hand margin must be visible Usually brackets are cut off by mistake during scanning If this occurs and one or more parts become separated becoming single line systems them selves it is possible to rejoin them forming a new larger system To merge two systems into one larger system a Position your cursor over the first broken system staff line Hit Ctrl L Cmnd L Mac to open the Re link Parts window Hina id cette pail i asii iis d FIGURE 8 2 Merging Systems b The active system highlights in grey Using the checkboxes reas sign each highlighted staff to its correct part name and position in what will become the final reformed system Apply to System c Press the Next System button and reassign each highlighted staff line to its correct part name as you did above Return to the first staff of the final reformed system by selecti
77. to see in the con verted ENF file NOTE Itis unusual to have more than 2 voices in most music Density e Measures per System determines the number of evenly spaced measures per system Automatic is recommended e Systems per Page determines the number of evenly spaced sys tems per page Automatic is recommended Quantization SmartScore can quantize the MIDI file that will be converted Each note event will snap to the nearest beat boundary eliminating fluctua tions in the timing of a MIDI performance Be forewarned however that MIDI files created with free tempo rubato will probably have many irregular note divisions and odd looking timing as SmartScore attempts to compartmentalize notes off the beat e Check None to prevent the application of quantization USING SmartScore 171 Detailed ENF Editing e Use Note On Note Off to determine the smallest rhythmic val ues used to when spelling note start times Note On and end times Note Off in the ENF document Use Note On Note Duration to determine the smallest rhythmic values used to when spelling note start times Note On and the minimum length of each note Note Duration in the ENF docu ment e Shorten each note to the last Note Duration value e Lengthen each note to the next Note Duration value e Justify each note to the nearest Note Duration value e If the resulting ENF file has many stand alone flagged notes try reduc
78. unifying 169 signatures 215 Slur 211 slur editing 85 159 playback 211 SmartScore scanning interface 26 soft accent playback 212 solo violin tutorial 22 spacing line staff and system 119 split measures 67 Split screen Viewing 129 staccato editing 160 playback 211 staff active 230 adding a part 118 when not recognized 119 Staff Stave 252 stem direction changing 85 135 selected note 15 Step Time Recording 206 Super System 117 apply changes to 146 System 252 system active 117 apply changes to 146 collapsing and expanding 225 fix distances and number 225 indent first 120 insert above below remove 225 226 merging 121 relink parts in 122 System Manager 5 18 143 256 Active vs Super 117 Controlling system 147 part extraction 115 Part Names 144 Super System 117 Visibility 145 visibility 115 voice extraction 116 System Report 41 System apply changes to 146 T tempo change mark metronome 156 change properties 157 properties 164 set default 227 setting default 68 Tempo Controller ENF 69 MIDI 185 Tempo slider 194 264 USING SmartScore tenuto editing 160 playback 212 Text deleting 94 editing 93 moving 94 This 230 Ties 86 254 ties 15 tiling views 139 185 Time Signature 253 time signature change 215 at end of line 216 unifying 169 Tool palettes 211 changing 12 palette modes 81 131 resetting 80 Toolbars 229 open at startup 230 transposed instruments 73 148 Transposition 87
79. when they are assigned to different instrument sounds 2 7 2 Open MIDI View In the Navigator push the MIDI button This will open the MIDI environment for the guitar score With view Type of Overview selected push OK Overview dis plays all ENF staff lines represented as MIDI tracks Push MIDI button in the Navigator again This time the option of opening Piano Roll appears Push OK The score is now dis played in a piano roll configuration where note lengths appear as long bars Notice that contrapuntal voices maintain their color 2 7 3 Viewing all open windows using Tile Click on the Tile Windows button in the Main Toolbar to view all windows that are open in SmartScore Using your mouse click and drag on the margins of each window to resize them as you wish Clicking into any window activates it You may zoom edit and scroll as you would if it were the only open window Viewing both the ENF and MIDI windows simultaneously allows you to visualize both sides of the SmartScore equation The graphical environment and the time based environment Whenever you have a playback problem that doesn t appear to be resolved in ENF view open MIDI piano roll view tile the views and compare data Often you will visualize the problem in MIDI e g Incorrect note or rest values may cause MIDI to create more beats than what is written in the ENF view USING SmartScore 23 Scanning Music
80. will add the contents of the clipboard to the selected area without erasing the existing notes e Replace existing events will replace the existing music with the contents of the clipboard 1 92 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing e Move to make room will push the existing music backward and then insert the contents of the clipboard e Use Repetitions to determine the number of times the contents of the clipboard will be inserted e Start from time designates where the inserted music will begin by choosing the measure beat and tick e Select Start from track to paste to a selected track number e All to track will insert the contents of the clipboard no matter how many tracks were originally selected into one track py Z P Using Tile you can view ENF and MIDI View windows simul p 4 taneously Changes made in ENF automatically update the MIDI view This is useful if timing problems are encountered while editing ENF notation E FIGURE 10 20 ENF MIDI Tile View with floating Zoom window 10 5 10 Measure Settings The Measure Settings window allows for inserting changes of tempo time signature and key signature at the start of any given measure USING SmartScore 193 MIDI Editing and Sequencing To open the Measure Settings window in Overview or Piano Roll view e Double click on the measure number where you wish to insert a change in key time or tempo Hrann Senmi E w a ae Tret i ft
81. with your mouse The cropping rectangle should not intersect or interfere with any part of the music There is no need to extend the length of the rectangle beyond your area of interest SmartScore will automatically center each page of music to the selected default page size After the preview scan is completed on each page check that the image in the preview window is straight and prop erly cropped e Auto Deskew After an image is previewed toggle this button on and off and choose the setting that gives you the straightest possible image If you are unable to make the image appear straight in the Preview window auto deskew failed Reposition your music in the scanner and preview again e Override Grey SmartScore s scanning interface uses standard TWAIN commands to control scanner settings such as resolution and color selection Some scanners use image intelligence that automatically select scanner set tings Many of these scanners think printed music is a photograph and create a grey image which is then dithered to black and white If recognition fails or results are extremely poor zoom If the image appears as small speckles salt and pepper rather than solid black then the image has been dithered In this case re scan with the Override Grey option checked in the SmartScore interface 28 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition i ematia jerene inane Ai a Ne wt age frag T eet e FIGURE 3 5 Im
82. 1 Nudging notes and rests in Edit Shapes To nudge text note and rest objects horizontally in Edit Shapes a Place your cursor over any notehead rest or text field b Click and drag until the object is positioned where you want it Notice that text fields can move in any direction NOTE Horizontal reformatting of an entire score is not currently possible Objects fixed inside a staff must remain in that staff To move groups of objects horizontally a Push the Edit Shapes button in the Text and Controllers toolbar to exit Edit Shapes mode Use the Select Tool to highlight a range of objects including notes rests guitar fret and chord sym bols b Push Edit Shapes button again and using your mouse drag high lighted objects left or right NOTE Beam angles and stem length may become normalized return to default angle and length when selected and moved NOTE Objects are constrained to the measure in which they reside 6 4 2 Repositioning lyrics in Edit Shapes Occasionally lyrics are jammed together either because the default font is too large or the original music was not well punctuated 98 USING SmartScore coc om o JEGA ido GUITAR Editing Text and Symbols a In Edit Shapes click and drag on the notehead associated with the lyric block that in a crowded area Move the note left or right to reposition Notice that the lyric block will move with the note when moved horizontally FIGURE 6
83. 139 tremelo 160 playback 213 trill editing 160 extended 160 playback 212 Up or Down 238 trills and mordents 159 triplets 39 85 change bracket type 235 implied 39 nested 86 True Scrolling 231 Tuplet 254 INDEX user defined 86 turn editing 159 playback 211 U Undo 13 80 Unify key time and clefs 169 V Velocity 255 Velocity Controller ENF 69 MIDI 185 vertical alignment 64 correcting 65 verifying 65 99 vertical event 40 97 View gt Color gt By Voice 63 views tiling 139 violin solo 22 Visibility 115 Parts 115 Voices 116 Voice 251 voice color 16 63 override automatic 82 switching 149 Voiceline 62 252 voiceline color 150 threading 20 256 visibility 145 visiting another staff 152 230 voices assigning instruments to 63 144 187 color modes 149 USING SmartScore 265 INDEX extracting 116 145 in Score Structure 127 offset 40 64 swap position 66 polyphonic 20 splitting 151 using hidden rests 155 vertically aligning 65 W What s new 3 window synchronization 120 Z Zoom ENF 77 MIDI 181 Piano Roll 181 Window view 129 266 USING SmartScore
84. 50 for more details USING SmartScore 41 Scanning and Recognition The last window to open is to Unify key and time signatures Selecting Yes will unify all key and time signatures based on what was recog nized in the topmost part of the first system The default is No Select No if the piece is an orchestral score with transposed instruments See Unify Key Time and Clefs U on page a for details tity after pecognition Dove sst ip liv Vie ai hep andl ines hirea tapes on the krei fal lew of pach opie Yen C He T De cheer hi m san oF Cance FIGURE 3 11 Unify Key and Time After Recognition NOTE Both System Report and Unify Key and Time can be per manently disabled by selecting Don t show this window again e Refer to page 57 for information on ENF playback or to page 80 for information on editing of the ENF file When recognition is complete the screen will split between an image pane and the ENF pane which displays a representation of what was recognized As you scroll down and page the image and ENF panes remain synchronized An alternative to the split screen view is the Zoom Window view See Split screen and Zoom Window Viewing on page 129 3 6 Scanning Outside of SmartScore An alternative to operating your scanner from inside SmartScore using TWAIN or a Mac plug in is to scan in another application You can use your scanner s software or a third party imag
85. 60 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing b Click on the head of the note to apply the tremolo value To insert an arpeggio a Select the arpeggio button squiggly line from the palette b Click and drag the mouse to select a chord cluster can include more than one voice c Dragging the mouse in an upward direction will cause the notes to arpeggiate in an upward scale d Dragging the mouse in the downward direction will cause the notes to arpeggiate in a downward scale A down arrow is added To insert a glissando a Select the glissando button two notes with line from the palette b Clicking on any single non chord cluster note will insert a glis sando to the following note belonging to the same voice During play back the glissando will be heard To delete any articulation e Select the specific articulation to delete from the Articulations palette Press the X key and click on the object itself or on the note associated with the articulation NOTE To delete any articulation that is not note specific use the Select tool O key to highlight it and hit the Delete key 9 11 4 Inserting or Deleting Multiple Articulations Any articulation can be applied to multiple notes at one time To assign an articulation to many notes at once a Use the Select tool O key then drag to select a range of notes b Select the articulation to be applied to all highlighted notes and insert it to any
86. 81 Grace Notes 81 Select tool O key 81 Voice color 82 Error Check 83 Pitch shift 83 Editing beamed notes 84 Stem direction 85 Dots of Prolongation 85 Tuplets and Slurs Legatos 85 Ties 86 Barlines 87 Edit Shapes 87 Key and Clef Transposition 87 Creating a New ENF Score from Scratch 88 Saving and Exporting an ENF File 90 Saving ENF files as MIDI or other file types 91 Chapter 6 Editing Text and Symbols 93 Text 93 Lyrics 94 Text and Lyrics Changing Styles and Entering 96 Edit Shapes 97 Guitar Frets and Chord Symbols 99 Creating and changing chord symbols in the GCL 101 Bracketing 103 Chapter 7 Working with Drums 107 Percussion clef Clefs Palette 107 Automatic Drum Patterns 108 Virtual Drum Kit 111 3 USING SmartScore Table of Contents C
87. 84 Velocity and Tempo Graphical Controllers 185 Switching between tracks 186 Sh ttle TOG Som Sey eee eee eee ee et kee E 186 Inserting program changes Assign MIDI instrument 186 MIDI Instrument settings 187 MIDI event selection 189 Changing MIDI event characteristics 190 Note Event window 191 Cut Copy and Paste 192 Measure Settings 193 Setting Repeats and Multiple Endings 195 Segnos a eee 195 5 USING SmartScore Table of Contents Event List S225 26 S 2 SoS SSO S eS S oe Peet S 197 Changing parameters of selected notes 198 Inserting note events 198 Editing Key Time and Tempo 199 Inserting Non Note Events 199 Playback Console 200 Display Controls 201 MIDI Recording 202 Step Time Recording 206 Virtual Drum it ee Se See oe es 207 Playback Considerations after MIDI Editing 208 MIDI tO ENF 2 5502 2 a acs e Se ele cont ee Steep ere Se 208 Saving MIDI Files 208 Chapter 11 Reference 211 Properties Tool 211 Tool Pale
88. 9 22 Trill Properties e Fixed duration Preset permutations based on SmartScore 2 0 e Variable duration Move the slider to the a number which well represent the fraction of the note value to be trilled 1 to 1 32 e Fixed number of divisions Move the slider to increase or decrease the number of permutations The more permutations are generated the shorter the duration of the trills 1 to 32 permuta tions 164 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing 9 12 7 Tempo Metronome and Rhythmic Group Properties e When either a Tempo or Rhythmic group marking is clicked with the Properties Tool their basic edit windows will open 9 13 Fermata Accent Staccato and Tenuto Properties These articulations are associated with a single note itself To open the properties control window for each these marks click on the note to which the mark is associated As with all other properties changed val ues may be applied to one or all similar markings in the ENF file and can be stored permanently for future ENF files 9 13 1 Fermata Properties Slider e Increases or decreases the tempo for the duration of the note 9 13 2 Accent Properties Slider e Increases or decreases the velocity of the note 9 13 3 Staccato Properties Slider e Shortens the duration of the note 9 13 4 Tenuto Properties Slider e Lengthens the duration of the note 9 14 Repeats and Multiple Endings Many of these markings are recognized automatically
89. A MPU MIDI OUT OPL3 SA Soft Wave Table Ml Roland Serial MIDI Out Port A FIGURE 10 7 Options gt MIDI Devices b Click on the MIDI Input device interface you will use for MIDI recording new MIDI data D o c Click on the MIDI Output device you wish to use for MIDI ido au playback The MIDI device window will display all installed MIDI device drivers MIDI Mapper is the default in Windows and is most commonly used for sound cards although a specific soundcard driver may be selected from the Output list d Press OK to set the selected MIDI devices as the current Smart Score MIDI sources The selected device then moves to the top of the list NOTE Ifthe desired device is not listed in the MIDI Devices window make sure the device driver has been properly installed Check any software that was installed with your MIDI device and or download MIDI driver from manufacturer s website USING SmartScore 183 MIDI Editing and Sequencing When installing a new MIDI driver reboot to initialize the new driver Mac Only Rerun OMS Setup after installing new MIDI drivers For more about OMS turn to OMS Setup Mac Classic Only on page 60 10 4 4 Playback Range To specify part of the score for playback a Select Set Play Range from the Realtime menu fey PANDI Pitas Banig El C Play Enga po Fd fo dajen Final F heop E eee FIGURE 10 8 Set MIDI Play Range b Set the first measure and last measure
90. Cmnd X Mac Cut region will be stored in the clipboard s memory e Copy To Copy an area without removing it from the image use the Select tool and drag a box with the mouse Select Edit gt Copy Ctrl C Win Cmnd C Mac Copied area will be stored in the clipboard e Paste To Paste the contents of the clipboard into an image file select Edit gt Paste Ctrl V Cmnd V Mac The cut or copied section will drop into the image With the mouse drag the fragment anywhere within the image and release the left mouse button To fix the fragment in place click outside the pasted fragment e Transparent Background To Cut or Copy the marked off area of an image file with a transparent background highlight Selection Mode from the Edit menu and select Transparent NOTE After modifying pages in the Image Editor remember to Save the modified image file USING SmartScore 55 Getting Started 57 Error Check e eee 61 Playback Console 61 Working with Voices 62 Altering Playback 67 Repeats and Endings 12 Instrument Templates 73 Add drum tracks ars eas eee Ss Sree Be Sree Be ee 74 Karaok View ans ced erst Seah eee ee ae eae et a e 74 56 USING SmartScore No MIDI Recording Chapter 4 ENF Playback 4 1 Getting Start
91. Cmnd N Select between a new ENF or a new MIDI Choosing New ENF will open the New SmartScore Document window Select a Template or use Custom to create a unique score Choosing New MIDI will open a blank MIDI Overview and Piano Roll for MIDI input 11 3 2 File gt Open Ctrl O Win Cmnd 0O Opens File Selection dialog box and lists saved files A selected file will be loaded into memory and will display on the screen 11 3 3 File gt Close Cmnd W Closes active ENF document If changes have been made a Save As dialog box will open 11 3 4 File gt Save Ctrl S Cmnd S for Mac This will save an open SmartScore document to the same drive the file was opened from The original name remains unchanged If ENF and Image are displayed only the ENF file is saved 11 3 5 File gt Save As You can save files in several file formats other than SmartScore s native ENF format These include MIDI MID NIFF NIF for Lime and NIF for Sibelius and FIN file Saving in the FIN format will create a file that can be opened in Finale 2000c or greater with page layout and formatting intact To save open ENF document into one of these formats or to save open file with a new name a Go to File gt Save As b In the Filetype Format window choose a format to save the file c Browse to another directory and change the name if necessary d Press OK The file will be saved in the last directory used to save NOTE Use File
92. D S button from the Barlines and Repeats palette b Click on the desired barline to insert the D S sign Fine means ending It is usually placed in the middle of a repeated end ing and terminates the song To have the last repeat stop return to the Segno and continue on to the end of the piece a Insert a Fine sign by clicking on the barline that marks the final end point b Select d s al Fine meaning from the sign to the end from the Barlines and Repeats palette c Insert either the d s al Coda or d s al Fine mark by clicking the barline where the last repeat is to begin To have the final repeat or ending return to the beginning and play through to the Fine e Place the Fine sign at the appropriate barline Select and insert d c al Fine in a measure following the Fine sign 168 USING SmartScore pa Detailed ENF Editing 9 15 Unify Key Time and Clefs U Unify updates key and time signatures as well as clef signs throughout the score based on choices made in the dialog window e Hit the U key press the Unify button on the Navigator or select the Unify Signatures button in the SmartScore Toolbar or go to Edit menu and select Unify Signatures e Check the Insert Empty Rests box to Insert a whole rest into all empty measures NOTE Changing a clef sign does not reposition notes Note pitches alone are updated by a change in clef To alter note position by selecting a different c
93. Detailed ENF Editing b Click on a note head to insert the articulation above the note head c Click on a note stem to insert the articulation at the tip of the stem To delete a turn fermata accent or mordent e Select the articulation to delete Press the X key and click on the notehead or stem of the associated note To insert a staccato tenuto or accent a Select the articulation b Click on a note head to insert the articulation above the note head To insert a trill e With tr trill selected click on a notehead to insert a single trill e To create an extended trill toggle the C key to enter Change mode Click and drag horizontally to select a region The length of the extension is determined by how far you drag the mouse To insert an extended trill a As described above in To insert a trill insert a trill on the first note of an extended trill sequence b Hit the C key to enter Change mode With the right mouse but ton down alt key down for Mac right drag a box extending from the trill along the length you wish extended trills to play Trills can play back either up from the source note or downwards from the source note To choose whether a trill plays up or plays down a Go to Playback menu and from the item Trills select either Up or Down To insert a tremolo a Select one of four tremolo values from the palette single double triple or quadruple 1
94. FIGURE 6 3 Changing Text and Lyric styles The Font window is where the current font name style size and color are displayed Choose an alternative font style size or color OK will apply the change and exit the Font window OK in Styles will close that window Selected fields will then be updated 6 4 Edit Shapes Edit Shapes is an extremely useful tool that allows you to make a num ber of graphical non musical changes to the ENF view Modify beam angles change the shape of slurs tuplets and ties move one or more objects horizontally as well as verify joining of vertically aligned voices and note to lyric links To alter the shape of arcs and beams a Push the Edit Shapes button in the Text and Controllers toolbar FIGURE 6 4 Edit Shapes USING SmartScore 97 Editing Text and Symbols b Position the cursor over one of the black outlined squares hold down and drag These handles alter the height and or angle of an associated beam They also alter the endpoint of slurs partic ularly handy in a tight area where beams and slurs may intersect other objects c Position the cursor over one of the brown outlined squares Mov ing these control points alters the angle of half of a slur or tie making the arc lessor or greater The balance of an arc depends on the relative length and angle of each control arm attached to either endpoint 6 4
95. How they are interpreted during playback is described below 9 14 1 Repeats and repeat symbols To insert a repeat barline a repeat measure or any other repeat symbol e Toggle the C key to enter Insert mode Select any repeat or symbol from Barlines amp Repeats palette and click to place the symbol To change any current barline to a repeat barline e Toggle the C key to enter Change mode Click on any existing barline to change it to the selected repeat barline USING SmartScore 1 65 Detailed ENF Editing To delete a repeat barline e Hit the X key and click on the symbol to delete it To insert a Repeat Previous Measure mark a Select the Repeat Previous Measure mark from palette b In Insert mode click into an empty measure All notation present in the previous measure will automatically repeat itself during playback 9 14 2 Multiple Endings To create a multiple ending a Select the Start Alternate Repetition button from the Barlines amp Repeats palette Toggle the C key to enter the Change mode b Click on the barline that begins the first ending Select the num ber of times you want the section to repeat The barline will change into a start of ending bar The cursor then switches to an end of ending barline with a left repeat bar as default Click on the barline that terminates the first ending FIGURE 9 23 Multiple Endings c This closes out the f
96. IME Menu 11 14 1 Realtime gt Set Playback Range Opens Set MIDI Play Range dialog window 11 14 2 Realtime gt Play Pause Spacebar Begins pauses resumes playback of current MIDI file In Record Mode will start and pause MIDI recording 11 14 3 Realtime gt Stop Stops playback or recording of current MIDI file 11 14 4 Realtime gt Rewind comma Rewinds to beginning of Set Playback Range 11 14 5 Realtime gt Solo not in Overview Solos the active track during playback 11 14 6 Realtime gt Record Check to activate MIDI Record mode 11 14 7 Realtime gt External Timer Set recording to begin from an external signal 11 14 8 Realtime gt Synchro Start Active only in Record Mode check to synchronize start of MIDI recording with first note played on MIDI keyboard 11 14 9 Realtime gt Thru Allows MIDI input to sound 244 USING SmartScore Reference 11 14 10 Realtime gt Metronome Activates deactivates Metronome in recording 11 14 11 Realtime gt Playback Console Ctrl 9 Cmnd 9 Opens the Playback Console 11 15 MIDI WINDOW Menu 11 15 1 Window gt New Window Opens a second copy of the current MIDI view 11 15 2 Window gt Cascade Layers all open windows within main SmartScore window Active win dow is stacked on top 11 15 3 Window gt Tile Arranges all open windows to fit within main SmartScore window Windows are arranged from left to right top to bottom starting with the active w
97. L To create a new guitar fret chord symbol a Select Guitar Chord Library from the Edit menu b Push the Add button in the Library section of the chord window c Choose a root with sharp or flat bass tone with sharp or flat and descriptive modifier tonality extension and augmentation d Press the Frets tab in the upper part of the window a FIGURE 6 8 Frets tab window of Guitar Chord library e Right click Option click for Mac on any finger marker inside the fretboard to remove it e Clear All grid removes all current finger markers in fretboard e String Marker dot places a finger marker on any string between frets on the fretboard Clicking above the fretboard nut thick line places an open string symbol open dot at any string position e Barre Marker arc places a barre marker above the fretboard by dragging above the nut When dragged across strings inside the fretboard the barre marker is positioned between frets e Mute string marker x places an X above any string position to indicate a muted string When clicked above the nut any finger marker of that string is deleted USING SmartScore 101 Editing Text and Symbols e For banjo ukulele bass or other non six string fretted instrument or for chords that require more range than 4 frets choose the con figuration you wish from Strings x Frets combo box To show fingerings in other than Ist position choose from Pos
98. Linking Ctrl L or Cmnd L Collapsing and expanding systems A lot of music contains parts that do not play for long periods of time Many printed scores collapse or optimize systems to show only actively playing parts Similarly instruments that appear in one part may split into two or more parts anywhere in the score causing systems to expand in size SmartScore automatically senses expanding sys tems when for example a piano solo introduction precedes a vocal piano arrangement Expanding and collapsing parts are easily linked or re linked in a simple to use environment called Part Linking Part Linking is also used when merging staves with brackets that were cut off Turn to Re link Parts on page 121 for details on this feature 11 4 11 Edit gt Score Structure This special environment is used to perform useful functions such as creating a conductor s score from different parts and for isolating or joining parts and voices For detailed discussion on using this powerful feature turn to Score Structure on page 124 11 4 12 Edit gt Arrange Systems You may select a fixed distance between systems and you can select a fixed number of systems that will appear on each ENF page In Edit gt Arrange Systems you can select the distance between systems in pix els that will be applied to all systems You can also select a number of systems you wish to appear on all ENF pages 11 4 13 Edit gt System gt
99. MIDI Devices window ido si make sure your MIDI device driver has been properly installed d Press OK to set the selected MIDI devices as your MIDI sources NOTE Some MIDI programs may prevent playback if opened before SmartScore By closing the first MIDI program the output port will be released 4 1 5 Audio MIDI Setup Mac OS X Only To access Audio MIDI Setup in Mac OS X locate Utilities folder inside the Applications folder Double click on Audio MIDI Setup eee Lw 10 iae T Le Lhi ries f SP Artie U Ty E Per allie Asili E Appi Spuiem Profiler b A Miia Ter Extras M uda wn san 4 Glarinoth File Lathange FIGURE 4 3 Applications gt Utilities gt Audio MIDI Setup OS X If you have external MIDI devices installed such as an external synthe sizer module and MIDI interface they should appear as icons in the window Using your mouse drag the Out arrow of the source device to the In arrow of the receiving device and vice versa Internal con nections should then be established Close Audio MIDI Setup f Bade MEN ier heb ony pa feson oir FIGURE 4 4 Connecting MIDI Devices in Audio MIDI Setup USING SmartScore 59 ENF Playback With SmartScore ENF file open go to Playback menu click and select Playback at the bottom of the list Choose CoreMIDI Playback to acti vate devices connected in Audio MIDI Setup FIGURE 4 5 Selecting external MIDI devices in SmartSc
100. MIDI Type 0 Single Track Multiple Channels or MIDI Type 1 Multiple Tracks Multiple Chan nels b Push the Save button A window appears saying the following Articulations such as slurs staccatos and legatos will result in a MIDI file that will not import properly into a notation program Choose whether you want your MIDI file for importing into a nota tion program or for playback only c Choose Remove or Keep Articulations according to your need 208 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing USING SmartScore 209 Properties Tool 211 Tool Paletios sess a a pos iaa er ene eA eters eee eas 211 ENF PILE Menu ss2 24 Sets 2 cite Se ee ere S8 218 ENF EDIT Menu 223 ENF VIEW Menu 229 ENF OPTIONS Menu 234 ENF PLAYBACK Menu 577777 237 ENF Help Menu 238 MIDI FILE Menu 052 5 oe reo w areas Soba eb ee 239 MIDI EDIT Menu sie ose ee eee ee ees 240 MIDI VIEW Menu 241 MIDI OPTIONS Menu 242 OMS Mac Classic Only 243 MIDI REALTIME Menu 244 MIDI WINDOW Menu 245 Image File Menu Items 245 Image EDIT Menu 246 Image VIEW Menu 248 Image REALTIME Menu
101. Option Click 2 3 2 ENF Editing The original scanned image is displayed in the upper window and the newly recognized ENF file appears below it Use the scroller bars mouse wheel or arrow keys on your keyboard to scroll up and down the page Notice the image and ENF windows are synchronized for comparison pelt ow Sf ete Pe Teh hel i A f m bim pfp Et oo Tite Serer Le e t eF rele dgan FIGURE 2 3 Sample TIFF ENF view In ENF only one staff line is active at a time The active staff displays black while inactive staff lines display as grey To make a staff line active move your cursor to within the boundary of the staff until it highlights black If you want all staves to display in black go to the View menu and uncheck Show Active Staff If you do this remember to move your cursor within a staff line first before doing any editing within a staffline For more info see visiting staff line tip on page 153 USING SmartScore 11 Installation and Quick Tour NOTE In this manual Quick Keys keyboard shortcuts are indicated in bold parentheses e g C As accurate as SmartScore is you should always check for errors in recognition Sometimes only a few simple edits are all that is required e To see all staff lines in black go to the View menu and un check Show Active Staff Editing is done a staff to staff basis If you are unsure to which staff a note belongs turn this back on To qu
102. Score Part To move a Score Header vertically While holding the Shift button click and drag score header up or down 11 4 20 Edit gt Tempo To set the default tempo a Select desired Beats per Minute from the horizontal slider b Choose a base note Tempo Value 4 4 default quarter note c Check the Metronome Mark Visibility box to display the Met ronome Mark in the ENF document in the first measure Refer to Tempo Markings Metronome Mark on page 156 for enter ing change of tempo metronome markings USING SmartScore 227 Reference 11 4 21 Edit gt Guitar Chord Library The Guitar Chord library contains preset guitar chords and associated chord symbols You may add change delete and store any custom chords Guitar frets and chord symbols automatically transpose with key transposition Refer to Guitar Frets and Chord Symbols on page 99 for details 11 4 22 Edit gt Join Voices Automatically join offset voices to one vertical event as described in To globally join offset voices automatic method on page 65 11 4 23 Edit gt Transpose Ctrl T Cmnd T Transpose your score by key or by clef Limit to a part a voice or select a range Refer to Transposition on page 139 for details 11 4 24 Edit gt Edit Mode Zoom Ctrl Z Cmnd Z e Select tool Ctrl O Cmnd O e Insert Change See Insert and Change modes on page 79 e Delete by Group Delete Any See Delete
103. T Menu 11 17 1 Edit gt Undo Ctrl Z Cmnd Z Reverses the last action you performed SmartScore has ninety nine layers of Undo 11 17 2 Edit gt Redo Ctrl Y Cmnd Y Reapplies the last action that has been Undone 11 17 3 Edit gt Cut Ctrl X Cmnd X Removes the selected section from the image file and places it on the clipboard 246 USING SmartScore Reference 11 17 4 Edit gt Copy Ctrl C Cmnd C Places selected section on the clipboard without removing it from the image file 11 17 5 Edit gt Paste Ctrl V Cmnd V Insert the contents of the clipboard back into the image file 11 17 6 Edit gt Delete Del Deletes the selected section from the image file 11 17 7 Edit gt Crop Trims the image file down to the selected region 11 17 8 Edit gt Invert Switches the colors of the image file 11 17 9 Edit gt Rotate e Left Rotates the image file counter clockwise e Right Rotates the image file clockwise e Any Opens the Rotate window for rotation by defines degrees 11 17 10 Edit gt Selection Activates the Area Selection tool 11 17 11 Edit gt Line Activates the Line drawing tool 11 17 12 Edit gt Brush Activates the Brush tool 11 17 13 Edit gt Deskew Activates the Deskew tool for straightening crooked scans 11 17 14 Edit gt Selection Mode e Opaque USING SmartScore 247 Reference When a selected area is moved to the clipboard the back ground will be included e Transpar
104. Type column to open an event specific window You may type in a new value 10 6 4 Inserting Non Note Events Any MIDI event that is not a note on or note off event is a non note event This includes MIDI Control Changes Program Changes Chan nel Pressure Pitch Bend information and Meta Events To insert a non note event in the Event List view a Select the event you want the non note event to follow b Press the New button The New Event window will open USING SmartScore 199 MIDI Editing and Sequencing c Use the Event Type menu to select the event to be added NOTE Some events such as Control Change and Meta Event have Subtype event listings Choose one if applicable d Press OK e Program Changes Program Change inserts a MIDI event that changes the instrument playback for a given channel voice To insert a Program Change of the voice channel in Create New Event a Program Change is the default New Event so simply press OK The selected Program Change will be inserted into the Event List b Use the Voice pull down menu to designate the voice to which the Program Change applies c Use the Other pull down menu to select a new instrument e Control Changes Control Changes send adjustable parameters to your selected MIDI device i e vibrato hold volume pan effects etc You can add spe cific changes to these controls from within SmartScore s Event List To find out more about what each control chan
105. USING SMA TSCOREs PRECISION Music SCANNING Music is a kind of counting performed by the mind without knowing that it is counting GW Leibnitz 1714 Mathematics is music for the mind Music is mathematics for the soul Anonymous 18th century MUSITEK Moser lisansa Tinomana 410 Bryant Circle Suite K Ojai CA 93023 Copyright 2003 Musitek All rights reserved Registration Warranty Customer Service Web Page E Mail Phone FAX Address Technical Support Tech Page E Mail Phone FAX Customer Service Plan NOTE If you ordered your product directly from Musitek you won t find a registration card you are already registered Please complete and return your registration card It costs you nothing to do so You will only be able to receive technical support if you are a regis tered owner of this product Registering your product is important for you in many ways e You will be eligible for free periodic updates from our web site as well as special upgrade prices for future product releases e You will be given priority access to Musitek Technical Sup port as well as to Customer Service using your Customer ID All Musitek products are covered by a limited 90 day warranty To replace a defective CD that is still under warranty contact Musitek Cus tomer Service Out of warranty CDs and manuals can be ordered online or by phone A nominal charge will be applied Musitek s websi
106. a new score leaving the current file unaffected Or press OK to isolate the part in the open document Here is the result of extracting Voice 1 from the right hand piano part FIGURE 8 5 Extracted Voice 8 1 3 Active System vs Super System When you position your cursor over a given system and open the Sys tem Manager what you see displayed is a representation of the active or highlighted system Some parts may have their visibility checked on and some may not depending on whether or not a particular part appears in the active system When the System Manager is opened the default controlling system is always the active system During Recognition the system containing the greatest number of staves will register that total number in a special controlling system within the System Manager This register is called the Super System and it represents the true number of parts in the score Normally the USING SmartScore 117 Changing Score Structure Super System and the largest System Manager will have the same num ber of parts Occasionally however total actual instrumental parts may exceed the number of staves per system in the largest system of the score as represented in the list of Part Names inside the System Man ager For example the largest system may not contain an instrumental part that appears elsewhere See Re link Parts on page 121 for more information about re linking parts and dealing with scores ha
107. ach channel contains note and non note event data Most MIDI devices can support up to 16 MIDI Chan nels at one time Patch Every MIDI channel has a MIDI patch assigned to it A Patch is the instrument sound selected for a particular channel when playing back Program Change Same as a patch Indicates a change of patch within a given channel or track Bank MIDI devices divide patches into groups of 128 One Bank of patches from a MIDI device can be accessed at a time by a MIDI com puter program or another MIDI device USING SmartScore 255 Glossary Port A computer can run several MIDI devices at a time with the proper hardware Each device is connected to a unique Port 12 5 SmartScore Terms ENF Extended Notation Format This is SmartScore s proprietary file format It is created after scanning when creating a new score or when converting an imported MIDI file into ENF MIDI to ENF Navigator The floating window containing buttons designed to nav igate through SmartScore s main features and editing environments System Manager The System Manager is a sort of virtual system which allows for manipulating all or specific voices parts and systems in the score Generally it is a list of all the parts and voices that make up the LARGEST system in the score The System Manager is the basis of many editing features including Visibility Voices Spacing and Part Names Voice Line Threading Sma
108. aff Py TIP To adjust vertical placement of a rest hold the SHIFT key 7 down click and drag the rest up or down USING SmartScore 131 Detailed ENF Editing To change the pitch of several notes at once a Press O key to activate the Select tool also in SmartScore Toolbar b Click and drag a box around any series of notes c Hold down the Shift key and drag the notes with the mouse 9 2 Quick Keys Pu TIP Refer to the Quick Keys maps on page 174 for a graphic depic S tion of all SmartScore keyboard shortcut keys 9 2 1 QuickSelect Ctrl Click The fastest way to choose any object for inserting and changing is to QuickSelect it Ctrl Click on any object inside the active staff and the cursor inherits all of that object s attributes The mouse pointer becomes any object that is QuickSelected 9 2 2 Insert and Change Modes C To insert a note or rest anywhere in the active staffline a Toggle the C key to activate the Insert mode b Select any note or rest from the Notes or Rests palette c Click anywhere in the active staff to drop the object To insert a multi measure rest e Select the n measures object from the Rests palette e Select the number of empty measures e Click in an empty measure of the active staffline To change the rhythmic value of an existing note or rest a Toggle the C key to the Change mode b Select any note value from the Notes or
109. age dithered by scanner intelligence NOTE If still you fail to get a workable image using SmartScore s scanning interface turn to Choosing an alternative scanning interface on page 30 3 2 3 Scanner settings e Darkness Brightness The default darkness setting is 15 For typical printed music this setting should be fine If beams smear together and whole and half notes appear closed or blobbed then brighten the scan If the original music is faded if it is a weak copy or if it has become degraded you may want to scan even darker than the default setting SmartScore wants to see solid well defined lines that are neither razor thin nor smeared together NOTE If recognition accuracy is poorer than expected examine the file in the Image Editor Zoom in and determine the follow ing e If objects lack detail rescan with increased resolution e If objects such as note stems and staff lines are broken or lack thickness rescan with increased darkness e Resolution It is recommended that you use Auto Resolution whenever possible If you choose to set resolution manually check Auto Resolution off For most printed music the recommended resolution is around 350 dpi If the original music is printed in smaller type you can increase resolu tion to 400 or 450 dpi For miniature scores try 500 dpi Scanning at too high or too low a resolution may actually reduce recognition accu racy It is not recommende
110. al Drums go to the Realtime menu and select Virtual Drum Kit See for more information USING SmartScore 207 MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 12 Playback Considerations after MIDI Editing If you return to the ENF view after editing in the MIDI environment playback will retain changes made in MIDI views until the ENF dis play is updated with MIDI Refresh If notation is subsequently edited in ENF or if MIDI Refresh is selected you will be given a choice of A Keeping current MIDI playback B Refreshing ENF and clearing previ ous changes made in MIDI or C Saving the current playback as a MIDI file Refer to Updating and refreshing playback and display on page 177 for more information on how ENF and MIDI views are inter related 10 13 MIDI to ENF SmartScore accepts any Standard MIDI file and converts it to an ENF file Turn to MIDI to ENF on page 170 for details 10 14 Saving MIDI Files When saving a MIDI file remember that you are not saving a music notation file The more humanized the MIDI file sounds the less likely it will appear correctly when imported into a music notation application such as SmartScore Saving SmartScore files derived from scanning will normally give reasonably good results because the music is already quantized into discreet start and stop times To save a SmartScore MIDI file a Select FILE gt Save As click the Save as Type pull down menu and select either
111. amic marking a While in the Insert mode select a dynamic marking from the Dynamics palette USING SmartScore 157 Detailed ENF Editing b Click anywhere above the active staff A change in playback vol ume MIDI Volume for that particular active staff MIDI track then will apply c Changes in note volumes range as follows Pppp 35 ppp 45 pp 55 p 65 mp 75 mf 85 f 95 ff 105 fff 115 ffff 125 NOTE Dynamics apply only to the active staffline To apply dynam ics and or dynamic markings to more than one staff enter the dynamic in each part in which you want the effect to apply If you do not wish to have multiple dynamics visible you may enter dynamics in the Hidden Symbols mode For more details see Hidden Symbols on page 155 To insert a hairpin a Toggle the C key to the Insert mode b Select a dynamic hairpin from the Dynamics palette or hit Shift for crescendo hairpin and Shift for decrescendo c Click and drag to select notes for which a hairpin is to be applied d Dragging downward will insert the hairpin above the active staff Dragging upwards will insert the hairpin below the active staff a FIGURE 9 16 Hairpin crescendo drag upwards To insert a crescendo or decrescendo a Select Cresc or Decresc from the Dynamics tool palette 1 5 8 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing b In Insert mode
112. and closes Mini Console toolbar 11 7 6 Playback gt MIDI Devices Opens MIDI device dialog box Select MIDI input and output sources Refer to MIDI Devices on page 58 for details 11 7 7 Playback gt Swing Turns swing playback on or off Refer to Swing on page 72 11 7 8 Playback gt Sound tone when entering note Notes will sound their pitch when entered or when shifted up or down Check this option off to not sound pitches while editing USING SmartScore 237 Reference 11 7 9 Playback gt Sound grace notes Select whether to play grace notes before the following note default or on the beat of the following note Refer to Grace Notes on page 81 11 7 10 Playback gt Trills Trills can be played with diatonic permutations going either up or down from the home tone Select Up for permutations to play upwards or Down for them to play downwards 11 7 11 Playback gt Drum Set This window allows you to map MIDI Drum instruments to staff lines and spaces when percussion clef is assigned to a staff For more details turn to Percussion clef Clefs Palette on page 107 11 7 12 Playback gt Lock to Time Signature Refer to Lock to Time Signature on page 67 11 7 13 Playback gt Graphical Controller Refer to Graphical controllers on page 69 11 7 14 Playback gt Refresh MIDI Refresh MIDI resets playback based on the current ENF display All changes made in MIDI view including
113. ansposition and color when Color Part mode When an instrument is selected from the Part Name pull down menu in the Sys tem Manager it is directly linked to the same name and its assigned characteristics in Instrument Templates Any or all of these characteris tics can be changed at any time USING SmartScore 147 Detailed ENF Editing To open modify or add a new instrument template a Hit Ctrl F Cmnd F or choose Edit gt Instrument Templates imine emil rare na j Apoi et a fe lai e ENE a FIGURE 9 9 Instrument Template window b Instrument color can be changed by double clicking in its color field When Part Color in Options gt Color Mode notation for parts associated with this instrument will inherit this color c Click in the Name field of any template and type to change the given name of an instrument d To change an abbreviation click then type inside the Abbr field e Click and select a different MIDI instrument from the Instru ment list to change default MIDI instrument assignment f Transpose displays the default playback transposition for selected instruments The MIDI representation will reflect the transposed shift in pitch g Various sets of MIDI instruments can be selected in Instrument Settings pull down menu Instrument sets acquire their names by clicking on the Instrument Settings button and selecting a set h To save settings for future ENF files check Save f
114. ant to alter b Select Ctrl M Cmnd M Mac to open the System Manager c Changing Line Spacing increases or decreases the space between lines in staves and resizes noteheads Changing Staff Spacing increases or decreases the distance between staves NOTE Staff Spacing of the last part will determine the space between systems It is usually about double the other staff spacings d Check the Spacing box in the Apply area e In the Apply To pull down menu select the active system all subsequent systems System or All Press Apply then OK to close 8 1 6 Adding a staff when missed by recognition Occasionally a staff inside a system may not be localized during recog nition due to flaws in the image or otherwise If so the system in ENF to which it belongs will not display that part Missing staves can be inserted quite easily as follows a First you want to re link parts in the shorted system Position the cursor inside the system and hit Ctrl L to open Re link Parts b Put a check next to the appropriate visible parts Leave the miss ing part unchecked Hit OK c Open System Manager Ctrl M You should see a part with a missing check mark along the left side This means it is invisible d Check the part and check the Visibility box in the Apply section e Change the Apply To pull down menu from Score to System Hit Apply to preview or OK to apply and close System Manager f Hit the U key
115. any note event will open the Note Event window Hote Event FIGURE 10 18 Note Event window The Note Event window allows access to and adjustment of an individ ual note s parameters e Raise or lower the Pitch of the Note Event USING SmartScore 191 MIDI Editing and Sequencing Start Time changes when the Note Event begins e The Duration of the Note Event can be shortened or lengthened e Increase or decrease the Velocity of the Note Event e Select a different Voice for the Note Event 10 5 9 Cut Copy and Paste Click and drag the mouse or use Edit gt Select to select a region of note events that you would like to cut copy or paste e Cut removes the highlighted notes from the score and places them in the clipboard e Copy stores the selected notes to the clipboard without removing them from the score e Paste will insert the contents of the clipboard back into the score without deleting the existing notes Click where you want to insert the music into the score e Paste Special will open the Paste Special window Add to existing events Replace existing events Cancel Move to make room Repetitions pea Start from time ra Start fromtrack Allto track 1 PianoR FIGURE 10 19 Paste Special The Paste Special window offers several options for pasting the con tents of the clipboard back into the music e Add to existing events
116. art Defined by Voice System within System Manager Number in Number in Sys System Manager System Manager tem Manager Equivalents in MIDI View MIDI File MIDI Track MIDI Track MIDI Channel 8 4 5 Controlling Voices within Score Structure To view voices in Score Structure click on Show Voices button If Color Mode Voice you will notice voice names also show their voice color Voices have special meaning in Smart score They are tightly linked to each other logically and physically Vertical Event joining for example Since voices are locked to one another in ways that Parts and Score Parts are not it is not possible to re link voices to other Parts or Score Parts You can however extract voices separately or in select groups from within the System Manager See Extracting voices using Visibility Section 8 1 2 on page 116 for more USING SmartScore 127 More ENF navigating 129 Quick Keys 6 24 eee eee et ee ee e a 132 QuickSelect Ctrl Click 132 Insert and Change Modes C 132 Delete by Group Delete Any X 133 Select Tool O 164 Saba ee Rees Aes eee S 133 Using the Select tool for quick deletions 133 Using the Select Tool O to edit selected objects 134 Dots D eri Ser Sa E an a EAE E A E E See 134 TES V x23 So sees a Sees E a e a a E 135 Beam direction A
117. art each staffline of the score can contain a maximum of 4 voices represented by 4 col ors We recommend that you normally view your ENF files with voice color on An alternative note coloring method useful in orchestral scores is to view each Part each staffline with a unique color For more about coloring parts and voices see Working with Voices and Colors on page 149 TIP When Color Mode Voice the number of MIDI channels will be increased to equal the total number of voices in the score When Color Mode Part the number of channels equals num ber of parts far less than if Color Mode Voice Open Play back Console Ctrl 9 Cmnd 9 in either mode to view the difference 4 4 2 Assigning instruments to voices Assigning a unique MIDI instrument to each voiceline adds richness and tonal variety while allowing the listener to distinguish one contra puntal voice from all others during playback There are two areas where you can change MIDI instrument assignments for voices inside the Playback Console and inside the System Manager To change an instrument assignment of a voice in the Playback Con sole a Set Options gt Color Mode to Voice Open the Playback Con sole Ctrl 9 Cmnd 9 or select acini gt Console FIGURE 4 7 Changing MIDI instrument of a voice in Playback Console USING SmartScore 63 SONG BOOK PIANO M GUITAR ENF Playback The Track column displays each ENF Part a
118. at Tick numbers or solely with Tick numbers 11 12 3 Options gt Velocity Format Select whether Velocity of note events is displayed with absolute num bers or as percentages 11 12 4 Options gt File Settings Opens Sequence Settings window Shows the MIDI header information including tempo time base time signature key and MIDI instrument 11 12 5 Options gt Track not in Overview Opens Track Properties dialog box Select a different track view delete duplicate rename or transpose the selected track 11 12 6 Options gt MIDI Device Opens MIDI device dialog box Select MIDI input and output sources 11 12 7 Options gt Instrument Settings Opens Instrument Settings dialog box Allows for selection of Port Bank and MIDI channel assignment for Instrument and Drum sources 11 12 8 Options gt Metronome Settings Opens Metronome Settings dialog box Allows for selection of Port MIDI Channel number of lead in measures MIDI sound and volume for Primary and Secondary beats 11 12 9 Options gt Shuttle On Activate deactivate SmartScore s shuttle tool 11 13 OMS Mac Classic Only 11 13 1 OMS MIDI Setup Displays the current port selection for MIDI Device connection to your computer A new Setup can be created from here USING SmartScore 243 Reference 11 13 2 OMS Studio Setup Launches OMS for editing of your current OMS studio setup 11 13 3 All Notes Off Shuts off MIDI output 11 14 MIDI REALT
119. by Group Delete Any X on page 133 e Edit Shapes See Voice Splitting H on page 151 11 4 25 Edit gt Special e Vertical Alignment Y See Vertical Alignment on page 64 e Beam Notes B See To convert a sequence of flagged notes into one beamed group on page 134 e Split Voices H See Voice Splitting H on page 151 e Flip Stems S See Stem direction S on page 135 e Delete Selected Ties Articulations G See Occasionally you might find an area full of incorrectly recognized ties and or slurs or hairpins Use this tool to mass delete these objects on page 133 228 USING SmartScore Reference 11 4 26 Edit gt Error Check Ctrl E Cmnd E Automatically check for errors such as missing notes and rests in voice lines Refer to Error Check on page 83 for more details 11 5 ENF VIEW Menu 11 5 1 View gt Toolbars e Navigator Opens and closes the SmartScore Navigator e Main Opens and closes Main Toolbar e SmartScore Opens and closes SmartScore Toolbar e Image Opens and closes Image Editing Toolbar e Text and Controllers Opens and closes the toolbar containing control buttons for text and graphical controllers e Mini Console Opens and closes the Mini playback console in ENF view e Status Bar Opens and closes Status Bar at the bottom of main SmartScore Win dow Displays current page cursor position image size and zoom per centage Cl
120. can also be controlled in an entirely different way by using the Score Structure feature See Score Structure on page 124 for more details on how to iso late recombine and or remove parts and voices from a score 9 6 5 Applying changes to the score Changes you make to System Manager will apply to the area of interest you select in the Apply To pull down menu e All Applies the change to all systems of the score including Super Sys tem Used when you want a change to be globally applied e System Applies only to the currently active system e System Applies to the currently active system and all subsequent systems e Score Part Applies to the Score or Score Part but not the Super System e Super System Applies changed values only to the Super System To apply changes e OK Applies changes to the current ENF document Apply Applies changes and allows further editing in System Manager e Apply to New Creates and opens a new ENF document with changes applied to it This action does not affect the original document which remains open behind the newly created ENF document Minimize window of top most document to view other open ENF files TIP Apply to New is useful when you want to extract parts or voices to a new ENF document without affecting the original 1 46 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing Controlling System will determine whether selected values apply to the active system or t
121. can button in the scanning window If you selected a resolution outside of the optimum range you will be prompted for the best possible resolution in dpi Push Retry and reset the recommended resolution Ignore sends you to the Scan Next Page Begin Recognition dialog See Recognition Sequence Win Mac on page 37 If your scanner does not respond properly choose File gt Scan Music gt Choose Interface gt Your Scanner s gt Manual USING SmartScore 35 Scanning and Recognition 3 4 6 Choosing Your Scanner s Interface Manual For Mac Classic Users Only Choose Interface gt Your Scanner s gt Manual option is the third and final Macintosh option for scanning within SmartScore itself Using the Manual option is similar to using Automatic option except for final previewing cropping de skewing and paging which is controlled by a special Image Processing window If your scanner still does not respond properly in this mode it will be necessary to scan outside of SmartScore See Scanning Outside of SmartScore on page 42 for those details a Push the Scan button or File gt Scan Music gt Acquire Your scanner s interface should appear on screen b With your mouse click and drag the edges of the scan region to create maximum sized image It is very important to acquire a full sized image in the preview window of your scanner s inter face Subsequent scans may cut off regions of th
122. cept Ponda FIGURE 11 11 Selecting PDF995 to create a PDF file Select File gt Save As PDF to generate a PDF file out of your ENF file Browse to any directory to save the PDF file on your computer Mac OS X Only In the Print window select PDF to generate a PDF file Browse to save USING SmartScore 221 Reference 11 3 12 File gt CD Writer Windows Only Using the CD Writer feature you will be able to record one or more ENF MIDI playback performances as a audio CD playable in your car home stereo etc It will be necessary to have a CD R CD Writ able device installed and connected to your system CD Writer will also record and burn MIDI files To record ENF or MIDI files and burn them to audio CD ep a Push the CD Writer icon at the bottom of the Navigator b Push Add Files and select one or more ENF or MIDI files to be recorded to CD OS riScaen s OF Writes pe DS 37 COA GOES aiia Cres ippa OMe Basiran ipei bja hhe de 70 Bam method ETT Dic bum T Grib ara E inpo iin Biej j Dior botad Tapa CO AGM o Hea ete Need pare TAL ea Eetmahedspene Mini Me F guisam nmh a le FIGURE 11 12 c Each selected file must undergo a conversion to an audio format WAV is the default After converting the selected file s will appear in the Files to Burn list as an audio 222 USING SmartScore Reference Files may be reordered using the Move Up
123. change the default background color of the TIFF or ENF window a Select Options gt Define Colors gt Background b Choose either Image Pane or ENF Pane c Click to select a new color and push OK To change the default color of Hidden Symbols a Select Options gt Define Colors gt Hidden Symbols b Choose a new color and push OK 9 8 5 Voice Splitting H To separate a two note cluster to two separate voices a Hit the O key to activate the Select tool b Drag a box around any number of two note clusters c Press the H key to separate two note clusters into 2 voices a t a FIGURE 9 10 Splitting two note chords into 2 voices y TIP Music ministers and choir directors Use this handy tool to split two note clusters into 2 voices e g hymnals Assign each voice a unique instrument or extract each voice to a separate file y TIP If you wish to split clusters containing three or more notes select and delete the least desirable notes until you are left with two notes in each cluster Only two note clusters will split USING SmartScore 15 1 Detailed ENF Editing 9 8 6 Cross staff voicing Occasionally notes of one voice may visit an adjacent staff Techni cally visiting notes belong to their home staff But they obtain their pitch information from the visiting staff line In order to maintain voice continuity cross staff visiting notes must be handled in a special way To
124. cific symbols and helps to remove any false positives f Refer to Recognition Options on page 38 for details on how recognition options function 44 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition 3 7 1 Rearranging the File List If you scan more than 9 pages you may notice PagelO is listed before Page2 This is because most operating systems list files according to the first character of the filename Click on any page and hit Move Up or Move Down to reposition Hitting Remove Files from List will cause that page to be skipped during Recognition 3 7 2 Recombining multiple image files Creating new Page Groups for Recognition and re saving a multiple page image file If one page of a scanned group is incorrectly scanned or is missing alto gether from a multi page image file Page group you may reselect individual pages to form a new page group a Select or drag the original multi page file inside the selected files list of the Begin Recognition window b Highlight a page to remove and push Remove Files from List c To add a replacement or additional page to the original page group select or drag the page s to the selected files list d Reorder pages as necessary NOTE If pages were reordered added to or deleted from the original image file you will be able to re save the newly listed pages To Save a modified list of grouped pages as a new image file e Select all pages so they are highli
125. cing b Select a new Instrument from the pull down menu In Voice Color mode select a voice number from the Voice pull down menu This will apply the new instrument sound to the selected voice voices will automatically be assigned different MIDI channels For more about Voice Color Mode turn to Working with Voices and Colors on page 149 c Press OK NOTE List of instruments is determined by the selected Instrument set selected in Options gt Instrument Settings Instrument set is also able to be selected in the Playback Console see page 61 d An inverted red triangle will indicate the point where the pro gram change was inserted Clicking on any Program Change tri angle will open the Program Change window for additional changes NOTE SmartScore supports multiple MIDI channels within each MIDI track This allows for contrapuntal voices within ENF stafflines to be assigned to different instruments within each MIDI track In other words multiple voices in ENF are equivalent to multiple channels within a MIDI track This is a sort of hybrid MIDI type MIDI Type 1 Type 0 hybrid 10 5 5 MIDI Instrument settings To change MIDI instrument parameters a Select Instrument Settings under the Options menu In Play back Console push the Set Instrument button This will open the Instrument Settings window INSTRUERT SETTINGS ane p H r P 4 T123 tter a WA We mE areni Gee aa a a aa a rer ec Aorere eere erie Cinara ee
126. click and drag a curve over the range you wish to apply the effect USING SmartScore 185 mjo MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 5 2 Switching between tracks e To move from track to track click the Track Paging buttons located in the Main Toolbar 10 5 3 Shuttle Tool The Shuttle Tool allows you to sound MIDI events forward or back ward by dragging the mouse over a range of events To operate the Shuttle Tool In Piano Roll view the S key toggles the Shuttle Tool off and on To manually select press the Toggle Shuttle button in the MIDI Toolbar or go to the Options menu and select Shuttle On Click and hold any where in an Overview or Piano Roll and drag the Shuttle Tool to the right to play the MIDI file at your own tempo Drag the Shuttle Tool to the left to rewind and hear the MIDI file simultaneously To insert or change the voice assignment of selected note event s a Use the Voice Selection pull down menu located above the piano keyboard to select a voice number b Right click and drag to create a note event 10 5 4 Inserting program changes Assign MIDI instrument To insert a Program Change MIDI patch change for any given voice a In an active track position cursor and click wherever you wish to make an instrument change Select Edit gt Program Change ee Eo al tel va A ae ae ed br FIGURE 10 12 MIDI Program Change Piano Roll 1 86 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequen
127. create cross staff voicing a If the visiting note is part of a beamed group use the Shift button to click and drag the notehead up or down into the adjacent staff Then drag to the line or space you to position it NOTE Notes that visit adjacent staves do not display any ledger lines They inherit their pitch from the space or line of the visited staff b To create a cross staff note with a flipped stem create a two note beam Toggle the C key to Change mode then right click option click for Mac on the note you wish to flip Drag the flipped note head into the desired staff and position it to the desired line or space Once in place you may insert any addi tional beamed notes using the middle beam tool in Notes pal ette c If the visiting note is stand alone not part of a beamed group choose whether you want the cross staff indicator lines to be solid or dotted View gt Cross staff Voicing gt Solid or Dotted d Drag the notehead up or down to an adjacent staff and position it over the desired line or space Cross staff voice Cross staff voice flipped stem beamed notes Cross staff voice flagged note FIGURE 9 11 Cross staff voicing 1 5 2 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing To edit a cross staff note in a visiting staffline a Position the mouse pointer over the home staff of the visiting note b Hit the CapLock button On Shift dra
128. d bounded area move your mouse pointer over a boundary line click and drag the boundary to a new posi tion d Select Crop from the Edit menu OR press the Crop button in the Image Toolbar The resulting image will be reduced to the area inside the bounded frame Remember to Save when done USING SmartScore 51 Scanning and Recognition e Correcting Skew Page through each scanned image and check for relative straightness of each image page If a page appears tilted or skewed recognition accu racy will be compromised The Deskew tool will rotate the image slightly to correct skewed pages and will optimize recognition accu racy a Press the Deskew button in the Image Toolbar or select Deskew from the Edit menu Wor eer i Nicolai Rimsky Korsakoif Drag deskew tool along topmost staffline b Position the cursor over a staffline Starting from the left side click and drag the mouse along the length of the staffline A red skew angle line will display as you drag the mouse When you are certain the red skew angle line parallels the staffline let go The page will automatically straighten Repeat for each page Remember to Save when done NOTE Ifthe page becomes incorrectly rotated undo with Ctrl z Cmnd z for Mac or select Edit gt Undo e Rotate To rotate an image file for landscape formatted scores or upside down Li scans go to the Edit menu and highlight Rotate OR pr
129. d in SmartScore can be selected from one of several Tool Palettes By default up to 3 palettes remain open at one time Palettes recycle by default but you may have all open at once BY TIP The F1 key always resets windows and palettes to their default 1 30 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing TIP To quickly select an alternative Tool Palette right click on any pu open Tool Palette Mac Ctrl click All Tool Palettes become available to select Notice the open palette becomes replaced with the selected palette when in the Recycle mode While selecting an alternative palette you may choose one of 4 modes e Show All opens all 9 SmartScore Tool Palettes Hide All removes all Tool Palettes from view e Reset F1 returns to default display of Notes and Rests palettes e Recycle Default changes the secondary open palette when a Quick Key is activated The Notes palette remains open and does not cycle FIGURE 9 4 Tool Palette Selection You may also use the function keys along the top of your computer keyboard to choose any of the available Tool Palettes F1 will reset the palettes to their default display settings NOTE For detailed functions of all tool palettes turn to Tool Pal ettes Section 11 2 on page 211 9 1 6 Pitch shift Shift drag To change the pitch of any note SI e Hold down the Shift key click on and drag a note head up or down to shift its vertical position in the st
130. d to scan music below 250 dpi or higher than 600 dpi USING SmartScore 29 Scanning and Recognition e Manual or Automatic Source Document feeder Normally you will preview and scan one page at a time Some scan ners have automatic document feeders If you choose Automatic option you will be able to scan multiple pages at once However you will only be able to preview the first page If you select Automatic make sure when you preview the first page that the entire page is selected and not cropped Remaining pages will be scanned and fed without preview checking 3 2 4 Choosing an alternative scanning interface If your scanner does not respond to the Scan command in the Smart Score interface or your scanned image is unacceptable partially scanned grey color etc a Check that your scanner is on and that the proper driver is installed File gt Scan Music gt Select Scanner If a compatible driver is not present you will have to reinstall your scanner s software either from the original CD or by downloading the most recent scanner driver from your scanner manufacturer s web site If the above is true and pushing the Scan button in the Navigator still causes problems your TWAIN driver is probably incompati ble with SmartScore s own scanning interface b Switch to the scanning software that was installed with your scanner To do this go to File gt Scan Music gt Choose Interface gt Your Scanner s When y
131. e or knowingly allow others to do so You may not develop passwords or codes or otherwise enable the Save feature for equipment that is not authorized for use with SmartScore SmartScore and its documentation may not be sublicensed and may not be transferred without the prior written consent of Musitek SmartScore is licensed to be used on only one computer platform at a time You may not make copies for the purpose of installing SmartScore on additional computer plat forms even if at the same location The only copies authorized in your license agree ment with Musitek are to be for archival purposes only Only you your employees and consultants who have agreed to the above restrictions may use SmartScore Your right to copy SmartScore and this manual is restricted by international copyright laws Making copies adaptations or compilation works without prior written consent of Musitek is prohibited by law and constitutes a punishable legal violation MUSITEK PROVIDES THIS PUBLICATION AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED INCLUDING BUT NOT LIM ITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE Musitek may revise this publication from time to time without notice Some states or jurisdictions do not allow disclaimer of express or implied warranties in certain transaction therefore this statement may not apply to you Using SmartScore 3 was written by Christopher Newell and edited by Jo
132. e 79 132 mordent editing 159 playback 212 multiple endings 166 N navigating around ENF 77 129 Navigator 9 256 NIFF 219 normalize graphical controllers 69 Note 253 notes 132 add to cluster 80 associated with lyric block 94 beaming 84 changing pitch 83 132 changing values 132 color 82 delete from chord 80 dotted 85 forming chords 80 grace notes 81 horizontal nudging 87 insert change amp delete 79 132 nudging 98 overlap or offset 153 splitting 151 stem direction 85 135 swapping noteheads 153 nudging objects 87 98 O offset notes 153 OMS 60 optimized systems 18 122 225 P Page Setup 120 page creating new 89 Paint Brush 54 Part 251 parts adding to score 118 147 color mode 150 extracting 115 145 insert or remove from system 226 naming in System Manager 144 re linking optimized 122 147 removing from score 147 show names in ENF 230 Paste 224 Paste Replace 224 PDF 221 pedals 39 Percussion clef 107 215 Piano Roll 184 pickup measures 58 67 pitch shift 83 select range 258 selected notes 134 Playback changing instruments 17 linking parts 121 lock to time 58 tempo 61 transposing 61 with spacebar 14 Playback Console 154 200 polyphonic voices 3 16 Polyphony 254 Port 256 Print Preview 220 Printing 221 262 USING SmartScore INDEX Program Change 255 Event List 200 Piano Roll 186 Properties Tool 16 162 Q quantization 242 Quick Keys 132 Barlines 137 Beam Direction 135 Dot
133. e Press Reorder 102 USING SmartScore Editing Text and Symbols To scale guitar fretboard chord symbols e From the Scale window change the size of fretboard symbol from 2 down to 6 All fretboard and or chord symbols will re size to this scale To export import reset or clear a GCL library file e Press File in the Chord Library window e Export Library will save guitar chord library to a file Choose the target directory and or drive to save e Import Library will load a saved guitar chord library from a directory and or drive Locate the GCL file and push OK to load e Reset to Default will reload original guitar chord library as ini tially loaded during installation e Clear All Chords deletes all current guitar chord library data SONG M 6 6 Bracketing BOOK Use Bracketing to assign braces grand staff brackets and to join PIANO GUTAR selected parts into barline groups in an ENF document E Sar i m JEEN peT Toad rt Devens Taka Gap Cis eed Fiske byicha ra j F en Carneros 7 Sa E 2 CE testy gals coal dha reget Loup FIGURE 6 9 Bracketing window To create braces grand staff brackets and create barline groups a Select Bracketing from Edit menu Ctrl B Cmnd B Mac USING SmartScore 103 Editing Text and Symbols Highlight two or more parts in list to select for grouping Choose Brace Grand Staff or Barline Group set and press Set Sel
134. e Structure is a powerful tool that allows you to create entirely new scores by removing creating and re linking parts By simply dragging links around you have the ability to remove parts extract parts and join individual part scores into multi part con ductor scores See Scanning Part Scores Score Parts on page 45 for more info 8 4 2 Creating a Conductor s Score from Part Scores An EMF file was recognized from 3 part scores each having one Part per Score Part A Score Part consists of all the pages of a single instrument in a part score Some Score Parts may contain more than one Part a piano Score Part has 2 Parts and an organ Score Part has 3 Parts Let s view the structure of a part score and then combine all parts into one document To view score hierarchy amp create a conductor s score from score parts a Select Edit gt Score Structure Senoi aihuclune EKF iinet ait Foes fees Remi a a ETE Coreet_ Drap k dug bo morja o eet Cll Cl er Sh Clic toe mo P ci foe offer hcan rarai FIGURE 8 5 Score Structure Typical Part Score b Click on any Score Part to highlight it and push the Insert button at the bottom of the window You will see a blank Score Part appear FIGURE 8 6 Inserting new Score Part 124 USING SmartScore Changing Score Structure NOTE Inserting a new ENF Document will work just as well In either case applying the change Apply to
135. e Tenor line is dis played in black and the Bass line is displayed in red SmartScore allows up to 4 voices per staff black V1 red V2 green V3 and blue V4 d While holding down the Ctrl button hit the 9 key This opens the Playback Console e Change MIDI Instrument assignments for PianoR Voice 1 to Choir Ahs and PianoR Voice 2 to Voice Oohs f Push the Play button to hear Press Close to close the console 20 USING SmartScore Installation and Quick Tour 2 5 1 Extracting Parts using Score Structure a From the Edit menu choose Score Structure b Check the Show Voices box to view voices c Click to highlight the box titled PianoL and push the Remove button Add Airin upiese Plast inp F Srs Ynines Cac rap i dup hi ede a Ou ih ioe ShA o Cia be kian Fiii obch fie ot hen func eri FIGURE 2 10 Eliminating a part in Score Structure d Now push the Apply to New button This creates a new ENF document containing only the soprano and alto voices The origi nal file will remain unchanged e Press the spacebar to hear only the women s voices Now we will extract the alto voice and hear it by itself 2 5 2 Extracting Voices in System Manager a Hold down Ctrl M Cmnd M for Mac keys to open the System Manager Select the PianoR part by clicking on the black dot to the left of the part name Voice Visibility check boxes become active b Uncheck the box under Vo
136. e a unique score Choosing New MIDI will open a blank MIDI Overview and Piano Roll for MIDI input 11 9 2 File gt Open Ctrl O Cmnd O Opens File Selection dialog box and lists saved files A selected file will be loaded into memory and will display on the screen 11 9 3 File gt Close Cmnd W Mac Closes all MIDI views If any changes were made to the MIDI file option to Save MIDI file Return to main SmartScore window 11 9 4 File gt Save Ctrl S Cmnd S Writes currently displayed file to the hard disk USING SmartScore 239 Reference 11 9 5 File gt Save As Opens Windows File Selection dialog box Save processed or modified MIDI files to hard disk following MIDI Recording or Editing procedures Use to save selected files to directory other than the working directory 11 9 6 File gt Recent 1 2 3 or 4 Automatically loads one of the last four files accessed by SmartScore Win Select any recent files by type Mac 11 9 7 File gt Exit Quit Cmnd Q Exit SmartScore Save current file Go to Windows main desktop 11 10 MIDI EDIT Menu 11 10 1 Edit gt Undo Ctrl Z Cmnd Z Reverses the last action you performed SmartScore has ninety nine layers of Undo 11 10 2 Edit gt Redo Ctrl Y Cmnd Y Reapplies the last action that has been Undone 11 10 3 Edit gt Select Opens the Select window for defined note selection 11 10 4 Edit gt Select All Ctrl A Cmnd A Selects all MIDI events in
137. e are no lyrics or text to recognize c Press Begin Recognition button to start the recognition process Save the recognized ENF file when prompted d To listen to GLUCK ENF just press the spacebar To shift note pitches e In the flute part of Measure 3 an eighth note of a beamed group needs to be a pitch higher While holding the SHIFT button down drag the notehead of the first beamed note up from A to B To quickly delete objects e Activate the Select tool O key Click and drag to highlight both the slur and the tie above the staffline in Measure 10 Hit the Delete key to remove them To quickly insert ties dots and accidentals and articulations a Ctrl click on the dotted half note in the previous measure to Quick select it Move the mouse pointer to the beginning of Mea sure 10 and click to insert the dotted half note NOTE The S key will allow you to toggle the stem direction of any selected note b Hit the V to activate ties Click on the dotted half notes in Mea sure 9 and again in Measure 10 to insert each tie NOTE Right click while inserting a tie Mac Ctrl click will reverse the default orientation of its arc c There is a spurious dot in the eighth note beam sequence inside Measure 10 To delete the dot toggle the D key until the cursor appears as a greyed out dot and arrow Click on the notehead with the dot to remove USING SmartScore 1 5 af Installation
138. e for the first page score header d Press the Page Setup button to change the basic page layout of your score See File gt Page Setup on page 220 for details 8 8 USING SmartScore Editing Notes and Rests NOTE Tempo will set the metronome for display in ENF and for playback Sew SmartScore Document ft Tithe Urie MM E Copom Pat Hanne Gpstem Type in Score Pisno pits I r E Shaves pa Spem Humber of Sprang Stat Spening Sydiem Sparre Linea Spa ig Camia PE In Chal Signi Auiomaticaly FIGURE 5 6 New score window NOTE To create an ENF document without clefs uncheck Insert Clef Signs Automatically 5 7 2 Using Built in Templates SmartScore has 15 preset templates including solo instrument piano SA TB score duet and custom a Select a desired template from System Type in Score window b Once the score is open use palettes to select objects and place them in the score in Insert mode c Remember to select File gt Save As in order to save the new ENF file with a name you give to it TIP To create a new page once you have reached the bottom of an ENF page place your cursor in the last system and hold down the CTRL button this holds the active system Select Edit gt System gt Insert Below A new page will be created and the new system will be added to it Repeat as necessary to create as many new systems and pages as you require USING SmartSc
139. e in Garbage out You may want to contact Musitek Tech Support for scanner recommendations If after examining the image and consulting the Troubleshooting chart you are still unable to achieve good recognition results we invite you to send us your TIFF file s for detailed analysis by our technicians You can attach your image TIFF files to e mail along with a short description of the problem you experienced to the following address tech musitek com We will as reply soon as possible Most likely we will be able to locate the problem and offer a solution or recommendation USING SmartScore 47 Scanning and Recognition 3 9 1 Troubleshooting Scanning and Recognition Table 3 Troubleshooting Guide Problem Probable Cause Fix Scanner does not operate Scanner drivers not installed properly Install TWAIN software and or scanner Plug in Scanner not selected in SmartScore Ensure proper scanner driver is selected File gt Scan Music Scanner not connected or not turned on Check cabling and power Use scan test program Automatic resolution returns inconsistent reso lution choices on the same page Music has irregular staff widths Scanner may be distorting regions of page Scanner model used does not support variable DPI 1 pixel increments Re scan with Resolution off Re scan in your scanner s software Select Black amp White 350 dpi TIFF Re scan with
140. e music if you are scanning several pages c Preset scanner as described in Scanner settings on page 29 Push Scan or Final Scan in your scanner s interface In this mode you will preview only the first page in your scanner s interface All subsequent pages are previewed in the Image Processing window d After a page is scanned the Image Processing window will open FIGURE 3 7 Macintosh Image Processing window 36 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition Refer to the following descriptions of the controls available in the Image Processing window e Auto Deskew Once an image is previewed toggle this button on and off and choose the setting that gives you the straightest possible image If you are unable to make the image appear straight in the Preview window repo sition your music in the scanner and preview again NOTE If the preview image appears mostly black this means your scanner is reversing image polarity In this case you will want to check the box Invert Image next to the Preview window e Auto Cropping The cropping rectangle defines the image area You may resize by dragging any side with your mouse The cropping rectangle should not intersect or interfere with any part of the music There is no need to extend the rectangle beyond your area of interest SmartScore will automatically center each page of music to the selected default page size Check that the preview image is straight
141. e the Measure Beat slider and scroll to the desired measure and beat in the score To select the MIDI output device e Use the Port pull down selector To transpose playback globally e Use the General Transposition pull down selector To transpose an individual track voice e Use the Transposition pull down selector in any track voice 10 8 Display Controls 10 8 1 Time To choose whether the timing of MIDI note events is displayed by Mea sure Beat Tick or by Tick Number USING SmartScore 20 1 No MIDI Recording MIDI Editing and Sequencing e Go to the Options menu and select Time Format e Choose by Measure Beat Tick or by Tick Number 10 8 2 Velocity To choose whether the velocity of MIDI note events is displayed with absolute numbers 0 127 or as percentages e Go to Velocity Format under the Options menu e Choose by Value 0 127 or Percent 10 9 MIDI Recording 10 9 1 Recording Options To activate the Record mode and adjust the recording options choose Record from the Realtime menu e Synchro Start Recording is synchronized to start with the first MIDI note played To unsynchronize the start of recording with the first played MIDI event uncheck Synchro Start from the Realtime menu OR choose the Met ronome Settings listed under the Options menu and uncheck Synchro On e Thru Sends new MIDI events to the selected MIDI output device The active Piano Roll determines the parameters of
142. ea Choe eet TD pes hape patia by eke Gerad regis Dig fat bites Batre Ra a Coan Sane Sales The EHF the FIGURE 3 10 Post recognition System Report Following recognition a System Report will be displayed indicating the number of systems found and on how many pages Most impor tantly it will inform you of the largest and smallest systems including the number of parts found in each If any of these structures do not coincide with the original music you will want to investigate the cause before spending a lot of time editing the score it may be difficult or even impossible to restructure parts and systems later on e If you select either Open ENF or Open Super System the first thing to be saved is the image file scanned pages The Save As gt Image window has a field to type in a name for the image file e Following that another Save As window will open This is for the ENF file the SmartScore file It acquires the same name as was given the image file It may be changed in the name field Select a destination directory and press Save to save your new EMF file e If you select Open Super System you will be able to scroll from system to system and locate any systems containing an incorrect number of parts See System Manager on page 143 for details If you select Open Image Editor you will be taken to the image editor where you are able to correct certain flaws in the scanned image See Image Editor on page
143. easure exactly as written in the ENF display Uncheck Playback gt Lock to Time Signature Playback will then sound every measure exactly as notated If ENF is unedited you will probably hear mistakes played back as longer measures or interrupted passages 4 1 4 MIDI Devices It is necessary to identify the MIDI device attached to your system in order for SmartScore to play through it Selecting the MIDI device is similar on both Windows and Macintosh One nice advantage of the Mac Operating System 8 0 and better is that it includes QuickTime Musical Instruments soft synthesizer This allows you to select and play General MIDI GM sounds without attaching an external synthesizer or internal soundcard to your computer To set the MIDI input and output devices a Select MIDI Devices from the Playback menu The MIDI Devices window will open Input Output OPL3 SA MPU MIDI IN Roland Serial MIDI Input OPL3 SA FM MIDI TTS Virtual Piano In OPL3 S4 MPU MIDI OUT OPL3 SA Soft Wave Table MI SONG MIDI Roland Serial MIDI Out Port A HOOK FIGURE 4 2 Playback gt MIDI Devices b Click on the MIDI Output device you wish to use for MIDI playback The MIDI device window will display all installed MIDI device drivers 5 8 USING SmartScore ENF Playback c If you intend to record in SmartScore select the desired MIDI mt MIDI recording device interface in Input window NOTE Ifthe desired device is not listed in the
144. eated your own drum pat tern Refer to Creating a drum pattern in ENF on page 108 for more information on how to create drum patterns c Click MIDI button in the Navigator to open the MIDI Overview MIDI NOTE See Section 10 2 on page 179 for more about MIDI views USING SmartScore 109 d e Working with Drums Select Edit gt Create Automatic Drum Pattern Create automatic drum track file Name Style Rock Definition source Track All Begining measure 1 Length in measures i SJ Cancel Generate gt gt gt FIGURE 7 4 Creating a drum pattern from a MIDI file Locate the track in which the drum is played and select it in the Track field Note that MIDI drums will sound only if they are assigned to MIDI Channel 10 NOTE To check the channel number of a track right click Ctrl click for Mac next to the track number in MIDI Overview then select Piano Roll The channel number and its color will appear in the upper left corner of the Piano Roll View Close the Piano Roll window to return to Overview window Another option is to simply open the Playback Console Ctrl 9 Next to each track number listing is a colored box con taining the MIDI channel number assigned Enter the name you wish to give the pattern in the Name field Select a musical style to classify the new pattern and enter it in the Style pull down menu Locate the first measure where you wish
145. ecognition Options on page 38 It may be necessary to remove incorrectly recognized objects in any case We recommend this simple sweep method following recognition a Hit the O key to activate the Select tool b Click and drag the Select Tool to highlight a group of false posi tives that may be found between staff lines c Pay attention to any false tempo and dynamic markings e g f ff etc but at the same time be sure not to select valid markings notes chord symbols or other objects you don t wish to remove d Hit the Delete key to remove highlighted objects e Repeat between subsequent staff lines and on remaining pages f See Inserting or Deleting Multiple Articulations on page 161 78 USING SmartScore Editing Notes and Rests 5 3 ENF Editing Modes 5 3 1 Insert and Change modes NOTE It is highly recommended that you become familiar with SmartScore s hand position for editing You will find editing fast and easy once you begin working with this two handed method 0 FIGURE 5 1 Left and Right Hand Positions for Editing Press the C key of your computer keyboard to toggle between the Insert and Change modes Notice how this changes the appearance of the cursor In the Insert mode the cursor becomes the chosen object In the Change mode the cursor becomes an arrow with the chosen object next to it The Change and Insert buttons in the to
146. ed 4 1 1 Quick Play To play back an open ENF file using the spacebar a Press the spacebar to start playback Press again to pause Press again to resume play oo 99 b Press the comma key to rewind to start point NOTE Spacebar always refreshes playback according to the current ENF display If you wish to keep changes made in MIDI view use PLAY button in Mini Console or Playback Con sole Ctrl 9 See Section 4 5 12 on page 72 and Section 10 1 1 on page 177 for more details on Refresh MIDI 4 1 2 Mini Console The Mini Console is free floating if you grab and move it from its docking position next to Text and Controllers toolbar It plays rewinds and stops playback The Record button will launch a new MIDI recording session to record additional tracks see MIDI Recording on page 202 The spring loaded slider will speed up or slow down playback at variable speeds f and then snap back to the default tempo when let go nqao FIGURE 4 1 Mini Console USING SmartScore 57 ENF Playback 4 1 3 Lock to Time Signature Playback of the ENF file can be controlled in one of two ways Lock to Time Signature or play whatever is there Selecting Lock to Time Signature will force playback to progress with exactly the same number of beats measure as indicated by active Time Signature This is the default For pickup measures turn Lock to Time Signatures off To play back each m
147. ed MIDI events can be moved when using the mouse or arrow keys to move events horizon tally 10 9 4 Recording New Tracks Voices To Record a new track to a MIDI file a Select Record from the Realtime menu OR press the Record button in the Playback Console The New View window will open if any MIDI data already exists in an active file Track 2 Baar Chal FIGURE 10 26 Selecting Track to Record 204 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing b Select an existing track to record a new voice within the same track NOTE The new MIDI data will be added to the existing track without overwriting any material c Select New Track to record a brand new MIDI track NOTE A Piano Roll will open for the selected track A Piano Roll must be open to record in SmartScore A new voice and MIDI channel will automatically be created when recording into any track d Use the Playback Console to assign the MIDI parameters for the new track voice e Press the spacebar or select Play from the Realtime menu or press the Play button in the Playback Console to start recording at measure 1 unless a Punch In point has been set see below While recording e Pause spacebar will temporarily halt recording e Play button spacebar will resume recording the same track voice e Stop will end the current recording session SmartScore will return to the standard MIDI editing environment 10 9 5 External Timer e To r
148. elected from number keys Use SHIFT for rests 7 and Ctrl 2 and 3 for accidentals 5 4 3 Grace Notes While in Insert mode select a rhythmic value and press the grace note button in the Notes palette Click before any note in the active staff to insert a grace note ENF playback will insert the grace note and trun cate the duration of either the following or the previous note To control how grace notes play back and are written to the resulting MIDI file go to Playback gt Sound Grace Notes e On the Beat Accaciatura Plays on the beat and shortens the Pi duration of the following note e Before the Beat Plays before the beat and shortens the duration of the preceding note 5 4 4 Select tool O key Use the Select tool to highlight one or more objects for selected editing functions such as delete vertically align multi voice notes split voices flip stem directions and copy paste The O key activates this tool Its button is found in the SmartScore toolbar USING SmartScore 81 af EAT 7 Vans ae Vaca i Var d g Editing Notes and Rests TIP Use the Select tool Delete key to remove any object other than lyrics and barlines It is especially useful for removing spu rious or unwanted text or multiple objects that do not delete eas ily with the X key 5 4 5 Voice color Contrapuntal voices can be viewed in color as well as in black To view contrapuntal voices as separate col
149. ening the ENF file The Play button in the Mini Console and Playback Console will NOT activate MIDI Refresh Remember Reopening an ENF file refreshes MIDI The rule of thumb for saving changed MIDI data is Perform MIDI Editing Last Then Save As MIDT 178 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 1 2 Parts and Voices to Channels and Tracks SmartScore is designed to map ENF parts and or voices to MIDI tracks depending on which Color Mode is selected Part or Voice For more about color mode of parts and voices see Working with Voices on page 62 10 2 Opening Changing and Closing Multiple MIDI Views There are three ways to display MIDI data in the MIDI Editor Over view Piano Roll and Event List 10 2 1 Opening MIDI views To enter MIDI environment from ENF and to select or change a MIDI view a Press the MIDI button in the Navigator or choose View gt New MIDI View Ctrl I Cmnd I Mac The New MIDI View Window will open FIGURE 10 2 New MIDI View b In the Type window select the type of MIDI view desired Over view display all tracks Piano Roll display detail of one track or Event List display all MIDI events in all tracks USING SmartScore 179 MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 2 2 Changing MIDI Views The MIDI toolbar View gt Toolbars gt MIDI Toolbar includes but tons for opening new Overview Piano Roll Event List windows The Shuttle Tool Reco
150. ent When a selected area is moved to the clipboard only the black portion of the selected area with be moved 11 17 15 Edit gt Pen Color Select the color used by the Brush and Line drawing tools 11 18 Image VIEW Menu 11 18 1 View gt Navigator Opens and closes the SmartScore Navigator 11 18 2 View gt Main Toolbar Opens and closes Main Toolbar 11 18 3 View gt SmartScore Toolbar Opens and closes SmartScore Toolbar 11 18 4 View gt Image Toolbar Opens and closes Image Editing Toolbar 11 18 5 View gt Status Bar Opens and closes Status Bar at the bottom of main SmartScore Win dow Displays current page cursor position image size and zoom per centage 11 18 6 View gt Palettes Opens and closes tool palettes for ENF document editing 11 18 7 View gt Image Information Provides information on the structure and type of the currently dis played image file 248 USING SmartScore Reference 11 18 8 View gt Next Page Displays next page of ENF document 11 18 9 View gt Previous Page Displays previous page of ENF document 11 18 10 View gt Go to Page Ctrl G Win Cmnd G Mac Presents a dialog box to select a page number to jump to Use scroller to select desired page and click OK 11 18 11 View gt Zoom Lists available view percentages Changing zoom will affect both the image and the ENF file simultaneously 11 18 12 View gt Window Opens a second copy of the current ENF document 11 18 13 Vie
151. er value For example a triplet of three eighth notes is equal in total duration to one quarter note Ties A tie links two pairs of notes of the same pitch whose durations are combined so that both notes are played as if one note Ties are often used to sustain the sound of a note across more than one measure NOTE Ties and slurs legatos often look alike but they are as different as lightning and a lighting bug Ties connect two notes of the same pitch and combine their durations into one note event and slurs connect two or more notes over a range of pitches forming a legato that when performed creates a slight overlapping of the notes The arc of a slur can vary from flat to angular The arc of a tie is always flat Articulations Performance markings that provide instructions for playback of the marked notes For example a staccato a dot placed above below a notehead means the note should be short sounding for only a moment Dynamics Dynamic markings are used to denote the general volume and intensity of music For example f or forte means loud and p or piano means soft 12 3 Other Notational Terms Polyphony The dynamic harmony which evolves as voicelines move horizontally against one another in time Polyphony evolved from the simpler homophony of middle ages where vocal harmony was more chordal vertical and static Polyphony usually refers to the harmonic relationships between voices but also applies to i
152. erence 11 4 4 Edit gt Copy To Copy selected objects to the clipboard without removing them from the score e Click and drag a box with the Select tool Press Ctrl C Cmnd C or go to Edit gt Copy To Copy selected objects to the clipboard without removing them from the score e Click and drag a box with the Select tool Press Ctrl C Cmnd C or go to Edit gt Copy 11 4 5 Edit gt Paste Ctrl V Cmnd V To Paste the contents of the clipboard into an ENF file e Select Paste Ctrl V Cmnd V from the Edit menu and click anywhere in the score The contents of the clipboard will be added to the score without replacing the existing notes 11 4 6 Edit gt Paste Replace Ctrl R or Cmnd R To Paste the copied material into an ENF file and replace existing notation e Select Paste Replace from the Edit menu Ctrl R or Cmnd R and click anywhere in the score TIP Use Paste Replace to quickly replace a complex passage that was poorly recognized with an identical passage that is correct 11 4 7 Edit gt Select All Ctrl A or Cmnd A To select all objects on the current page for cut copy or paste replace action Choose Select All from the Edit menu Ctrl A or Cmnd A 11 4 8 Edit gt Bracketing Ctrl B or Cmnd B Refer to Bracketing on page 103 11 4 9 Edit gt System Manager Ctrl M or Cmnd M Refer to System Manager on page 143 224 USING SmartScore Reference 11 4 10 Edit gt Part
153. ess one of the Rotate buttons in the Image Toolbar e Rotate the image Left 90 degree rotation e Rotate the image Right 90 degree rotation 52 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition e Select Edit gt Rotate gt Any to rotate at angles other than 90 degrees Angle in degrees Mode Cancel C Clip image Expand image FIGURE 3 18 Image Rotation e Choose Clip Image mode to maintain the original page size and orientation of the image file NOTE Be careful that none of the image is clipped with this option If so choose Edit gt Undo Ctrl z Cmnd z for Mac e Choose Expand Image mode to increase the page size if neces sary to include the entire image e Remember to Save when done Invert If the image you open in SmartScore is white on black instead of the normal black on white then you should reverse the image output in your scanning software SmartScore defaults to 0 white polarity If your scanned image appears white on black choose Edit gt Invert 3 10 2 Drawing Tools e Line Brush Thickness r To change the width of brush or line tool select a new size from the Width menu in the Image Toolbar Select from 1 to 50 pixels e Pen Color USING SmartScore 53 A Scanning and Recognition Toggle the Pen Color push button to choose the color used when draw ing Color changes from White to Black as you toggle the button Or choose Pen Color from the Edit me
154. ess recording is initiated To revert back to ENF view close the open MIDI view 9 4 9 Tiling Ferg Viewing several displays of your score can be extremely useful It is Tie possible to view several MIDI and ENF views simultaneously e Push Tile button to display all open TIF ENF views along with any open MIDI Overview Piano Roll or Event List views This is identical to selecting the Window gt Tile menu Sooo i EA EO Ce ee ee eee me an A oe E aa FIGURE 9 5 Tiled view typical 9 5 Transposition SmartScore offers several types of transposition depending on your needs You can transpose by key the most common type of transposi tion Transposing by clef is useful for transforming parts to instruments written in another clef sign It is also most helpful for rewriting trans posed instrument parts for other transposed non transposed instru ments You can also choose to transpose by altering note pitches only USING SmartScore 139 Detailed ENF Editing either considering the active key signature or by ignoring the active key signature Using the Limit option you can choose a specified range part or voice to transpose NOTE It is recommended that you carefully edit your score before transposing If your score contains incorrect change of key signatures and or guitar fret and chord symbols they will be transposed to who knows where Remember too that it may become difficult to refer to the original sc
155. every track 11 10 5 Edit gt Cut Ctrl X Cmnd X Removes the highlighted notes from the score and places them in the clipboard 11 10 6 Edit gt Copy Ctrl C Win Cmnd C Mac Places selected notes on the clipboard without removing them from the score 240 USING SmartScore Reference 11 10 7 Edit gt Paste Ctrl V Cmnd V Insert the contents of the clipboard back into the score without deleting the existing notes 11 10 8 Paste Special Opens the Paste Special window The Paste Special window offers sev eral options for pasting the contents of the clipboard back into the music 11 10 9 Edit gt Delete Del Deletes the selected section from the MIDI file 11 10 10 Edit gt Program Change Piano Roll only Opens the Change Instrument window Insert a change to a new MIDI patch 11 10 11 Edit gt Velocity Duration Opens the Velocity and Duration window Adjust the Velocity and or Duration of the selected MIDI events 11 10 12 Edit gt Create Automatic Drum Pattern If you wish to convert a MIDI drum pattern and add it to the Smart Score drum pattern library load the MIDI drum pattern file and select this option For more information see Adding custom drum patterns from ENF on page 109 11 11 MIDI VIEW Menu 11 11 1 View gt Navigator Opens and closes the SmartScore Navigator 11 11 2 View gt Main Toolbar Opens and closes Main Toolbar 11 11 3 View gt SmartScore Toolbar Opens a
156. f signature at the beginning of a new line To delete a signature e With the mouse pointer displaying a key or time signature hit the X key to enter Delete mode and click on the signature 11 2 6 Rhythmic Groups See Tuplets and Slurs Legatos on page 85 11 2 7 Dynamics See To insert a crescendo or decrescendo on page 158 11 2 8 Tempo See Tempo Markings Metronome Mark on page 156 21 6 USING SmartScore L aff S0 898 4 E Sern eeg Reference 11 2 9 Tools Text Selecting the Text button sets the mouse pointer to the Text Edit mode See Text Section 6 1 on page 93 e Lyrics Selecting the Lyric button sets the mouse pointer to the Lyric Edit mode See Lyrics Section 6 2 on page 94 e Guitar Fretboard Selecting the Guitar chord fretboard button set the mouse pointer to Insert Guitar Chord mode See Guitar Frets and Chord Symbols Section 6 5 on page 99 e Edit Shapes Selecting the Edit Shapes button activates Edit Shapes mode See Edit Shapes Section 6 4 on page 97 e Rehearsal Ten Rehearsal Markings can be placed anywhere in the ENF view e Pedals Four Pedal Markings can be placed anywhere in the ENF view e Bowings Two Bowing Markings can be placed anywhere in the ENF view e Breaths A Breath Marking can be placed anywhere in the ENF view USING SmartScore 217 Reference 11 3 ENF FILE Menu 11 3 1 File gt New ENF Ctrl N Win
157. for Mac to insert a tie with upward arc d To delete a tie hit the X key and click the first note of the pair to delete You can also use the Select tool and Delete key to delete ties NOTE A tie across a system tie at end of line automatically creates a linked tie marking at the end of the source system as well as to its partner at beginning of the next system 86 USING SmartScore nM eS SS SS E Editing Notes and Rests 5 4 13 Barlines While in the Insert mode hit the T key or select any barline from the Barlines amp Repeats palette e Click anywhere in the active staffline to Insert a barline To Change a barline a Select a barline from the Barlines palette b In Change mode click on a barline to change to selected barline c Press the X key and click on the barline to delete it 5 5 Edit Shapes Detailed features of certain objects can be changed in the Edit Shapes mode Beam angles lengths and curves of slurs and ties even horizon tal and vertical nudging of notes and rests are all controlled by drag ging control points or the objects themselves To open Edit Shapes mode press the Edit Shapes button in the Text and Controllers toolbar To return to normal edit mode press the Edit Shapes button again For more information turn to Edit Shapes Section 6 4 on page 97 5 6 Key and Clef Transposition Transposing all o
158. g Systems 121 Re linking optimized systems 122 Score Structure 124 Structure and hierarchy 124 Creating a Conductor s Score from Part Scores 124 Joining open ENF files 125 Creating Part Scores from Ensemble Scores 126 Controlling Voices within Score Structure 127 114 USING SmartScore Chapter 8 Changing Score Structure M FOR PRO and SONGBOOK EDITIONS ONLY Once you have rec ognized and edited your music you now have the ability to reconfigure Ao au the score In this chapter we will look at how to change the structure of your music by extracting and recombining parts score parts and voices or creating a conductor s score from separate parts 8 1 Controlling Structure from the System Manager 8 1 1 Extracting parts using Visibility In this example we have recognized a vocal piano arrangement P FIGURE 8 1 Three part score ENF View To extract a selected Part from within the System Manager a Position your cursor over an ENF system that contains the part you wish to extract Hit Ctrl M Cmnd M for Mac System Manager opens b Select an instrument template for the parts in Part Name column Le Shall Peia L abbr Wie Wida er T iraa i bm See Corning isre Snie r F ta F Gma ii ar j Bo T Pai eters wiii
159. g the notehead of the visiting voice to alter its pitch Py TIP Hitting the CapLock button On keeps the active staff selected A until CapLock is pressed again Off Use this Hold Active Staff feature before selecting any of the Add or Remove staff and system functions under the Edit menu 9 8 7 Cross measure beaming To create a cross measure beam a Insert a right beam note and a left beam note on either side of a barline b Use the Select tool to highlight both notes and hit the B key 9 8 8 Overlapping or offset noteheads Two notes in different voices can share the same pitch at the same time You can choose whether note heads of different voices should overlap one another or become horizontally offset To allow overlapping note heads check off Overlap Notes in the Options Overlap menu Playback will not be affected whether note heads are offset or overlap 9 8 9 Swapping positions of offset notes The relative orientation of offset notes can be swapped if necessary To swap the horizontal positioning of offset notes a Use the Select tool to highlight two offset notes belonging to dif ferent voices in the same vertical event b Hit the L key to swap note positions USING SmartScore 1 5 3 Detailed ENF Editing 9 9 Playback Console PLATEACK COHSOLE Ganaa ouse i xj aja aiibi fja r Tisch vios Pai Hari Chi Pai Lk irinareni Gel Mule Solo kroi 1 H ae ale B r aff eho
160. ge will do refer to the user s manual of your MIDI device e Meta Events Meta Events are MIDI file instructions written to the MIDI file They provide information such as file and track headers SMPTE code tempo key and time signatures etc and can be added to any MIDI file using SmartScore s Event List 10 7 Playback Console The Playback Console is available in Overview and Piano Roll views and allows for detailed viewing and control of playback and provides real time editing of the active MIDI file Push MIDI in the Navigator 200 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing and select Piano Roll or Overview Push the Playback Console button in the SmartScore Toolbar or choose Real time gt Playback Console Ctrl 9 Win Cmnd 9 Mac to open the Playback Console NOTE The console can act as a window shade To shrink verti cally drag the bottom edge of the console up or down 10 7 1 Adjusting Playback Console Settings General e Adjust global playback volume using the General Volume slider e Adjust channel volumes using individual Volume sliders e Use Pan to adjust stereo balance for each channel e Default resets all MIDI tracks to their original settings e The Close button will close the Playback Console e Mute any voice while all others continue to play or Solo a single voice for playback Change the MIDI Instrument or Channel of any voice To play back at a given point in the file e Us
161. ghted and push Save As e Select the existing name to over write or type in a new name 3 8 Scanning Part Scores Score Parts SmartScore allows you to process and combine scanned pages of solo parts duets trios or quartets and play them back simultaneously They may also be recombined into a conductor s score TIP If you are scanning in Score parts for the purpose of joining solo parts into a conductor s score it is recommended not to recognize text To scan and combine Score parts into one ENF file USING SmartScore 45 Scanning and Recognition a Scan in all pages for each part For easiest identification give a unique name or number for pages belonging to one part e g FluteP1 FluteP2 GuitarP1 GuitarP2 etc b In the Begin Recognition window arrange files in order of parts then pages e g Partl Page1 Partl Page2 Part2 Pagel etc FIGURE 3 14 Grouping pages to Score Parts c Highlight the first set of pages that make up the first Score Part d Push Group to Score Part In the Part Name window give the selected pages belonging to a score part a unique name e When all pages are properly grouped to score parts push the Begin Recognition button SmartScore will internally organize score parts following recognition The ENF window will display pages for the first part followed by pages of the next part Parts will play back simultaneously For more informa tion on creating conductor s scores
162. h Rest Rests are equivalent to notes insofar as their durations but repre sent silence They act as place holders used to keep the rhythmic structure of the measure intact Measure Staff lines are segmented into equal time divisions called measures Measures are the building blocks that provide structure for music The sum of note and rest durations within each measure must equal the value of the current time signature Barline Barlines are the vertical lines that define the beginning and ending of measures Accidental Note pitches often range outside of the tonal center defined by the key signature An accidental shifts its associated note up sharp or down flat by 1 2 step Accidentals may also be doubled An accidental remains effective only for the remainder of the measure in which it appears A natural cancels a note s current accidental Dot of Prolongation Notes and rests that are dotted have the value of their duration lengthened by 1 2 For example a dotted quarter note is equal in duration to three eighth notes Double dotted notes increase the note s duration by 3 4 of the original USING SmartScore 253 Glossary Tuplet Some notes belong to a special readmit class called tuplets These include triplets quintuplets and sextuplets A tuplet is a group of notes usually marked with a bracket that are subdivided within a sin gle beat equal in duration to the note s next high
163. h class that stave belongs to The lowest instruments are written in the bass clef intermediate instruments and voices often use one of three C clef classes while higher pitched instruments in addition to the right hand part of a piano score are scored in the treble clef The clef sign always appears at the beginning of every staff line and in the first measure if a change of clef occurs Change of clef signs are smaller than normal clefs 252 USING SmartScore Glossary Key Signature The key signature along with the clef sign appears at the beginning of every line it is also found in the measure where a change of key occurs The key signature defines the tonal center of the piece The number of sharps or flats in the key signature determines the key tone or tonic Time Signature Time signatures usually appear only once at the beginning of the stave in the first measure of the piece They will also appear when a change of time signature occurs Time signatures indi cate both the number of beats per measure numerator as well as which note value is given the fundamental beat denominator The sum of note duration values in a given measure must equal the value of the cur rent time signature Note A note is the fundamental unit of tone The duration of a note is determined by its note value normally between 1 and 128 divisions The note s vertical position on a given staff with clef determines its pitc
164. h software that enable programs such as SmartScore to control them TWAIN drivers and or Mac plug ins are normally included in the soft ware packaged with most scanners It may be necessary for some users to perform Custom gt Install TWAIN from the CD which was included with your scanner depending on the manufacturer NOTE Scanner drivers are often updated by scanner manufacturers and posted on their web sites If problems occur during scan ning it is always a good idea to check the Internet for updated scanner drivers before calling Musitek Technical Support Mac Only Skip the next section Turn to Scanning for Macintosh on page 32 3 2 Scanning in Windows a Check File gt Scan Music gt Choose Interface SmartScore s b Go to File gt Scan Music gt Select Scanner With your mouse click on the driver that corresponds to your scanner fix FIGURE 3 1 File gt Scan Music gt Select Scanner NOTE Win XP and NT only Select WIA xxxx xxxx if avail able Do not select PrecisionScan etc when WIA driver is available For Win 98 or 2000 see HP on page 31 USING SmartScore 25 Scanning and Recognition If you do not see anything listed in the Select Scanner window your drivers are probably not installed Install or replace TWAIN driver from scanner CD or from the Download Drivers area of scanner manufacturer s website If the scanner still does no
165. hanging Parts and MIDI instruments in System Manager We will now use System Manager to select parts and assign MIDI sounds MIDI instrument assignments can be changed in the System Manager either by choosing one of a number of preset Part Names or by changing the MIDI instruments assigned to any particular voice a d Return to the original Gluck score hit Ctrl M Cmnd M Go to the Part Name column and click on the first Part Name Flute Scroll down the list and select Oboe Notice Voice 1 becomes Oboe NOTE Default instrument names and linked MIDI sounds are obtained from Instrument Templates Lre Sisi i PatMere abi aai Yous Z Wooo 3 ton Epe Epe dah aad FIGURE 2 8 Changing MIDI instruments by selecting new Part Name Even more interesting is to assign different instrument sounds to contrapuntal voices within a single part staff line Refer to the next figure Changing MIDI Instrument of a voice in System Manager Select Harpsichord instrument for Voice 2 of the PianoR part Each voice V1 V2 V3 or V4 can each be assigned a unique MIDI sound simply by clicking on its current instrument name and selecting one of 128 MIDI instruments 2a E i E 5 Taw FIGURE 2 9 Changing MIDI instrument of a voice in System Manager Press OK to apply the change and close System Manager USING SmartScore 19 Installation and Quick Tour e Now hit the spacebar to play back Whenever the seconda
166. hannel MIDI Channel 10 is the default channel But you can change it if you wish Determine the number of Lead in Measures that will play prior to the start of recording The metronome will click at each baseline beat derived from the time signature for as many measures as you choose The Primary Beat down beat will sound when its On check box is selected The Pitch pull down menu displays all General MIDI drum sounds Use the Volume scroll box to increase or decrease the volume of the Primary Beat The default accents the Primary Beat USING SmartScore 203 MIDI Editing and Sequencing The Secondary Beat will sound when it On check box is selected The Pitch pull down menu displays all General MIDI drum sounds Use the Volume scroll box to increase or decrease the volume of the Secondary Beat 10 9 3 Snap to MIDI recording is very strict Any fluctuation in timing or speed may result in strange or even useless notation To prevent this you can apply quantization to your performance Select Snap to from the Options menu prior to recording Choose the smallest rhythmic value that you think you can accurately play while recording The resulting MIDI events will be justified each event beginning at the nearest selected rhythmic timing mark You can reset start times of selected events to the nearest value set in Options gt Snap to will also reset start times of all selected MIDI events and will fix the increment at which select
167. hapter 8 Changing Score Structure 115 Controlling Structure from the System Manager 115 Page Setup 120 Re link Parts 121 Merging Systems 121 Re linking optimized systems 122 Score Structure 124 Structure and hierarchy 124 Creating a Conductor s Score from Part Scores 124 Joining open ENF files 125 Creating Part Scores from Ensemble Scores 126 Controlling Voices within Score Structure 127 Chapter 9 Detailed ENF Editing 129 More ENF navigating 129 Quick Keys 132 QuickSelect Ctrl Click 132 Insert and Change Modes C 132 Delete by Group Delete Any X 133 Select Tool O 133 Using the Select tool for quick deletions 133 Using the Select Tool O to edit selected objects 134 Dots D 134 Ties V 135 Beam direction A 135 Flags and beams F 135 Stem direction S 135 Accidentals 136 Rests R 137 Barlines I
168. hen done Pisce ee i noe Hebs ol pig comet 1 FIGURE 3 4 Scan Next Page Finish window NOTE Before selecting Next Page place the next page into the scan ner and wait until the scanner bar resets If you push too soon you may get an error message that Scanner cannot be found or Scanner is not ready NOTE If the piece you are processing exceeds 24 pages divide it into smaller discrete sections e g Intro Part1 Part2 etc The following section lists image enhancement and scanner settings which you can control within the SmartScore scanning interface If you understand and or accept the default settings in the Scan window turn to Recognition Sequence Win Mac on page 37 to complete scan ning and to begin the recognition process 3 2 2 Automatic image enhancement functions The SmartScore interface has 4 automatic image enhancement func tions all designed to assist you in creating the best possible image for recognition USING SmartScore 27 Scanning and Recognition Auto Resolution This feature takes the guesswork out of choosing the correct resolution dpi setting for each scan When selected the image is analyzed and sized in order to obtain an optimum image resolution thus achieving the highest possible recognition accuracy Use this feature whenever possible e Auto Cropping The cropping rectangle defines the final image area You may change its size by dragging any edge
169. hods make SmartScore the most accu rate music reading software ever This means you will spend less time cleaning up recognized files Version 3 has greatly improved nota tion text and lyric recognition Guitar fretboard and chord symbols triplets both noted and implied arpeggios glissandos accents multi ple endings tempo pedal and bowing markings are now recognized 1 3 2 New tools to enhance your experience Improved editing functions include smarter beaming including group ing of selected notes into beams and cross measure beaming Apply changes to articulation and dynamic markings individually or globally The Guitar Chord Library now contains more than 500 chords Play back your SmartScore files with automatic drum tracks Choose from a library of drum styles and even add your own A new Karaoke View lets you sing along with bouncing ball and moving lyrics Immedi ately add drum tracks based on various styles 1 3 3 Enhanced ENF to MIDI relationship Unlike most MIDI sequencing programs which support only one MIDI channel per part Type 1 format SmartScore supports multiple MIDI channels within each MIDI track This is because SmartScore can dif ferentiate more than one voice within a part When Option gt Color Voice contrapuntal voices become assigned to individual MIDI USING SmartScore 3 Introduction to SmartScore channels In practice this level of detail creates a world of possibilities for e
170. hout a score the ability to apply different characteristics to them to control their visibility and spacing on the page etc gives SmartScore its unique flexibility The usefulness of these relationships becomes most apparent in the System Manager where instrumental characteristics are assigned 1 4 How to use this manual An excellent way to start using SmartScore is to turn to the Quick Tour on page 9 As you scan recognize play back and edit your files turn to the corresponding chapter in this manual Later chapters will help you to work with text and symbols to change the structure of your score to do more detailed editing and to operate in a pure MIDI envi ronment This manual is fully indexed and cross referenced The easiest and quickest method of obtaining information on any topic is to look it up in the Index on page 258 then turn to listed page s Detailed descrip tions of SmartScore menu items can be found in Reference chapter on page 211 USING SmartScore 5 GUITAR MIDI Me Introduction to SmartScore 1 4 1 What Edition symbols mean This manual is written for all editions of SmartScore Features described that do not apply to all editions will have a symbol in the left margin e SmartScore Full Edition No restrictions e Songbook Edition Not found in MIDI Piano or Guitar Edi tions Identical to SmartScore Full Edition but limited to processing music with no more than 3 staves per system e Pia
171. hs eos Sere eae ee eee E 186 Inserting program changes Assign MIDI instrument 186 MIDI Instrument settings 187 MIDI event selection 189 Changing MIDI event characteristics 190 Note Event window 191 Cut Copy and Paste 192 Measure Settings 193 Setting Repeats and Multiple Endings 195 Segnos 195 Event List 24 22 2el ee SS ee eS be Se lhe 197 Changing parameters of selected notes 198 Inserting note events 198 Editing Key Time and Tempo 199 Inserting Non Note Events 199 Playback Console 63 5 24 ee ee ee ek 200 Display Controls 201 MIDI Recording 202 Step Time Recording 206 Virtual Drum Kits 57 77 577 5 207 Playback Considerations after MIDI Editing 208 MIDLENE ee erat Bre Ss Stee ee oe ee ee E 208 Saving MIDI Files 208 176 USING SmartScore Chapter 10 MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 1 ENF Notation and MIDI Editor Relationship 10 1 1 Updating and refreshing playback and display It s important to understand the difference between the ENF and MIDI displays ENF notation always updates the MIDI display But the MIDI disp
172. i tion Selector The solid line represents the fret position e Press Copy to copy the current fretboard to the clipboard e Press Paste to paste in the fretboard layout from the clipboard Press Add The newly created chord and symbol will be written to the library You will be warned if a symbol with the exact chord label already exists If so push Done rename the chord and Add again To change an existing chord or symbol in the Guitar Chord Library a Push the Change button in the Library section of chord window b Proceed to edit chord symbol as described above When finished press OK in Frets window Chord symbol is automatically updated NOTE You can page through symbols using either the scroller or clicking through the index window in bottom right corner To delete existing chord symbol s In Delete mode X key click on any symbol to delete it To delete several fret symbols use the Select tool highlight as many frets on one line that you wish and hit the Delete key To move a chord symbol vertically Hold the Shift button and click and drag a chord symbol up or down To move one or more chord symbols a Use the Select tool O key and highlight more than one guitar fretboard chord symbol above a staff line b Push the Edit Shapes button in the Text and Controllers toolbar c Use your mouse to click and drag fretboard chord symbols To reorder all chords based on alphabetical order
173. ic is encompassed Do not cut off any margins as they determine score structure Try to leave about 1 4 to 1 2 of white space on all sides of the music Press down hard on the spine if you are using a book d Find the controls for Resolution dpi and Darkness Bright ness in your scanner s interface It may take some poking around 3 4 5 Scanner settings e Resolution Select a resolution of 300 350 dpi for most music If the original music is printed in smaller type increase resolution to 400 500 dpi For min iature scores try 600 dpi but don t expect miracles if the music has extremely small print It is not recommended you scan music below 250 dpi or higher than 600 dpi If the resolution you selected is too high or too low you will receive a message at the beginning of the recogni tion sequence recommending another resolution You will have to choice to Continue or Rescan e Darkness Brightness For typical printed music scan slightly darker than 0 setting e g 10 This tends to fatten up objects If the original music is faded if it is a weak copy or if it has become degraded you may want to scan even darker e g 10 or 15 If beams smear together and whole and half notes appear closed or blobbed then brighten the scan e g 15 SmartScore wants to see solid well defined lines that are nei ther razor thin nor smeared together a Once set press the Scan or Final S
174. ice 1 to make the soprano part invisi ble In the Apply region below check the Visibility box since the only change we are making in the System Manager is to visibil ity c Press Apply to New to create a new ENF document containing only the alto voiceline d Press the spacebar to hear just the alto line Editing Lyrics and Text Mo sb a Select Recognition USING SmartScore 21 ue Installation and Quick Tour b Press the Add Files to List button in the Begin Recognition win dow Select SONGBOOK TIF and press Open In the Options area check the box to the left of Text Recognition Change Lan guage to English c Press the Begin Recognition button Once Recognition is com plete save the ENF file SONGBOOK ENF d The lyrics in the first system appear too close to the arcing slur in the right hand piano part e With Shift button down click and drag the first set of lyrics up f Press the L Lyric button in the Text and Controllers toolbar With the lyric cursor activated click on half note in the top staff line The cursor will insert at the beginning of the lyric block associated with that note g Using the arrow keys move the cursor down to the next lyric line and then right to the end of the lyric block Hit to insert it h Repeat in Measure 8 by clicking on the topmost dotted half note 2 7 Editing Solo Guitar Music MIDI View 2 7 1 Editing three or more voices Solo classical guitar a
175. icking inside any of the diplays opens a navigation aid or zoom window 11 5 2 View gt Palettes Refer to page 130 Tool Palettes F1 F9 keys for details USING SmartScore 229 Reference 11 5 3 View gt Open at Startup When this option is active Toolbars and Palettes that are checked will open by default when SmartScore is launched Use to override default toolbar and palette displays 11 5 4 View gt Show Active Staff This selection will cause the ENF display to highlight the active staff in black while other staves become grey The active staffline is the staff that the mouse pointer was last positioned over TIP Show Active Staff is useful when notation objects do not respond to editing actions Using this view option might reveal that they actually belong to an adjacent staffline TIP If an object does not delete even if it shows itself to be in an active staff use the Select tool O key to highlight it and then hit Delete All selected objects will be removed with the Delete key whether they are in the active staff or not 11 5 5 View gt Hidden Symbols Refer to page 155 Hidden Symbols for details 11 5 6 View gt Break Barline Choose this option to break barlines by instrument groups For more details see page 224 Edit gt Bracketing Ctrl B or Cmnd B 11 5 7 View gt Cross staff Voicing Choose solid or dashed line to indicate when a voice crosses over to an adjacent staff line vi
176. ickly check for errors select Error Check Ctrl E 2 3 3 Editing Fandango To insert the missing grace note in the first measure a Move your cursor to the Notes tool palette on the left of your screen Select a 16th note The number 5 key on your computer keyboard will do the same Hit the C key and toggle to Insert mode displaying only a note In both Insert and Change modes your cursor becomes the selected object b Press the A key to change the beam direction until it points towards the right In the Notes palette click on the Grace note button Move your cursor into Measure 1 and position the notehead of the grace note on D Press the S key to flip its stem direction Click to insert the first grace note Notice the cursor s beam direction has gone from right to left Position the cursor notehead on F and click to insert the second grace note See Insert and Change Modes C on page 132 NOTE Grace notes can play back either on the beat accaciatura or before the beat To change go to Playback gt Sound Grace Notes TIP The FT key will reset all windows and palettes to their default positions This is especially useful when windows palettes and tool bars become too scattered or too numerous To insert the missing dynamic markings a Move your cursor over any tool palette on the left side of your screen and right click Win Ctrl click Mac This all
177. idual note s parameters Channel Time Duration Pitch and Velocity 10 6 2 Inserting note events To insert new events in the Event List view a onan p Click the Event you want the Note to follow Select New from the upper left hand corner of the Event List The Create New Event window will open Scroll to Note On in the Event Type menu Press OK A Note On event will be inserted into the Event List Enter the Voice Time Duration and Pitch of the new event by clicking in the corresponding columns or double click in the Type column to open the Note On window 198 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 6 3 Editing Key Time and Tempo Click in any column to make changes to any existing MIDI events To insert a new tempo key or time signature click the event you want the new event to follow Press the New button The Create New Event win dow will open Create New Event x Event Type M eta Event Control Change Program Change Channel Presure Pitch Bend Change Tempo SMPTE Offset Time Signature Key Signature Sequencer Specyfic FIGURE 10 24 Create New Event window Use the scroll bar to select Meta Event A Meta Event is a MIDI file instruction Scroll through the Event Subtype window to choose Tempo Time Signature or Key Signature Press OK Use the Other column to select the new tempo time signature or key signature OR double click in the
178. iew selected track in one of these views NOTE The Transpose selection window will actually move all the note events of the selected track by half steps e New Track will create an empty new track e Selecting Duplicate Track will create an exact copy of the active track and insert it at the bottom of the track listing e Delete Track will erase the highlighted MIDI track completely To zoom in and out in Overview and Piano Roll e Use the magnifying glass in the MIDI toolbar Click to zoom in Right click option click for Mac to zoom out e Drag zoom will magnify events either horizontally or vertically To zoom vertically drag any piano key divider Piano Roll or track divider Overview upwards or downwards To magnify events horizontally drag a measure bar division in the track header left or right FIGURE 10 6 Drag Zoom in Piano Roll and Overview USING SmartScore 181 MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 4 Playback 10 4 1 Spacebar e Press the spacebar to Play Press again to Pause Press again to resume Play Press the comma key to Rewind to the begin ning 10 4 2 Mini Console mp The Mini Console is a dockable tear off toolbar that plays records rewinds and stops playback ido a Hra Connais oso No MIDI Recording The spring loaded tempo slider will increase or decrease tempo speed depending on the distance it is pulled from the center Releasing the mouse will return pla
179. ight beam selected clicking to the left of an existing beamed group will insert a note to the beginning of that group 84 USING SmartScore Editing Notes and Rests 5 4 9 Stem direction The default stem direction of an inserted note is determined by its verti cal position on the staff When your cursor crosses the middle staffline the direction of the stem automatically switches Default stem direc tions Up above the middle staff line Down below the middle staff line To reverse the default stem direction while inserting a note e With a stemmed note selected toggle the S key to change its default stem direction Another method is to insert the note with a right click option click for Mac This will reverse the default stem direction of the note as it is displayed by the cursor To change the stem direction of an existing note a Toggle the C key to activate the Change mode b Right click option click for Mac on any given notehead The stem direction will change 5 4 10 Dots of Prolongation e Select the D key dot or double dot from the Notes or Rests palette Click on any notehead to attach a dot of prolongation e To Delete a dot of prolongation press the D key again and click on the notehead 5 4 11 Tuplets and Slurs Legatos While in the Insert mode select a triplet T key from the Rhyth mic Groups palette or select Legato from the Articulations
180. ime set the of Passes to 2 the default Check the Last Measure of Repeat box to set a measure as the final measure of the repeated section During playback once the preset num ber of passes has been met playback of the remainder of the score will continue after this measure has finished The 1 Measure of Ending box designates a measure as the beginning of an ending The Number of Passes scroller is used to number this ending i e 1 1 Ending 2 2 Ending Hold down the Ctrl key to select a number to designate the number multiple passes this ending should have Use the Last Measure of Ending check box to define the total length of the ending After this measure is played MIDI playback will jump to the 1 Measure of Repeat and continue on with the next pass NOTE This measure is also the Last Measure of Repeat Check the Last Measure of Repeat box to continue playback with the Ist Measure of Repeat 10 5 12 Segnos A Segno is a musical notation symbol used to denote the beginning or the end of a repeated section e Starting from a Segno Checking the Segno box will place a Segno in a measure USING SmartScore 195 MIDI Editing and Sequencing Activate the Jump check box and select d s or Dal Segno from Segno After this measure is played MIDI playback will jump to the Segno measure and continue playback e Ending at a Segno Check the Jump box and select d c or Da Capo from the beginning and al segno
181. indow 11 16 Image File Menu Items 11 16 1 File gt New Select between a new ENF or a new MIDI Choosing New ENF will open the New SmartScore Document window Select a Template or use Custom to create a unique score Choosing New MIDI will open a blank MIDI Overview and Piano Roll for MIDI input 11 16 2 File gt Open Ctrl O Cmnd O Opens File Selection dialog box and lists saved files A selected file will be loaded into memory and will display on the screen 11 16 3 File gt Save Ctrl S Cmnd T Writes currently displayed file to the hard disk USING SmartScore 245 Reference 11 16 4 File gt Save As Opens Windows File Selection dialog box Save processed or modified Image files to hard disk following Scan ning and Editing Use to save selected files to directory other than the working directory 11 16 5 File gt Scan Music Selects scanner or initiates scanner to acquire image 11 16 6 File gt Recognition Initiates Recognition to begin processing saved image file s 11 16 7 File gt Print Ctrl P Win Cmnd P Mac Initiates Windows Print Monitor Current Image file is output to default printer from selected printer port 11 16 8 File gt Recent 1 2 3 or 4 Automatically loads one of the last four files accessed by SmartScore Win Select any recent files by type Mac 11 16 9 File gt Exit Quit Cmnd Q Mac Exit SmartScore Save current file Go to Windows main desktop 11 17 Image EDI
182. ing a choral or orchestral score that has dissimilar lines of lyrics written under every staff line including the last staff line of each system Otherwise leave unchecked e Triplets Check this box if the score contains triplets that are indicated with the number 3 along with an arc or bracket e Implied Triplets Check this box if the score has repeated groups of three beamed notes except for scores with tripled time signatures x 3 x 6 etc The first grouping is usually indicated with a triplet marking For the sake of convenience implied triplets are not repeated again e Endings If the music has more than one ending indicated check this box e Pedals If pedal markings are written into the music check this box USING SmartScore 39 Scanning and Recognition e Bowings If up down bowing marks are written into the music check this box e Hymnal Fonts If you are scanning in music from a hymnal with stubby flags and short stems check this box e Join Offset Voices Often you will see notes belonging to different voices appear horizon tally offset even though they sound at the same time It is necessary for the recognizer to decide which notes to join and which notes not to join to a vertical event See Vertical Alignment and offset voices on page 64 Normally offset notes belonging to different voices have no more than 1 4 of a notehead s space between them e If your music ha
183. ing program like Photo shop to scan and save images Then Recognize the saved images in SmartScore This is the least desirable choice You will get more reli able results if you scan from within SmartScore 42 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition If you are going to scan outside of SmartScore use the following guidelines for successful music scanning 3 7 Place music in the scanner as straight as possible Set Output or Purpose to Black amp White Line Art 1 bit or OCR not color or gray Do not select Color or Photo Set Resolution to 300 400 dpi for average printed music Set Darkness to 10 or 15 for average printed music Save as TIFF file Uncompressed will be about 1 MB per page Compressed files are smaller BMP will work too Use a unique filename for each page e g Pagel tif Page2 tif etc Optimum resolution is achieved when the distance between staff lines is about 20 pixels Zoom into the image Referring to the mouse position readout in the status bar measure the dis tance between two lines in a stave measure white space only Selecting Pre scanned Files for Processing NOTE For detailed information on proper scanning procedures see Scanner settings on page 35 To create an ENF file from pre scanned images of printed music a Push the Recognition button on the Navigator or select Recog nize under the File menu dja eee O Open ScanfRecog Unily Score Reco
184. ion and define on which pass playback will jump 10 6 Event List To view and edit detailed MIDI events meta events note events con trollers program changes key and time signatures etc in a selected track a Press the MIDI button of the Navigator or in the menu select View gt New MIDI View or Window gt Event List b Choose Event List from the Type pull down menu c Select a track to view and press OK The Event List displays every MIDI event of the selected track Beet R 1 es i Pr ij a F Emi em piera E masii m heie p b P He F ia i FIGURE 10 22 Event List e Select what event types are displayed in the Event List by check ing or un checking the Event Type boxes along the top of the Event List e To scroll the Event List display during playback check the Scroll when playing box in the Event List window USING SmartScore 197 mo MIDI Editing and Sequencing To page from track to track click on Track Paging buttons in the Main Toolbar 10 6 1 Changing parameters of selected notes To change parameters of a group of selected notes Click in any of the columns to change the parameters of an exist ing MIDI event or double click in the Type column of a Note Event to open the Note On window Channel Time E E Duration Pitch p g ea Velocity FIGURE 10 23 Note On window The Note On window like the Note Event window allows for adjust ment of an indiv
185. irst ending and stages the cursor to enter another second ending section To create a second or third ending d Select the Start Alternate Ending button Select the number of repeats and click the barline of the first measure of the second ending usually the same repeat barline that ends the first end ing e Click the last barline to close out the second ending 1 66 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing f Repeat above steps as necessary for subsequent endings NOTE If the last barline is not a repeat ending it can be changed Choose an appropriate barline from the Barlines and Repeats palette and Change the barline type 9 14 3 Working with the Coda A Coda sign marks the conclusion of a piece A Coda is generally used Kia rs to repeat a theme or variation outside repeated endings To mark the beginning of a Coda and to insert a jump to Coda sign a Select Coda sign from the Barlines and Repeats palette In Insert mode click on the barline where the coda is to begin usu ally at the end of a repeated section or numbered ending b Select the To Coda sign and in Insert mode find the point in the last passage or ending where playback is to jump to the Coda and click the barline where the jump is to occur NOTE The Coda will not be played back until it is activated by the To Coda or d s al Coda sign 9 14 4 Working with the Segno SS Segno means sign It marks the beginning of a
186. king with 107 Dynamics 254 playback 14 57 preliminary cleanup 78 Save as PDF 221 saving and exporting 90 Score Header 227 scrolling 130 Select area 90 set play range 71 Status Bar 78 System Manager 143 Templates 89 USING SmartScore 259 tempo marking 227 to CD 222 Zoom 77 181 185 ENF MIDI relationship 177 remove articulations 91 ENF Menu Items 218 ENF playback 57 real time settings 62 Ensemble 251 creating part scores from 126 Error Check 61 83 expanded systems 122 exporting ENF files 90 Extended Notation Format 10 extracting voices 21 extracting parts and voices Apply New 146 F fermata editing 159 playback 211 FILE menu 218 Finale exporting to 91 Fine 168 flagged notes beaming 134 Folio 252 fonts changing styles 96 Format Score 227 G glissando 161 Go to 130 grace notes 81 INDEX Graphical Controllers ENF 69 MIDI 185 guitar frets amp chord symbols display 231 editing and adding 101 inserting 99 moving 102 recognizing 40 scaling 103 guitar tutorial 22 H hairpin inserting 158 properties 162 Help menu 238 Hewlett Packard scanners 31 Hidden Symbols 155 235 horizontal nudging 97 horizontal reformatting 98 I image background 55 Image Editor 50 Cut Copy and Paste 55 image info 50 pen options 53 indent first system 120 Insert mode 12 Insert Change toggle 79 132 inserting new systems 225 Installation 9 Instrument Templates 73 147 instrument
187. l down menu Same as File gt Open 9 4 2 Scan iw Scan Push to initiate scanning Same as File gt Scan Music gt Acquire 9 4 3 Recognition Recog Push to initiate recognition on any pre scanned image Same as File gt Recognize 9 4 4 Unify U Push to initiate Unify Key Time and Clefs Same as Edit gt Unify Sig natures See Unify Key Time and Clefs U on page 169 for details Unify 9 4 5 Score 2 Scoe Push to create ENF score from scratch Choose ENF score template from System Type in Score pull down menu Same as File gt New gt New ENF See Creating a New ENF Score from Scratch on page 88 for details 9 4 6 Record Push Record button to initiate MIDI Recording All open ENF docu ments are closed when MIDI recording is launched A MIDI Piano Roll W Wl view opens with Track 1 staged for MIDI recording through an external M Me MIDI device Identical to Realtime gt Record in MIDI View Record Sme alk 9 4 7 Karaoke View 2 Push to enter Karaoke playback environment Hola 9 4 8 MIDI View Ctrl I Cmnd I for Mac mo ui Push MIDI button to view score in MIDI environment Use also to change from one MIDI view to another e g to change from Overview M sa to Piano Roll view Choose Overview or Piano Roll or Event List for a 1 3 8 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing selected Part Same as View gt New MIDI View ENF view remains open until or unl
188. l under certain circumstances e For smoothest playback effects leave Lock to Time Signature on e For aural editing to uncover editing errors turn Lock to Time Signature off e For pickup measures or measures split between lines turn Lock to Time Signature off Playback will ignore current time signa ture Make sure rhythm values are consistent in all parts Hoey Pickup Measure typical Split Measure typical FIGURE 4 12 Pickup and split measures NOTE Lock to Time Signature on or off will reflect its actual rep resentation in MIDI When an unedited ENF file is saved to MIDI with Lock to Time Signature unchecked the resulting MIDI file may produce measures with various meters When checked all measures will have constant meters USING SmartScore 67 J ENF Playback 4 5 2 Tempo Default tempo for all time signatures is 120 beats per minute 120 bpm except for music which is either in cut time or in 2 4 time 60 beats per minute NOTE To change default tempo in the ENF view always establish a base or default tempo first This is done by selecting Tempo under the Edit menu The metronome tool in the Tempo palette is used to update default tempo e Default tempo To set or to alter default playback tempo in ENF open Edit gt Tempo and set a new default speed This can also be done in the Playback Console Base rote eat E Cancel FF Metororne Mak
189. lassical guitar notation 22 Clef 252 clefs editing 213 transposition 139 unifying 170 Coda 167 collapsed systems 122 Color Mode overriding automatic color 150 parts and voices 63 149 150 Colors defining 234 conductor score from parts 39 45 124 contrapuntal voices 3 16 258 USING SmartScore Controlling System 117 Copy 224 ENF region to clipboard 90 copy and paste 14 Counterpoint 255 courtesy accidentals 136 crescendos and decrescendos hiding 155 inserting 158 properties 162 Crop 51 cross measure beaming 153 cross staff voicing 152 D da Capo 168 dal Segno 168 Darkness scanning 29 35 Delete quick 14 delete 82 a note from chord 13 80 entire system 134 selected group of objects 133 INDEX dynamics 137 156 inserting 157 properties 163 164 E EDIT menu 223 Edit Shapes 87 97 moving fret and chord symbols 102 endings 39 endings multiple editing 165 ENF 256 adding or removing parts 147 associate view with image 232 bracketing 103 creating a new page 89 creating from scratch 88 Cut Copy and Paste 223 editing files 11 editing modes 79 editing scanned files 32 Error Check 83 Graphical Controllers 69 selected ties amp articulations 133 joining files 125 when all else fails Tip 82 230 multiple endings 166 Delete Delete Any toggle 80 Paging 130 133 dithered images 28 dot delete 15 Dot of Prolongation 85 253 drag zoom MIDI 181 drums automatic drum patterns 108 virtual 111 wor
190. lay does not update ENF notation Raw MIDI data can only be dis played as ENF notation when it is reintroduced into a new ENF docu ment This is because MIDI data lacks all information about page layout stem direction voices etc MIDI data is time based while ENF notation data is graphical and contains much more visual information of the music Changes made in the MIDI environment can be heard during ENF playback but the ENF graphical representation remains unchanged You can modify data in MIDI view return to ENF view and still retain changes made in MIDI by using the PLAY button in the play console It is always possible to return to ENF display only for playback by selecting Playback gt Refresh MIDI or by using the Spa cebar to play The following table attempts to clarify the relationship between ENF and MIDI views Table 7 ENF View and MIDI View Relationships ENF to MIDI MIDI to ENF ENF View MIDI View DISPLAY PLAYBACK MIDI View is ENF View is NOT ENF lt gt MIDI ENF gt MIDI automatically automatically Updates Updates updated updated Both Ways One Way TO UPDATE DISPLAY TO UPDATE PLAYBACK Select MIDI in Select View gt Con Spacebar Refreshes MIDI the Navigator or vert MIDI to ENF Refresh MIDI Close MIDI view View gt New Play button return to ENF MIDI View Refresh MIDI push MIDI again USING SmartScore 177 ESk MIDI Editing and Seq
191. lef use Transpose by Clef func tion See Transposition on page 139 for more details 9 15 1 Part Linking before applying Unify If your ENF score contains collapsing and expanding systems it is rec ommended to perform Part Linking before Unifying Unifying signa tures and clefs will maintain part linkages as set in Logical Part Linking Refer to Re link Parts on page 121 for more details 9 15 2 Unify Key and Time E Uy bey and Tire Babe on Hiii Piai ba hangit amp Babee on boparcett hall prt Be indy Cink amp Pane enp menirs Jasdonjamesas of Tet gestern D Fati Emp Beste Lot ca FIGURE 9 24 Unify Key Time and Clefs e Based on Ist system Parse for changes USING SmartScore 169 Detailed ENF Editing All key and time signatures for every part are updated based on signa tures found in the first system on the first page Any changes in key or time signatures are read in and subsequent systems are updated as they are encountered Use when systems have a consistent number of parts e Based on topmost staffline Default All key and time signatures for every part are updated based on signa tures found in the first staffline of each system Any change of key or time signatures found in the topmost staffline will update subsequent stafflines of each system Use when systems do not have a consistent number of parts 9 15 3 Unify Clefs e Parse every measure Default Clefs are u
192. n hit the A key This toggles between Begin beam Middle beam and End beam note configurations 9 3 6 Flags and beams F The F key toggles between flag and beam note attributes of any clicked note Flag beam toggle works in both Insert or Change modes 9 3 7 Stem direction S The S key changes the default note stem direction In Insert mode toggling the S key reverses the default stem direction of an inserted note Default stem direction of an inserted note is determined by its vertical position on the staff Stem direction of inserted notes automatically changes when the cursor crosses the middle line of any staff To place a note with a stem in the opposite direction of the cursor e Hit the S key before inserting any given note Or right click Windows while inserting option click for Mac TIP To reverse the stem directions of several notes at one time press the O key drag to select a group of notes Then press the S key to reverse the stem direction of all selected notes To change the stem direction of an existing note a Toggle the C key to activate the Change mode USING SmartScore 1 35 Detailed ENF Editing b Right click on any given notehead option click for Mac The stem direction will change NOTE In general Voice 1 should have stems up and Voice 2 should have stems down To change the stem direction of several notes at once a Hit the
193. n Berger SmartScore was designed and developed by Christopher Newell and Wladyslaw Homenda Programming by ICT S A Warsaw Poland SmartScore is a registered trademark of Musitek Corporation Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation Apple Macintosh and OS X ares registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc USING SmartScore Important Information Regarding Reproduction of Copyrighted Printed Music and the Fair Use doctrine Title 17 of the US Code governs the making and reproduction of works protected by copyright Under this code reproduction distribution and display of works protected under copyright is illegal if done without the permission of the copyright owner unless the proposed use falls under the definition of Fair Use If you have reservations that your proposed use of SmartScore may be in violation of copyright law consult with your attorney USING SmartScore Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to SmartScore 1 What SmartScore does 1 So what do you want to do 2 What s new with Version 3 3 What Edition does what 4 Parts and Voices in SmartScore 5 What to do when this manual does not help 6 Chapter 2 Installation and Quick Tour 9 Ins
194. n Measure 24 in insert 2 3 4 Playback Just hit the spacebar to playback this fine little piece by Antonio Soler SmartScore has scrolling playback so you will be able to see which notes are sounding while the file plays The TIFF window closes during play The Spacebar acts as a Playback Pause toggle control You can also control ENF playback with the floating Mini Console Transport con trols are colored and there is a handy tempo controller that smoothly speeds up or slows down playback the further the slider is moved away from the center Letting go returns the spring loaded slider back to the center and the default tempo resumes Mwape t gt Spring loaded tempo controller FIGURE 2 4 Mini Console We will now process a second sample of music and see how Smart Score helps you edit parts assign instrument sounds and isolate a part Most scores have parts joined together into systems Each horizontal staff of each system represents a visible part or active instrument 14 USING SmartScore Installation and Quick Tour 2 3 5 Editing Gluck SONG yy a Push the Recog button in the Navigator If you have any open BOOK documents you will be asked to save them In the Begin Recog nition window press Add Files to List In the Open window ido a double click GLUCK TIF inside the SmartScore folder b In the Begin Recognition window click to remove the check mark next to Text checkbox Since ther
195. n the first lyric block below beginning note or rest of the staffline 6 3 Text and Lyrics Changing Styles and Entering 6 3 1 Changing styles of Text and Lyrics Out of recognition all text fields and lyric blocks are matched to the closest font type and size available on your computer You can change the font type size and color of text and lyrics Modifying the style of any lyric block will change ALL lyric blocks because lyric blocks are tightly integrated and text fields are not they re dumb To modify font styles of text fields or lyric blocks a Push the T button to enter Text mode The Select tool will highlight more than one text field and changes will apply to all Right click alt option click for Mac to open the Style win dow For lyrics push the L button and click on either the associated note or rest or directly into a lyric field Right click to open the Style window alt option click for Mac The current text style will be highlighted in the Text Style window Other font styles found in the current document will also be displayed 96 USING SmartScore Editing Text and Symbols c Click on the style you wish to change and then select Modify Style Add Style and Delete Style options are also available Font EFE cs Current style Tr Webdings r Effects Sample I Strikeout ry AaBbYyZz ii E v Soi l Westem 7
196. ncal FIGURE 9 18 Hairpin Properties 1 62 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing e Velocity sliders Start value and Ending value e Range 10 to 127 Note Velocity 9 12 3 Dynamic Marking Properties wird i Deikina bi damh biy voce ty all degree rere od bh pr T es n j hani ee ee m tance FIGURE 9 19 Dynamic Marking Properties e Volume slider Resets the volume for the current part e Range 10 to 127 General Volume NOTE To view the selected range of accelerando descelerando push the Hidden Objects button Range is shown with dotted line 9 12 4 Slur Legato Properties Slur Pita per liea E heim ae M irs Bet ndia F hgh woheraied Ani fegan ii al diun ee T eee ee ceai FIGURE 9 20 Dynamic Marking Properties e Increase duration of notes associated with the slur e Percentage 10 to 50 MIDI Note Duration e None No increase of note duration USING SmartScore 163 Detailed ENF Editing 9 12 5 Tempo Marking Properties lame Aothine raper lie Bari bo cet E hpi the anoa cating in al erga raring a hha ya Apa hije tiraji ioi i bitik jiamai eied CE e FIGURE 9 21 Tempo Marking Properties e Tempo slider Resets tempo Beats per Minute e Range 20 to 400 Beats per Minute 9 12 6 Trill Properties M Peon chair I arais damin e T App tha m rgr in nll bls T dipi heme petirggy iiia al he flay 7 eT T Lie ewer FIGURE
197. nd are separated from each other by dashes underlines and or periods NOTE Lyrics may be found below a system e g some choral scores and a special option should be selected before Recognition See Lyrics Under Last Staff of Systems on page 39 TIP Nudge notes in Edit Shapes to verify lyric to note associations 94 USING SmartScore Editing Text and Symbols To edit existing lyrics a g Push the L button in the Text and Controllers toolbar to enter Lyric mode Click into a lyric block or on an associated note or rest Once highlighted text within the block can be edited like normal text Use the left arrow or right arrow buttons on your keyboard to navigate within a lyric block Once positioned type normally Click and drag on one or more characters within the block to replace with new characters or to delete one or more characters in a lyric block Characters can also be cut copied or pasted else where using standard Ctrl X C and V keyboard short cuts Cmnd X C and V for Mac To edit a lyric block below the current line of lyrics click into the topmost line of lyrics and use the down arrow key Cursor will enter the next lyric block in line immediately below Hit Return to start a new lyric line and new lyric block beginning at the first note of system Use Backspace key to delete characters within a lyric block Lyrics can be moved up or
198. nd closes SmartScore Toolbar USING SmartScore 241 Reference 11 11 4 View gt Image Toolbar Opens and closes Image Editing Toolbar 11 11 5 View gt Status Bar Opens and closes Status Bar at the bottom of main SmartScore Win dow Displays current page cursor position image size and zoom per centage 11 11 6 View gt New MIDI View Opens New MIDI View dialog box Select type of view e Overview Displays all staves as MIDI tracks e Piano Roll Displays selected stave as MIDI track e Event List Displays MIDI events of selected stave 11 11 7 View gt Show Track 0 only in Overview Displays MIDI channel 0 in MIDI Overview 11 11 8 View gt Synchronize Synchronizes measure sizes in all MIDI views to that of current MIDI view Further horizontal resizing synchronized between all MIDI views 11 11 9 View gt New ENF View Opens the MIDI to ENF window for converting the active MIDI file into and ENF document 11 12 MIDI OPTIONS Menu 11 12 1 Options gt Snap to Quantization Quantities selected MIDI Note On events to the nearest tick speci fied Also determines default quantization value for MIDI recording and for horizontal nudging of selected MIDI events by mouse dragging or by use of the arrow keys Quantization values range from 32nd trip let to whole note 242 USING SmartScore Reference 11 12 2 Options gt Time Format Select whether start time of note events is displayed with Measure Be
199. nd solo violin scores are unique in the world of published music Usually more than two voicelines are present each voiceline represented by notes with opposite stem directions In classi cal guitar notation different voices represent the four plucking fingers of the right hand and in solo violin music notes with stems in opposite directions represent the four strings of the instrument A closely spaced cluster of three or four disconnected notes stems pointing in either direction with their noteheads slightly offset represents a chord Such interesting formulations pose real challenges to intelligent music scan ning software a Push the Recognition button in the Navigator In the Begin Rec ognition window push Add Files to List and select GUI TAR TIF from the SmartScore folder and press Open or double click the filename Press Begin Recognition 22 USING SmartScore Installation and Quick Tour Push spacebar to Play Notice as the music plays notes have three colors including green The green notes represent the third or tertiary voice Hit spacebar again to Stop With the Select Tool O key click on the text MY in Mea sure 5 to highlight Hit Delete to remove it Open the Playback Console Ctrl 9 Cmnd 9 Click into Instrument selection for Track 1 Voice 2 Change Nylon String Guitar to Tango Accordion Push the spacebar and listen to how contrapuntal voices become more distinct
200. newly recorded tracks are lost For details see Updating and refreshing playback and display on page 177 11 8 ENF Help Menu 11 8 1 Help gt SmartScore Manual PDF In CD versions this selection will open the file SSManual pdf This file is the full Using SmartScore Version 2 0 manual in Adobe Acrobat format It can be opened by Adobe Acrobat In download versions this selection will attempt to open an Internet connection and begin downloading of the file SSManual pdf from the Musitek website If the file is moved to the SmartScore directory the 238 USING SmartScore Reference file will open when the Help gt SmartScore Manual PDF selection is made again 11 8 2 Help gt Online Help This selection will attempt to launch your Internet browser and connect to a special interactive help system online at musitek com The Online Help system is fully interactive and contains index links table of con tents links and text hyperlinks to related subjects 11 8 3 Help gt Helper Files This selection will direct your Internet browser and connect to a special online directory that contains various help and install files that may be helpful For Mac users who downloaded their versions files include FreeMIDI OMS Acrobat Reader 11 9 MIDI FILE Menu 11 9 1 File gt New Select between a new ENF or a new MIDI Choosing New ENF will open the New SmartScore Document window Select a Template or use Custom to creat
201. ng Previous System d Now check the Merge checkbox When the Next System button is pushed the two systems will join into a single system Con tinue using Next System again until all separated parts are cor rectly joined Review Part Name checkboxes for correctness USING SmartScore 121 Changing Score Structure 8 3 2 Re linking optimized systems In scores with collapsed or expanded systems also known as optimized systems Re link Parts allows you to reassign parts to stafflines of any selected system Within such scores parts may disappear become dou bled or reappear in a later system By re linking parts of optimized scores parts will play back correctly as they disappear and reappear throughout the score In addition to proper playback the MIDI file cre ated for such files will have tracks and channels properly threaded To re link parts in a system a Position your cursor over a system to be re linked Hit Ctrl L Win Cmnd L Mac to open Re link Parts window p ee a Ta Sve p 5 R E FIGURE 8 3 Re link Parts window All parts listed in System Manager s Super System appear in the main list of the Re link Parts window see System Manager on page 143 for more information Checked boxes represent which parts were assigned to each staff of the active system b Check the part names that are actually associated with the active system Be sure to remove checks from parts that are not
202. ng note to Insert a new note along the stem The new note inherits the same duration of the original note Delete a single note from a chord cluster e Press the X key with the Cluster Tool active and click on any note to remove it from the chord Delete Any will erase the entire chord 5 4 General Note Editing Pp TIP The FT key will reset all windows and palettes to their default startup positions Use when things get messy 5 4 1 Undo To undo any edit action hold the Ctrl and Z keys down Cmnd Z for Mac Repeat again to undo a previous action 80 USING SmartScore Editing Notes and Rests 5 4 2 Tool Palettes F2 F9 keys All notation objects used in SmartScore can be selected from one of D several Tool Palettes A NOTE For full description of all SmartScore tool palettes turn to Tool Palettes Section 11 2 on page 211 To quickly select any alternative Tool Palette right click Ctrl click for Mac on any open Tool Palette All possible Tool Palettes become yi available for selection Notice that the active palette is replaced by the newly selected palette when Recycle is the palette mode TIP Quick Select Ctrl Click is probably the quickest way to BY select an object to Insert or Change Hold down the Ctrl button and click on any object in the active staff line The cursor will become that object and also inherit its attributes Pu TIP Notes can be s
203. nician Customer ID Serial Number e SmartScore Version Number found under Help gt About SmartScore e Windows or Macintosh operating system you are running under e Model of Scanner you are using e The type of music you are scanning orchestral hand written etc e Your e mail address USING SmartScore 7 Installation 9 Recognition of Scanned Music 9 System Report 10 ENF Editing 11 Playback 14 Changing Instrument sounds 17 Working with the System Manager 18 Changing Parts and MIDI instruments 19 Manipulating a Multiple voice Score 20 Extracting Parts and Voices 21 Editing Lyrics and Text 21 Editing three or more voices 22 Open MIDI View 23 Viewing all open windows using Tile rata RAE TEE 23 8 USING SmartScore Chapter 2 Installation and Quick Tour 2 1 Installation With the packaged CD you will be able to install SmartScore an unlim ited number of times onto your computer Application files should not be copied to other computers SmartScore will operate only when installed correctly Both the Internet and CD installers are copy pro tected as a precaution against software piracy Internet in
204. no Edition Not found in MIDI or Guitar Editions Limited to processing music with no more than 2 staves per system No text or lyric recognition or editing No guitar or chord symbols No MIDI recording or editing e Guitar Edition Not found in MIDI or Piano Editions Limited to processing music with no more than 1 staffline per system No text or lyric recognition or editing No MIDI recording or editing e MIDI Edition Not found in Piano or Guitar Editions Limited to processing music with no more than 4 staves per system No text or lyric recognition or editing No guitar or chord symbols Limited score editing 1 5 What to do when this manual does not help When you register your copy of SmartScore you become eligible for technical support for as long as you own the product But before you reach for the phone try to solve your issues first by referring to this manual E mail is the most efficient method of communicating with Musitek Technical Support We recommend attaching any scanned 6 USING SmartScore Introduction to SmartScore images you are having trouble with along with a brief description of the problems you are facing Technical Support E mail address is tech musitek com If you must phone in for help we ask that you have a few things ready before calling Technical Support e Please have your computer on with SmartScore up and running e Please have the following information ready to give the support tech
205. note To delete all articulation marks and slurs in a selected area a Use the Select tool O key to drag a box around the area from which you wish to remove articulations USING SmartScore 161 Detailed ENF Editing b Once the area is selected hit the G key to delete all articula tions in the selected region 9 12 Properties Tool The Properties tool displays and alters playback values of dynamic and articulation markings Changes can be applied to the marking itself or globally to all similar markings and applied as new defaults To activate the Properties window of an object a Hit the Esc key or select the Properties icon from the Smart Score toolbar b Click on a listed marking below to open its properties 9 12 1 Property Options All Properties windows e Apply changed property to All Selecting this option will update playback properties of the same mark throughout the score e Apply Setting s to All Future Files Selecting this option will permanently reset the default value for the selected property to its new values for all future ENF files e Back to Default This will reset values to application launch defaults e Reset Defaults This will return values to new installation defaults 9 12 2 Hairpin Cresc and Decresc Properties Hairpin Properties EJ iiai a Erecting bal ine Tant ia iisi dpi bhe makiy i ga ba l He hysh bhae mwingi niio al iue Red Dea l oH La
206. nstruments and parts For the purposes of this manual we use the adjective contrapuntal rather than polyphonic Contrapuntal voices are fundamental to SmartScore s design Refer to Working with Voices on page 62 for more details 254 USING SmartScore Glossary Counterpoint Similar to polyphony but more formalized by the theo retical rule based conventions of music composition Counterpoint usually refers to the melodic and rhythmic relationship between parts or voices 12 4 MIDI Terms MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface Originally a hardware device that allowed a computer and a synthesizer to communicate now a generally accepted term for hardware or software that operate accord ing to General MIDI standards Standard MIDI File SMF The file protocol or format for music files saved as MIDI MID extension Includes Type 1 multiple track multiple channel and Type 0 single track multiple channel formats Device A MIDI driven tone generator Sound cards synthesizers and MIDI modules all fall under this category MIDI Event Each piece of information contained within a MIDI file is an event This includes Notes attack and release Control Changes System Exclusive Meta Events Program Changes etc Velocity The speed at which the note was struck measured with a number from 0 127 Channel A MIDI device sends and receives MIDI information along separate and distinct Channels E
207. nt staff and sys tem spacing as well as instrument assignments at the voice level within a part Here we will isolate the solo part and copy it to a new docu ment PIANO GUITAR 2 4 1 Extracting a part in System Manager NOTE Normally all parts represented by staff lines play simulta neously SmartScore considers each staff of a system as a Part and also as a MIDI track A given part may or may not be visible in every system These irregular or expanding amp collapsing systems are sometimes referred to as optimized systems See Part visibility on page 145 and Re link Parts on page 121 for more details on controlling visibility and linking of parts a Hit Ctrl M Cmnd M or select System Manager from Edit menu Phire iai Vami 5 ski Pal Caen Piar Derd Pian Fa Gaued Pla T Gpo Aabe ta el He aor w f jedet fe ee Flute part A rai B E extracted from the r E EE A ee go original SEE ENF i document p s pi Sere FIGURE 2 7 Extracting a part in System Manager 18 USING SmartScore C Installation and Quick Tour Remove Visibility checkmarks for PianoR and PianoL parts in the far left column Check Visibility in the Apply region Push Apply to New to create a new document which will include only the part s selected by visibility checkmarks Play the flute part then close this newly created document 2 4 2 C
208. nt in the pull down menu NOTE In Playback Console select a channel voice color and num ber and choose a new MIDI instrument from pull down menu 9 6 3 Part visibility Checkmarks along the far left column identify which parts SmartScore thinks are visible in the active system they can be turned on or off Individual parts and or voices can be isolated or they can be removed from a score by selective use of Visibility Selected parts or removed un selected parts can be extracted to new files without altering the original document To change Part Visibility a Check or uncheck the Visibility box next to a Part Name to restore or remove visibility of that Part b Select Visibility in the Apply field and choose a scope from the Apply To pull down menu See Applying changes to the score on page 146 for details on Apply To options c Push Apply to apply to the current document or Apply to New to extract part s to or remove part s from a new ENF document 9 6 4 Voice visibility To change Voice Visibility a Highlight a visible part by clicking on the dot next to Part Name b Check or uncheck the Visibility box below the desired voice c Select Visibility in the Apply field and choose a scope from the Apply To pull down menu d Apply changes the open file Apply to New creates a new ENF file USING SmartScore 145 Detailed ENF Editing TIP Part and voice extraction removal
209. nterface is selected under Input in the MIDI Devices window See MIDI Devices on page 183 for more b From the Realtime menu select Step Time Record c Select a track The default is set to New Track If you wish to record onto an existing MIDI track select that track in the New View window d Press OK 206 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing e A floating window representing the computer keyboard number pad and associated note durations appears Record is now staged TRIPLETS Prev Beat Next Measure KS Next Beat With Cntl mayest Prev Next Measure Measure FIGURE 10 27 Step Time recording Number Keypad f Click on a note value or control button in the floating key pad window Or you may select the corresponding value control function using the numerical keypad on your computer keyboard g Press the Play button of the Mini Console Recording will begin at Measure 1 h Press a note or chord on your MIDI instrument Notes of the selected value will insert The next note you enter will begin at the same point the last note ended e g In 4 4 time with quarter note selected hitting a note four times will fill up one measure i To insert a rest choose a note value and hit Enter or right arrow 10 11 Virtual Drum Kit In any MIDI view you can record your own drum tracks onto existing tracks using nothing more than your computer keyboard To activate Virtu
210. nu and choose Black or White e Line Draw Some printed scores have weak or missing stafflines and or brackets that can create problems during recognition and may result in missing or incorrectly bracketed systems Sometimes by accident brackets and or barlines are cut off during scanning If this is the case you can manually draw in staffline and brackets or enhance their thicknesses To draw in missing stafflines and brackets a Select Edit gt Line or choose Line Draw in the Image Toolbar b Push the Pen Color push button in the Image Toolbar if neces sary to choose Black Color c In the Width pull down selector choose a fairly wide thickness 10 20 pixels d Click and drag the mouse to draw a line along the missing or bro ken bracket along the left margin of the music ED si mms DP riha iiem parisi TIF FIGURE 3 19 Using Line Draw tool to recreate missing bracket e When finished modifying the image Select File gt Save As and give it a name You may then Recognize the file with correc tions e Paint Brush To draw free hand lines in your image file select Brush from the Edit menu OR press the Brush button in the Image Toolbar Choose a line width then click and drag to paint 5 4 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition 3 10 3 Cut Copy and Paste e Cut To Cut an area from the scanned image use the Select tool and drag a box with the mouse Select Edit gt Cut Ctrl X Win
211. o the Super System Since the active and the Super System may have completely different values changes you make to the score are controlled by which you controlling system you select e Controlling System Active is used for most local and global edits e Controlling System Super is used to add or remove parts from the score See Active System vs Super System on page 117 9 6 6 Controlling Part Visibility and Part Linking To make added parts visible in one or more systems a See Super System on page 118 for adding parts to score b To make added part visible change Controlling System to Active Insert Visibility check mark next to Part Name and in the Apply region below the parts matrix c When the Apply To option Score the part will be visible in all systems When System is selected part is visible only in active system Visibility in subsequent systems System Push OK To re link optimized parts for proper playback a Inserting or removing parts may affect continuity of instrument playback See Re link Parts on page 121 for more information To remove any part from a score System Manager gt Super System a Click the dot corresponding to the part you wish to remove b Make sure Apply to All is selected Push Remove 9 7 Instrument Templates Basic characteristics of all parts ENF staves are inherited from Instru ment Templates These include name abbreviation MIDI instrument playback tr
212. of the Play Range c Mark Play All to play the entire score d Check Loop to continually repeat the assigned playback range 10 5 Piano Roll To select and display a track in Piano Roll view a Select the MIDI button in the Navigator In the New MIDI View window select a track or Part Name Pushing OK will open the selected track in piano roll format FIGURE 10 9 Overview Selecting a track b Select the MIDI track you wish to display and press OK 1 84 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing Q c Use the magnifying glass in the Main Toolbar to zoom in or out of the Piano Roll view Click to zoom in Right click option click for Mac to zoom out d Another zoom method is to drag measure dividers horizontally and piano key dividers vertically See Figure 6 on page 181 for more details on zooming Pe SS ae ae SS ele ee ee aa a Tress r ma z pem Tr i re FIGURE 10 10 MIDI Piano Roll View DP TIP It is often helpful to have several tracks visible at once Use the an Tile button to neatly display several open Piano Roll views 10 5 1 Velocity and Tempo Graphical Controllers In Piano Roll view the bottom pane of the window displays a graphi cal continuous change MIDI controller Click into controller Selector pulldown menu to select the MIDI controller you wish to effect a change to FIGURE 10 11 Velocity and Tempo controllers in Piano Roll view With the pencil mouse pointer
213. olbar alternate as well e Insert mode allows you to insert objects when clicking any where in the active staffline e Change mode allows you to change existing objects to the selected notation object You can select any editing mode from the SmartScore Toolbar RPP re RW Mou E ae FIGURE 5 2 SmartScore Toolbar with Insert mode selected TIP In areas that are particularly crowded with objects nudge notes horizontally in Edit Shapes to make room See 5 5 on page 87 USING SmartScore 79 Editing Notes and Rests 5 3 2 Delete by Group Delete Any Press the X key of your computer keyboard to toggle between the Delete by Group and Delete Any modes In the Delete by Group mode the cursor becomes an arrow with the selected object type in grey In the Delete Any mode the cursor becomes an arrow with an X next to it x Del To To Ww Mlle e Delete by Group mode deletes any object that is listed in the active Tool Palette group Objects from other groups will not be deleted e Delete Any mode removes any notation object that is clicked with the mouse NOTE This action will remove an entire chord To remove a single note from a chord hit the X then Z key 5 3 3 Chords Cluster Tool attach note to existing note stem Chord building Tool a Press the Cluster Tool button Z key in the Notes palette b While in the Insert mode click above or below an existi
214. ons Turn to Recognition Sequence Win Mac on page 37 to continue If your scanner does not respond properly choose File gt Scan Music gt Choose Interface gt Your Scanner s gt Automatic 3 4 4 Choosing Your Scanner s Interface Automatic Try this selection first if your scanner does not respond to SmartScore s scanning interface Both this option and the alternative Manual option use your scanner s interface to acquire multiple pages of music Each scanned page is analyzed for optimum resolution If the resolution is out of range you will be prompted with a recommended resolution You can choose to retry scanning again or to ignore and continue Both options will save multiple scanned pages in a single highly compressed image file format TIFF CCITT Group IV NOTE Once you make a successful scan it will not be necessary to reselect either your scanner or interface They are stored a Place the first page of your score face down into your scanner b If your scanning software has a Preview button push it Notice the scanning region defined in your scanner s preview window The scan region is bounded by flashing dots marching ants or by some other obvious delineator and can be resized This bounding box identi fies the boundaries of the area to be scanned 34 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition c With your mouse click and drag the edges of the bounding box so the entire area of the mus
215. oom Window a Go to View menu select Zoom Window and TIFF view Eii Far hai a s FIGURE 9 2 View gt Zoom Window b To increase or decrease zoom view of the window choose a zoom magnification from View gt Zoom Window selection Available zoom levels are Normal 1x 2x and 3x magnification USING SmartScore 129 Detailed ENF Editing 9 1 2 Scrolling Use the scroll bar and up down arrows to the right of the ENF window You may also use the arrow keys located on your computer keyboard to scroll up down left and right in an ENF document 9 1 3 Paging To page forward or backward in an ENF document til G e Use the Next page Previous page buttons located in the Main Toolbar or push the double paging arrows at the lower 5 right hand corner of the SmartScore window 9 1 4 Go To Ctrl G or Cmnd G for Mac While editing you can quickly jump to any page or measure in ENF file To open the GoTo window a Choose the View menu and select Go To Ctrl G or Cmnd G for Mac O L n owe Pai 1 H r Eme mnia fi P Doce paged trees acon Li a FIGURE 9 3 Go To window b Select whether it is a Part Page or Measure you wish to jump to c Enter the Part Page or Measure number d Checking the Open Target in New View box will open a new ENF at the targeted Part Page or Measure Push OK to jump 9 1 5 Tool Palettes F1 F9 keys All notation objects use
216. or Future 9 7 1 Transposed Instruments Because ensemble instruments have such wide pitch ranges it is neces sary for transcribers to notate certain instruments in key signatures that are remote from others in the ensemble Players of transposed instru ments read and transpose naturally without worrying that the part they are reading is actually out of tune In order for an ENF score with transposed instruments to play back correctly transposition of playback 148 USING SmartScore df Detailed ENF Editing by specified amounts must be set This is accomplished for preset instruments in the Instrument Templates but it is also possible to compensate for transposed instruments in the Playback Console 9 8 Working with Voices and Colors SmartScore uses 2 main color modes for viewing your music as well as for controlling how MIDI data is handled Color by Part or Color by Voice Each mode will change certain characteristics of how the nota tion is displayed and how parts and voices are assigned to MIDI chan nels Changing the color mode of an open ENF document can be done at any time Nothing is lost by switching back and forth between color modes To select or change the color mode for an open ENF score a Choose Options gt Color Mode gt Voice to color by voicelines b Choose Options gt Color Mode gt Part gt Color to color by part c Choose Options gt Color Mode gt Part gt Black to color all pa
217. or or choose Open Ctrl O Cmnd O Mac from the File menu b Change Files of Type pull down menu to Image Files c Browse and highlight an image file from the listed saved files Press Open e Image Information Select View gt Image Information to display characteristics about the current scanned image including resolution file type and page size e Zoom To Zoom in and out click the Zoom Tool in the Main toolbar Ctrl Q Cmnd Q for Mac Click inside the image will increase the scale of your view Zoom In while right click Option click for Mac will decrease the scale of your view Zoom Out e Page To view pages of an image file use the paging buttons in the Main Toolbar or select Next Page Previous Page from the View menu 5 0 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition e Image Toolbar Crop RotateL Brush Select Color Reverse RotateR Line Deskew Thickness FIGURE 3 15 Image Toolbar 3 10 1 Page Tools e Crop To crop an image file trimming unwanted portions of your image from outside a marked frame a Go to the Edit menu and choose the Selection option OR press the Select tool button in the Image Toolbar BADO 4 Neo A a FIGURE 3 16 Selecting Region for Cropping b With your mouse drag a box around the area you wish to keep If you want to extend the cropping region outside of the display keep dragging the page will scroll as you drag up or down c To adjust the marke
218. ore To activate built in soft synthesizer Macintosh QuickTime Musical Instruments choose QT Internal Playback 4 1 6 OMS Setup Mac Classic Only NOTE To work properly OMS requires AppleTalk to be turned OFF If you intend to record MIDI to your Mac or if you use an external MIDI device interface make sure you have installed OMS from the SmartScore installer Choose OMS gt OMS Setup to run the setup rou tine Choose Easy OMS Setup to begin Leave Run MIDI in Back ground unchecked If you have an external MIDI device attached to either your printer or modem parallel port select the right port in the first window Following MIDI Setup you should see all available MIDI devices in the display screen These same devices will appear in the MIDI Device window in SmartScore and in OMS Studio Setup when selected NOTE For USB connections select both Printer and Modem options Select Playback gt QT Internal Playback if you want to play back through QuickTime Musical Instruments QuickTime 3 0 or better only 60 USING SmartScore ENF Playback NOTE If no sound is heard after pressing the space bar select Refresh MIDI from the Playback menu then reselect QT Internal Playback from the Playback menu Check speaker volume 4 2 Error Check It s a good idea to select Edit gt Error Check Ctrl E for Win Cmnd E for Mac to quickly identify problem measures before mov ing on to more editing activities
219. ore 89 coc om D sear X l D poe X MIDI Editing Notes and Rests 5 7 3 Real Time Recording An alternative to entering notes in by hand is to record MIDI based performances using a MIDI keyboard or some other MIDI instrument For more about this see MIDI Recording Section 10 9 on page 202 5 7 4 Step Time Recording An alternative to Real Time Recording is Step Time Recording Step Time Recording is done in MIDI and can be a very fast method of entering in notes when you can t scan it in of course For more turn to Step Time Recording Section 10 10 on page 206 5 7 5 Select Area create bitmap for pasting To Copy an area of an ENF file for pasting into another application e g Microsoft Worde Adobe Photoshop etc a Press the O key to activate the Select tool b Right click option click for Mac and drag to select desired region in the ENF pane c Hit Ctrl C Cmnd C or Edit gt Copy to copy selected region to the clipboard as a bitmap image NOTE Before copying to clipboard uncheck View gt Show Active Staff otherwise you may not capture the entire view TIP Use this feature to take snapshots of musical snippets and Paste into word processors or other non music programs 5 8 Saving and Exporting an ENF File You can save the current ENF file at any time by hitting the Save but ton in the Main toolbar by hitting Ctrl S Cmnd S for Mac or by
220. ore for visual editing clues after transposing To Transpose your entire ENF document to a new key Pal a Position your cursor inside the first staffline of the score Press Ctrl T Cmnd T for Mac or select the Transpose button in the SmartScore Toolbar or select Transpose from the Edit menu The window in Transposition always displays the key signature or clef sign of the active staff This is your source key irk l im Charge O pay a a ia Fi bima bike aa A eee M iiri Sere be bereri ia i n pamint ol ET Ho ani a fon Le Gireg Hri Ac rier aie e Fay oF Cowl FIGURE 9 6 Transposition window b Select a new target key or target clef for the score by selecting either the Key or Clef tab Scroll up or down to select a target key signature or target clef c Closest allows SmartScore to automatically choose up or down based on the least number of intervals To choose the direction manually select either Up or Down 1 40 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing 9 5 1 Transposition Strategy You can choose two strategies for transposing your scores Link Accidentals to Key and Keep Line space e Link Accidentals to Key This choice will consider the target key signature during transposition If the target key belongs to the opposite class than that of the source key e g transposing from a key with sharps to a target key with flats then accidentals may be swapped to
221. ors in an ENF file push the Voice Visibility button in the SmartScore toolbar or go to the Options menu and select Color Mode gt Voice The initial default is Options gt Color Mode gt Part gt Black Voice color can be turned off or on anytime by clicking the Voice Visibility button Voice color is automatically determined based on several factors num ber of voices stem direction vertical alignment etc You can override voice colors manually Changing voice color also changes its voice assignment and possibly changes voice assignments of other notes in a given measure NOTE DO NOT override voice colors until a measure is entirely edited Unusual color combinations usually correct theme selves To override automatic voice color assignment and change voice num ber a Select desired voice number and color from Voice Color combo button in the SmartScore Toolbar b Locate the note or rest in a voice you wish to change and click on it c Color and voice assignment will update as will any other voices within the same measure e g other notes in the same vertical event For more about part and voice colors see Working with Voices and Colors on page 149 See also Vertical Alignment and offset voices on page 64 82 USING SmartScore Editing Notes and Rests 5 4 6 Error Check Error Check will search each measure looking for voicelines that are either incomplete or have total durations in excess of
222. ort pull down menus to select new MIDI output device e Adjust tempo with the Tempo slider e Change MIDI Instrument or Channel Chan of any voice part Transpose the file globally or by individual voices parts NOTE Transposition in the Playback Console is for playback only To transpose notation see Transposition on page 139 e Mute a voice while all others continue to play or Solo a single voice e Use Pan to create a stereo image 4 4 Working with Voices SmartScore treats contrapuntal voices multiple voicelines in a single staff as a fundamental musical component In a score s hierarchy voices are treated as the primary building block You can visualize your music s hierarchy by going to Score Structure in the Edit menu See Score Structure on page 124 for more details All scores contain one or more voices in any given measure occasion ally three or four The ENF editor provides extremely useful voice based functions including the ability to extract voices to new docu ments to split two note chords into separate voices and to control indi vidual voice playback such as assigning unique MIDI instruments muting and soloing each voiceline 62 USING SmartScore ENF Playback 4 4 1 Color Mode gt Voice To view contrapuntal voices as separate colors in an ENF file push the Voice Color button in the SmartScore toolbar or go to the Options menu and select Color Mode gt Voice Each ENF P
223. ou push the Scan button you will then be handed off to your scanner s interface If you are using your scanner s interface follow the following guides e Place music in the scanner as squarely as possible e Scan in Black amp White Line Art 1 bit or OCR Do not scan in color or in greyscale Black amp White Document may be grey e Crop in the music to be scanned by dragging mouse in preview e Scan between 300 400 dpi average printed music 30 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition 3 3 Working with HP scanners in Windows 3 3 1 Choose Interface gt SmartScore s with HP scanners For Win XP and Win NT Go to File gt Scan Music gt Select Scanner choose WIA xxxx xxxx Do not select PrecisionScan Push Scan button or File gt Scan Music gt Acquire If problems occur using SmartScore scanning interface see Section below e For Win 98 Win 2000 a Push Scan button or File gt Scan Music gt Acquire b Check the Override Grey button in the SmartScore interface NOTE Adjust the midpoint where light grey pixels go to white and dark grey pixels go to black by using the Threshold slider 3 3 2 Choose Interface gt Your Scanner s with HP scanners e Working with HP PrecisionScan a Go to File gt Scan Music gt Choose Interface and select Your Scanner s Push the Scan button in the Navigator bar b Select Black and White Document or Text in PrecisionScan
224. ove a text field vertically a Hold the Shift button down while clicking and dragging a text field up or down To move a text field in any direction a Push the Edit Shapes button in the Text and Controllers toolbar b Position your mouse in the staff associated with the text field NOTE You may want View gt Show Active Staff checked to verify Remember to hold the Ctrl button down to keep a particular staff line active while moving you cursor around the page c Click and drag any text field to move Use the Select tool to select and move multiple text fields around while in Edit Shapes To create a new text field a Push the T button and toggle C to enter Insert mode white arrow Click anywhere in an ENF page outside a staff and begin typing To delete text fields a To delete one or more text fields use the Select tool O key to highlight fields by clicking or dragging Hit the Delete Del key NOTE Click outside any text field to reset cursor Insert Change 6 2 Lyrics Lyrics hold special meaning in SmartScore A lyric block is a string of characters equivalent to a spoken syllable Out of recognition a lyric block becomes associated with a single note or rest in the staffline immediately above it Locating the note or rest associated with a lyric block is as simple as searching directly above the center justified lyric block All lyric blocks within stafflines are horizontally linked a
225. ows you to select any available SmartScore tool palette Choose the Dynamics Palette F8 12 USING SmartScore Installation and Quick Tour b Select Mezzo forte mf in the Dynamics palette Click in Mea sure 15 to insert the new dynamic marking c Select Piano f to activate Piano mark Insert mark in Measure 14 d Hit the X key and click on the false P in Measure 17 to delete it Toggle the C key to return to Insert mode e Select Piano p in the Dynamics palette to activate Piano mark Click to insert the mark in Measure 17 NOTE To Undo any editing action select the Undo button in the e toolbar Ctrl Z Win Cmnd Z Mac To insert missing barlines a Hit the I key The cursor will become a barline b Click to insert barlines in the correct spots of Measures 10 amp 17 Using the Quick select tool to change note values a In Measure 3 the beamed triplet was recognized with 16th notes Hold down the Control button of your keyboard and click the first 16th note of the eighth note triplet in Measure 2 Notice how the cursor changes to an eighth note start beam This action is what we call Quick Select Ctrl Click Hit the C key to tog gle to the Change mode with white arrow and click on the first note in Measure 3 to correct b Ctrl Click again on the middle note of the triplet in Measure 2 hit the C key and click the middle note
226. pdated on a line by line basis Any change of clef encoun tered in a given staff updates that staffline until another change of clef is encountered Use when many change of clefs are written into the original score e Based on Ist Measure of Ist System All clef signs are updated based on clefs found in the first measure of the first system Overwrites any change of clef found Use if many false change of clefs were recognized or if very few change of clef signs are found in the original 9 16 MIDI to ENF SmartScore accepts any Standard MIDI file and converts it to an ENF file To create an ENF document from a MIDI file a Select File gt Open and change the filetype pull down menu from SmartScore Files to MIDI Files All MIDI files in the given directory will appear in the selection window Double click on a selected MIDI file to open b The Playback Console window will appear with a MIDI Over view representation in the background To hear the file playback push the Play button in the console 170 USING SmartScore Detailed ENF Editing c To convert the MIDI file into SmartScore notation push the Close button in the Playback Console Closing the console will begin the conversion process AAN Te ENF Deis l Hea z Weal Hoe re Cereals demure oe Sie pe k T resha Lpiam p Paga ore Ez cms R FIGURE 9 25 MIDI to ENF window Staff Voicing Choose the number of contrapuntal voices you wish
227. r editing The Barlines and Repeats palette will open as the secondary palette 9 3 11 Dynamics P lt and gt e Press the P key to select p piano dynamic marking e Hold down Shift to select the crescendo hairpin e Hold down Shift to select the decrescendo hairpin The Dynamics palette will open as the secondary palette 9 3 12 Tuplets T The T key opens the tuplet Rhythmic Groups Palette Triplet is selected as the default Drag the mouse to box in the notes rests to become the selected tuplet Drag downwards to insert the tuplet above the selected notes rests Drag upwards to insert the tuplet below selected notes rests 9 3 13 Unify Signatures Clefs U Press the U key to automatically open the Unify Score window Unify the clefs key and time signatures throughout the entire score Refer to Unify Key Time and Clefs U on page 169 for details on using this tool 9 3 14 Note values Number Pad To quickly select note duration values e Use the keyboard Quick Keys number 1 whole note 2 half note 3 quarter note etc Pp TIP See Quick Keys map on page 174 for a graphic of shortcut d keys USING SmartScore 1 37 Detailed ENF Editing 9 4 Navigator 9 4 1 Open Ctrl O Cmnd M Mac E Ope Push to open any SmartScore compatible file Select SmartScore ENF Image TIFF BMP PCX or MIDI file from Files of Type pul
228. r part of a score can be accomplished in one of several ways The most common is transpose globally by key e g change an entire song from the key of E Flat to the key of C Other transposition methods such as transpose by clef transpose within a selected range and transpose notes only either harmonically or enharmonic ally are all possible For information on these addi tional transposition methods turn to Transposition Section 9 5 on page 139 To transpose the key of an entire score a Choose Transpose from the Edit menu Ctrl T Win Cmnd T Mac USING SmartScore 87 Editing Notes and Rests b The source key signature will appear in the main window along with its signature name listed in both major and relative minor keys FIGURE 5 5 Key Transposition c Choose to transpose either by Key or by Clef or by Pitch d Use the scroller to select a new key signature if by Key or a new clef sign if by Clef e With Closest selected SmartScore will transpose to the target key up or down with the least number of intervals Choose Up or Down if you wish to make your own choice Push OK 5 7 Creating a New ENF Score from Scratch 5 7 1 New score To create an empty ENF score using one of several basic templates a Push the Score button on the Navigator or select New gt New ENF under the File menu Ctrl N Win Cmnd N Mac b Type in a Title for the new score c Add the Composer s nam
229. rd Record to New Track and Virtual Drum Kit are also visible ji stl e FIGURE 10 3 MIDI Toolbar You can also change to a new MIDI view by pressing MIDI in the Nav igator Views do not replaced Each new view overlays all open views MIDI 10 2 3 Closing MIDI Views Each MIDI view Overview Piano Roll and Event List has its own close icon in the upper left hand corner of the window Click to close an active MIDI view window Or select File gt Close Closing the last L MIDI view will return display to its associated ENF view 10 3 Track Overview Overview provides a bird s eye view of all existing MIDI tracks Some editing functions are limited FIGURE 10 4 Track Overview window 180 USING SmartScore Q MIDI Editing and Sequencing 10 3 1 Selecting tracks and MIDI events Clicking into a track s Name field in Overview will highlight the entire track for cutting pasting shifting Double clicking into a track s Name field will open its Piano Roll view Right click option click Mac in the Name field will open the Track Properties window Name j PianoR Cancel Transpose fo 7 New Track Piano Roll Duplicate Track Event List Delete Track FIGURE 10 5 Track Properties The Track Properties window allows for editing of the Track Name and its Transposition It is also used to create new MIDI tracks Push Piano Roll or Event List buttons to v
230. rd Korocke Tile CO Mviter FIGURE 3 12 Recognition Button USING SmartScore 43 Scanning and Recognition A file selection window Begin Recognition will open Here you will list your prescanned files for recognition by selecting them rearranging them removing or adding them Benin Becognilinn Freese pare fi Tat Ere language F Lyer reme Lari Sla al Spaa F Tipsi M ipie Enia F Pabi R bmg Air DPen ina fet ol arad Pai Linking Edd ram paia kc bp Fanboaed Gorge m FIGURE 3 13 Recognition Selected Files Options Preview b In the Begin Recognition window push Add Files to List c Browse to where you stored your scans Click on an image file to select If more than one page was scanned in the SmartScore scanning interface the file will appear as a multi page list NOTE You may click on and drag image icon s to the selected files list of the Begin Recognition window Some older Windows operating systems may not support drag and drop d You might want to preview pages prior to recognition to check that pages were scanned completely that black areas do not obscure part of the music and that no page is severely skewed Any of these issues will affect recognition results Select the Pre view tab and click on each page to view your pre scanned pages e Click on the Options tab to return to the File Selection and Options window Options assists the recognizer to hone in on spe
231. reated Systems detached Staves broken into sepa rate systems without adjoining system bracket System bracket cut off during scanning leaving disconnected staves floating Merge systems See Merging Systems on page 121 Staffline missing from system Staffline cut off during scanning Restore missing staff See Adding a staff when missed by recognition on page 119 Wrong part suddenly Expanding collapsing Reassign parts in system plays score Part instrument See Re link Parts on linking lost page 121 ENF display is brown ENF mode is in Edit Exit mode orange or green lines appear Shapes Tempo or Veloc ity controller mode Can t edit a cross staff note appearing in another staff or system Active staff line switches when cursor is moved to an adjacent staff line Visiting notes can only be edited when source staff is highlighted Select View gt Show Active Staff Position cursor over source staff Note s in target staff system will highlight Press Caps Lock to freeze active staff line and allow editing of notes visiting in an adjacent staff line Press Caps Lock again to release frozen staff USING SmartScore 173 Detailed ENF Editing QuicK Keys Map Windows 3 830 we g Sel pjq p sul L s l IPA 9 UOIBay PAPS s JoN WEA 0 UOIBay PAS S2104 H S S3210 4 PAPS uIof PD wi
232. refer to Creating a Conductor s Score from Part Scores on page 124 3 9 Recognition Accuracy If recognition accuracy is not as good as what you expected examine the image up close by zooming into the image pane of your ENF view You may also open file in the Image Editor FIle gt Open gt Files of Type Image Determine the following by zooming close up e If close up examination reveals the image to be speckled salt and pepper your scanner may have created a dithered image 46 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition See page 28 To override automatic dithering check the Over ride Grey box in the SmartScore interface Normal thresholding level is 38 Decreasing will darken the image e If objects lack detail rescan with Auto Resolution On or increase scanning resolution manually Optimum distance between horizontal stafflines is 20 pixels Use your mouse pointer and pixel coordinate readout in the Status Bar to measure e If objects such as note stems and staff lines are broken or lack thickness rescan with increased darkness to fill in gaps e Ifthe source document is poorly printed or is faded and weak try locating a better print copy of the music NOTE Recognition accuracy is directly related to the quality of the source document as well as the quality of the scanned image Cheaper scanners including Fax Scan Copy combos are known to create poor images Remember the old saw Gar bag
233. rtScore will differentiate multiple voices within a single staff line by displaying them with different colors Voice 1 black Voice 2 red Voice 3 green and Voice 4 blue while at the same time creating an independent MIDI channel for each voice The individual voice lines will threaded from the TIFF file through Recognition to the ENF file from the ENF file to the MIDI file and from the MIDI file back to the ENF file 256 USING SmartScore Glossary USING SmartScore 257 INDEX Index A Accaciatura 81 accent editing 159 160 playback 212 Accidental 253 accidentals editing 136 235 accuracy recognition 46 52 active staffline 11 78 153 226 230 active system 117 122 Apply To System Manager 146 Apply New 146 arpeggio 161 Articulations 254 articulations 156 deleting 161 editing 159 multiple inserting or deleting 161 palette button 211 Associate Image Files 232 Audio MIDI Setup 59 Auto Save 236 B Bank MIDI 255 Barline 253 barlines bracketing 104 breaking 230 editing 87 repeat 165 beaming flagged notes 134 beams changing angles and height 87 97 cross measure 153 cross staff voicing 152 Quick beaming 84 Begin Recognition Window 10 bowings 40 bracketing 103 C Cap Lock 226 CD Writer 222 Change mode 13 Channel 255 chord deleting single note from 133 splitting into voices 151 chord cluster tool 80 chord symbols 99 231 editing and adding 101 recognition of 99 c
234. rts in black NOTE To quickly toggle between viewing voices in different colors or all in black push the Voice Color button in the SmartScore toolbar or select Options gt Define Colors gt Voices 9 8 1 Options gt Color Mode gt Voice The following table describes the relationships between color modes and how parts and contrapuntal voices are assigned to MIDI channels Table 5 Parts and Voices and their MIDI equivalents Options gt Color Mode MIDI Tracks MIDI Channels Each Staff One Track Each Voice One Channel Voice 4 Voice channels per Track Part gt Black Each Staff One Track One Voice per Track Part gt Color USING SmartScore 1 49 sne th BOOK GUITAR PIANO Lf Te Yoos t Vacs Voce 4 i 3 Tr p Detailed ENF Editing In Voice mode contrapuntal voices display as one of four colors Voice 1 black Voice 2 red Voice 3 green and Voice 4 blue Voicelines can then be extracted in either System Manager or in Score Structure In Voice mode each contrapuntal voiceline is assigned a unique MIDI channel This allows you to control each voice s Volume Balance and MIDI instrument in the Playback Console 9 8 2 Overriding automatic voice colors Voice colors are assigned automatically but can be manually overrid den To override default voice color of a note or rest change voice number a Select desired voice number and color
235. ry voice in the right hand is played you will hear a harpsichord sound This technique is ideal for distinguishing inner voices of parts that are written contrapuntally NOTE Changing MIDI instrument assignments of parts and voices can also be accomplished in the Playback Console Ctrl 9 Playback Menu gt Console 2 5 Manipulating a Multiple voice Score Many scores are written with multiple voices within a staff line Solo piano guitar and choral music typically include at least a few measures that include different voices moving independently What we refer to as Voiceline Threading allows you to track and manipulate contrapuntal polyphonic voices easily SmartScore treats voices as fundamental entities not simply as notes with stems pointed in different directions The sample file CHORALE is a famous Lutheran chorale It has four voices Soprano Alto Tenor and Bass written in two staff lines SA TB a Push the Recog button on the Navigator b Press the Add Files to List button in the Begin Recognition win dow Select CHORALE TIF from the SmartScore folder in the Open window and then press Open In Options area leave Trip lets Endings and Text Recognition unchecked c Press the Begin Recognition button Once Recognition is com plete save the new ENF file CHORALE ENF In the upper staff the Soprano voice is in black and the Alto voice is in red Because it is the first voice in the lower staff th
236. s 134 Dynamics 137 Flags and Beams 135 Note Values 137 QuickSelect 132 Rests 137 Select Tool 133 Stem Direction 135 Ties 135 Tool Palettes 81 130 Tuplets 137 Unify Signatures Clefs 137 Vertical Alignment 65 Quick Tour 9 Quick Select 13 81 R recognition adding a staff missed by 119 bowings 40 endings 39 fretboard 40 hymnal fonts 40 join offset voices 40 languages 39 lyrics and text 39 lyrics under every staff 39 merging separated systems 121 options and preview tabs 38 pedals 39 poor 29 46 pre scanned music 43 relink parts 40 scanning music 9 System Report 10 triplets 39 record a CD 222 record new MIDI track 204 Refresh MIDI 72 178 refreshing ENF playback 177 Re link Parts 121 Relink Parts after Unify 169 before inserting staff 119 Repeat previous measure mark 166 repeats editing 165 repeats and endings 72 reset windows and palettes 80 Resolution scanning 29 35 Rest 253 rests 77 132 associated with lyric block 94 multi measure 132 Rotate scanned image 52 S SATB scores 20 Save ENF 90 218 Scanner Drivers for Macintosh 32 scanning music 25 HP scanners OS X 32 Mac OS X 32 manual automatic 30 user interface 30 USING SmartScore 263 INDEX score formats 251 Score from Scratch 89 Score Header 227 Score Structure 124 Score Part 124 226 251 scanning in 45 Segno 167 Piano Roll 195 Select Tool 133 shift pitch 15 shortcut conventions 11 Sibelius exporting to 91 signature
237. s a MIDI track number To the right the Ch V column displays the voice number of the part track inside a colored box corresponding to the color for that voice b In the Instrument column click to select a new MIDI instru ment To change an instrument assignment of a voice in the System Manager a Open the System Manager Ctrl M Cmnd M or select Sys tem Manager from Edit menu All staves are displayed in hori zontal rows as Parts Voices are arranged in columns above each part 1 thru 4 b Find the voice within the part you want to change Click the pull down menu in MIDI instrument assigned to that part and voice Select an alternative instrument from the pull down menu for that voice You will hear each voice stand out from other voices within the same part staffline when played back provided you chose instruments with enough difference in their respective tim bres Let Peije L Abb voce Worm 2 ioa 5 ocd Sit Sb ja me ri mm F7 je Te is Cena ning Eauise acta FIGURE 4 8 Changing MIDI instrument of a voice in System Manager 4 4 3 Vertical Alignment and offset voices In printed music it is common for notes belonging to different voices to appear horizontally offset from one another Such offset notes are clearly meant to sound simultaneously even if they are not aligned ver tically Such notes belong to different voices may have opposite stem directions and will appear horizontally offset
238. s menu highlight Measure Numbers e None removes all measure numbers from the ENF file e Every Staff displays a measure number for the first measure of each system only e Every Measure displays a measure number at each barline 11 6 2 Options gt Color Mode For detailed discussion of color modes refer to page 149 Working with Voices and Colors e Voice Each voice of a staff line will display in a different color e By Part Each staff line will display in a different color or in black 11 6 3 Define Colors Voices Define the colors used to identify each of four contrapuntal voices e Part Color Define the colors used while Color gt By Part is selected e Background Define the background color for the ENF pane or Image pane 234 USING SmartScore Reference e Hidden Symbols Define the colors used to display objects while in Hidden Symbols mode Main Non note object color Voices Colors displayed for each of 4 possible contrapuntal voices while in Hidden Symbols mode 11 6 4 Options gt Overlapping notes Often two notes of different voices share the same pitch at the same time You can choose whether you want noteheads of different voices to overlap one another or to become offset next to each other To allow overlapping noteheads check off Overlap Notes in the Options menu Playback will not be affected whether note heads are offset or overlap 11 6 5 Options gt Align Lyrics
239. s offset voices which regularly exceed this dis tance choose another distance Distance is determined by the white space between note heads e If your music has dense polyphonic texture like that found in solo guitar music or tightly spaced orchestral passages it may be neces sary to tighten up the allowable distance between offset voices In these case choose a distance less than 1 4 of a notehead e Part Linking When a score is optimized parts do not appear until actually played Optimized scores have irregular numbers of parts and staves in sys tems As new parts are introduced they are normally added to the top e g a vocal line appears on top after a piano introduction However sometimes parts are added to systems in a bottom up fashion e g existing staves are bumped upwards If your score is structured in this way change default to Add Parts to Bottom However this is rather rare e Fretboard Strings The default fretboard for recognition is the six string guitar If your music has ukulele fretboards 4 strings or some other configuration change the selection to the correct number of strings 40 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition 3 5 2 Post Recognition Luk LE et Ll Rearmed Erikin Pearl P abiha dia m 1 ihan Hiu Epien Poured paste toured m J prire Lgj rg ie ha eper ccd ee ej bee ed ae cud of ee en rt ey cee dee Faai mm Fareed coop Peu Tipsa ieee Di ja boae ered Pi G
240. save the active SmartScore file MIDI Type 1 Multiple Track Multiple Channel MIDI Type 0 Single Track Multiple Channel FINALE or NIFF for Lime NIFF for Sibelius NIFF 6a or 6b c Browse to another directory and change the name if desired d Press OK The file will be saved in the last directory used with the Save As command The extension is automatically added NOTE When saving ENF to MIDI files a dialog box will open to explain that articulations such as slurs staccatos and tenutos will create MIDI events that are not quantized You will be given a choice to save the MIDI files with articulations removed or kept For the purpose of playback only it is rec ommended that articulations be kept If t is recommended that articulations be removed if MIDI files are to be imported into other notation based programs USING SmartScore 91 Lyrics 94 Text and Lyrics Changing Styles and Entering 96 Edit Shapes 97 Guitar Frets and Chord Symbols 99 Creating and changing chord symbols in the GCL 101 Bracketing 103 92 USING SmartScore Chapter 6 Editing Text and Symbols During recognition of music text characters found between stafflines are assumed to be lyrics Characters found outside stafflines are treated as standard text fields There are certain exceptions For example
241. selecting File gt Save If Options gt Auto Save is on incremental sav ing becomes automatic For more on Auto Save turn to Options gt Auto Save on page 236 A rule of thumb for all files especially big ones is Be safe Save often 90 USING SmartScore Editing Notes and Rests 5 8 1 Saving ENF files as MIDI or other file types mt You can save SmartScore files in several different file formats such as MIDI Finale NIFF for Sibelius or standard NIFF files PIANO GUITAR e MID files will import playback data into most other music soft ware programs with no page formatting All graphical informa tion about note position stem direction voices etc are lost MIDI is to music what ASCII is to text FIN files will import SmartScore pages into Finale 2000c or better with graphical information and page layout intact Use the File gt Import selection in Finale to open a SmartScore FIN file e SmartScore saves several flavors of NIF files NIFF for Lime NIFF for Sibelius and raw NIFF files one conforming to the NIFF Notation Interchange File Format Specification 6a as published by the NIFF steering committee in 1998 and one to the 6b update NIFF files contain both graphical and playback infor mation and can be used as a means of exchanging music notation and MIDI data between software programs that support the for mat a Select File gt Save As b In the Filetype Format window choose a format to
242. siting Refer to Cross staff voicing on page 152 11 5 8 View gt Show Part Names To display the part name or abbreviation on the left staffline margin a Selecting Show Part Names and Abbreviations displays Part Names in the first system and the Part Abbreviations in subse quent systems 230 USING SmartScore Reference b Select Show Part Names Only or Part Numbers Only to dis play just name or number in the Ist system and nothing more NOTE For information on selecting and modifying Part Names see Instrument Templates on page 147 c Selecting Do Not Show will nor display any Part Names or abbreviations in the ENF display 11 5 9 View gt Chord Symbols Select how inserted chord symbols should display e Show Symbols and Frets displays guitar chord and symbol name e Show Symbol displays only the symbol name e Show Fretboard displays only the guitar chord e Long Minor will display min instead of m for the word minor 11 5 10 View gt True Scrolling It is possible to view several pages at once with Print Preview Select this option either from the File or View menus or by pushing the Print Preview button in the lower right hand corner of the ENF display Pe aa TL eS atte a 8 ER fee pa E re FIGURE 11 14 Print Preview Horizontal Format USING SmartScore 231 Reference e Horizontal format Select from View or push this button to view pages in hori
243. stallers can be installed up to 5 times using ID and Password before it becomes nec essary to call Customer Service to obtain a new download ID a Insert the SmartScore CD into your computer s CD drive b Windows Push Start gt Run and Browse to find your CD drive under Look In Double click SS3INSTALL EXE c Macintosh Double click SmartScore CD icon on your desktop Double click SS3INSTALL d Follow all installation steps including entering Serial Number Customer ID and registering your copy of the product 2 2 Recognition of Scanned Music SmartScore includes several pre scanned TIFF files Launch Smart Score by double clicking its icon We will start the tutorial with the sample pre scanned file FANDANGO a Find the Navigator toolbar and push the Recognition button Navigator efi i 2 ga o Open Scanff Recogf Unify Score Record Korocke Tile CO Miter FIGURE 2 1 Navigator toolbar USING SmartScore 9 Installation and Quick Tour The Begin Recognition window opens This is the window you will use to select previously scanned music for recognition Feces Cpi i la Fri Ly Lies Lord Paahi gl Series fel laih kmri Pinas S Liaw apes Ca iye Eya teary aiian i ee Pee Leer itd ropes parts indi Perth ierg FIGURE 2 2 Begin Recognition window b Press Add Files to List In the Open dialog box double click on the sample file FANDANGO TIF inside the SmartScore
244. t Play Range You can have playback begin on any measure in the ENF file or you can specify a range of measures for playback To set a playback start point or to select a range for playback a Select Playback gt Set Play Range and click the Play Range radio button b In the From field choose a starting measure To establish a range for playback select an end point in the To pull down box r Myf ba Aj A mee r Ppa T t p Co co FIGURE 4 18 Set Playback Range c To repeat playback over the range check the Loop box 4 5 9 Dynamics You can use any of the tools in the Dynamics palette to alter play back velocities Inserting dynamic crescendo decrescendo markings or hairpins will alter the velocity of associated notes in the active staffline only See To Insert a Dynamic marking on page 157 for details on inserting dynamics USING SmartScore 71 ENF Playback To apply dynamics and or dynamic markings to more than one staff enter the dynamic in each active staff that you wish to apply the effect If you do not wish to have so many dynamics visible in every staffline you may enter symbols in the Hidden Symbols mode For more details see Hidden Symbols on page 155 4 5 10 Articulations Numerous note articulations including slurs trills turns mordents staccatos tenutos accents arpeggios glissandos and tremolos can be applied from the Articulations palette For more information
245. t operate properly go to Choosing an alternative scanning interface on page 30 c Push the Scan button in the Navigator or in the Main Toolbar a B 2 amp ecog Unify Score peel ie MIDI Tile CO Miter FIGURE 3 2 Scan Button 3 2 1 Using the SmartScore Scanning Interface Your scanner will begin to operate with Scan or File gt Scan Music gt Acquire A low resolution pre scan will appear in the Preview window along with a black bounding box surrounding the music The bounding box should encompass the entire image area that you wish to scan Edges of the box should be about 1 4 away from the printed image FIGURE 3 3 SmartScore scanning interface NOTE Ifthe preview image appears with white notes on black back ground this means your scanner is reversing image polarity In this case you will want to check the box Invert Image below the Preview window 26 USING SmartScore Scanning and Recognition d To resize the bounding box click and drag any of the 4 sides so there is at least 1 4 of white space between the bounding box and the music which you are scanning e To scan more than one page make sure Multiple is checked f Push the Scan button to create a final high resolution scan of first page You will be prompted to scan additional pages Push Next Page and continue to preview deskew and scan until you have finished scanning in your song project section or movement Select Finish w
246. tallation gt a so 5s Sone Be Se See et 9 Recognition of Scanned Music 9 System Report 10 ENF Editing 11 Playback 14 Changing Instrument sounds 17 Working with the System Manager 18 Changing Parts and MIDI instruments 19 Manipulating a Multiple voice Score 20 Extracting Parts and Voices 21 Editing Lyrics and Text 21 Editing three or more voices 22 Open MIDI View 23 Viewing all open windows using Tile 23 Chapter 3 Scanning and Recognition 25 Scanning Music 25 Scanning in Windows 25 Using the SmartScore Scanning Interface 26 Automatic image enhancement functions 27 Table of Contents Scanner settings 29 Choosing an alternative scanning interface 30 Working with HP Scanners in Windows 31 Scanning for Macintosh 32 Scanner drivers for Mac 32 Selecting a scanner 33 Selecting the SmartScore Scanning Interface 33 Choosing Your Scanner s Interface Automatic 34
247. tch shift evis series 2 eraser eB ere Bye ee ee as 83 Editing beamed notes 84 Stem direction sis Shee ee eee eS 85 Dots of Prolongation 85 Tuplets and Slurs Legatos 85 Ties 86 Barlines Soara Fate ree te celina oe ts ett OO ca deep oes x ade E 87 Edit Shapes siate t Bi seem e aE a oe E eree i 87 Key and Clef Transposition 87 Creating a New ENF Score from Scratch 88 Saving and Exporting an ENF File 90 Saving ENF files as MIDI or other file types 91 76 USING SmartScore al Bi 2l Chapter 5 Editing Notes and Rests This section is intended to give you a brief overview of ENF editor functions Turn to Section Chapter 9 Detailed ENF Editing on page 129 for more 5 1 Navigating Inside an ENF Document 5 1 1 Zoom To Zoom in and out e Click the Zoom Tool in the Main Toolbar Ctrl Q Cmnd Q for Mac will toggle between In and Out e Click will increase the scale of your view Zoom In while right click option click for Mac will decrease the scale of your view Zoom Out NOTE An alternative to the split screen view is the Zoom Win dow view See Split screen and Zoom Window Viewing on page 129 for more details 5 1 2 Paging TIP Itis possible to view several pages at once with either File gt Print
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249. tes and rests USING SmartScore 1 5 5 Lane Janes Adage vrs fTlll Detailed ENF Editing with changed voice assignments will remain invisible after you exit Hidden Symbols To override voice numbers in Hidden Symbols a Select a voice color and number from the Voice Color tool b Click on any note or rest to change its voice number and color NOTE In Hidden Symbols mode voice colors display differently than in normal edit mode Voice 1 Grey Voice 2 Purple Voice 3 Yellow Voice 4 Aqua To change the default color of Hidden Symbols a Select Options gt Define Colors gt Hidden Symbols b Choose a new color and push OK 9 11 Dynamics Articulations and Tempo Markings NOTE Dynamic Articulation and Tempo markings affect ENF play back and change the resulting MIDI file Playback properties of individual markings may be adjusted singly or globally with the use of the Properties Tool See 9 12 on page 162 e Dynamic markings affect the volume of a range of notes in the active staff MIDI track to which they are entered e Articulation markings such as trills staccatos tenutos arpeg gios glissandos and mordents are note specific e Tempo changes are global and cannot be applied to one staffline 9 11 1 Tempo Markings Metronome Mark NOTE Inserting a tempo marking is generally used as a change of tempo indicator Default tempo is normally set by going to the Edit gt Tempo menu or to
250. the default time signature Heatre Yuen 7 bee Ges ia iret nee vce Cheri tiered ipo memg m n oreo es Ferh krer rran pe FIGURE 5 3 Error Check window To check for errors based on total voice durations a Press Ctrl E Win Cmnd E Mac Or select Edit gt Error Check The first measure found with a discrepancy will highlight in grey The Error Check window will suggest whether there are too many or too few note values in a particular voice in a given measure b Click into the ENF page and correct the indicated voiceline NOTE It may be necessary to click twice in the ENF display to change cursor focus from the Error Check window to ENF display c Select Resume to continue Click back into ENF to regain focus NOTE Very often publishers will leave one voiceline incomplete when there are two or more voices within a measure to avoid cluttering a measure with rests SmartScore may success fully cope with such a situation provided voices are vertically aligned d Choose Ignore to skip the indicated voiceline discrepancy or Quit 5 4 7 Pitch shift To change the pitch of any note e Hold down the Shift key click and drag a notehead up or down USING SmartScore 83 Editing Notes and Rests NOTE To move objects horizontally activate Edit Shapes from the Text and Controllers Toolbar See Edit Shapes on page 87 5 4 8 Editing beamed notes e Inserting and deleting beamed
251. the pattern to begin and enter it into the Beginning Measure field Decide how many measures you wish the pattern to contain and enter it in the Length in Measures field This is a very impor tant decision if you want to have proper sounding patterns Click Generate to add the pattern to the library It s name will then appear in the Automatic Drum Pattern window Add fills to longer patterns 8 or 12 measures Repeated fills in patterns having 1 or 2 measures usually sound dumb USING SmartScore Working with Drums e Importing MIDI drum patterns a Push the Open button in the Navigator File gt Open and click to Open select MIDI from the Files of Type pull down menu Browse to a MIDI file containing a drum track and double click b Push the Play button to hear the MIDI file play back Push Close c The imported MIDI file will appear in the MIDI Overview win dow d Repeat the process from Step d above 7 3 Virtual Drum Kit This option allows you to create a drum track to accompany any ENF playback without requiring a drum machine or any other external MIDI device It maps selected MIDI drum sounds to the keys of your com puter keyboard MIDI quantization to sixteenth notes is applied by default For more information about quantization see Snap to on page 204 7 3 1 Recording a virtual drum track To create a virtual MIDI drum track in ENF a Select Options gt Virtual Drum Kit
252. their harmonic equivalents e Keep Line Space This choice will retain exact relationships between intervals after trans position is completed Accidentals will generally remain fixed No attempt will be made to swap harmonic equivalents of accidentals For example c and d may transpose up to c and d double e Transpose Symbols To transpose guitar fret and chord symbols to match the new target key check this box This selection will also move articulations such as slurs up or down along with notes and rests If necessary guitar fret and chord symbols may move up to avoid collisions with upwardly transposed notes e Ask For New Chord Symbol This option allows you to accept or change each transposed guitar fret and chord symbol during transposition Use this option when you know you won t accept default fretboard patterns or when you know you will need to add new fret and chord symbols to the library e Adjust Stems Stem directions will be maintained unless this box is checked It is important to remember however that adjusting the direction of stems may create voicing problems Automatic voiceline recognition relies heavily on stem directions Flipping stems as they cross the mid staff point can create unexpected results Best Bet Adjust Stems Off Use Undo Ctrl Z Cmnd Z for Mac if necessary USING SmartScore 141 Detailed ENF Editing e Move Notes Uncheck this box to leave the notes in their original
253. to the Left Lyric fields are normally center aligned to their associated note or rest Choose this option to left align lyrics All lyric fields will be affected 11 6 6 Options gt Melisma Select Dash or Underline for how you wish lyric melisma lines should be displayed 11 6 7 Options gt Accidental Stacking Rule You may choose two alternative methods of stacking accidentals e Diagonal Applies the rule that adjacent accidentals should be positioned as closely as possible to each other and become diagonally offset e Zig Zag Attempts to arrange accidentals in back and forth rows no more than three spaces wide 11 6 8 Options gt Triplet Angle Select Flat Beamed Round or None for how you wish tuplet brackets are be displayed With None selected the division number appears but without any bracket USING SmartScore 235 Reference 11 6 9 Options gt Virtual Drum Kit Refer to Recording a virtual drum track on page 111 11 6 10 Options gt Virtual Drum Kit Definition Refer to Defining Virtual Drum Kit on page 112 11 6 11 Options gt Auto Save Open ENF files are automatically saved as a backup file Should your computer crash or a session somehow becomes interrupted you will be prompted that a previous version was detected when you reopen Smart Score If so accept the backup and save it You may change how frequently you want to Auto Save to backup your current ENF file Auo on Ope Ei Smee
254. to the Segno Checking the Segno box will place a Segno in a measure Playback will stop with this measure e Fine Fine means final or end It denotes the last measure of a score when repeats are used e d c al fine Check the Jump to box and select d c or Da Capo from the begin ning and al fine to the end After this measure is played MIDI play back will jump to the beginning of the score and continue playback to the end Use the Fine check box to insert a fine into a measure MIDI playback will stop at the end of this measure e d s al fine A Fine can be inserted after a Segno when the Segno is used to mark the beginning of the repeated section Checking the Segno box will place a Segno in a measure Activate the Jump check box and select d s or Dal Segno from Segno and al fine to the end After this measure is played MIDI playback will jump to the Segno measure Check the Fine box to insert a fine in a measure MIDI playback will play through the score return to the Segno measure and stop after the Fine measure is played e Jump Jump can be used to send MIDI playback to a certain measure 196 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing Select to Measure in order to jump to a chosen measure during play back On Pass will send MIDI playback to the selected measure on the desig nated pass only NOTE Check On Pass if the d s d c or the Jump measure falls within a repeated sect
255. ttes 75rrrnrnn 211 ENF FILE Menu ss a c e006 eteieee Ge she ese SS 218 ENF EDIT Menu 6 6 S26 ete e eae Soe ee ee ee 223 ENF VIEW Menu 229 ENF OPTIONS Menu 234 ENF PLAYBACK Menu 4 44 5244 452245 237 ENF Help Menu 238 MIDI FILE Menu s2 e0e 6 25 ee Soe eo eee ee Se 239 MIDI EDIT Menu 240 MIDI VIEW Menu 7777777 5 241 MIDI OPTIONS Menu 242 OMS Mac Classic Only 243 MIDI REALTIME Menu 244 MIDI WINDOW Menu 245 Image File Menu Items 245 Image EDIT Menu 246 Image VIEW Menu 248 Image REALTIME Menu 249 Glossary e eeee ee eee 251 Score Formats Ses Seah see SS erdnses Se ee ee eres acer 251 USING SmartScore 6 Table of Contents Score Components 252 Other Notational Terms 254 MIDI Terms 255 SmartScore Terms 259 Index 258 7 USING SmartScore Table of Contents USING SmartScore oo What SmartScore does So what do you want todo What s new with Version 3 0
256. ue Big E FI Written Played FIGURE 11 7 Glissando 11 2 3 Clefs In Insert mode select amy clef from the Clefs palette Click any where in the active staff to insert the selected clef USING SmartScore 213 Reference In Change mode clicking on an existing clef to change to selected clef Note that playback becomes updated Notes do not reposition them selves when a clef is changed either by a change of clef sign or by Uni fying Clefs To Delete a clef press the X key and click on the clef NOTE See Unify Signatures Clefs U on page 137 for more details on how to update clefs throughout all remaining sys tems e Alto Tenor Mezzo soprano C clefs The midpoint of the C clef indicates where C below middle C MIDI C3 is to be located e Treble Octava Bass Octava clefs Playback in these clefs will be an octave higher than with a standard clef e Treble Octavo Bass Octavo clefs Playback in these clefs will be an octave lower than with a standard clef e Octava Octavo tools These are not clefs per se Rather than insert with a mouse click they are applied to selected notes by dragging to select the notes to be modi fied Playback of selected notes will be an octave higher when selecting with Octava tool and an octave lower when selecting with an Octavo tool To assign Octava or Octavo to a range of selected notes a Select either Octava or Octavo tool
257. uencing To sum up Changes in ENF view automatically update MIDI display Changes in MIDI view update ENF playback only not its dis play In MIDI view choosing View gt Convert MIDI to ENF will cre ate a new ENF document based only on MIDI file data NOTE Page formatting will be lost in the new ENF document but the source ENF document will remain open and unchanged Close MIDI views icons appear in upper left hand corner to return display to ENF notation view Changes made in MIDI environment will be kept until Refresh MIDI is invoked In ENF view Playback gt Refresh MIDI updates playback based on the current ENF display only MIDI Refresh is per formed whenever an ENF file is opened or when the spacebar is used for playback after MIDI editing Select Save As MIDI to save current playback as a MIDI file Choose Keep MIDI to ignore refresh and temporarily retain changes made in MIDI environment Choose Refresh and Continue to discard changes made in MIDI and refresh playback based only on ENF display Yu ire boul to Fih HE haah allow ra F yoa ee oe charger such ar se keis cham hen ie DT yoa seh fo choco al reeled A Ci ch ne F yim be oo kaap M aa MI day chee Lee AD Dem a i Aterh ened Contre le Kap w FIGURE 10 1 Refresh MIDI based on ENF display Changes made in MIDI will be kept in ENF playback until MIDI Refresh is activated either by hitting the spacebar for playback or when closing and reop
258. un SmartScore s MIDI recording from an external timer select External Timer from the Realtime menu 10 9 6 Setting Punch In and Punch Out points To set Punch In and Punch Out points for recording double click any measure number in an Overview or Piano Roll The Measure Settings window will open e Check Punch In to start recording at the beginning of this mea sure e Check Punch Out to set this measure as the last measure for recording USING SmartScore 205 MIDI Editing and Sequencing The Punch In and Out points are marked with red triangles in the Over view and Piano Roll displays 10 10 Step Time Recording Recording a live MIDI performance to a metronome may be very useful to an accomplished keyboardist but many of us do not have the timing skills required to record a performance meaningful enough for conversion to notation Even if using Snap to quantization will result in note positions that are offset with a mix of strange note values and usually many rests A logical alternative to live recording is Step Time Recording Using this method you will be able to quickly select exact note durations as well as skips rests from the number pad of your computer keyboard With your other hand enter notes and chords from your MIDI keyboard or MIDI instrument To activate Step Time Recording a Make sure your MIDI keyboard or MIDI instrument is properly connected to your computer and that it or its i
259. ush Set button next to Instrument column header b Choose Instruments or Drums tab and select from preset list c Push Custom to reassign to external names if required 9 10 Hidden Symbols Hidden symbols displays every possible object in the ENF display Cer tain markings such as the range of a 8va 8vb ritard accelerando or decelerando are only visible when Hidden Symbols is active You may want certain notation objects to be applied to playback but at the same time you may not want these symbols to be visible For example you may need to insert rests to fill out a given voiceline in a measure but you do not want these placeholder rests to be printed To insert a hidden notation object a Push the Hide Show Symbol button in the Text and Controllers toolbar Insert any notation object normally Symbols entered in Hidden Symbols will appear as a brown color To view ranges of dynamics and tempos a Push the Hide Show Symbol button Dynamics or tempos which were applied to a range of notes will appear as follows FIGURE 9 13 Hidden range of an accelerando Push again to exit Hidden Symbols mode Hidden symbols do not appear in normal mode and will not print 9 10 1 Changing Voice assignments in Hidden Symbols You may find that it is necessary to change the assigned voice color and number of a hidden symbol after it is entered If so simply use the Voice Color tool found in the SmartScore toolbar No
260. ving col lapsed or expanded systems 8 1 4 Super System The Super System always represents the total number of potential instruments Adding or removing parts is normally done from the Super System and not from active system displayed in the System Manager To add a new part to the score System Manager gt Super System a Select Edit gt System Manager Ctrl M Cmnd M Mac b Choose Super from the Controlling System pull down menu Potreven T a M ipg Ape Te cP geen New vt FIGURE 8 6 Inserting a new part using Super System in System Manager c Select the part you wish to add a part next to by clicking on the black dot to the left of the part Apply to All should be selected d Choose Insert Above or Insert Below Then press Apply e Switch Controlling System back to Active Notice the newly added part is added but is NOT checked for visibility NOTE Parts are not visible in ENF until Visibility is applied to one or more systems See Controlling Part Visibility and Part Linking on page 147 for details on making part visible 11 8 USING SmartScore Changing Score Structure 8 1 5 Changing line staff and system spacing You can change the distances between the lines in a staff as well as dis tances between staves and systems from inside the System Manager Changes can be applied to the active system or to all subsequent sys tems a Position your cursor over the system which you w
261. ving the cursor to the Edit menu NOTE Only the active system is affected when inserting or removing a staff Remaining systems do not change Change visibility in the System Manager and apply to Score Part to update all systems TIP Keep in mind that when you add a part to a system you are also adding a new part to the score When adding a part to a system the new part will not be visible in any system except the active system See Super System on page 118 11 4 15 Edit gt Score Part Use this feature to append a new Score Part to the ENF document When a new Score Part is added it will begin playback at measure 1 along with all other Score Parts that have been created For definition of Score Part see Score Part on page 251 11 4 16 Edit gt Unify Signatures U Refer to Unify Key Time and Clefs U on page 169 226 USING SmartScore Reference 11 4 17 Edit gt Format Score This is a kind of cleanup tool that attempts to horizontally reposition notes and rests Does not roll objects from one system to another 11 4 18 Edit gt Instrument Templates Ctrl S or Cmnd S Refer to Instrument Templates on page 147 11 4 19 Edit gt Score Header To enter a Score Header at the top of the first page of the ENF file FIGURE 11 13 Score Header a Select Title and type in the name of the score b Select Composer and type in the name of the composer c Type a part name if it is a
262. w gt Cascade Layers all open windows within main SmartScore window Active win dow is stacked on top 11 18 14 View gt Tile Arranges all open windows to fit within main SmartScore window Windows are arranged from left to right top to bottom starting with the active window 11 19 Image REALTIME Menu 11 19 1 Realtime gt Thru Allows MIDI input to sound while recording USING SmartScore 249 Score Formats 251 Score Components 252 Other Notational Terms 254 MIDI Terms 255 SmartScore Terms 256 250 USING SmartScore Chapter 12 Glossary 12 1 Score Formats Score A musical piece compiled as a document A score usually con tains more than one part with all the parts to be played together In SmartScore it is a single computer file an ENF file A hand written score is called a manuscript Part A part is represented by a staff line either alone solo part or grouped into a system with other instruments ensemble part A part is usually an single instrument but in the case of two handed instruments piano organ xylophone etc it may represent one hand s part Voice Derived from choral music but applied to instrumental music as well contrapuntal voicing sometimes referred to as polyphonic voic ing refers to a unique melodic thread distinct from other voices in
263. w is checked Then click on the appropriate ENF page in the list of ENF pages d Push the Associate button to associate the image page with the appropriate ENF page Continue as necessary 11 5 12 View gt Image Information Provides information on the structure and type of the currently dis played image file e Next Page Displays next page of ENF document e Previous Page Displays previous page of ENF document e Go to Page Ctrl G Cmnd G Presents a dialog box to select a page number to jump to Refer to Pag ing on page 77 for details Zoom Lists available view percentages Changing zoom will affect both the image and the ENF file simultaneously Range is from 8 to 400 view scale 11 5 13 View gt Zoom Window Provides options for the floating zoom window including whether to display ENF or TIFF close ups in the zoom window and selecting addi tional zoom views Refer to page 129 Split screen and Zoom Window Viewing for details on the floating zoom window 11 5 14 New MIDI View Ctrl I Cmnd lI Opens New MIDI View dialog box Select type of MIDI view USING SmartScore 233 Reference e Overview Displays all staves as MIDI tracks e Piano Roll Displays selected stave as MIDI track e Event List Displays MIDI events of selected staff line 11 6 ENF OPTIONS Menu 11 6 1 Options gt Measure Numbers There are several options for displaying measure numbers in an ENF file Under the Option
264. xtracting voices or for creating different voice textures during playback 1 3 4 What Edition does what Not all SmartScore editions can accomplish everything listed above Excluding SmartScore Pro all other editions have limitations The fol lowing chart lists the limitations of each edition Table 1 SmartScore Edition Limitations Limited Number Text amp Print Guitar Score MIDI Edition of Lyrics and Structure Drum Feature Set Staves Chord Tracks Symbol Virtual Drums SmartScore 32 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Pro Songbook 3 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Edition Piano 2 No Yes No No No Edition Guitar 1 No Yes Yes No No Edition MIDI 4 No No No No Yes Edition 4 USING SmartScore Introduction to SmartScore 1 3 5 Parts and Voices in SmartScore A careful analysis of the structure of music notation reveals that there are two fundamental elements on which all other musical components are built Voices and Parts The following table describes their interre lationships in the context of printed music notation See the Glossary on page 251 for more detailed descriptions of these terms Table 2 How parts and voices are handled in SmartScore Keneit Contained Visible MIDI Inside Components Representation Part Systems Staves Track Voice Staves Notes Rests Channel SmartScore is based on these relationships The ability to track these basic components throug
265. yback tempo to the default speed SON B00 e Play button initiates resumes playback of the active MIDI file Once playback has begun the Play button becomes Pause Use this button to retain MIDI data after returning to ENF display Pause will stop playback without rewinding to the beginning of the score Hitting Play again will resume playback re initialized at 0 rewinds to the beginning Rewind button resets playback to the beginning of the playback range e The Record button will create a new MIDI track and will launch a new recording session When Record is lit press Play button to begin recording a new MIDI performance to a new track When recording to a new MIDI track existing MIDI data instruments channels and transpositions of the original ENF or imported MIDI file will be maintained E e Stop button stops playback recording of the MIDI Play Record is 1 82 USING SmartScore MIDI Editing and Sequencing NOTE All playback functions are also available in the Realtime menu in MIDI or Playback menu in ENF TIP To select an entire track for cutting and pasting go to Overview 7 and click option click for Mac in the track s Name field 10 4 3 MIDI Devices To set the MIDI input and output devices a Select MIDI Devices from the Options menu The MIDI Devices window will open E Cancel Input Output OPL3 S4 MPU MIDLIN Roland Serial MIDI Input OPL3 SA FM MIDI TTS Virtual Piano In OPL3 S
266. zontal for mat e Vertical format Select from View or push this button to view pages in vertical format 11 5 11 View gt Associate Image Files Synchronization between the ENF and TIFF panes assumes exact ENF correspondence to the original score structure Synchronization may become lost after systems are inserted removed or if page margins are changed Once a system rolls from one page to another ENF TIFF syn chronization will become lost for all subsequent pages TIP To keep ENF to TIFF panes synchronized for as long as possi ble complete all ENF editing before inserting systems Edit gt System gt Insert Synchronization may be regained by resizing top and or bottom margins in Page Setup after making small changes e g after altering line spacing Refer to File gt Page Setup on page 220 for more details on controlling page mar gins To synchronize ENF and TIFF views a Go to View gt Associate Image Files hai SPER RTE fe page Armie Seng Tl p a Cote erage page kr acre dji Lad Com FIGURE 11 15 Associate Image File Window 232 USING SmartScore Reference b Push Add to locate the TIF file associated with the open docu ment Browse your computer to find the image file If the file contains several pages of images they will appear as xxxP1 xxxP2 xxxP3 etc c Click to highlight a page in the image page list A preview of the page will appear in the view window if Previe

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