What's new in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.5.8
Jul 29, 2015
- Recognition:
- Improved recognition of triplets including angled tuplets
- Improved recognition of ties
- Improved recognition of dots of prolongation
- Improved recognition of multi-measure rests
- Improved recognition of trill (tr) symbol
- Improved recognition of flags in single notes.
- Improved recognition accuracy of notes with very thick or very thin beams
- False positives fixed- Dots being assigned to notes with staccatos
- Recognition Option- 4-line staves now default to TAB (Choose Percussion option added)
- Recognition Option default changed- Join Offset Voices to "Within 1/8 of a notehead"
- Recognition Option- Recognition of "heavy beams" removed
- Playback:
- New: "Set Playback Range" window now floats and includes play function buttons.
- Improved dynamic range for Hairpins, Cresc. and Decresc. Markings
- Improved Trill Properies- Permuation default reset to 8
- New- Individual velocities for each note event are now visible and editable in MIDI Event List
- Fixed- Playback Console Pan problem
- MusicXML Export:
- New- MusicXML support for double tremolos
- New- Convert "Cresc" and "Decresc" markings to hairpins in MusicXML
- New- Multi-measure rest symbols fully supported
- Fixed- "Nested tuplets" now translate properly to MusicXML
- ENF Editing:
- New- Delete or assign any attribute (staccato, tenuto, etc.) to selected range of notes (Select range with right click or all with Ctrl+Al)
- Fixed- Overapping noteheads now offset properly during editing
- Fixed- Default location of Mini Play Console (Mac) reset
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed- Crashing on poor-quality image files improved
- Fixed- Karaoke -> Options -> Scroll ball = Crash
- Fixed- Crash While Editing Percussion Staff Lines
- Fixed- Error when allocating memory during recognition of tabulatures
- Fixed- Page Setup > Page Layout > Custom layouts are now saved (Windows only)
- Fixed- Alto, Tenor and Bass "instrument" part names - Restore playback transposition to "0"
- Fixed- Mac keyboard shortcuts for Rests and Accidentals not working
- Fixed- Image editor freezes when saving (Mac Yosemite)
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.5.7 (Oct 30, 2014)
- Recognition:
- Fixed multiple Recognition crash issues.
- False recognition of numbered endings fixed.
- Recognition of Trills improved.
- Reset Permuation default for trills to 8.
- Improved Percussion and TAB staff localization / recognition.
- Recognize fingerings. Fingerings assigned a green color.
- Assign a blue color to slurs (legatos).
- Playback:
- Base transposition for Bass and Alto Part Names fixed: Playback console & Instrument Templates now return a tranpose value of 0.
- Correct Playback Pan problem.
- MusicXML Export:
- MusicXML export bug: Bb transposition attribute problem fixed.
- Write chord extensions and augmentations to MusicXML files.
- PianoR was listed twice when exported to MusicXML files. Fixed.
- ENF Editing:
- Mac keyboard shortcuts for Rests and Accidentals fixed.
- Overlapped notes behavior fixed.
- File > Open: Set "File Type" to "All Readable Files" as default.
- DVD Installers - SmartScore Pro no longer the default selection.
- General:
- Correct mis-spelled word in Recognition Options ("Suppress").
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.5.6 (Feb 21, 2014)
- MusicXML Export:
- Accidental elements that belong to tied notes when crossing barlines now reiterated.
- elements added for tempo and dynamic markings. Sfz and Sf elements included.
- -and tags now added helping to define transposed instruments.
- Tuplet attribute added to nodes.
- Empty elements removed from guitar fret symbols.
- Recognition:
- Reduced false positives: Numbered endings and Ped markings.
- Suppress Chord Symbols bug fixed.
- Join Offset Voices default = smaller gap.
- Playback:
- Base transpositions for various instruments fixed.
- Playback Console can now be suppressed (EDIT > Program Preferences).
- Save As .WAV / .AIFF - Burn to Audio CD
- Truncated .WAV recording bug fixed.
- Aria/Garritan playback now supported.
- Installation:
- All installers and demos now digitally code signed (Mac and Windows).
- MIDI Edition Only:
- Editing note events in Piano Roll bug fixed.
- SmartScore Player:
- All available toolbars now visible.
- TIF-to-ENF files automatically associated.
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.5.5 (Sep 18, 2013)
- Improved recognition accuracy for various beamed groupings.
- .WAV / .AIFF recording bugs fixed:
- Muted track are now supressed properly.
- All settings in Playback Console are now applied during Aria recording.
- Playback of dynamics in Aria Player improved.
- Improved differentiation between staff lines during recognition.
- Begin Recognition default options:
- "Join Offset Voices" active region widened to 1/4 of the width of each notehead.
- Recognition Options reset to default when new SmartScore session is opened.
- MusicXML bug fixed: Guitar fret symbols no longer write frame elements.
- Quick-select (Ctl+Click) fixed for selecting existing mordants.
- Improved recognition accuracy (Prodigy Engine) and playback (Aria):
- All rests (whole, half, 8th, 16h, 32nd, 64th)
- Whole notes
- Whole note clusters
- Half notes
- Half note clusers
- Multi-measure rests
- Less false positives
- Playback of dynamics (cresc/decresc/hairpins,etc) in Aria Player improved.
- Piano Edition Save As.. bug fixed ("ENF not implemented").
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.5.0 (Sep 18, 2013)
- Significant improvement in music recognition accuracy with the addition of new Prodigy Engine. Accuracy is improved for:
- Poorly printed / poorly scanned originals
- Jazz fonts / Fake books
- Lyric / text recognition (OCR)
- Barlines
- Key signatures and change-of-key signatures
- Time signatures and change-of-time signatures
- Triplets including standalone (without brackets)
- Non-triplet tuplets
- Notes with broken stems
- Beamed groups with broken stems
- Accidentals
- Improve recognition accuracy of scores having overly "thin" or "thick" lines
- Recognizes umlauts for German characters
- Scanning Interface improvements: Improved Canon & Epson performance, MacOS 10.6/7/8 optimization:
- Improved recognition options
- PDF processing improved. User always controls thresholding.
- Playback:
- Includes custom orchestral, pop and jazz instrument sound set from Garritan
- Includes Aria player from Plogue (VST & AU)
- Includes custom Aria "Ensemble" presets for quick instrument assignments
- Insert change-of-instrument in the ENF notation window (MIDI playback only)
- Pause feature added to Jukebox
- Karaoke view displays both moving lyrics and moving notation
- Default playback tempo reset to 100 BPM
- ENF Notation Editor:
- "Insert MIDI Instrument change" anywhere in ENF score
- Unify Key Signature default automatically resets according to score structure
- Select All (Ctrl+A) activates voice splitting ("H") and stem direction change ("S") globally
- Changed Staff Properties to Score Properties - Insert / Delete Part added
- Save and Open now browse to last directory accessed
- Streamlined menu selections
- EDIT (Insert / Delete System, Part & Staff moved to Score Properties)
- Layout Properties changed to Score Properties (Insert/Delete Part added. TAB added.)
- Add "None" to VIEW Menu > Show > Chord Symbols
- Edit > Page Setup: Bug fixes and wording change
- "Format Score" button added to System Manager Window
- "Change Line / Staff Spacing" button added to Staff Properties Window
- VIEW and WINDOW (Items swapped for clarity)
- Fix Recognition Option > Join Offset Voices = Exactly aligned
- Help menu / User Manual:
- "Using SmartScore X2" manual rewritten
- Interactive online help (HTML) updated and improved
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.3.3 (Sep 18, 2013)
- Improved Epson Perfection scanner control
- Horizontal cropping problem fixed. Pages now scan 8.5" wide.
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.3.2 (Sep 18, 2013)
- PDF Creation / MusicXML / Finale Export:
- Bug fixed during PDF creation when Program Preferences > Printing & XML = Center on page.
- Fixed: Intermittent crashing (1 in 30) during .XML file creation.
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.3.1 (Sep 18, 2013)
- MusicXML / Finale Export:
- Bug fixed where .ENF files created from scratch (from SmartScore templates) failed to convert to XML when Program Preferences > Printing & XML = Center on page.
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.3.0 (Sep 18, 2013)
- Scanning:
- Improved scanner connectivity and control for Canon LIDE and PIXMA scanners when using SmartScore's scanning interface.
- Implemented smart sensing for non TWAIN-compliant scanners.
- MusicXML / Finale Export:
- Improved chord symbol / guitar fretboard placement. Symbols now position directly above corresponding note clusters.
- Improved exported page handling:
- >Music automatically centers to middle of page: (Program Preferences > Printing & XML > Center to Page = On)
- >XML pages now export according to default page size
- Notation Editing:
- Transposition bug fixed: When a pair of notes with accidentals were tied across a bar line, transposing by key signature would break the tie.
- First scan: "Select Scanner Driver" appears (initial pass only)
- Staff Properties added to Layout Properties control (right-click on any staff line).
- sf and sfz dynamic markings now appear below and not above staff line per convention.
- Problem with chord names not scaling when zooming out now fixed.
- View > Part Names default reset = 1st System Abbreviation
- Claified wording for Edit > Auto-spacing and Auto-beaming: "Select all. Then Apply".
- Printing:
- Music automatically centers to middle of page: (Program Preferences > Printing & XML > Center to Page = On)
- Image Editor:
- Greyscale Thresholding control default = Apply to all pages = On
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.2.6 (Sep 18, 2013)
- MusicXML:
- Improved XML page formatting: Page and system breaks now included.
- Page Setup:
- "Format Score" button added to Page Setup window. Format Score environment allows for re-scaling printed output as well respacing and resetting number of barlines per system.
- WAV creation (Windows):
- Problem with random crashing fixed.
New in SmartScore X2 Piano Edition 10.2.5 (Sep 18, 2013)
- MusicXML:
- Bug in assignment of ENF Voices (Layers in Finale) fixed. Voices now import properly as Finale Layers.
- ENF Parts now export transparently to Finale Instruments.
- SmartScore now imports articulation and dynamic markings from MusicXML files.
- ENF Editing:
- FILE > Open: "Last looked" directory reinitialized. (Win only).
- Page Setup > Center on Page > Apply: Margin tab controls highlight green for visibility.
- Demos:
- Demos now convert PDF to TIFF for recognition.