[HANASHIR:6585] Re: Software for transcribing songs

[ItaSara <ItaSara...>]

I myself use a very old program no longer available that does the job, 
however, I have had my eye on a piece of software for quite some time called 
SMART SCORE. I tried the demo and loved it. What the program does is to allow 
you to scan in a sheet of music and then work with it, transpose it, 
whatever. This is such a time saver in that you do not have to play in all 
the notes by hand or by keyboard.  The only thing I am waiting for it for the 
scanner to recognize and incorporate lyrics into the program. I have written 
this company on a couple occassions and they say they are still planning to 
come out with text recognition. Actually that my have happened by now, and I 
need to check on this myself.

Here is the link if you want to check it out: 
<A HREF="http://www.musitek.com/smartscre.html";>http://www.musitek.com/smartsc
re.html</A>

it is available for PC and Mac, which I prefer. I see that there is a new 
feature now that supports finale, so maybe it is possible to add the text 
from finale after the music is scanned in. It would be worth finding out.

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