I've declared a personal moratorium on 32 bit apps since there may be additional performance issues in the next Mac OS and Apple has promised they will have no support in the one that follows. As to the desktop, I'm happy with SS X2P for now.Īs to the future, whichever app goes 64 bit first gets the next dime I spend on this. >Yes - you can edit inside of NotateMe, but I never bothered.Your mileage may vary, however.<Įxactly. Has anyone else used this combo since scanning was removed from Finale? And again - $70 - plus - no need for a scanner. I've not tried it on large scores or any vocal music parts with lyrics - just instrumental stuff - but it does work. There are occasional text cleanup issues, but the music is very accurate. I use it to scan single line instrumental parts - comes out almost error free with the correct measures, keys, rhythms, etc. Just the phone's camera - back up till the entire page is in the frame. ScanScore Professional 2 comes in at 179. Don't bother editing anything within NotateMe - just save out the xml file.ĭoes it work? YES! It is significantly better than SSPro (I own it too) and you don't need a scanner - especially an oversized scanner to capture those oversized parts/scores, etc. Many purchasers of Sibelius over the years may have had PhotoScore Lite bundled, but compared to Ultimate it lacks crucial capabilities and is limited to handling only small scores.
You simply take a picture with your phone camera and in about 3 seconds you are saving an xml file to your favorite cloud site.
#Photoscore lite app full version#
That original $70 gets you the full version engine of Photoscore put into your phone/iPad. What I use the app for quite regularly though is scanning via the "PhotoScore" upgrade. I don't use NotateMe for the supposed hand writing recognition of music - I have no need for it. You are all-in for about $70 (the price when I got it in 2017). Then - within the app - purchase the "PhotoScore" upgrade. I would urge all of you to try "NotateMe" - an iPhone/iPad app. The upgrade to the pro version of PhotoScore costs even more after you pay the license fee. If you are used to Finale, you won’t like their work flow. Their licensing scheme is a clown car nightmare. I upgraded six years ago and never thought twice. Oh, if you don’t like it after spending the hundred bucks, the upgrade to SS X2P is still $199.00 BTW, this is the app that was to be bundled with Finale 25 and pulled two years ago. You still can’t edit before you save as MusicXML. One costs $99.99 and is only a little better than SmartScore Lite. One thing is clear: You are two years too late to the discussion. So be shocked, horrified, outraged, bla, bla, bla. They were clear as to why they did it and you can still read it here.įor myself, being in the copyright protection business, I disagreed and still do. They emailed everyone whether you read it or not-that was June 20, 2016, two years ago today. MM announced that scanning would be removed two years ago and gave their reasons.