Neuratron PhotoScore Version 6 User Guide ® www.neuratron.com Edition 1 1997, Edition 2 1998, Edition 3 1999 Edition 4, 5, 6 2000, Edition 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 2001 Edition 12 2002, Edition 13, 14, 15 2003 Edition 16, 17 2005 Edition 18 2006 Edition 19, 20 2007 Edition 21 2009 This User Guide was written by Martin Dawe and Ben Finn. Published by Neuratron Limited. Neuratron PhotoScore was written by Martin Dawe, Richard Cheng, David Dawe, Andrew Hills, Chunhua Hu, Graham Jones and Tristan McAuley. The handwritten music recognition engine was written by Anthony Wilkes. PhotoScore image designed and modeled by Zara Slevin. Neuratron PhotoScore Copyright © 1995 – 2009 Neuratron Limited Neuratron PhotoScore User Guide Copyright © 1997 – 2009 Neuratron Limited OCR (Text recognition) and Linguistic technology by Image Recognition Integrated Systems S.A. © 2000 I.R.I.S. S.A. All rights reserved All rights reserved. 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Remember, it is illegal to scan copyrighted music without the owner's permission. 2 CONTENTS HOW TO USE THIS USER GUIDE ....................... 7 INSTALLATION .......................................................... 7 Requirements ............................................................... 7 Installing Neuratron PhotoScore .................................. 9 INTRODUCTION.............................................. 10 Suitable originals ........................................................ 10 Handwritten music (Ultimate version only) ............... 11 Copyright music ......................................................... 11 Lite version users - Important information ................ 12 GETTING STARTED ......................................... 13 Screen resolution and colors ..................................... 13 The three stages ........................................................ 13 1. SCANNING .................................................. 14 The three scanning interfaces ................................... 14 Scanning a page of music ......................................... 16 Scanning summarized ................................................ 18 Scanned page catalog ............................................... 19 Scanning hints ............................................................ 19 Longer scores ............................................................ 20 Opening .bmp & TIFF files ......................................... 20 Opening PDF files ...................................................... 20 2. READING .................................................... 22 Reading and the Pages Pane ..................................... 22 What PhotoScore reads (printed music) ................... 24 What PhotoScore reads (handwritten music) ........... 25 3. EDITING .................................................... 26 What to correct .......................................................... 28 Checking for mistakes ............................................... 28 3 Mouse and keys ......................................................... 28 Selecting..................................................................... 29 Multiple selections ..................................................... 29 Position of markings .................................................. 29 Re-reading a page ...................................................... 30 Re-scanning a page .................................................... 30 Deleting a page .......................................................... 30 EDITING RHYTHM & KEY SIGNATURES .......................... 30 The bad timing navigator (not Lite version) ............... 31 Initial time signature ................................................... 31 Pick-up (upbeat) / irregular bars ................................. 32 Key signatures / transposing instruments ................. 32 Altering note-values ................................................... 33 Inserting notes/rests .................................................. 33 Deleting notes/rests ................................................... 33 Attachment ................................................................. 34 Inserting barlines ........................................................ 34 Two or more voices ................................................... 34 Grace-notes and cue notes ........................................ 35 Editing hints ............................................................... 35 EDITING OTHER MARKINGS ........................................ 35 Copying markings ...................................................... 35 Deleting markings ...................................................... 36 Accidentals and articulation marks ............................ 36 Barlines ....................................................................... 36 Beams ........................................................................ 36 Clefs ........................................................................... 36 Codas and Segnos (not Lite version) ......................... 36 Cross-staff notes (not Lite version)............................ 37 Fingering (not Lite version) ........................................ 37 Guitar Chord Diagrams & Symbols (not Lite version) 37 Instrument names ...................................................... 38 Multirests ................................................................... 38 Ornaments (not Lite version) ..................................... 38 4 Pedal markings (not Lite version) .............................. 39 Pitch ........................................................................... 39 Repeat endings (not Lite version) .............................. 39 Slurs / hairpins (not Lite version) / ties ...................... 39 Text (Lite version – tempo text only) ......................... 40 Triplets and tuplets (Lite version – triplets only) ....... 41 READING HANDWRITTEN MUSIC ................... 42 Capabilities ................................................................. 42 Scanning ..................................................................... 43 Describing the handwriting style ............................... 43 AFTER PHOTOSCORING .................................. 46 Reformatting and extracting parts (not Lite version) 46 Transposing ................................................................ 47 Printing (not Lite version) ........................................... 47 Playing ........................................................................ 47 Saving ......................................................................... 49 Saving PhotoScore (.opt) files .................................... 49 Saving MusicXML & NIFF files ................................... 50 Saving MIDI files ........................................................ 50 Saving Wave & AIFF files (not Lite version) ............... 52 Burning to audio CD (not Lite version) ...................... 53 Converting to MP3 (not Lite version) ......................... 54 Saving files containing rhythmic mistakes ................ 54 Saving page and system format ................................ 55 Saving multi-staff instruments ................................... 55 Saving Bitmap (.bmp) and TIFF files .......................... 55 CLEANING UP ......................................................... 57 Closing the output score ........................................... 57 Deleting unwanted scans .......................................... 57 POSSIBLE PROBLEMS ..................................... 59 Scanning takes a long time or won’t work ................ 59 Not all staves/systems are detected ......................... 59 5 Reading takes a long time ......................................... 60 Music reads inaccurately ........................................... 60 Handwriting recognition problems ............................ 61 Warning messages .................................................... 61 If all else fails... ........................................................... 61 ADVANCED FEATURES .................................... 62 Choosing between scanners ..................................... 62 Scanning only one page............................................. 62 Adjusting detected staves/systems .......................... 62 Scan window options ...............................................