If a Mac OS X TWAIN driver is not available for your scanner, you will need to scan using separate software, save suitable TIFF files, and open these in PhotoScore.Avid's Sibelius | Ultimate provides extensive notation tools and complete score customization for professionals. You may need to contact your scanner manufacturer for information on installing a suitable TWAIN driver. Please Note: It is highly recommended you visit your scanner manufacturer’s website and download the latest version of the driver software.
Sibelius users note: Although PhotoScore will work with Sibelius 3 or later, It is recommended that you use Sibelius 5 or later as it has greatly improved PhotoScore importing capabilities.Ī scanner (connected to your computer via a USB, Printer or SCSI port), and installed Mac OS X TWAIN driver software
Intel-powered Apple Mac with Mac OS X 10.4 or higherĪt least 512 MB RAM (more than 512 MB RAM may be desirable if you need to scan many small staves, or photos and graphics)Īpple Preview or Adobe Reader 6.0 or later should be installed to view PhotoScore’s PDF help. IBM-compatible Pentium III (or equivalent AMD processor) or higher PC with at least 512 MB RAMĪdobe Reader 6.0 or later should be installed to view PhotoScore’s PDF help. Minimum requirements for PhotoScore Ultimate PhotoScore is able to read virtually all markings on a page and is the only product available capable of reading guitar tab and percussion staves. PhotoScore represents a significant advance being able to read a wide variety of music with high speed, accuracy and a good range of music symbols. A large part of the human brain, containing many millions of connections, is devoted solely to solving this ‘pattern recognition’ problem.įor this reason, only a handful of music scanning programs have ever been developed, and past attempts have generally been very slow, very inaccurate, or unable to recognize many standard musical markings. The process of actually reading or interpreting music, text or pictures from this grid of dots is extremely complex and poorly understood. As far as the computer is concerned, scanning a page merely presents it with a grid of millions of black and white dots, which could be music, text, a photograph or anything else The difficulty with scanning music or text is that by scanning a page, a computer does not ‘understand’ it.
Use the performance mode to easily read music off the screen whilst you are performing.Save as a WAV (Windows) or AIFF (Mac OS X) file for burning to CD or converting to MP3.