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smart score is already a part of finale so no need to buy it if you already have finale. For those interested in this type of software you should check out photoscore, its much more accurate than smartscore &has a lot more options



Thanks for the response comparison.

About what you're saying ... True enough. However, the full version of Finale is a $600 dollar program and I couldn't afford that. I did already have a watered-down version of the Finale program that was bundled with some other software I bought from Hal Leonard. This version seemed to work okay but it didn't include any music-scanning ability.

Also, Photoscore 6 is a $500 dollar program unless you buy the MIDI Lite Photoscore for $50 bucks. I did buy Photoscore Lite before I ended up switching to SmartScore -- I sent Photoscore back. I found the two programs to be similar in features but personally I ended up taking SmartScore over Photoscore because one, I had trouble with Photoscore tech support and two, SmartScore was easier to set up and use.

The truth be told, I didn't see any difference at all in accuracy -- they both claim 99% percent accuracy (the separate SmartScore software -- not the Finale-bundled-integrated one). And even at 99% percent that means one note out of 100 is going to be wrong (and even that is going to depend a great deal on your scanning hardware and software drivers. I guess I can live with 1 out of 100 for what the program does for me and my ears can usually tell me which one's out of wack anyhow.

To each his own.

Ike