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PhotoScore Lite 5.5 for Windows and Mac
Note that if you have purchased PhotoScore Ultimate, you should check Neuratron's web site for details of an update to the latest version.
PhotoScore Lite is for use only with Sibelius 5. Upgrade to Sibelius 5.
Improvements and changes
PhotoScore Lite 5.5 is an updated version of PhotoScore Lite for use with Sibelius 5, adding a number of improvements over PhotoScore Lite 5.0, including:
- Much improved handwritten recognition:
- Accidental recognition
- Key signature recognition
- Slur and tie recognition
- Improved accuracy and style versatility
- Special PhotoScore Paper for much increased accuracy
- Transposition - can now does full score and guitar chords. Stem directions are correctly handled
- Windows Vista: Now sets execution level correctly
- Added option to read transposing scores (varying key signatures per instrument)
- Improved playback and MIDI saving of alternative endings, codas, segnos and cross-staff notes
- Added alternative “expanded” keypad layout
- Displays bar numbering
- Time signature and key signature dialogs now default to the value of a time signature or key signature double/right-clicked on
- Fixed bug with multiple voices saving MusicXML and NIFF files. Also saves hanging ties now
- Improved accidental calculation when transposing
- Fewer false ties and slurs recognized
- Improved rest augmentation dot recognition
- Less false minim and semibreve rests recognized
- Prevented copyright text appearing double sometimes
- Fixed problem with “bad timing” not calculated correctly sometimes
- Prevented rests sometimes being found in key signatures
- Improved recognition of chorded small noteheads
- Fewer false staccatos recognized
- Improved beam recognition near slurs
- Improved triplet recognition where notes not joined by beams
- Improved tuplet recognition where they begin with rests
- Improved time signature recognition
- Improved determination of appoggiatura against cue notes
- Improved repeat barline recognition
- Improved hairpin recognition
- Improved beam recognition – steeper angles now picked up
- Improved advanced rhythm correction
- Improved determination of arrhythmic notes
- Prevented clusters of notes with tails in odd directions where notes probably picked up erroneously
- Less false multirests recognized
- Improved filling in of semibreve rests in empty bars
- Improved recognition of augmentation dots around slurs and ties
- Improved barline recognition at end of bars
- Improved semibreve recognition (not converting to minims when inappropriate)
- Prevented fake barlines being added before time sigs with larger gaps in transposing scores
- Displays articulation in better positions
- Picks up more ties at ends of staves
- Displays slurs at ends of staves
- Improved flag recognition (higher detail in search)
- Improved staff line removal to keep more of line in thin flags (improving flag recognition)
- Removes excess notes and rests found after double barlines at ends of staves
- Improved recognition of thick flags
- Improved guitar chord symbol recognition
- Reads wider range of crotchet rests, segnos, codas, mordents, turns, pedal markings, fermata, repeat endings
- Improved accidental recognition
- Improved stave finding – adjusting to left/right of system
- Picks up key signatures after coda barlines
PhotoScore Ultimate 5 includes many other new features, including handwritten score recognition, automatic scanning and reading, recognition of 4 voices per staff, saving of WAV/AIFF files, up to 64 staves per page, and more. Read more about PhotoScore Ultimate 5.
Please choose your platform: Windows | Mac
Installing PhotoScore Lite 5.5.1 for Windows
Please follow these instructions carefully.
- Exit any programs which are running, including Sibelius (choose File > Exit).
- Don't uninstall your existing copy of PhotoScore Lite, if you have one - just leave it as it is.
- You will be asked whether or not to save PhotoScoreLite551.exe to disk: choose to save it on your Desktop.
- Once the download is complete, double-click PhotoScoreLite551 to install the update, and follow the on-screen instructions.
Installing PhotoScore Lite 5.5.2 for Mac
Please follow these instructions carefully.
- Exit any programs which are running, including PhotoScore Lite (choose File > Quit).
- Trash your existing PhotoScore Lite folder (inside Applications by default).
- Click here to start downloading the installer (15.5MB).
- When the download is complete, a volume called PhotoScore Lite 5.5.2 should be mounted on your desktop, and its window should open. If you don't see this volume or window, double-click the downloaded .dmg file to mount it.
- Double-click the Install PhotoScore Lite icon to install PhotoScore Lite, and follow the on-screen instructions.
This page last updated 18 April 2008.
