Simple Note Entry
Enter notes with your computer or MIDI keyboard.

Click notes onto the staff or use MIDI to indicate pitch. Or enter notes with the numeric pad and keys ‘A’ ‘B’ ‘C’ ‘D’ ‘E’ ‘F’ and ‘G.’ But entering notes is just the start. You can also:

• Change octaves
• Enter rests
• Add accidentals
• Create triplets
• Add grace notes
• Add notes in a chord to an existing note
• Enter articulations on the fly or ‘lock in’ an articulation to place on several notes
• Change the key or time signature simply with key commands
• Add expressions like dynamics or tempos
• Enter a rhythmic pattern using a single note and then re-pitch the repeated notes using your MIDI or computer keyboard

Keystrokes are intuitive and a special key map for laptop users is provided.

MicNotator^® – No MIDI Required
This revolutionary technology allows you to enter notation into PrintMusic simply by playing your brass or woodwind instrument.

Pick up your flute and start making music!

The example below is an unedited flute solo line played in at 90 bpm.

Scanning
No other notation program offers scanning as accurate as PrintMusic, with its included SmartScore^® Lite by Musitek^®.

NEW in PrintMusic 2009 – Triplet recognition and improved results when scanning polyphonic music.

PrintMusic’s SmartScore Lite Scanning includes:

• Improved recognition and accuracy with XML Technology.
• Easier Scanning - Both Macintosh and Windows users can scan directly from SmartScore Lite from within PrintMusic. With a compatible scanner, PrintMusic 2009 provides an auto-preview and automatically chooses resolution and contrast settings. *All you have to do is click "Final Scan".
• Secondary voice recognition – counterpoint
• Correct transposed instrument recognition
• Multiple page scans
• Correct page formatting including system and staff sizes
• Up to 32nd note resolution
• Improved recognition of multi-measure rests, grace notes, and repeat measures (slash & dot symbol).
• PrintMusic's SmartScore® Lite scanning utility has been updated to run natively on Intel-based Macs.
• Recognition of grayscale images to simplify the use of scanners, including HP models, that save in this format
• Improved recognition when scanning scores with optimized staves.

PrintMusic imports scanned SmartScore and SharpEye files, capturing notes, text, lyrics, chord symbols and more. (While SharpEye is Windows only software, the MusicXML files it creates can be read by PrintMusic on Macintosh and Windows computers)

Take a look for yourself.

Here's the original:

Scanned into PrintMusic: Only 5 easy edits needed.

Another notation product using PhotoScore Lite™: 30 difficult edits needed.

SmartScore Lite is designed to scan original engraved music – not handwritten scores. These examples were scanned from original engraved music, using a Canon N670U scanner at 360 dpi. Both images were untouched to enhance results. The Photoscore example was transferred, without edits, to the most current version of a competitor's product. The time to correct errors in the two examples: PrintMusic, 10 seconds to add missing rests and tie necessary notes, hence the term 'easy edits' compared to the 2 minutes it took to add Voice 2 notes, correct notes, change notes from Voice 1 to 2 etc. in the competitor's product, thus the term 'difficult' or time-consuming edits.

* Scanning directly from SmartScore Lite within PrintMusic is supported by nearly all Windows scanners and Epson scanners on Macintosh.