Scan support

Hello Tom,

Musitek's SmartScan is one of the two most respected music scanners out there, the other being SharpEye. So, you're using a good one.

Currently, to use MidiNotate Composer with SmartScore or any other music scanner, the bridge between the two is MIDI. This is not ideal, because the MIDI loses basic information, such as whether a note is spelled as C# or Db; and it also does not included music annotations such as accent marks and dynamic marks.

The industry standard method for moving a scanned score into another notation program is to use MusicXML. I am planning on adding MusicXML export support in MidiNotate in the upcoming 2.0 release currently scheduled for late May. However, MusicXML import support is needed for the bridge from a music scanner to MidiNotate. I hope to support MusicXML import by fall, 2006.

Cheers
-- Mark