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What's New

Version 7 is the most significant advancement in music recognition in three years.  It offers the following new features:

• Multiple instruments.  The Ensemble Edition can listen to a musical audio file comprised of several different instruments and convert it to a MIDI file containing the notes played, broken down by instrument.  IntelliScore actually listens to the sound of each note and attempts to identify which instrument(s) produced that note.  No other product in the world can do this.

• Beat detection.  If your audio is a drum track, intelliScore can now create a MIDI file to indicate where the beats are.

• Multiple files.  If you have several similar audio files, intelliScore can now convert all of them to MIDI files at one time without requiring you to duplicate the recognition settings separately.

• WMA support.  IntelliScore can now convert from Windows Media Audio (WMA) files, in addition to MP3, WAV, and CD.  (Requires Windows 98 Second Edition or later.) 

• Improved note recognition and volume accuracy.  Over 90% of the recognition algorithms in our ground-breaking intelliScore software have either been enhanced or totally reengineered, resulting in entirely new levels of accuracy in polyphonic note, chord name, and key recognition versus previous versions as well as near perfect accuracy during the monophonic portions of your audio.  IntelliScore now produces better results from music that is fast and/or recorded at less than optimum volume levels and more closely preserves your music's natural rhythmic quality.  IntelliScore even compensates for out of tune instruments.

• More CD drives supported for obtaining CD audio tracks.  The direct CD transfer feature easily transfers music from an audio CD directly into intelliScore without any loss in audio quality and without setting recording levels.

• Version 7.1 adds improved support for Windows Vista and an enhanced help system.

IntelliScore still offers these powerful features introduced in earlier versions:

• Synchronous playback.  Following recognition, intelliScore?s SyncPlay feature can play back your original audio file and the generated MIDI file at the same time. Easily compare your files to evaluate the results of your project settings.

• Faster.  IntelliScore is now about 25 times faster than previous versions.  Depending on the speed of your computer, intelliScore can convert a full minute of audio in less than five seconds using the default recognition settings.

• Easy timing feature.  IntelliScore can automatically determine the best timing settings for your music when you do not intend on converting the MIDI file to notation.  This eliminates the need to tap in the tempo and manually set the timing resolution.

• Enhanced chord name and key recognition.  IntelliScore identifies 144 different chords implied by the notes in your audio file as well as the overall key.  Chord name and key recognition is now more accurate than ever.

• Greater realism.  IntelliScore writes continuous changes in tempo to the generated MIDI file, thus capturing effects such as rubato, ritardando, accelerando, and fermatas. If the music is monophonic, intelliScore accurately tracks changes in volume and pitch while notes are being held, faithfully recreating effects such as pitch bend, vibrato, tremolo, and portamento, so MIDI performances are now more expressive.

• Notation and MIDI editing. Edit the generated MIDI files and convert them to notation using the included award-winning Anvil Studio software.

• Live performance mode.  Control a MIDI-enabled instrument or your computer's sound card in real-time while you play an acoustic instrument.  In conjunction with the included Hubi?s MIDI Loopback Device, you can record MIDI directly into a sequencer while you play your acoustic instrument.  No need to use expensive hardware MIDI pickups!  Use one of intelliScore?s predefined instrument templates, or easily create your own.  IntelliScore is the world?s only general purpose, real-time polyphonic music recognition system.

• Stereo processing. In addition to its ability to process each stereo track separately, the Ensemble Edition can help isolate or remove instruments from stereophonic audio recordings at the position in the stereo image that you specify. For example, intelliScore can help remove vocals and process only the other instruments, or alternatively, process the vocal part only.

• Project Wizard.  IntelliScore steps you through the process of preparing intelliScore to generate MIDI files and is designed to help you achieve the most accurate recognition results in the shortest amount of time.

• Timing synchronization.  IntelliScore ensures that your generated MIDI file lines up with the beats and measures if you convert it to notation.  You may manually tap in the beats or allow intelliScore to automatically attempt to determine tempo, notes per beat (timing resolution), meter, beats per chord, and measure synchronization.

• Easy recording.  You can record your music directly into intelliScore so there is no need to create a wave file first.  The real-time record level meter helps you record your audio at the optimum level the first time.  Eliminates guesswork relating to setting proper recording levels.

• Many audio formats supported.  IntelliScore supports MP3, WMA, WAV, and live audio at 8/16/24/32-bit resolution, 11025/22050/44100 Hz sample rates, and monaural or stereophonic. It also transfers audio from CDs.