Neuratron Photoscore 8 Ultimate and Audioscore 8 Ultimate Bundle

I gave the audioscore and photoscore demos a workout. Audioscore maybe heard about 80% of the notes, not enough to be useful. Photoscore maybe got about 20% of notes on a printed score that would be easy for humans to read. Both products seem to be pieces of crap. Now I'm going back to typing scores in by hand.

I use Photoscore for transposing various scores, some them quite complex. It works well if the PDF is very legible; otherwise there will be a lot of time consuming note-by-note cleanup to do. The program is a little quirky. I wanted to transpose an Eb score down a major second to Db, but it transposed it to C# instead, a more difficult key for the performers to read. However, it transposed the chord symbols into Db, not C#. I found a way around it by first transposing it down a minor 3rd to C and then up a minor 2nd to Db. It works best for me to first split the pages of the PDF into individual files and then load them into Photoscore separately. After transposing and editing them, I then merge them. Overall, I have found Photoscore to be an excellent product and well worth the cost. I would not recommend Audioscore, however. It did not read audio files well when I tried to use it. Perhaps it would work better with simpler audio files.

More about me learning how to get out of it what I need than anything else. The programs excels at what it advertises!

Really good; but, I thought so the first time I bought it. New computers... lost track of the fact I had already bought it and this company apparently doesn't keep track either. Very expensive mistake!

Photoscore is very helpful software, but Audioscore was a disappointment