ScoreCloud is a

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and

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for creating, storing, and sharing

music notation Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspec ...

, created by Doremir for

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, Microsoft Windows, iPhone and

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. The main functionality of the software is the automatic creation of music notation directly from music performance or recordings. ScoreCloud comes in two varieties – ''ScoreCloud Studio'' and ''ScoreCloud Express''. ''Studio'' is an

application software Application may refer to: Mathematics and computing * Application software, computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks ** Application layer, an abstraction layer that specifies protocols and interface methods used in a ...

available for

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and Microsoft Windows and contains full editing capabilities, as provided by common

music notation software A scorewriter, or music notation program is software for creating, editing and printing sheet music. A scorewriter is to music notation what a word processor is to text, in that they typically provide flexible editing and automatic layout, and pr ...

. ''Express'' is a

mobile app A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on ...

available for iPhone and

and contains simplified editing capabilities. The software is available for free, but adds a

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when printing, and does not allow saving files or exporting to

MusicXML MusicXML is an XML-based file format for representing Western musical notation. The format iopen fully documented, and can be freely used under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement. History MusicXML was invented by Michael Good and in ...

without subscribing at the Pro level. An intermediate subscription plan, Plus, removes the watermark and allows export to MIDI. ScoreCloud is marketed as the only service offering the ability to record audio, transcribe it to

MIDI MIDI (; Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a technical standard that describes a communications protocol, digital interface, and electrical connectors that connect a wide variety of electronic musical instruments, computers, an ...

, transform it to

sheet music Sheet music is a handwritten or printed form of musical notation that uses musical symbols to indicate the pitches, rhythms, or chords of a song or instrumental musical piece. Like its analogs – printed books or pamphlets in English, A ...

, and share the sheet music online. ScoreCloud's ability to transcribe real-time MIDI input into sheet music has been praised in the British

music technology Music technology is the study or the use of any device, mechanism, machine or tool by a musician or composer to make or perform music; to compose, notate, playback or record songs or pieces; or to analyze or edit music. History The earlie ...

magazine ''

Sound on Sound ''Sound on Sound'' is an independently owned monthly music technology magazine published by SOS Publications Group, based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. The magazine includes product tests of electronic musical performance and recording devices, ...

''. The latest version, ScoreCloud 4, includes

polyphonic Polyphony ( ) is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice, monophony, or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords, h ...

audio analysis. In practice, this allows the user to sing or play any instrument whereafter the software will create sheet music.

Company

Doremir Music Research AB is a Musical Intelligence Company based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company's name is derived from the syllables "do, re, mi" in

solmization Solmization is a system of attributing a distinct syllable to each note of a musical scale. Various forms of solmization are in use and have been used throughout the world, but solfège is the most common convention in countries of Western cultu ...

(

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) and the abbreviation of

Music Information Retrieval Music information retrieval (MIR) is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music. MIR is a small but growing field of research with many real-world applications. Those involved in MIR may have a background in academic musico ...

(MIR) – a computer science field whose objective is to automatically extract information out of

audio Audio most commonly refers to sound, as it is transmitted in signal form. It may also refer to: Sound *Audio signal, an electrical representation of sound *Audio frequency, a frequency in the audio spectrum * Digital audio, representation of soun ...

music signals. The company was founded by Sven Ahlbäck, Professor at

Royal College of Music in Stockholm The Royal College of Music, Stockholm ( sv, Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm) is the oldest institution of higher education in music in Sweden, founded in 1771 as the conservatory of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. The institution was ma ...

and Sven Emtell. Its self-declared mission is to "make music creation and communication easier through advanced technology based on music intelligence”.

History

In 1995, Sven Ahlbäck presented a doctoral thesis on the idea that all people understand music on a deeper organized level involving more than just the element of chance or pure emotions. Sven Emtell, MSc at the

Royal Institute of Technology The KTH Royal Institute of Technology ( sv, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, lit=Royal Institute of Technology), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH conducts research and education in engineering and technol ...

, started together with Ahlbäck to analyze on how to realize the music cognition model digitally, but for different reasons the project ended. In 2008, the two met again and decide to continue with the project. * 2011: The first

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of ScoreCleaner is available. * 2013: ScoreCleaner is launched in Europe, Asia and the United States. * 2013: Gold and Silver medals at Cannes Lions Festival in June. * 2014: ScoreCleaner changes name to ScoreCloud. * 2018: ScoreCloud 4 is released.

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* {{Scorewriters Music software Cross-platform software Scorewriters Common Lisp (programming language) software

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