Score Punch

Load your cut

Drop in the picture. Score Punch reads the frame rate and start timecode, so bar 1 sits exactly where your cue begins.

Catch sync points M

Play the scene and press M where the music has to land: the door slam, the look, the cut to black. Each one locks to its timecode and stays there.

Solve the tempo

Score Punch searches tempos and meters until every sync point falls on a beat, and tells you where in BPM and bar:beat. Nudge the curve by hand and they stay caught.

Write it here

Write the score against the picture, in the same window. Playback, click and printed parts all come off the one solved tempo map, and spot-on stays green while you work.

Every sync point lands on frame

Catch a moment in the scene and Score Punch searches tempos and meters until a beat sits exactly there. It bends the tempo the way you would phrase a line, not the way a calculator would, so what comes out is a map a conductor can carry. Landings are stated in BPM and bar:beat, with the picture error in frames.

Change the tempo early, keep the rest where it is

Name the bar that has to stay put: keep bar 40 onward on its timecode. Change the tempo earlier in the cue and Score Punch gives the time back before the bar you named, so everything after it stays exactly where picture expects it. It tells you which bars it retuned, and when no playable tempo can absorb the change it says so and leaves your edit alone.

It warns you when nobody can conduct it

A tempo map can be right on frame and still fall apart on the podium: a jump nobody prepared, a drift nobody notated, a tempo nobody can beat. Score Punch reads the solved cue and names those passages in BPM and bar:beat, with the marking that would fix each one. Advisory, never printed.

The score and the picture are one file

Notes, cut, sync points, click and playback live in the same document. There is no sequencer session to keep in step with the score, and no export and reimport between the two. Change the tempo once and the click, the playback and the printed parts all come off that change.

Publication grade from the first note

Beaming that follows the meter, page numbers in the outer corner by book parity, courtesy time and key signatures where a line breaks, bar numbers under every bar. The defaults are the finished look, and sixteen further looks are one click away when a session or a publisher wants something else.

A piano sketch becomes an ensemble

Apply an orchestra template over music you already wrote and Score Punch spreads hands, voices and chords across the chairs. Every note ends up somewhere: whatever it cannot place is listed with a reason and stays on the staff you wrote it on. Nothing is ever dropped.

Play the part in

Arm your MIDI keyboard and hold a chord: it lands at the caret when you let go. There is a live monitor while you audition an idea, and real time record against the click for the lines you would rather play than type.

Your dynamics reach your samples

Play the score out to your sample library and the page goes with it: dynamics become velocity, hairpins become smooth expression curves, articulations shape length and accent, and an optional keyswitch map arms the right patch ahead of the note.

Hear it against picture

Play the score locked to the cut with the click underneath. What you hear in the room runs on the same solved tempo map the session will run on.

Streamers and punches

Spot the way a scoring stage does: streamers sweep across the picture and a punch flashes on the sync point, so you can conduct to the cut before there is a note on the page.

It flags what would cost you takes

Notes outside an instrument's comfortable range tint while you type. A session review reads the whole cue for the rest: phrases with no breath in them, mute changes with no time, string chords nobody can play, harp pedals that clash, page turns with nowhere to rest. Writing aids, never printed.

Copy and paste with your notation software

Copy in your notation software and paste straight into Score Punch, and back the other way, notes intact. MusicXML rides the clipboard for everything, and a section copied from a program that publishes only its own clipboard dialect is accepted too. Score Punch can also watch the file you are already saving and pick up its meters and tempos with no export step.

The cut changes, you do not retype

Editorial added frames at an edit point? Ripple from there and everything after it slides. Sent a fresh marker list? Score Punch matches it by name and shows what moved, what is new and what is gone, then applies only what you approve. Sync points stay locked to their timecode.

A pickup that does not move your music

Write a pickup and it plays before the anchored downbeat instead of pushing everything you wrote later against picture. The bar numbers stay the ones your players will call out.

Twenty staves, one line to write

Focus on the staves you are working on and the rest step aside, while the parts still print complete. Insert mode ripples music instead of overwriting it, the command palette reaches anything by name, and review mode locks the score so you can play it for someone without a stray click changing a note.

Stage ready click tracks

Click WAVs at 48 kHz with count-off bars, timestamped so the music editor drops the file in and it lands to the sample. Same click voice you wrote to, off the same tempo map.

Score, parts and paperwork

Print the score or any part from here, or save it as PDF. Then pack the whole project in one go: timing sheets, tempo MIDI with sync point markers, click WAVs, score templates, and a master cue list.

One license, yours forever. No subscription, not now, not later.

Activate once, then Score Punch never needs the internet again. Airgapped studio rig? There's a manual activation code.

A license key, not a login. No password, no profile, nothing to remember.

The app never phones home. Nothing is counted, logged, or sent.

Cuts, cues, and scores never leave your machine.

30 days, fully functional: spotting, tempo solving, notation, playback, printing, and every export. No account, no card, no watermarks. When it ends, buy a license key or your cues simply wait for you.

Only if you want it. Score Punch engraves, plays and prints the score itself, so a cue can start and finish here. If you would rather keep writing where you always have, copy and paste works in both directions, MusicXML moves whole cues, and Score Punch can read the file you are already saving and pick up its meters and tempos with no export step.

No. The picture, the score, the sync points, the click and the playback are one document, so there is no second timeline to keep in step with the first. If your sample library lives in a DAW, Score Punch plays the score out to it over MIDI with your dynamics, hairpins and articulations intact.

That’s what the trial is for: 30 days, fully functional, no card. Score your real projects with it before a dollar changes hands. If it doesn’t earn its place on your desk, don’t buy it. All sales are final.

Once, briefly: activating your license on a new computer (you get 3). After that, never. No telemetry, no check-ins, no update nags. Working somewhere airgapped? Activate with a code from any browser instead.

Every license covers up to 3 computers: studio rig, writing laptop, the machine you carry to the stage. Moving on from an old machine? Deactivate it in Score Punch’s License panel and the seat frees up instantly.