Before you begin, make sure you’ve set
up the MicNotator for your instrument. See Setting
Up MicNotator. For more details about HyperScribe, see Recording
with HyperScribe.
MicNotator will notate what you play, so
your performance should reflect the desired printed results, rather than
the desired sound. For instance, if you play eighth notes in a staccato
style, they may come out as sixteenth notes rather than eighth notes.
So you should play the full duration of all notes. Also, you will experience
better results if you input notes at a slow tempo.
Follow the basic guidelines for quantization
that you would use with MIDI input. As a general rule, you should quantize
to the smallest duration that you will play (i.e., if your smallest duration
is an eighth, quantize to the eighth note rather than the sixteenth).
The No Tuplets quantization setting produces the best results. Even if
you have triplets in your performance, you will have better results using
the No Tuplets setting and then editing the triplet measures (using the
speedy note tool).
If you encounter small rhythmic errors
when entering sixteenth note passages, click on the More Settings in the
Quantization Settings dialog box and change the Very Short Notes value
from 20 EDUs to 0 EDUs.
- Choose MIDI/Audio > Quantization
Settings. The Quantization Settings dialog box appears.
- Click on the More Settings button. The
More Quantization Settings dialog box appears.
- Under Very Short Notes, click in the Remove
Notes Smaller text box and enter 20.
- Choose Remove Grace Notes.
- Under Options, ensure Include Voice Two and
Allow Dotted Rests are unchecked.
- Click OK. You return to the Quantization
Settings dialog box. Adjust the settings, then click OK. See Quantization Settings dialog box for
more information.
- Click the HyperScribe tool
. The HyperScribe
menu appears.
- Choose HyperScribe > Beat Source > Playback and/or Click. The Playback and/or Click dialog box
appears. (See Playback and/or
Click dialog box)
If you’d rather provide the tap or tempo yourself, see Tap Source dialog box.
- Click the note duration you would like to use
for your beat. Type in the number of EDUs for any duration that
is not available from the palette.
- If you know what tempo you want to record at,
enter the tempo into the Tempo text box. If you prefer to have
Finale calculate the tempo for you, click Listen, then tap your mouse
in the dialog box at the desired tempo. Finale will enter the tempo you
play.
- Choose a start signal from the Start Signal
for Recording drop-down menu. Finale will delay starting the countoff
measures and recording until it receives a start signal. Choose None (Record
Immediately) if you don’t want to use a signal to start recording—Finale
will immediately start recording (after playing the countoff if one was
specified); choose Any MIDI Data for Finale to start recording upon receiving
any MIDI signal that’s played; choose Current Metronome Sound to use the
same MIDI signal as the metronome click; choose Standard Sustain Pedal
or Nonstandard Sustain Pedal to signal the start by depressing the foot
pedal; choose Other to define an alternate MIDI signal as the start signal
in the MIDI Event dialog box (see MIDI
Event dialog box).
- Deselect Play Staves While Recording or make
sure MicNotator is set to a unique input channel. See Audio Setup dialog box.
- Click on Click and Countoff to set up your
click and countoff options. For details, see Click and Countoff dialog box.
- Click OK. You return to the document.
- Choose HyperScribe > Record into
One Staff. MicNotator only supports single pitch instruments.
- To start recording, click the measure in which
you want Finale to begin recording. Signal Finale to start (if you selected
a start signal). Click a measure. Or, choose Playback Controls
from the Window menu, if it isn’t already selected. Change the measure
if necessary, then click Record in the Playback Controls.
If you click
a measure to start recording, Finale will start recording into the measure
you clicked, not the measure displayed in the Playback Controls.
- When you’re finished, if you are providing
the beat, give one extra tap. The extra tap is required to fill
out the beat, for the benefit of Finale’s quantization feature.
- Click anywhere on the screen to stop recording.
If the quantization or split point settings weren’t quite right, change
them; then click the first measure and try the performance again. HyperScribe
will overwrite whatever music is already on the staff.
You can also
adjust Finale’s MIDI In Latency setting for improved recognition. If notes
tend to appear behind the beat during a recording session, do the following.
- Choose MIDI/Audio > MIDI Setup,
and then click the Advanced button.
- For MIDI In Latency, enter “50” and click OK.
Try recording. You may need to experiment with different values until
you find the amount of MIDI latency that works best.
