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Transcribing MIDI recordings
Staff settings
• For reasons described in the previous chapter, quantizing the track might be a
good idea. This reduces the amount of detailed adjustments needed in the Score
Editor.
• If you need to quantize, always play back your tracks afterwards to make sure
timing was not disrupted due to inappropriate quantize settings. You might have to
quantize some sections with one value and others with another.
• If the project contains many repetitions, it might be quicker to record just one
instance of each to start with. If you then finish the score work on each section, you
can assemble the entire project by working with parts in the Project window. This
might save you some time since the detailed adjustments to each section have to
be performed only once.
• A similar approach can also be used when you create sections where several
instruments play the same rhythm (a horn section, for example): Record the first
instrument and make adjustments so that it looks like it should in the Score Editor.
Then copy the part to the other tracks, and change the pitches of the notes using
MIDI input. Finally, go through the copied parts and make fine adjustments, change
display transpose settings, etc. This can be a very fast way to create polyphonic
parts with complicated rhythms.
• There also may be situations when the quickest way to record a part for several
instruments is simply to record it in one go, by playing the chords on your MIDI
instrument. If you later want to split the recording into separate tracks or
polyphonic voices, you can use the Explode function, see
“The Explode function”
on page 751.
Staff settings
The first thing to do after opening the Score Editor is to make initial staff settings. This
is done in the Score Settings dialog, on the Staff page. There are three ways to open
the Score Settings dialog:
• Make the staff active, open the Scores menu and select “Settings…”.
• Double-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff.
If this does not work, the “Double-click on staff flips between full score/part”
option may be activated in the Preferences dialog (Scores–Editing page), see
“Displaying single voices or the complete score” on page 731.
• Make the staff active and click the “i” button on the extended toolbar.
For this to work, make sure no notes or symbols are selected – otherwise, clicking
the “i” button may open a dialog with settings for the selected object instead.
Click the Staff button to open the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog. The Staff
page shows the current settings for the staff on four tabs. For detailed information on
the Staff Settings page, see the chapter
“Staff settings” on page 771.