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Transcribing MIDI recordings
Situations which require additional techniques
Situations which require additional techniques
The notes may not always appear in the score as you expect them to, initially. This is
because there are a number of situations which require special techniques and
settings. Below you can find a list of some of these and where to find more information
about handling them:
• Notes at the same position are considered to be part of a chord. To get
independent voicing (e.g. notes with different stem directions), such as for vocal
material, you need to use the polyphonic voicing feature, see the chapter
“Polyphonic voicing” on page 779.
Without and with polyphonic voicing
• If two notes beginning at the same position have different lengths, the longer one
is displayed as a number of tied notes. To avoid this, you can either use the No
Overlap feature (see
“No Overlap” on page 776) or polyphonic voicing (see
“Polyphonic voicing” on page 779).
• One note is often displayed as two notes with a tie. Please note that this is merely
the way the program displays this note; only a single note is “stored”.
This single note in the Key Editor is displayed as two tied notes in the Score Editor.
• Normally the program adds ties where necessary (if a note stretches over a beat),
but not always. For a “modern” notation of syncopated notes (less ties) use the
Syncopation feature, see
“Syncopation” on page 775.
The same note, without and with syncopation
• If you find that you want a long note to be displayed as two or more tied notes, you
can achieve this with the Cut Notes tool, see
“The Cut Notes tool” on page 804.
• If two notes on the same position are too close to each other or if you want their
order in the part reversed, you can do this without affecting playback, see
“Graphic
moving of notes” on page 805.
• If a note has the wrong accidental, this can be changed, see “Accidentals and
enharmonic shift” on page 793.
• Stem direction and length are automatic, but you can change them manually if you
wish, see
“Background: Note stems” on page 790.
• If you need a split staff (e. g. when you are scoring for piano), there are special
techniques for this – see
“Split (piano) staves” on page 766 and “Polyphonic
voicing” on page 779.