Owner`s manual

Music Files
Handbook of MIDI Player Piano Tools Page 20
around to line up properly on the rigid grid AND DP creates a tempo map that preserves
the tempo nuances of the original performance.
When using this feature, I have to drag every beat marker to the correct note.
I could do this another way in DP. The other way to do it is similar to the way that some of
the Cakewalk sequencers do this (using a Cakewalk feature called "Fit Improvisation").
What you do is create a new track and set it to record. Then during the recording, you listen
to the original performance and simultaneously tap a key on your MIDI keyboard. The idea
is to record one note for every beat in the music and to record each note so that it coincides
with the musical beats of the original performance. This new beat track enables the
program to reorganize the MIDI data in the file, line things up properly, and compute a new
tempo map. After this is done, the beat track is discarded.
The second way of doing things is not as accurate, but it can be faster.
Once you have reclocked the file, you can further quantize the notes in any program if you
wish.
Before importing the notes into a music notation program, I generally view the notes in
piano roll view in my sequencer and select the notes that I deem to be left hand notes and
cut-and-paste them into a separate track. Having the left- and right-hand notes in separate
tracks will result in a cleaner transcription by the music notation program.
Regards,
PianoBench