Re: Notes entered by MIDI show up twice

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Title: Re: Notes entered by MIDI show up twice	In Reply To
Posted By: Barry	Title: Notes entered by MIDI show up twice
E-mail: bjohnson@settle-pou.com	Posted By: Marie-José
Date: 05/06/2003 at 16:12:43	Date: 04/23/2003

Message: What's probably happening is that the quantization settings are incorrect and/or you are depressing the note key twice within a quant setting. Finale will "record" the music just as you play it. So it will play back exactly what you played. However, when it draws the score, it will quantize the part to the smallest setting for score entry which you have selected (or whatever is currently your default.) So, though you are playing say a dotted eighth note and a sixteenth, if you are quantized to eighth notes, it will probably display two notes sharing the same stem. In MIDI, especially with "touch sensitive" keys, it's real easy to press the key slightly (as you may on a regular piano) which is otherwise inaudible but never-the-less sends data for recording. I've played piano for years and as I'm using a new pretty sophisticated MIDI controller, I get these stray notes all the time because I have a "heavy hand". For score writing purposes, Finale doesn't care if the note is inaudible in the playback, all Finale cares about is that it received data which it has to "fit" into the score given your quant settings. So, either change the quant settings to the smallest note you know you will play in the passage, or try to alter your keybord technique to stop slightly depressing other keys as you are entering, or (as I have done) learn to live with it, as any MIDI entered score is going to take some cleaning up anyway.

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Notes entered by MIDI show up twice - Marie-José - 04/23/2003 Re: Notes entered by MIDI show up twice - Barry - 05/06/2003   <<< You Are Here