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Click and Countoff dialog box

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How to get there

Choose Click and Countoff from the MIDI menu.

Or, choose Playback Controls from the Window menu to display Playback Controls (a checkmark appears by the command when displayed). Click on the Playback Settings button, then click the Click and Countoff button.

Or, click the HyperScribe Tool. Choose Playback and/or Click from the Beat Source submenu of the HyperScribe menu. Click the Click and Countoff Button.

What it does

Use the Click and Countoff dialog box to define the countoff click settings and the metronome click used for HyperScribe recording, and for playback using Playback Controls. Set up the number of measures you want Finale to count off before starting to record. Choose when you want to hear a metronome click, and what the clicks should sound like. Increased control over the click sound includes the ability to emphasize the down beat, for example, by increasing the key velocity of the click or by lowering the pitch of the "other beats" in the measures. When you change the number of countoff measures in this dialog box, Finale automatically updates the number of countoff measures in Playback Controls as well. If you have selected Tap as your Beat Source, Finale will ignore the settings in this dialog box.

Note: Finale will always sound a metronome click while playing the countoff measures.

To enter MIDI Note information manually (MIDI Note is selected in the Source popup list), enter the MIDI channel number and the MIDI note number into the corresponding text boxes. Specify how hard the note should be struck by entering a value between 0—127 (0 being the softest, 127 the loudest) in the Velocity text boxes. Change the Duration value if you want to change the length of the metronome click sound. Enter the note length in terms of the percentage of the beat. For example, if a quarter note is a beat and you want the click to be 1/2 the length of the beat (in other words, an eighth note), type 50 (for 50%) into the Duration text box. When MIDI Data is selected in the Source popup list, enter the MIDI channel number for the click, then enter the MIDI status into Status and data byte values into Data1 and Data2. Your MIDI device’s manual should contain the values that you need to enter, depending on the effect you want to achieve.

Note: Finale will always sound a metronome click while playing the countoff measures.

 

See Also:

Recording with HyperScribe

Playback Controls

HyperScribe Tool

 

 

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