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MIDI Input Filter dialog box

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How to get there

Click the HyperScribe Tool $image\HyperScribe_Tool.gif$ , and select Transcription Mode from the HyperScribe menu. Click a measure. When the Transcription window appears, choose Input Filter from the Transcription menu.

What it does

This dialog box lets you specify which kinds of MIDI information you want recorded from your performance. A MIDI event is any MIDI signal—a note, a press of the sustain pedal, a patch change, and so on. (When you use the pitch wheel, you may generate a stream of hundreds of MIDI events.)

Finale gives you the option of "filtering out" certain kinds of MIDI data. If you’re interested only in producing notation, for example, you may not want Finale to consume memory and disk space by recording pedaling, patch changes, and so on. In this dialog box, you tell Finale which kinds of MIDI data you want recorded.

Notes. Select this checkbox if you want the notes of your performance recorded.
Pitch Bends. Select this checkbox if you want Finale to record pitch bend information during your performance.
Program Changes. Select this checkbox if you want Finale to record program (patch) changes during your performance.
Listen. Click Listen if you want to select the appropriate items in this dialog box (including entering controller numbers in the text boxes) simply by playing your music. As you play, Finale will automatically select the information types it "hears" during your performance.
Controllers: All • Only. Controllers include pedals, the modulation wheel, and so on (except the pitch wheel, which has its own button). If you want Finale to record every kind of controller information generated during your performance, select the Controllers checkbox and the All button. If you only want to record the data generated by certain controllers, select the Controllers checkbox and click Only, then enter the controllers’ numbers, if you know them, into the four text boxes. If you don’t know a controller’s number, click in a text box, click the Listen checkbox, and "play" the controller in question. Finale will enter its number in the text box automatically.
OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the settings you’ve made in this dialog box and return to the Transcription window.