Quantization Settings Guide

Your success at creating notation with the HyperScribe tool depends largely on the settings you make in the Quantization Settings dialog box. The more simple the assortment of rhythmic values in your piece, the better PrintMusic will transcribe them; but PrintMusic can handle even rhythmically complex pieces if you’ve made the proper settings.

The following table is designed to help you make the correct quantization settings before you begin. Consult this table if you find that (1) PrintMusic is quantizing (rounding off) smaller values—such as sixteenth notes—into chord clusters with larger values, such as eighth notes, or (2) PrintMusic isn’t quantizing enough—in other words, you’re finding that eighth notes are being notated as sixteenth notes separated by sixteenth rests, for example, or (3) PrintMusic isn’t correctly notating triplets or other tuplets.

Consult the Beat, Rhythm and Time columns of this table to find the assortment of rhythmic values and Time Signatures that correctly characterizes the rhythmic values of the piece you’re trying to notate.The Smallest Note Value and Type of Quantization columns show you what settings to use in the Quantization Settings dialog box to notate the described rhythm.

(To specify a Beat Duration—that is, the rhythmic value of your click—in HyperScribe, click on the HyperScribe menu, then choose Recording Tempo and Click. Click a note value in the Beat equals section.

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