Have you entered music for a transposed instrument into a Finale score? If so, you may have encountered a scenario where as you enter notes, the pitches you hear in Finale are not transposed.
Quantization: the key to real-time note entry in Finale
We want our music notation software to notate not what we play but what we intend to play. For example, here is a simple melody I played in using Finale’s real-time entry tool, HyperScribe:
I helped Finale notate this example correctly – the first time – by providing some hints as to the rhythmic complexitity of what I was about to play.
The Hidden Mysteries of HyperScribe
Last week I was near Houston, Texas, providing Finale training for the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District. As is so often the case, I was reminded of the power of DEMONSTRATING some of Finale’s more unique features: Sometimes we don’t know we need something until we see it in action.