My last blog discussed how you can use quantization to speed up note entry and reduce subsequent editing. Today I offer another tip to help clean up any music entered in real-time – whether you’re playing notes directly into Finale or importing MIDI files.
Retranscribe in Finale
Last week Tom Johnson shared a blog post about real-time MIDI entry in Finale. Today a reader commented with a related question.
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.
MakeMusic Joins Peaksware
Today MakeMusic announced that it will join Peaksware, the umbrella company owned by LaunchEquity Partners, the investment company that took MakeMusic private in 2013.
Finale Spotlight on Ashkan Mashhour, author of Guitar Fingers
Guitar Fingers: Essential Technique in Pictures is an ingenious new guitar book that analyzes the mechanics of left and right hand technique with the aid of more than 250 photos and diagrams and over 200 exercises, all notated with Finale.