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HyperScribe Tool 17-1 Chapter 17: Real-Time Entry: HyperScribe and Transcription Mode TOC HyperScribe Tool Index What it does Next The HyperScribe Tool is Finale’s real-time transcription tool; you use it to transcribe a live key- Chapter board performance instantly into notation as you play, even onto two staves. When you click this tool, the HyperScribe Menu appears; it contains all the commands you need to describe to Finale Previou the music you’re about to play. See RECORDING WITH HYPERSCRIBE. See also APPENDIX–QUAN- Chapter TIZATION SETTINGS GUIDE. If you plan to use a MIDI Guitar for input, see TO CONFIGURE A MIDI GUITAR FOR ENTRY. Special mouse clicks • Click a measure to indicate where you want the transcription to begin. • After playing only partway into a measure, ctrl-click the screen to end the HyperScribe session without affecting the half-completed measure. (You’d do this if there was some music already in that measure that you wanted to preserve.) HyperScribe Menu How to get there Click the HyperScribe Tool g. The HyperScribe Menu appears. TOC What it does Before you transcribe a real-time performance, there are a few things Finale needs to know about the music you’re about to play. For example, you need to tell Finale what rhythmic value you’ll be Index using for your key or foot taps as you play, and the value to which you want your performance quantized. This menu lets you make these settings, which have a great deal to do with the quality of the resulting transcription. Be sure to see also RECORDING WITH HYPERSCRIBE, and Installa- Next tion & Tutorials. Chapter Use HyperScribe’s Playback and/or Click command in the Beat Source submenu to control what you hear when you use HyperScribe to enter your music. Listen to just a metronome click, or lis- Previou ten to an instant playback of the staves that you’ve selected in the Instrument List. If you prefer, Chapter you can also play back staves while an accompanying metronome click provides a beat reference. HyperScribe Menu 17-2 The Playback and/or Click command supports the click and countoff options for HyperScribe playback and recording. The Record Mode submenu has commands for transcribing a performance into a single staff or two staves, and the multitrack recording command that lets you record simultaneous input from multiple channels into multiple staves or multiple layers of staves. TOC Index Next • Beat Source: Tap • Playback and\or Click • External MIDI Sync. Using this submenu, you Chapter tell Finale what MIDI signal will serve as the tempo reference while you play—and who will provide it (either you or Finale). Choose Tap if you’re going to be tapping a pedal or a key while you play; the Tap Source dialog box appears (see TAP SOURCE DIALOG BOX). Previou Chapter Choose Playback and/or Click if you want Finale to provide a metronome click for the beat. When Playback is checked, Finale uses the settings for the metronome click sound and the countoff measures specified in the Click and Countoff dialog box. If you have chosen Tap as your Beat Source, Finale will ignore the settings in the Click and Countoff dialog box. For details, see CLICK AND COUNTOFF DIALOG BOX and PLAYBACK AND/OR CLICK DIALOG BOX. Finally, choose External MIDI Sync if you’re using HyperScribe to transcribe music being played by an external sequencer or another computer that’s equipped to transmit a MIDI Sync signal. Finale will wait for such a signal from the external sequencer, at which point Finale will automatically “sync up” to it, transcribing the music as it goes. No tapping (or even play- ing) is necessary. • Record Mode: Record into One Staff • Split into Two Staves • Multitrack Record. Choose Record into One Staff to have Finale transcribe your music onto a single staff. Choose Split into Two Staves to transcribe the music onto two staves at once. Recording a piano part for example. For these two record options, Finale records information from the Receive On chan- nel set in the HyperScribe Options dialog box, and plays the click and countoff (if one was TOC set) specified in the Click and Countoff dialog box. See HYPERSCRIBE OPTIONS DIALOG BOX, CLICK AND COUNTOFF DIALOG BOX and PLAYBACK AND/OR CLICK DIALOG BOX. For details, see RECORDING WITH HYPERSCRIBE—To record into one or two staves. Index Choose Multitrack Record to record a performance from multiple channels into multiple staves, or into multiple layers of a staff or staves. When you’re using multitrack recording, Finale refers to the Instrument List to determine the staff or staves to record into and the chan- Next Chapter nels to record from. For details, see INSTRUMENT LIST WINDOW, PLAYBACK AND/OR CLICK DIALOG BOX and RECORDING WITH HYPERSCRIBE—To use multitrack recording (Hyper- Scribe). Previou Chapter Tap Source dialog box 17-3 Note: Finale always uses the record settings for each staff in the Instrument List when you’re multitrack recording; if you don’t get the results you expected, check that the RChan setting in the Instrument List matches the incoming channel of your MIDI device and make sure that the staff is selected to record into (a triangle appears in the R column for the staff). • HyperScribe Options. Choose this item to display the HyperScribe Options dialog box, which holds a number of specialized transcription choices. See HYPERSCRIBE OPTIONS DIA- LOG BOX. • Transcription Mode. Select this item to enter Transcription mode. See TRANSCRIPTION TOC MODE for more information. Tap Source dialog box Index How to get there Next Chapter Click the HyperScribe Tool g, and choose Tap from the Beat Source submenu of the Hyper- Scribe Menu. Previou What it does Chapter When you use HyperScribe to transcribe a real-time performance, Finale needs to know where the beats fall in relation to the music you’re playing. One of the easiest ways to provide a tempo refer- ence is to tap in time with your own playing by either playing a note on a MIDI device or using a foot pedal. As long as your taps and your playing are synchronized, with this option, you can speed up or slow down and Finale will still transcribe the performance correctly. In this dialog box, you tell Finale what key, pedal, or controller you’ll be tapping to provide a tempo reference as you play. TOC Index Next Chapter Previou Chapter Tap Source dialog box 17-4 TOC Index Next Chapter Previou Chapter • Standard Sustain Pedal • Nonstandard Sustain Pedal • MIDI Note: • Channel: • Listen. If you’ll be needing both hands for your performance, you might opt to tap the foot pedal to provide a tempo reference. Standard Sustain Pedal is the standard MIDI instrument sustain pedal (Controller #64). Nonstandard Sustain Pedal refers to Yamaha sustain pedals and a few others, whose pedal down/pedal up polarity is reversed (relative to most pedals). If you’ll only be playing with one hand, you can use the other to tap a key to serve as the tempo reference. Click MIDI Note. Then type a key number into the MIDI Note text box (middle C = 60) and the Channel text box. Instead of typing numbers, you can let Finale fill in these text boxes automatically—click Lis- TOC ten, whereupon Finale will prompt you to play a key. Finale will enter the correct information. (If Finale doesn’t respond when you play a key or pedal, then your MIDI system may not be connected properly. For help, see TROUBLESHOOTING.) See LISTEN DIALOG BOX. Index • Other • Select. If the beat reference will be neither a pedal nor a key, click Other. Then click Select to display the MIDI Event dialog box, where you can specify any other MIDI signal to serve as the beat reference. See MIDI EVENT DIALOG BOX. Next Chapter • Tap equals • EDUs. Click the note duration you would like to use for your tap beat. Type in the number of EDUs for any duration that is not available from the palette. Previou Chapter Tap States dialog box 17-5 • Tap States • Select. If there’s a meter or tempo change in the piece you intend to play, you can switch beat and quantization setups in midstream using Tap States. Click Select to enter the Tap States dialog box; see TAP STATES DIALOG BOX for a full description. To return to a single tap/quantization setup, deselect the Tap States checkbox. • OK • Cancel. Click OK (or press enter) to confirm, or Cancel to discard, your selection of tap signal and return to the score. Tap States dialog box TOC How to get there Index Click the HyperScribe Tool g. From the Beat Source submenu of the HyperScribe Menu, choose Tap; click the Tap States Select button. Next What it does Chapter Every now and then, you may need to transcribe a piece in which the meter or the “feel” changes. Instead of making you interrupt your transcription to change the tap equals and smallest note set- Previou tings, Finale lets you preprogram three additional settings, allowing you to switch freely from one Chapter to the next in the middle of your performance. You create these settings, or states, in this dialog box. TOC • Tap States 1. The number identifies which of the three extra HyperScribe “setups” you’re Index going to be editing. Click the small up or down arrow buttons to cycle between states 1, 2, or 3. • Tap Equals; Select • Smallest Note; Select • MIDI Trigger; Listen. In the first text box, Next enter the rhythmic duration of the each tap, in EDUs (1024 per quarter note).

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