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Before you begin, make sure you’ve set up the MicNotator for your instrument. See Setting Up MicNotator. You’ll need to use the Hands-Free MIDI method (unless you can play one-handed). For more details, see Speedy Entry.

To use MicNotator with Speedy Entry

  1. Click the Speedy Entry tool  image\Speedy_Entry_Tool.gif, and click a measure. The editing frame appears.
  2. Press caps lock; then press the number key on the computer keyboard corresponding to the value you want to enter. In other words, you’re now telling Finale what the note values are going to be before you specify the pitches.

The number you press appears in the lower-left corner of the editing frame.

  1. Play the notes on your instrument. Each note you play appears in the document; if Jump to Next Measure is checked in the Speedy menu, the editing frame advances automatically as soon as you fill each measure. It’s safe to outplay Finale, too; it will remember up to 500 notes (and continue to notate them as fast as your computer allows).

 

 

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