If the piece you intend to transcribe doesn’t
have any one split point—in other words, if the ranges of notes played
by your right and left hands during the piece aren’t completely distinct—you
can use Finale’s Moving split point feature. Finale will split a two-handed
performance onto the correct staves (usually treble and bass clef) by
tracking the positions of your hands as they move up and down the keyboard.
As long as there’s a discernible gap between your two hands at any given
moment, Finale can adjust the split point on a note-by-note basis automatically.
- Choose Transcription > Split Point > Moving. A dialog box appears.
- Click Listen, and play a one-hand-width interval
on the synthesizer keyboard. Don’t necessarily play the widest
interval you can reach. Instead, play the largest interval you played
with one hand in the piece; strike the two notes comprising your hand
width more or less simultaneously. The number in the Hand Width text box,
measured in half steps, changes to reflect the interval you played. (Instead
of clicking Listen, you can also enter a number directly into the Hand
Width text box.)
- Click OK. If Finale still makes a few
errors in the resultant transcription—for example, if your hands were,
at some point, too close together for Finale to track them—see To correct split point errors.
