Recording with HyperScribe

When you’re recording a real-time performance using HyperScribe, you can have SongWriter provide a metronome click.

To record into one or two staves

1. From the MIDI Menu, choose Quantization Settings. Adjust the settings, then click OK. See Quantization Settings dialog box for more information.
2. Click the HyperScribe tool  . The HyperScribe Menu appears. If your music will have ties from one measure to another (across barlines), select (check) Tie Across Barlines in the HyperScribe Menu.
3. From the HyperScribe Menu, choose Recording Tempo and Click. The Recording Tempo and Click dialog box appears. (See Recording Tempo and Click dialog box) 
4. Click the note duration you would like to use for your beat.
5. Enter the tempo into the Tempo text box.
6. Click on Click and Countoff to set up your click and countoff options. For details, see Click and Countoff dialog box.
7. Click OK. You return to the score.
8. Choose Record into One Staff or Split into Two Staves from the Record Mode submenu of the HyperScribe Menu.
9. If you choose Split into Two Staves, the Fixed Split Point dialog box appears. Enter the note that will serve as the split point for the staves. Or click Listen, and play the note on your MIDI device. Click OK. See Fixed Split Point dialog box for more information.
10. To start recording, click the measure in which you want SongWriter to begin recording. Or, choose Playback Controls from the Window Menu, if it isn’t already selected. If you have selected split into two staves, click on the upper staff in which you want recording to begin. Change the measure if necessary, then click Record in the Playback Controls.

Note: If you click a measure to start recording, SongWriter will start recording into the measure you clicked, not the measure displayed in the Playback Controls.

Note also: If you stop in the middle of a measure, SongWriter automatically fills the rest of the measure with rests. If you’re HyperScribing over an existing passage and accidentally play partway into an existing measure that you wanted to preserve, ctrloption-click to end the recording; SongWriter won’t transcribe the new notes you’ve played in the half-completed measure.

11. Click anywhere on the screen to stop recording. If the quantization or split point settings weren’t quite right, change them; then click the first measure and try the performance again. HyperScribe will overwrite whatever music is already on the staff.

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