There must be a plausible explanation for this, but even as I replicate it I find it hard to believe. I’m just curious whether anyone else has experienced this, perhaps with a different instrument like an acoustic piano.
I’m using Simple Entry (sometimes with, sometimes without, a midi keyboard) in Fin 2014 on an iMac (Yosemite). As usual, since I go back and forth between recording in Cubase and transcribing in Finale, I have a Yeti Pro USB mike connected to the computer, for both audio in and out (headphones plugged into the mike). I also have a nylon string classical guitar nearby for ideas and to check playability. Often I’ll enter a measure or two, then pick up the guitar and figure out the next couple measures. Today I noticed that when I returned to the screen I would see anywhere from one to half a dozen grayed out new notes, mostly on ledger lines way below the staff — i.e. way below the range of the instrument. It is similar to what happens if you inadvertently brush the QWERTY keyboard or midi keyboard or mouse in Simple Entry. I thought at first that I’d jiggled something to produce the notes. Then I caught the crime in progress. The rogue notes would appear if I plucked a string on the guitar hard enough — especially bass strings — and not otherwise. It was not spontaneous. The pitches don’t match exactly — even figuring in the octave difference in guitar notation — but generally are lower if the pitch is lower. Below a certain threshold it doesn’t happen. Has to be fairly loud. WTF? No, I’m not recording audio in Finale (nor am I running recording software at the moment). It’s just a classical guitar with no electronic connection of any kind. The mic does pick up the guitar but I have done nothing that would make Finale even aware of the mic, much less treat it as in input mode for notation. Hyperscribe is not active. It’s not just that Finale is responding to an audio signal; it’s that it is apparently trying to convert it to notation. Not accurately. But how does it even “hear” the guitar at all? _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
