Using a MIDI Keyboard
If you have a MIDI keyboard attached to your computer you can enter music very quickly.
- Switch your MIDI controller on before starting Denemo
- Usually your MIDI controller will be automatically detected. If not in the Edit→Preferences dialog under MIDI tab select your controller
- Play some notes – they should appear in the score
- Press a number key to select a duration – a yellowish-brown note of that duration appears
- If ordinary (black) notes appear check “Rhythm Entry for MIDI in” in the Preferences
- Play in some more notes.
- Note that you can enter in more than one duration, then just play the notes over the top.
- The choice of pitch spelling (e.g. E-flat or D-sharp) can be adjusted
- Use Input->MIDI->Shift Accidentals Sharpwise or Flatwise
- Or click the icons in the MIDI-controls
- Augmented and Diminished instruments are played on a separate channel – this helps catch pitch spelling errors.
- You can record a passage of music and then notate it
- First (optional) set the tempo to the tempo you can comfortably play in at
- Place the cursor at the place in the score where you want to enter the music
- Use Alt-r to start recording
- Play in a passage of music
- “Play” in the durations, including rests, ties, dotted notes and (optionally) slurs, ornaments and other markings – the recorded notes are used to give the pitches
- Use Alt-BackSpace key to delete a wrong duration – the recorded note will back up to match
- Use Alt-Delete, Alt-Delete to delete the recording so far and continue with a new one.
- Use Alt-Delete, c to delete the recording and the click track it is on to end
- Note there are further options to move about and listen back to the recording in the Playback->Recording menu
- There is a demo of this method