Using InTime with Music Notation Software:
Recording a take and saving it as a MIDI file
We press the record button (shortcut: Ctl-spacebar) and start playing. When done we press the stop button (shortcut: spacebar). To listen to the recording, we first disable tempo tracking and then press play (shortcut: spacebar). If we leave the click output enabled, we can hear the piece as we heard it while recording.
Listen to the piece: MP3 file
Next, we save the take as a MIDI file (shortcut: s). We can look at the tempo changes by opening the MIDI file in a sequencer program, such as Sonar. The graph below shows tempo changes every 1/4th beat. Actually InTime tracks tempo changes at an even higher resolution, although it only displays the tempo once per beat when recording or playing back.
For comparison, we recorded the performance simultaneously in Cubase VST 5.1 on a Mac, with the same initial tempo, but with the click track disabled. We’ll notate this Raw MIDI file, which doesn’t follow the tempo changes, and compare this with the notation of the InTime MIDI file, which includes a tempo map. If you want to follow along, download the two MIDI files now.
Download the InTime MIDI file: MIDI file
Download the Raw MIDI file: MIDI file
Continue on to Notating the Performance
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