Using InTime™™ with Music Notation Software: Overview
Synopsis
This demo shows how to use InTime™ to simplify the music notation process. We record a piano piece while InTime™ tracks the tempo. We save the piece, along with the tempo track, as a standard MIDI file. Finally, we import the MIDI file into our favorite music notation software, for a (nearly) flawless transcription of the rhythm.
InTime™ can follow your improvised performances with any rhythmic phrasing. You can play variations, fills and switch between duple and triple meters while InTime™ follows you. The piece here is based on a simple rhythmic figure, running 16th notes, so it is easy to look and see what's right and wrong in the notation.
We recorded a Bach Prelude using the most sensitive tempo tracking setting in InTime™. The body of the piece had only moderate rubato. However, in the final ritard (last three bars) the tempo slows from 80 bpm to 42 bpm. We recorded simultaneously, both with and without InTime™ and imported the MIDI files into Finale for a comparison. Here’s the difference, without any cleanup of the imported files:
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Topics
- Working with piano
- tempo tracking; rubato
- Music notation
Equipment & Software
- MIDI Piano (Kawai MP9000)
- InTime Tempo Tracking System™ (Version 1.0.5)
- A notation program (Finale 2000)
Get a MP3 file of the notated performance
