Click this button if you want Finale to notate the transcription with the key signature specified by the MIDI file (if it was created by a sequencer that lets you specify one).
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See Track/Channel Mapping to Staves dialog box for full details. If you have selected Set Track-to-Staff List and Don’t show this during File Open while in the MIDI/Audio menu, the Track/Channel Mapping to Staves dialog box will appear when you open a MIDI file instead of the Import MIDI File Options dialog box. The Select button is only displayed when you are importing a file and do not have Don’t show this during File Open selected. You can specify the top-to-bottom order of the resulting Finale staves, as well as staff transpositions, clefs, and the distance between staves in the resultant Finale document. Click this button to display the Track/Channel Mapping for Staves dialog box when you open a MIDI file, where you can specify a number of track, MIDI channel, and staff configurations. Once again, Finale attempts to make intelligent decisions regarding the selection of a clef for each staff. Click this button if you want the contents of each MIDI channel (regardless of its track assignments) transcribed onto a single Finale staff.
If the notes in the track don’t fall into either category, Finale transcribes them onto two staves, splitting them into treble- and bass-clef staves using F below middle C as a split point. If all notes are below key 72 (C above middle C), it selects the bass clef. If all the notes of the track are above MIDI key number 47 (that’s B a ninth below middle C), it selects the treble clef. Technical note: Finale selects a clef as follows. In fact, if the notes have such a wide range that it wouldn’t be appropriate to place them all on one staff, Finale splits the track into two staves with different clefs. Finale selects the treble or bass clef for each staff, based on the register of the music in each track. Click this button if you want Finale simply to notate the contents of each sequencer track on one staff.
However, you can also enter other dialog boxes from within this one, where you can specify much more elaborate track-to-staff configurations.įollow the instructions in your sequencer for creating a standard MIDI file.
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For example, you can specify that each track simply become one staff, or that the contents of each MIDI channel MIDI channels are used to transmit and receive MIDI information such as note on and note off messages as well as controller and patch information to your MIDI device(s). of the sequencer file translated into Finale staves. Tracks are for convenience channels are required. You also use this dialog box to tell Finale how you want the tracks A location where one records or plays back a musical message - usually a portion of the total arrangement. and split point options, key and time signature settings, and commands to "capture" MIDI data (such as pedaling and key velocity information). The options in this dialog box are very similar to those you encounter when you’re transcribing real-time performances in a Finale document quantization A process of rounding off rhythmic values of notes played in a MIDI performance to the nearest selected duration, resulting in a cleaner transcription of the notes. When you tell Finale to "open" a MIDI file, you’re essentially telling it to transcribe the file. Double-click the name of the MIDI file you want to transcribe. For example, music created in any sequencer program can be opened by Finale and converted into written notation.