Quickscribe stupid question

CWoodONe · Post by **CWoodONe** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:03 pm

Hi, I'm trying to use quick scribe and I must be doing something wrong.
I select an 1/8 note over on the left, but when I drop it, it changes values - maybe starting as a quarter note. If I go over for a 1/16 note, and try to add two in a row, I get them connected -- with a wrong time values, the first one is shorter. How can I just enter notes at the value I want them?

mhschmieder · Post by **mhschmieder** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:49 pm

QuickScribe, like many notation tools, is very mouse position-sensitive. I haven't checked carefully to see if there are settings/preferences to modify this feature, but it CAN be annoying, and its resolution of display is not the same as the resolution of MIDI for note length.

As a result, it is easy to get into a situation where you seem to have a half note where you only entered a quarter note, or triplets where you didn't want them, etc.

I tend to use QuickScribe less for direct editing than for part extraction (using its many part-specific customisations) to print out lead sheets, etc. In the cases where I do use QuickScribe for direct editing, I always combine it with the MIDI Event List on the right-hand side for a parallel view, to double-check note length, etc. I make quite a bit of use of the Edit Menu and other top-level menus to clean up note lengths, velocities, etc.

QuickScribe is a powerful tool when used as part of the general workflow, but I do not recommend it on its own as the primary interface. It probably can do more than I'm doing with it, as I rarely have time to get so deep into one specific feature when I have work to get done that I have other working methodologies that will get me quickly to my goals. But even so, I would doubt that it can be customised enough to act like a regular standalone notation program.

CWoodONe · Post by **CWoodONe** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:12 pm

Thanks for the info, I'm really disappointed in QuickScribe... any opinion on Sibelius?

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:33 pm

If you want to do some serious notation, Sibelius and Finale are both great. If the choice is between those two for someone who doesn't have either, I'd probably recommend Sibelius because it appears to be a little more immediately intuitive.

QS is not really a dedicated engraving tool for note entry, it's best to play the notes in if you can, then quantize note-on and note-off. You could also activate input quantize just to make sure everything lines up.

But--

This is where the Step Record feature earns its keep. Note entry is a bit more elegant with SR than it is in QS, and you can have the ME and QS windows open while you work. I think you'll find the results much more accurate with less agony.

That is, of course, in advance of buying a real world engraving application!

The Sinner · Post by **The Sinner** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 7:35 pm

I only use QS as a reference. For example when i am overdubbing something and forgot what I had previously improvised I can open QS and look at the upcoming score and overdub the next line with no harmonic mistakes. I never checked but can QS export as pdf score?

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:12 pm

The Sinner wrote:I only use QS as a reference. For example when i am overdubbing something and forgot what I had previously improvised I can open QS and look at the upcoming score and overdub the next line with no harmonic mistakes. I never checked but can QS export as pdf score?

Yuppers.

Set your paper size and print preferences, go to PRINT and choose save as PDF. If that doesn't get you there, go to PRINT and then open in PREVIEW. From there you can save as PDF also.