Before you begin, make sure you’ve set
up the MicNotator for your instrument. See Setting
Up MicNotator. You’ll need to use the Hands-Free MIDI method (unless
you can play one-handed). For more details, see Speedy Entry.
- Click the Speedy Entry tool
, and click a measure.
The editing frame appears.
- Press caps lock; then press the number key
on the computer keyboard corresponding to the value you want to enter.
In other words, you’re now telling Finale what the note values are going
to be before you specify the pitches.
The number you press appears in the lower-left
corner of the editing frame.
- Play the notes on your instrument. Each
note you play appears in the document; if Jump to Next Measure is checked
in the Speedy menu, the editing frame advances automatically as soon as
you fill each measure. It’s safe to outplay Finale, too; it will remember
up to 500 notes (and continue to notate them as fast as your computer
allows).
