Re: Final YouTube for a while - Lowden O23

Chuck wrote:

Interesting software David. It sounds like it actually transcribes as you play? Does it work very well?



The software works very well. The issues are:

To give the best intonation/note accuracy etc the guitar needs to be set up to run a single midi channel - but for Finale Allegro, each string needs to be received on a separate channel. This is easy enough to do, but it changes the pitch bend behaviour and quantisation slightly, and leads to less than optimal tracking.

Having successfully written the SCORE part in real time as you play, Finale appears to have forgotten which strings were which for the TAB conversion. You can't record into TAB, which would automatically get the fret and string right. Instead, you must paste the score into a new tab stave. While there was string-specific information present at the start, this is now over-ridden, and Finale will select illogical fret/string combinations (or ones it thinks are logical, but are not!).

You then have to edit the tab to restore the correct string, but it's not that bad as when you option-drag the tab note to a new string, it gains the correct fret number for the pitch shown in the score. Since tab and score are not interactively connected, any changes you make in the score need pasting into the tab, and again, probably adjusting.

I have so far nearly completed a tab of Roxburgh Castle in drop D, I'm just listening to some takes of my playing to see whether to change some pedal single string basses to alternating bass (I use both) or write in some ornaments which I omitted when recording.

For nearly all my stuff, I have to slow down for the midi. Half speed. Otherwise there's no chance at all. A lot of clustered fast notes are lost, as I can't slow them down. For example, even at the speed played (slow and careful) the Chinchilla Hop track would not transcribe. If I tried it at my full speed for this, the midi would track so badly I'd just get a muddle of wrong notes.

David
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