Splitting Notes, Confused.

Hi Sherry, thank you so much for the quick reply! Unfortunately I figured it out about 2 minutes after posting this. I also had the ruler set to 8th notes, which didn't help either.

Honestly, I'm not going to blame either software for that, because I was doing something rather unorthodox, which I will not likely ever need to do again, nor would anyone else, and the timing was strange, so I'm amazed that the results were as accurate as they were, only a few small adjustments needed to be made for it to be basically perfect.

What I was doing, just so you understand...the 10th anniversary of the day my wife and I met is next month. We met at a show, we both went to see the band Thursday, which to this day is both mine and her favorite band. So on that day next month, she is getting a tattoo of a staff with an excerpt of the vocal melody from one of their songs. So I imported that song into my DAW, and played on my MIDI keyboard along with the vocal melody until it sounded right. When I imported the song into my DAW, I didn't bother to actually line up the tempo exactly, I was only concerned with mapping out the correct notes so I didn't have to manually write it out one note at a time. It came out perfect aside from those few notes that were combined, which, I think you are right, it is probably just the quantization of my DAW at work upon export, since the timing wasn't perfect beforehand.

Thanks again for the reply, I really appreciate it. Composer is so user-friendly now that I'm getting used to it, I'll definitely be purchasing it in the near future.

[Sherry C]

Hi Simon,

Originally Posted by SimonBelmont

Honestly, I'm not going to blame either software for that, because I was doing something rather unorthodox, which I will not likely ever need to do again, nor would anyone else, and the timing was strange, so I'm amazed that the results were as accurate as they were, only a few small adjustments needed to be made for it to be basically perfect.

What I was doing, just so you understand...the 10th anniversary of the day my wife and I met is next month. We met at a show, we both went to see the band Thursday, which to this day is both mine and her favorite band. So on that day next month, she is getting a tattoo of a staff with an excerpt of the vocal melody from one of their songs. So I imported that song into my DAW, and played on my MIDI keyboard along with the vocal melody until it sounded right. When I imported the song into my DAW, I didn't bother to actually line up the tempo exactly, I was only concerned with mapping out the correct notes so I didn't have to manually write it out one note at a time. It came out perfect aside from those few notes that were combined, which, I think you are right, it is probably just the quantization of my DAW at work upon export, since the timing wasn't perfect beforehand.

Cool - that sounds very personalized

And just for future reference, in cases where the music isn't perfectly lined up tempo-wise with the MIDI metronome (ie barlines), Composer has ReBar, which allows you to take that "metronomeless" MIDI file and tap in (or manually adjust) the barlines so that the notation comes out correctly and still keeps the tempo nuances of the performance. I just put up a Tutorial Video for it this weekend

Glad that you're finding Notation Composer to be helpful and easy to work with!

ttfn,
Sherry