Setting Up Transcription Options for Recording

Before you start recording, use the Transcription Options command in the Setup menu to determine how Composer transcribes your recording into music notation. The transcription options determine whether:

Standard versus jazz (swing) rhythm notation will be used.

Single voices or split (upper and lower) voices will be detected and notated.

Overlaps of notes will be removed to reduce the number of ties in the score.

Rests smaller than a specified size (quarter, eighth, or sixteenth) will be removed.

Graces, trills, and tremolos will be detected and notated.

Composer remembers the transcription options you most recently specified. Therefore, you need to use the Transcription Options command only if you want to change the options.

If, after Composer has transcribed your recording, you are not satisfied with the transcription, you have some options available for improving or cleaning up the notation:

Use the Re-Transcribe command in the Format menu to apply different transcription options to selected staves.

Use the Remove Overlaps of Notes command to eliminate and simplify ties.

Eliminate small rests by selecting a region of the score and using one of the Remove Rests commands in the Region menu. Or, select a group of notes and rests, go to the Note menu, and use one of the Remove Rests commands in the Clean Up Rests and Overlapping Notes submenu.

Use the Transcribe Grace Note command, if you did not choose the grace note option when you first recorded