MuseScore and Casio Previa PX-330
Hello there crew,
New to this MuseScore software. Looks very interesting. Just bought a Casio Previa PX-330 for my daughter and I wanted to plug in the laptop to the digital piano to record what she is playing onto music sheets.
The program is recognising the keyboard, I am able to create a 'New Score' from scratch, select 'Keyboard / Piano' add it, automatically will add the Staff1/Treble clef and Staff2/Bass clef, select 'Next' and leave it default for the Key Signature, and leave default for the Time Signature as 4/4, click on 'Finish'. I get a clean music sheet. I select '{' that is next to the word Piano, so 'Piano {' and click on 'N' I will hit any key on the piano and the note will record on the Staff1/Treble clef. Regardless of the note that I hit, it always records it onto the Staff1/Treble clef.
Any suggestions?
I took the same Casio Previa PX-330 and plugged it to my friends Mac running GarageBand and it recorded correctly. So, I guess the keyboard is sending out the correct data. Any light onto this 'noob' will be greatly appreciated it.
Thanks in advance.
Comments
Not sure what you mean by "correctly" here. The keyboard is almost certainly only sending on one MIDI channel, so the notes *should* all go onto the same staff. Of course, that's probably not what you want, but it is "correct" as far as MIDI goes. MuseScore does have a facility to split a staff and divide notes into two staves, but my understanding is that it doesn't work very well. Since you have to record input one note at a time anyhow, just have her do the two hands separately. tht's going to produce better results than some dumb algorithm that just guesses what staff to put notes onto using simplistic algorithm like "everything above middle C goes to treble clef, everything below to bass).
Note though that if you are expecting MuseScore to automatically turn a performance into readable notation, that's not going to happen. As far as direct entry in MuseScore, it's all one note a time, where you choose the length of each note as you play it - there is no real time entry. You can record a keyboard to MIDI and import that. But this is about as likely to produce readable sheet music as a hooking your computer up to your TV and having the computer automatically produce a readable script from whatever movie is playing.