Capturing Drums being played over MIDI
Hello,
I have been using MuseScore to enter drum notation with a mouse and it has worked great. Lately I have been trying to enter drum notation by just playing my electronic drums and it isn't going so well. I want to be able to do a basic rhythm with high hat, snare and high hat, kick. I can't seem to find a way for the software to know what I'm playing are record it. It seems to me that everything is pretty manual. I would like to be able to hit the high hat closed and the kick and it be on the same line and the the same for the high hat closed and the snare to be on the same line. I know that constitutes two voices and can do it manually with no problem. I'm just trying to play the drums and have it come out in correct drum notation.
Not sure if the program can do this but thought I would ask. MuseScore recognizes my electronic drum set with no problem and I can input notes by hitting my drum kit. Problem is unless I manually go and change the note from high hat to kick it will just put in high hat no matter what I hit on my drum kit.
Hope this makes sense. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Tony
Comments
As far as I know there is no way for MuseScore to magically figure out which notes should go into which voices and calculate rhythms accordingly. You should be able to input one voice at a time, either step-time or real-time (although I've never tried real-time in any voice but 1). If you find it easier to play both voices at once, you could try recording a MIDI file using a sequencer then importing that, but realistically I wouldn't expect this to get things "right" either.
But I'm confused when you say it puts in high hat no mater what. Unless your drumset is non-standard, MuseScore should know perfectly well which drum you are playing. That is also assuming you are using a standard drumset within MuseScore. I wouldn't expect a standard electronic drumset to work with a non-standard drumset definition (like the MDL instruments, for example).
I am attempting something similar with slightly better results. Using a TD-25KV, I am able to hit different drums and see each hit as a different note (differentiating a snare from a hh for example). It cannot detect the note 'duration', so unless I have a piece of music with no rests, it may not be a faster way to enter music manually.