Midi entry stops advancing
I like to use step-time entry with my midi keyboard, but I am encountering this difficulty:
I use the midi digital piano to put in a few notes, with time values specified on the computer keyboard, but after just a few notes, the program stops advancing to the next note to enter and instead adds the key I press to the note I just entered. I wonder if others have had this problem or know how I might fix it.
I am using MuseScore 3.6.2.548021803
I have a Yamaha P-150 Digital Piano connected to My Windows 10 computer (Version 21H2).
The Midi connection goes through an EE-MU 2X2 Midi interface.
I'd love to know any fixes. I'm entering very notey piano music and using the computer keyboard is not practical.
Thanks in advance for any help....
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Generally, this means some note is still sustaining, and as lkng as some note sustains, MuseScore thinks you are trying to build a chord. Make sure to completely release one note before playing another. Also make your you MIDI interface isn't stripping out MIDI note off messages - MuseScore needs those.
But FWIW, the computer keyboard will almost always be at least as efficient and often more so than MIDI, because you don't have to fix enharmonic spellings. It might take a bit of practice to learn the shortcuts,. but it's usually fewer "clicks" overall.
In reply to Generally, this means some… by Marc Sabatella
Thank you, Marc! I bet it is a problem I've noticed with my set-up--sometimes a note will audibly sustain long after I've stopped holding it down. I'm not much of a techy with regard to latency issues.
I can see that often the computer keyboard IS more efficient. But what was getting me was the octave jumps I had to key in--Musescore expected my notes to be near each other and I was putting in notes that jumped nearly and sometimes more than an octave, so I had to control-arrow them down or up AFTER I typed them. My mind didn't like hearing the notes "wrong." But do you have suggestions for how to learn other keyboard shortcuts--actually, I bet you have a video on that :)
Thank you for the help,
Ellen Schwindt
In reply to Thank you, Marc! I bet it is… by Ellen Schwindt
Yes, it is a tradeoff, between needing to fix enharmonics for MIDI and octave for computer keyboard. But what I find is it is very easy to anticipate the need for the octave fix and have my fingers on right keys practically before I hear that the note plays wrong. Also, the fact I hear it in the wrong octave is a huge plus - it means you don't need to look at the screen in order to know which notes need fixing, you hear the issue immediately. Fixing enharmonics is far less predictable - it's hard to now before entering a note which spelling will be chosen - and there is no audible feedback regarding spelling, so pretty much requires you to look at the screen, which slows one down a ton and effectively negates whatever other efficiency advantage MIDI might have had.
And yes, I have videos on note input and they focus a lot keyboard shortcuts. The quick tutorial in my online course is free, and the rest of the course is well worth it in my humble opinion:
https://school.masteringmusescore.com/courses/complete/lectures/31890621
Anyhow, the long sustain suggests your keyboard might be defective, unfortunately. Could be something simple like dust, where a vacuum and/or can of compressed air on the sticky keys might do the trick. Or might nee servicing.