Harder than it looks
i thought this program would automatically transpose what im playing, saving me the time of writing it all down. I have the piano plugged in but it seems the program doesnt differentiate between different notes played.i.e...i play 8th 4th halfs 16th in one song for example...does this program do less than what i think it does?
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MuseScore can transpose what has been entered. But it can not transcribe what you play on a keyboard.
Transposing is changing pitch. MuseScore can definitely do that, either with the arrow keys, or with Tools / Transpose. But I think you are asking for something very different - something to try to figure out the rhythms you are playing and how to notate them correctly in real-time as you play them. Such things do kind of exist, but are pretty primitive and may not be the solution you think they will be.
There is one limited form of this in the real-time input mdoes (see the Handbook section on note input modes for more info) - it works if you do one staff at a time, never overlap notes, don't do tuplets, etc. This is a somewhat more sophisticated version if you first record a MIDI file, quantize it in your favorite sequencer, then import that into MuseScore. But, you're still asking a computer to make tons of subjective decisions that it's not really going to excel in - like how to notate a note you play slightly before or after the beat, or if you don't hold a note a full beat, or if you play the second note slightly before stopping the firs,t or even which hand is which. That's the stuff of AI, and it's not really something that is ready for prime time yet.
Worse, the sort of rhythmic errors that will come from the combination of imprecise playing and unsophisticated AI trying to make sense of it end up being diffiult to correct - more difficult than just entering the rhythms correctly would have been. So in general, you'll usually save much more time just entering the music normally rather than asking the computer to guess the rhythms and then trying to fix the mistakes. But you can certainly give it a shot, sometimes you get lucky!