Adding Notes Using Your Music (MIDI) or Virtual Keyboard

If you have a music (MIDI) keyboard connected to your computer, there are two general ways you can use it to add notes:

1.	Record your performance of the notes on the music keyboard in real-time, or perhaps at a slower tempo. You can do this either using Composer's metronome, or without a metronome and then use the ReBar Feature to tidy up the notation.

Use your music keyboard or Composer's Virtual Piano Keyboard as a natural way to select pitches of notes or chords as you insert them one-by-one into the score. This is called Step-Time Recording when done with your music keyboard. Using the Virtual Piano Keyboard to add notes works in a similar fashion.

3.	Step-Time Recording offers an especially quick way to enter notes if you use it together with the Sequential Note Method.

These three methods of adding notes using your music (MIDI) keyboard are described in the topics that follow.