Your recording will be much more successful if you give Sibelius a little information about what you’re going to play before you hit the record button.

That’s going to come in handy in the next step. Then, work out what the smallest rhythmic value is. Keep in mind too that you don’t have to record the whole piece at once. Check to see if there are any repeated sections because there’s no point recording the same section twice – you can just copy and paste the music. Look at the music you’re about to record into Sibelius. When you play some notes on your keyboard, the little window will show a green light Click on the Input devices option on the left and you should see your keyboard listed in the window.

Sibelius menu > Preferences on Macs using earlier versions of Sibelius. You can also go into Sibelius’s Preferences area: File > Preferences on all PCs and on Macs using Sibelius 7. You can check whether it’s connected by selecting a bar or rest and pressing a few notes on your keyboard. If you don’t do it in that order you may find that Sibelius doesn’t recognise that your keyboard is plugged in. Hello it’s Katie Wardrobe from Midnight Music and today I’m going to show you some tips for recording into Sibelius using a MIDI keyboard.įirst, plug in your MIDI keyboard and turn it on. Video: How To Record With A MIDI Keyboard If it’s very complex, with lots of syncopation, tied notes and triplets I may choose to enter the notes “manually” instead – using Step-time or Alphabetic Entry.ĭon’t forget that you can also record small sections of a piece at a time, so you could record all the straightforward parts and then enter any difficult sections using Step-time or Alphabetic Entry. I also assess the complexity of the music: if it’s straightforward I will definitely record the notes in using a MIDI keyboard.

Examine the music you’re about to record to check for repeated sections so you don’t record the same stuff twice.

Give Sibelius some information about what you’re going to play before hitting record.

Personally, I use the MIDI record feature all the time, but it is a lot more successful is you know a few tricks. During Sibelius training sessions, teachers often tell me that using a MIDI keyboard to record notes in live is “a waste of time” because they find they have a lot of fixing up to do at the end of the recording process.

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