Igor Engraver Manual

265 CHAPTER 16
MIDI and NIFF
16.1.1 Step-Time Recording
As mentioned earlier, it is possible to perform MIDI step-time recording in Igor
Engraver. First, enter Input mode by double-clicking in a bar. Next, press the
key for the desired duration. Finally, press one or several keys on your MIDI keyboard.
Now, the pitch will be entered with the duration you selected. If you hit
another key on the MIDI keyboard, you will add another note to the layout. This
is perhaps the fastest way to enter your music, as it’s easy to create long passages
of music just by hitting the right keys on the MIDI keyboard.
16.1.2 Real-Time Recording
As stated when describing the Play & Record palette in the Palettes chapter,
real-time recording is possible in Igor Engraver. This is how it works:
• Put the Input caret in the bar where you want to begin recording.
• Press the Record tool to initiate the recording process.
• Press a key (or the like…) on your MIDI device to start the metronome’s countdown.
Since recording does not start immediately after you press the Record tool, you have
time to get in position before starting the actual recording.
• The metronome will play the specified number of countdown bars, and recording
then starts.
• Recording continues as long as the metronome sounds (it will stop at the end of the
piece).
• Recording stops when the Stop tool is pressed or at the end of the piece.
• All the entries will be quantised according to the settings in the Metronome Recording
settings window (see below).
If the Metronome recording settings... command is chosen from the Edit menu’s
MIDI submenu (Windows), or the Settings tool of the Play & Record palette is
clicked (Macintosh), the Metronome Recording settings window appears. In this
window you can define several things:
Number of countdown bars, which defines how many bars of countdown you want
before recording begins.
Beats per minute, in which you set the default playback tempo according to the
denominator of the tempo signature.