Oct 23, 2005 09:18 pm Welcome to the real world of digital recording Kenny.
What exactly made you choose Sibelius over something like Sonar or Cubase if I may ask?
Sibelius' flexi-time: newbie mistake...lol
Posted on Oct 22, 2005 04:56 pm
kennethwsmithjr
The Eternal Student
Member Since: Oct 08, 2005
Hey all,
Got my M-audio Firewire 18/14 yesterday, and Sibelius 4 the day before that. Got it all set up and installed in like 20 minutes, including putting a screw in my add-on firewire card.
So I connected the keyboard to the midi jacks on the 18/14 and thought "hey, let's try this flexi-time thing" so I hit record and played my little rendition of "cruella de-ville" that I remembered from my old piano playing days.
About 5 bars into the recording, the metronome being played through my keyboard all of a sudden TOTALLY changed beats and was WAY off what it had originally started at.
Horrible thoughts of timecode/MIDI problems ran through my head.... "is the interface messed up, maybe my keyboard is malfunctioning, etc..." I narrowed the problem down to software since I wasn't sending any timecode from the 18/14 to anything else, and the software was doing the recording so...
A quick scan through the Sibelius' manual mentioned that flexi-time options can be changed.
Evidently Sibelius thought my rusty playing was at a much slower speed than I was actually playing at.
So I changed the setting from: robusto (slight adjustments of tempo) to constant, and the problem went away.
Thus was Kenny's first recording experience... sigh... I'll remember this forever!
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Oct 23, 2005 09:18 pm Welcome to the real world of digital recording Kenny.
What exactly made you choose Sibelius over something like Sonar or Cubase if I may ask?
Oct 23, 2005 09:48 pm My main interest is writing music, not necessarily recording. So my need for a powerful multitracker wasn't really there. And Sibelius will do anything and everything I want to do as far as notation goes.
That, and I could get it for $239 through my school. =)
I'll get a multitrack program soon, but I have to get my skills and theory up to snuff (not to mention write a few songs) before I'll be ready for live recording, if you know what I mean...lol.
Oct 23, 2005 10:35 pm Thats right, now I remember you talking about that in another post. I guess I have grown accustomed to the notation software in Sonar so I never really think about using something like Finale or Sibelius.
Oct 23, 2005 10:49 pm Ahhh.... yeah, I looked at multitrack programs' notation capabilities (albeit a few years ago) and they weren't very robust (as far as details and such) and since I got the discount... yeah, I went with Sibelius.
Oct 23, 2005 10:55 pm Ya, if I were doing more where I needed the heavy scoring capability I would surely be using one of them. So I see your reason for going that route for sure.
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