Hyperscribe is the one reason I still go back to Finale.
“When you use HyperScribe to transcribe a real-time performance, Finale needs to know where the beats fall in relation to the music you’re playing. One of the easiest ways to provide a tempo reference is to tap in time with your own playing by either playing a note on a MIDI keyboard or using a foot pedal. As long as your taps and your playing are synchronized, with this option, you can speed up or slow down and Finale still transcribes the performance correctly.” (Tap Source dialog box)
This is by far the best, quickest, most accurate way of inputting a lot of music.
Because you provide the tap source, you avoid any latency issues. Also, you can slow the tap down for more complicated passages, and speed up for long, slow passages.
The transcription works basically flawlessly, at least in my experience.
On the other hand, when the tap source is not yourself but a computerized metronome, it is very tricky to play strictly enough to get a decent transcription. You cannot speed up for the easy bits, or slow down for the hard bits. You get a lot of unwanted syncopations. Etc. etc.
So… please may we have a hyperscribe option added to Dorico! Basically, just allow the user to provide the tap source, that’s all I’m asking!
This has been requested before. It’s not something to which we’ve given a huge amount of consideration, to be honest, partly because I know that this is one aspect of Finale for which the original software developers obtained a patent in the US, and we have to be careful when considering development in areas where we know patents exist. But perhaps we’ll be able to revisit this in future.
Very interesting!
US patents last for 20 years: anything filed in 1988 will be long expired. This looks like it:
It looks like all the Phil Farrand / Coda Music patents have expired.
caveat: I am, sadly, not an IP lawyer.
Dorico’s quantization is pretty good (much better than HyperScribe to a click 
) – and you can re-quantize passages again and again until you get what you want. Plus things like “Extend/Shorten to Next Note” make global fixes very swift.
I want to second my desire for Dorico to have something like Hyperscribe. Hyperscribe has actually become one of my main compositional tools in Finale. Not sure many people use it the way I do. But if there is no equivalent in Dorico, I will need to keep using Finale just for that purpose. I think Sibelius also has something equivalent?
So does Dorico.
@Derrek Is Dorico now able to do what I placed in italics in the original request? I haven’t gotten into this side of Dorico yet; but the ability to control the beat as one goes is what makes Hyperscribe so powerful. If I were using this method of note entry and Dorico couldn’t do what is described, I would continue to use Finale for note entry and import that into Dorico.
No, Dorico only allows recording to a pre-determined click.
Thanks @dan_kreider That was my impression from the previous discussion.
It’s worth repeating that Dorico’s recording of live playing to a click track is a million times more accurate than Finale’s HyperScribe was. You can re-quantize it until you’re happy; and there are tools like Extend duration to Next Note, which removes any gaps between notes.
Perhaps with the demise of Finale, the team will feel more confident about developing a Tempo Tap input.
I’m hoping for a Dorico equivalent of Hyperscribe for a different reason:-I have written some music with a vocal line. I want to record me singing that line whilst watching and keeping in time with the accompanying notes and words pass by.
Steinberg “Sequel” allows me to record but I cannot see the words I have written. I can only see a wave form.
But “Sequel” could form the basis for a Hyperscribe lookalike.