Andrew:

Just dropping back to say a big, big "thanks!"

Your further pointers got it working for me straight away, and I have now given it a road test on a couple of different things with great results and just one new question to ask.

But first I should comment for anyone bumping in to this at some future point and wonderng if entering melody this way has much benefit, that you should certainly give it a try because for me it simplified an already simple task quite substantially, and was certainly more fun and less chore! In the past I have entered notes singly on quite a few pieces, and whilst not superswift you quickly get the hang of how to use the mouse and you can be going along at a decent pace.

But simply one-key-tapping-along only takes whatever the song/piece lasts for, and then going through to adjust the notes up or down on the staff to the right pitches and make the melody appear is a simple and quick process ... and as a bonus also has a buzz of achievement about it too!


So, to my question ...

... my tapped-in notes always fall on the grid, even when I try to "miss" and introduce that little bit of expression which humanises it just a tad. I have tried with snap off and on in notation view's "options", and with Wizard's "smart notes" selected and deselected, and always with the correct track slelected (either "Melody" or "Utility#1" autoselected in my so-far brief experience) but I just can't play it wrong even if I try!

Again I am possibly missing something obvious, but I can't think of anything else right now than switching snap off on the worked track and even trying to time-in an "alt-click" for the few notes involved.

So maybe snap is always-on for plinking the tempo like this, just to *help* keep things in line?

Or is there a step I haven't taken, and snap can still be switched off?

H.