first note on melodic dictation

phrygian · Post by **phrygian** » 09 Mar 2011, 01:33

Hello Quentin!
Why is it that (in melodic diactation) the first note shown is added in the number of answered notes?, which is, the first note i play becomes a second note. ie, if I set to 5 notes and set to show first note, the first note shown becomes the first note of my answer and the first note i play( answer) becomes the second note so it lets me play 4 notes only. Hearing five dictated notes and answer only the second to the last note is very hard. Unlike in the other exercises (interval identification, chord identification, chord inversion and scale identification) they dont behave like this.
Can you fix this please?
Thank you.

Post by **Quentin** » 09 Mar 2011, 02:01

Hi phrygian,

The first tone is inserted on the staff instead of simply being shown when the option "Absolute" is selected in EXERCISE SETTINGS>TONE IDENTIFICATION. If you set it to "Any Octave", the first tone will be greyed out (i.e. not actually inserted but simply displayed), and won't be inserted twice when you play all five tones of your answer. This applies to all the exercises where you must insert tones actually.

phrygian · Post by **phrygian** » 09 Mar 2011, 02:45

Hi Quentin!
I am referring to the piano display below the staff. I use midi to play answer not clicking it on the staff. I tried the guitar display and they have the same problem.
Thank you.

Post by **Quentin** » 09 Mar 2011, 02:47

All screen interfaces are linked (staff, piano and guitar), so they will behave the same way

phrygian · Post by **phrygian** » 09 Mar 2011, 02:55

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Post by **Quentin** » 09 Mar 2011, 03:04

But I can assure you that if you set the option EXERCISE SETTINGS>TONE IDENTIFICATION to "Any Octave", the exercise will let you play all the tones of the question, including the first one, no matter what interface you use (staff, piano, guitar, MIDI keyboard, etc.)

phrygian · Post by **phrygian** » 09 Mar 2011, 03:40

The first tone is inserted on the staff instead of simply being shown when the option "Absolute" is selected in EXERCISE SETTINGS>TONE IDENTIFICATION. If you set it to "Any Octave", the first tone will be greyed out (i.e. not actually inserted but simply displayed), and won't be inserted twice when you play all five tones of your answer. This applies to all the exercises where you must insert tones actually.

Thank you Quentin!
FIXED!
I see EXERCISE SETTINGS>ANSWER IDENTIFICATION here.

Why not make that as the default setting for this exercise? I did not use melodic dictation since I bought because of its setting.
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Thank you!

Post by **Quentin** » 09 Mar 2011, 04:13

I must confess I don't know why it is set to absolute as default in the melodic dictation exercise, but I'm sure there was some thought behind it when it was made. I'll talk with Hans about that