Chord/MIDI Input

When you select this option, you can click a note or rest in the score, and a tiny ear icon will appear. Finale will add a chord symbol above the note you clicked when you play the chord on your synthesizer. (It's "listening" to the chord you play.) The register of the chord you play doesn't matter, but the inversion does: if you play a C chord with an E on the bottom, Finale will place a C/E chord symbol above the note. If it doesn't recognize the chord, it will display the Unknown Chord Suffix dialog box letting you know. See Unknown Chord Suffix dialog box.

To advance the ear cursor to the next note, press any MIDI instrument key above middle C; to make the ear cursor retreat to the left, play any key below middle C. If you don't move the cursor in this way, each time you play a chord, each new chord symbol will appear stacked above the previous one.