Playback Timing

Playback Timing controls how playback works in ScoreCloud Studio. Choose between Original and Linear playback timing.

Original Timing

Original timing uses the timing information from your original performance.

If the song was created from an audio recording, each note inherits the specific timing it had in that recording. This means that natural variations and expressive timing from your performance are kept when the score is played back.

When a song is based on an audio recording, you can add your original recording as synced playback audio, and audio is time-stretched to align with the notes. Under the settings gear button, you can choose the quality of this time stretch. The default is Fast, change to Best for a higher audio quality at the cost of longer processing time.

If the song was created from a MIDI recording, Original timing uses tempo variations and beat timing from your performance instead. In the settings under the gear button you can choose whether to use tempo variations, beat timing or both. This lets you keep the musical feel of the recording even when working with the notated score.

Linear Timing

Linear timing plays the notes exactly as they appear. The tempo follows the value written in the score, without timing variations from the recording. This is useful if you want a clean, metronomic playback that reflects the notation rather than the performance.

View Beat Timing in the Score

If you want to inspect the timing details used by Original timing, open the Window menu and choose Analysis Details. Here you can enable Beat Timing, which shows the percentage length of each beat in the score. This helps you understand how your performance timing has been interpreted and applied.