Need help with sibelius

[xxmynameisjohnxx]

Hey, so the other day I was trying to get sibelius to use it's midi features and automatically notate what I'm playing on my keyboard to sheet music, but when I tried this it came out way wrong. It seems that if I don't play EXACTLY in tempo with the metronome it goes way off, with rhythms and such that would almost be impossible to read.  Does anyone know how to make it so sibelius will actually notate things properly even if played slightly outside of rhythm/if I were to ritard or something like that?

I know I could just take the time to figure out exactly how to notate what I'm playing...but it'd be much simpler if I could just play it and have it come out at least with a good bare bones of what I'm playing....but what it came out with I seriously couldn't even work with to fix and make it correct. Help please!

[Bob]

There should be something in the settings where it will compensate and not be that exact. 

But that's still playing in a steady tempo.  I'm thinking... something where you can set the lowest note value or it rounds to the nearest 8th note. 

Sibelius has a site with a forum I think.  The answer is probably there or the manual.  Recording with MIDI.

The rit's it might not do so well.  I don't think it will follow your rit, or if it does it's a new feature since I used it last.  If there are playback options, you might be able to set the tempo to gradually step down so the effect is a rit.  That's still a little awkward though. 

When I've done that, I try to play like a machine so it can translate into notation better.  It doesn't have to sound pretty if you just want the notation.

Yes, sometimes it is easier just to input everything yourself.  Or learn one piece of the process, like the step entry (That might be Finale).

Slow tempo helps too so you can be more exact. 

There should at least be a way to get it to stop putting in 64th notes though.  Once you've got the notation you want, you don't have to mess with "performing it in like a machine" to get that notation.  You can go back to normal.