NoteWorthy Composer Forum

What's going on here? At least I know that I should ignore your reviews of any other products; I would not believe them.

If you have a MIDI floppy from the PR-300S that plays on the Rodgers, try reading it on your PC. If you can't, chances are good that your are not going to produce a floppy with your PC that will work. If you can, try copying all the files to your hard drive and then copy them to a blank floppy.

If saving it as a Type 1 file doesn't work, try Type 0.

Yesterday I watched a YouTube movie of a 14-year-old girl playing an expert-level piece featuring Spanish-sounding classical music, and one part sounded exactly like a piccolo (although it did come out in tune, making it less piccolo-like).

A silly question - if all you want is paper output, why not just photocopy?

I'm transcribing some arrangements for a friend and I'm only interested in good quality paper output - essentially matching his notation as best possible.

yes, Chunk chunk (metal guitar)

nick mccabe was able to use his guitar to immitate bird songs(using feed back) the creaking of trees and some sounds that really pass beyond comparison. Johnny greenwood has imitated whale songs, jazz trumpets and a rhodes piano. and jimmy hendrix has done every sound concievable

Bob, you may be reprinting the music from time to time.  If so, you may wish to avoid the hassle of renumbering each sheet of music each time.

Use a "conductor" staff with muted headless whole notes, and ordinary bar lines.  Enter bar numbers as text, just before each bar line, justify centre, placed at next bar/note.  Then you just layer that with your music. 

Now you can print anytime, or print once to pdf, and make hard copy whenever.

Which mail-address? I would like to send something myself.

To those responsible for evaluating Noteworthy Composer 1.75b in the Music Notation Software 2007 Review:


Here at the Noteworthy Software Community, we heard about your Music Notation Software Review 2007. In inspecting the stats, we found that Noteworthy Composer had a faulty evaluation.

The primary problems we noticed were as follows:

• Is hard to use-- While I haven't tried the other notation softwares presented in the survey, I was able to learn how to use Noteworthy within a few minutes. I certainly found it much easier to use than any other notation processor I've seen.  Difficulty is relative, though, so I won't go further here.
• Has cross staff beaming-- There's no such feature in this program.
• Has a metronome-- See the above, no such feature.
• Doesn't have a time display-- Yes it does. It's in the right end of the status bar at the bottom. It shows both the elapsed time and the total time.
• Doesn't have "Computer Keyboard Note Input"-- Keyboard input is the primary input method. [Enter/Return] = note; [Spacebar] = rest; [arrow keys] = navigate the staff for foolproof accurate note placement(up, down, forward, backward); [Tab] = bar line; [CTRL] = insert a chord member. Also, most mouse-accessible commands are available through easy-to-use keyboard shortcuts.
• Doesn't have a paper manual-- Yes it does, although it's seldom used.
• There are no download Patches-- Yes there are. Go to noteworthysoftware.com
• There are no download Updates-- Same answer here as above.
• Doesn't support Vista-- Even though it was developed in early versions of Windows, it is supported in ALL versions of Windows, including Vista, running error-free.
• Doesn't support NT-- Again, it is supported and runs error-free.
• The software doesn't automatically place the measure bars so you can enter an infinite number of notes on one measure, whereas other programs prevent you from entering notes that exceed the measure's time.-- One of the things we love the most about this notation processor is just about anything in it can be overridden to meet your composing needs. It's important to allow for too many notes in a measure, especially since the software is used to enter classical compositions, many of which contain "too many" beats in some measures. Corelli is a great example of a composer who did this on purpose. For those who REALLY want their bars forced, there's a button that allows you to force bar lines.
• We found Noteworthy Composer a difficult program to use with a confusing staff set up and inaccurate note placement. For half the cost, you can purchase the Silver or Bronze award winning products.-- Totally wrong. Noteworthy is $39. The silver is $99.95, and the bronze is $399.99. The Noteworthy software is not high-priced at all for what it is capable of. Also, note placement is VERY accurate. You're supposed to use the up and down keys to position your note, not your cursor, which gives you perfect and fast placement EVERY TIME. I don't know anyone who uses the mouse to position their notes. In fact, the ability to use the keyboard for note placement is one of the primary reasons I prefer it over similar notation processors!

All of the the above responses refer to version 1.75b, and the answers are the same regarding the upcoming version 2.



I hope that in the future you are more careful about errors in your reviews.  This could cause Noteworthy Software or any other affected company a loss in popularity and profit.

 

Thank you for your time,

(my name)

A satisfied Noteworthy Composer user and beta tester

As was reported, there are a number of software products such as Cakewalk and Finale among others, which are not even mentioned.

Or you could enter measure numbers in as text right in the editor. I'm not sure if that is what Bob was saying.

The specs given are so misleading. 8 lyrics is actually 8 lyrics per stave. I could do 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall in NWC without it even breaking a sweat.

I'm just dying to try the wav input on The Firebird Suite. I wonder, if I try Carmina Burana, will I get the lyrics too? Always wanted to know what they were.

He's using version 2.  Doesn't that make him a tester?

Hmm, reminds me of a joke:

What do you call a canary with a machine gun?


Whatever it wants you to!


Soo, what sound does a guitar make?

Whatever you want it to...

Probably not. I think you have to be at least a(n) NWC2 Tester to do attachments.

Oh, we have smileys?

Uhm, nope...
 

Help, please!  I`ve just done a complete system restore, clearing my C drive. Having previously saved NWC to my back up drive D, I now find that all my NWC files now show the "Windows cannot open" icons instead of the usual green piano with red notes.   I have just re downloaded the Boxmarks font, but instead of the normal blue font icon, this too is showing the  "Windows cannot open" icon, and therefore will not load into my main icon folder.  What am I doing wrong??  Thanks. Stokots

Bob,

I also had a quick look and found no problem (not that I think that any of the other people who had a listen might be wrong), but I was looking from a Scriptorium perspective.

There are a few versions of the "Carnival" - perhaps you could say which one you were playing. I used Ramón Pajares Box's sequence to try this out. Was this the one you were using ?

Which piece did you finish with before moving on to Tchaikovsky ?

Can you try to load the Tchaikovsky diectly onto NWC2 after a boot up and see if you still get the problem (ie a clean boot and no Carnival first).

You might also be reaching the polyphony limit of your sound card.  MIDI sound cards and devices can only play so many sounds at once (and some sounds are layered, and as such take up more slots than others).

Have you tried just playing the trumpet line you couldn't hear (press Ctrl-F5 on that track to just play that track).  If you hear the trumpets when doing that, then my guess would be that you are overextending your sound card.

For example, on my keyboard, if I use a particularly busy rhythm part, and then add my playing using a multi-layered instrument with lots of DSP and 10-finger chords, I find I have a lot of dropouts.  That's all because of the polyphony limit.

Anyway, just a thought...

only in NWC2

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Six months is hardly long-dead.

Your example is an excellent reason why a Page Break is needed. So much better than sending a song out to a graphics file and editing it.

Well that's the beauty of NoteWorthy.  You design the song to minimize jumps. 
# of pages would much be less important than # of page turns (and their complexity).

S'OK Bob, I was just funnin' with ya, mate.