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General Discussion / Writing lyrics in russian or ukrainian
Good evening from the eastern side of the North Sea (Norway), I have been attempting to write some of the ukrainian and russian folkmusic whcih I know and sing in Noteworthy, but it seems completely impossible to change to a cyrilic based alphabet.  I have tried every option that I know of, but can only get a line of question marks when what I have written in the lyrics section is OK'd.  I use both of these languages on my PC with word and other systems, and can change languages easily.  Mixing words both in cyrilic and western fonts is not a problem either.  Can anyone inform me on the correct procedure please to be able to add cycrilic lyrics to a NWC songfile?
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General Discussion / Re: NWC2 viewer
Hello again from Norway,   I have been using Synthfont for the last two years directly from NWC and produce MP3 and audio files with reduced and accentuated volume to help in voice training for different arrangements.  The MP3 files have been used to send arrangements to other choirs in other countries where our choir(s) will be visiting and singing the same (norwegian) arrangement.  As you can imagine though, this is very time comsuming and when a few choristers in a choir (the Oslo one) asks directly for a playback posibility on a PC what can I say. 

I have never tried to use the viewer before and was very disappointed when I realised that it was virtually impossible to use(for a choir at least) in a sensible way.  So the result will be that I will have to admit defeat to the choristers in question (for the moment anyway) and do as I have done earlier - CDs and MP3s.  Thank you for the attention that this has produced and thank you all for your suggestions.

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General Discussion / Re: NWC2 viewer
Good evening Rick, from Norway again...  
Thank you for the information on the "strings" concerning the NWC viewer.  Very interesting reading, and some of what was written made me laugh, but even so, what happens now?  I really am being "pushed" to find a good solution for one of the choirs I sing in (and do arrangements for as well as "convert" old handwritten arrangements into NWC format).  Like others I have the problem that a good deal of the choristers do not read music as such and neither have good familiarity with Personal computers.  However a version of NWC with reduced facilities which one paid for would enable NWC to really "spread its wings" I think.  NWC is such a fantastic and extremely reasonable piece of music notation software that I would prefer to use this rather than any thing else for the choirs.

At the present time I produce CDs through the use of midi export and the muting of different staves in order to present difficult passages to each of the voices (SATB).  This means that most of our choristers can learn their parts in a simple way.  This is however very time consuming and having a better viewer (as many others have suggested) would solve an immense problem with the NWC use by choirs.  I am very sure that I could sell many extra copies of NWC2 software to other choirs if the viewer was better (and there are at least 11 choirs in my immediate area who I know would benefit from this). 

I think that this for the moment is the "end of the line" for me as I really have sort out a solution within a few days.  Whether it will be CDs or another solution remains to be seen.

I wonder though, is there anyone on the NWC software team who read these comments and would care to write something on the subject?
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General Discussion / NWC2 viewer
Good morning from Norway, Here is a little poser!!  I have at long last managed to get a few people in our choir to start using the viewer after a lot of persuasion, however they experience many problems with this.  I have sent them a shorter SATB arrangement  (4 staves) straight from the composer (NWC2).  They can now play THE WHOLE SCORE without end but there is no possibility for them to play just one stave (soprano for example), or to play two staves to help in practising.  This means that I have to setup everything for them beforehand by muting some of the staves in the arrangement.  This isn't too bad as this I will willingly do, but the worst part is that they can only start at the beginning and carry on to the very end, there being no possibility for them to chose where to start and stop or repeat.  For a large choir arrangement (the one we now are working on is over 600 bars long) this means that the viewer as is just cannot be utilised.

Or am I missing out somewhere?  Has the viewer for example more capabilities than I have found?  which may well be the case.  I would like to give them the possibility to chose a stave by muting those they don't want to hear and then being able to start anywhere within the arrangement with eventual repeats.  For a choir this is almost mandatory for the learning of difficult passages.  I could get everyone to install NWC2 and give instructions on it's use as it isn't that expensive, but this seems to be a bit farfetched for our needs.

Anyone got an answer to this, or am I asking for too much?
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General Discussion / Re: midi file import
Hei again fromt the poser of the original question, The solution to the midi file import problem was as suggested.  I created an NWC file which I then exported as a midi file.  On importing this midi file again I "got rid of" everything that was superfluous, ie all of the key and time signatures which were not necessary.  Thanks for the help.
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General Discussion / midi file import
Hei, I have a slight problem which I have been unabled to solve.  I have been given a midi file of a choir setup (SATB) together with the piano score etc. for our choir.  This is over 600 bars long and there are 8 channels (or staves in NWC).  The problem encountered is that every bar in every stave has it's own key and time signature - is this normal with midi input?  and how can I remove all of these which are unneccesary as I only want time or key signatures in bars when there are changes.  I know that I can remove these individually for each, but what a job!  I thought that maybe there would be some form of editing function when the midi file was imported, and maybe there is, but I can't find it.  Can anyone help please as I only have a short while in which to sort this out.  The composer/arranger died a couple of weeks ago so unfortunately I can't ask him for help!
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General Discussion / Re: New member - probably old problem!
Thanks Rich.  I solved the problem of the notes.  Found out that the skift to the right was under the EDIT block of directions.  This is now OK.
It's hairpins I'm thinking of in question 2 used in choral music.  Haven't found a way of doing this yet.  I have version 1.7.
I also have another small problem with slurs.  On choral notation it is usual to put the slur in the same direction as the stems so that it will not "muddle up" the other voice on the same staff.  Can the slur direction be changed in some way?
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General Discussion / New member - probably old problem!
I am cuurently writing choral music and have encountered 2 small problems. 
The first one: Writing soprano and alto lines with coincidental notes (C in fact).  Soprano note semibreve and alto note 1/2 crotchett.  The half crotchett obliterates the semibreve O. I am using layering.  How can one get the semibreve to line itslef at the side of the 1/2 crotchett?
The second one:  Need to write choral symbols for increase or decrease volume over several notes.  How can I achieve this?
Thank you for any help.  Antony Cook