1951
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Messages - David Palmquist
1952
General Discussion / Re: resting period
1953
General Discussion / Re: connecting instrument to comouter
The actual connection between computer and guitar is something you want to talk to your computer store about. Or the store that sold you the guitar. Speak to someone with experience, perhaps the boss, not one of the flunkies. It wouldn't be fun frying your computer.
1954
General Discussion / Re: Converting .pdf files to .nwc files
Searched Google.com and came across this site which compares some of these programs.
http://www.threeleaf.com/music/music-ocr-reviews.htm
1955
General Discussion / Re: No Audio HQ/Creative on start menu
If you're trying to listen to other sound files using Windows MediaPlayer or somesuch, go into its Tools Options Player tab and make sure "digital playback" is checked.
And I guess it goes without saying that you have speakers plugged into your soundcard, don't you? If they're amplified speakers, they might have a power switch to check. Sounds so obvious, but I'd check this before playing around with the software settings.
Audio Headquarters is a small suite of programs that should be on your Soundblaster setup CD.
1956
General Discussion / Re: 1812 Overture
1957
General Discussion / Re: 1812 Overture
1958
General Discussion / Re: Error: GDI Failure
Go here for the end-it-all it:
http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,4148,23,00.asp
Click on the utilities from A to Z link. Lots of useful stuff there, by the way.
You may have to register for the download. If so you'll have the option of subscribing to a few newsletters. Probably the only one you'll want is the daily usertips, if you want any at all.
I'd also recommend scanning your system immediately.
1959
General Discussion / Re: Piano Score - Printing
1960
General Discussion / Re: Transposing Beforehand
I haven't worked from a concert score, only from transposed scores, so that partly explains my ignorance.
Steve, how do you march with a bari without taking out your teeth? Unless you're very tall?
1961
Version 1.75 Discussion / Re: Cresc / Dim ( < > type )
1962
Version 1.75 Discussion / Re: thrill , getting louder , getting softer
You can get these from the Scriptorium here http://nwc-scriptorium.org/
Load them as fonts, and then define one of the user font settings on the Page Setup tab to be this font. Then when you want the sign, you enter text (x) and type in the appropriate letter, setting UserFont 1 or 2, etc.
Note this is for printing only since this is a text entry. The playback won't be affected. To achieve the playback effect, simply add another staff, copy everything to it, and where you want the trill, just replace the trilled note with the appropriate number of alternating sixteenth or thirtysecond notes. Then hide all the notes in this playback staff, make sure to set the instrument and transpositions accordingly, then layer it with the staff you want printed.
1963
General Discussion / Re: Duolet in 6/8 measures
Yes, a duplet is equivalent in timing to two of the notes being dotted, but I think there is a slight difference when you play them, a difference in interpretation. I might be wrong, but two dotted notes will be played with a slight emphasis on the second note, at the least a "breath pulse," but a duplet will be more of a stretching out of the time of the two notes. While they are noticeably different notes, they are a smoothed distortion of the time rather than an intended syncopation.
I recognize I'm on thin ice here, it's the way I perceive my friends and I interpret the figure, but we've never discussed it.
1964
General Discussion / Re: sheet music
Fats Waller died in 1943. His compositions are public domain in Canada today (expired 50 years after his death), but are protected until 2018 in the US.
In Canada I can freely photocopy and distribute his compositions, but I'd be in trouble if I did that in the States.
The US copyright laws are well explained at the Library of Congress site, here:
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/
This is from that site's FAQ
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, signed into law on October 27, 1998, amends the provisions concerning duration of copyright protection. Effective immediately, the terms of copyright are generally extended for an additional 20 years. Specific provisions are as follows:
* For works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection will endure for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years. In the case of a joint work, the term lasts for 70 years after the last surviving author’s death. For anonymous and pseudonymous works and works made for hire, the term will be 95 years from the year of first publication or 120 years from the year of creation, whichever expires first;
* For works created but not published or registered before January 1, 1978, the term endures for life of the author plus 70 years, but in no case will expire earlier than December 31, 2002. If the work is published before December 31, 2002, the term will not expire before December 31, 2047;
* For pre-1978 works still in their original or renewal term of copyright, the total term is extended to 95 years from the date that copyright was originally secured.
1965
General Discussion / Re: Transposing Beforehand
1966
General Discussion / Re: How come I can't hear my score playing?
I have Microsoft GS Wavetable ... plus SB Live MidiUart plus B: SBLive midi synth and A: SBLive midi synth
A couple of these obviously come with my soundcard, and I have no idea which of these make the sounds work correctly but they do.
Midimapper usually creates problems for some reason. I believe it is not part of Windows after Win98.
Also if you're running Mediaplayer, check the sound settings and if enable digital sound is off, try turning it on.
1967
General Discussion / Re: Piano Score - Printing
1968
General Discussion / Re: In the Cavern Song
The lyric editor takes a wee bit of getting used to, but you can use a word processor first to type out the names of all the chords you're going to use, in sequence. Put a space between each chord name, don't bother with enter.
Then copy the whole shebang into the lyric editor. Each name will line up with the next note.
This assumes your chords are used together with a written-out part, i.e., a moving bass line. If you are just using them with strum marks (which you create with text), you have to insert muted hidden notes wherever you want a chord name displayed, since the lyric editor places each "word" following a space at the next note.
If you are going to transpose the piece into another key, it's easy to copy the lyrics back into a word processor, make all the changes there, and then copy the result back in to replace the contents of the lyric editor.
1969
General Discussion / Re: Clef, Key Sig. and Time Sig.
Sorry, my grammar didn't work on this. I intended that to mean on the immediately following line. So if you have, say, a key change in the middle of the third line on your page, I don't remember if the copyist usually puts it also at the beginning of the fourth line. Certainly they usually don't show it on the fifth, sixth, seventh, etc.
1970
General Discussion / Re: Clef, Key Sig. and Time Sig.
1971
General Discussion / Re: Audio HQ
Sorry, that's mixing an NWC element with a tempo.
I humbly apologize.
Besides, I have no idea if Florida has surf.
1972
General Discussion / Re: About the product package...
1973
General Discussion / Re: Bar number
Typically, the rehearsal letters will be 8 or 12 bars apart for traditional jazz. Other good places to insert a letter is where there's a key change or the beginning of a new theme if your piece isn't structured in phrases of a particular length.
I strongly recommend using the measure numbers only while in the editor, turn them off for printing. Set up a user font such as Boxmarks2 (available from the scriptorium,) and can then easily enter a boxed alphabet character as text.
The problem with having the bar number print at the beginning of each line on a printed out part is that other instruments may have a different number of measures in each line, so nobody has the same rehearsal marking to go to. If someone says, "let's take it at bar 48," only a few will have a measure 48 on the score.
I suggest you stay away from 5 bar groupings. That seldom conforms to the music on the score, so your conductor usually has to ask you to start playing at the beginning of some phrase that starts somewhere between the rehearsal markings. If you play an instrument that has a lead part, it's not hard to find, but if you're just playing accompaniment, it isn't always obvious on the page where one phrase ends and the next one begins.
Also, do everyone a favour and don't spread your rehearsal markings out too far. You waste a lot of rehearsal time when 45 musicians count their way back to the 34th measure before letter C.
1974
General Discussion / Re: CD burning troubles
Different coloured dyes have different qualities, and all the dyes are light sensitive. I understand the greener the poorer quality? Nevertheless all your CD's should be stored in opaque cases to keep light out, since the dye is sensitive to it.
This site should tell you as much as you wish to know about CD burning, etc.:
http://www.cdrfaq.org/
1975
Tips & Tricks / Musical Instrument Range Chart
http://www.azstarnet.com/~solo/insrange.htm
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1976
Tips & Tricks / Transcribing Divisi Parts
Oh, yeah, to enter the top note, do the same as you would when entering a second note of a chord - use Control Enter.
1977
Tips & Tricks / Entering Multi-bar Rests
- The first bit of text to enter is a few blank spaces (just press the space bar 5 or ten times), preserve width, and click "OK"
- Insert Text again and hit the space bar about 10 times about 20 times, type the number of bars the rest should last. Under the Expression Placement tab, select DO NOT preserve width, staff position 2, OK.
- Insert Text a third time, use the pipe symbol "|", 19 equal signs "=", and the pipe symbol again, preserve width, staff position 0, OK.
- Repeat step 1.
- Press tab to give you the bar line at the end of the measure.