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Messages - smoore33

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General Discussion / Re: Setting defaults for imports
I do have NWC2, but my version of Cakewalk/Sonar doesn't do MusicXML.  I think exporting to MIDI, then copying and pasting the notes from an imported MIDI file into another blank file set up by an NWC template may be worth the extra steps.  Thanks for the ideas.
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General Discussion / Re: Changing default dynamic volumes
I studied and implemented Tina Billett's "Change Dynamics" user tool.  Could someone help me modify this command:

php\php.exe Scripts\adp_GlobalMod.php Dynamic,Style==ppp Opts.Volume=50 Dynamic,Style==pp Opts.Volume=60 Dynamic,Style==p Opts.Volume=70 Dynamic,Style==mp Opts.Volume=80 Dynamic,Style==mf Opts.Volume=90 Dynamic,Style==f Opts.Volume=100 Dynamic,Style==ff Opts.Volume=110 Dynamic,Style==fff Opts.Volume=120

so that it changes velocities as well as volumes for each of those dynamics?  That would give me a useful work-around.  Thanks.

By the way, my initial point was that dynamic changes should affect both velocity and volume.  I believe NWC would do that by default, if the default values for volumes could be set for each dynamic, just as they already are set for velocity by the command \=DynVel(15,30,45,60,75,90,105,120) in the nwcitree files.  We just need an equivalent command for "DynVol", but perhaps that would require code changes.  It sure would avoid a huge number of work-arounds and make dynamic volume changes work effectively.
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General Discussion / Re: Hairpin horizontal placement
Thanks all.

Rick G., what I meant by Change Channel Volume applying to the whole note, was the same as your statement "Hairpins commence at the time offset at which they are placed."  I would like it to commence in the middle of a whole note (ideally, both visually and musically).  Thanks for the sample at Topic 7738 rg01.nwc.  Perhaps I should clarify that I am working with choral music, with one part per staff, and thus I believe the hairpin in the example would not appear in the staff with the whole note in it.

I appreciate the other proposed solutions, although they seem very cumbersome.  I'll have to experiment with them sometime when I have enough time to get into it that deeply.
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General Discussion / Changing default dynamic volumes
I've spent hours studying dynamic variances, velocities, and volumes.  It seems to me that the need for the "Change Dynamics" user tool could be alleviated, if the default volumes for dynamics (ppp, pp, etc.) could be set in one place, similar to how default dynamic velocities are set, that is, by a command such as \=DynVel(15,30,45,60,75,90,105,120) the nwcitree files.  Is there any way to set default dynamic volumes in one place?

(This is especially important to me, since User Tools still don't work on my main PC, because I have a full installation of PHP on it...see my.noteworthysoftware.com/?topic=6848.0).
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General Discussion / Re: Hairpin horizontal placement
I'm not yet fully fluent in text notation.  However, doesn't "Change Channel Volume" apply to the entire note?  I am looking for a hairpin that starts in the middle of a whole note, not a volume change that takes place during the entire whole note note.  Since hairpins apply to notes, I don't see how to apply a hairpin to part of a note.
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General Discussion / Hairpin horizontal placement
Is there a way to start a hairpin in the middle of a note.  Say, for example, one voice has a whole note while other voices have four quarter notes, and I want to start all of the voices doing a diminuendo together on beat 3.  Can that be done? 
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General Discussion / Re: Setting defaults for imports
My goal is to import a bunch of Cakewalk files and not have to change all the file, page, and staff settings.  If I have to go through MIDI, and templates can't be used for MIDI imports, then a way to change the program defaults (which would apply to MIDI imports), not by applying a template, is the only hope I can think of to avoid the tedious work.  Many programs have a way of setting program defaults a la, MS Word's "normal template".  Any additional ideas from anyone would be appreciated.  Thanks.
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General Discussion / Setting defaults for imports
Is there a way to specify a template to be used for a MIDI import?  Or, is there a way to modify the "normal" or "Blank Score" template?  Or, is there another way to change defaults (e.g. for margins, font sizes, etc.)?  And/or, is there a way to convert from Cakewalk/Sonar files to NWC?  Thanks.
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User Tools / Re: User tools give errors with PHP 5
I still can not get User Tools to work.  I am running XP SP3 with a copy of PHP 5.2.8.8 installed at C:\PHP.  I have NWC 2.1 and just downloaded and installed the latest User Tools Starter Kit today.  When I try to run Ranges (adp), command: php\php.exe scripts\adp_Ranges.php <PROMPT:Enter your range option:=|none|separate|help>, I get the following error:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: mssql: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with module API=20060613
PHP    compiled with module API=20090626
These options need to match
 in Unknown on line 0

My copy of PHP at C:\PHP seems to run fine.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.
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General Discussion / Re: Sectional staffs & printing
This seems to relate to a need I have.  In Medieval and Renaissance music, sometimes sections of chant (sung in unison) alternate with sections of polyphony.  I was hoping to be able to product such music in NWC2, avoiding showing 4 or 5 parts singing a unison melody by duplicating that melody on 4 or 5 staves.  My impression from above is that that is not possible with NWC.  Is that correct?
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User Tools / Re: User tools give errors with PHP 5
Are the fixes mentioned on September 2, 2009 available yet?  Is the version of the tools that uses PHP5 publicly available now?  (I have a purchased and registered copy, but didn't complete the forum "upgrade" process.)  Thanks.
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General Discussion / Brackets/Braces for Double Choir Music
What is the best way to group 8-part, double choir music into two groups of 4 staves each?  Using the orchestral type bracket groups all 8 staves together in one group.  Upper/lower grand staff won't work because the bar lines continue through the lyrics.  Thanks.
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User Tools / Re: User tools give errors with PHP 5
I just tried running the script adp_Ranges.php by Andrew Purdam using php5 in c:\php.  It ran without errors, but deleted all notes in the staff, instead of giving the maxima and minima for the staff.  If we can't get a solution for how to get NWC2 to use its own older copy of php, maybe somebody knows the authors of the scripts and they could (easily, one would hope) modify them to work with php5.
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User Tools / Re: User tools give errors with PHP 5
I get the exact  same error under the same conditions (php5 also installed with NWC2).  I have verified:

1. php.exe is actually in the php folder under the NWC2 folder
2. command lines calling php in usertools are "php\php.exe scripts\usertoolscriptname.php"
  (I also tried C:\Program Files\Noteworthy Software\NoteWorthy Composer 2\php\php.exe scripts\adp_Ranges.php)
3. the tool I am trying to run, Ranges (adp), is written in php

Removing php5 from the path temporarily generates a php5 error about missing dlls; it does not cause NWC2 to find its own copy of php.  I can not delete or disable php5 to get NWC2 scripts to work.  Does anyone have a solution?  Thanks.

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User Tools / Re: User tools give errors with PHP 5
I am having the same problem.  I purchased an update to NWC version 2 and did a fresh install on my new laptop, which did install php in a folder under NWC.  I also have an installation of PHP5 at C:\php, so user tools don't run.  What would you recommend?  Is it necessary to download and reinstall using the starter kit?  Is there a way to tell NWC's user tools where to find its copy of php?