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Messages - Fred Nachbaur

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General Discussion / Re: French Version - is one available?
At this time, the only way I know of porting NWC output to a Macintosh would be a midi file (for performance) plus a PDF or PostScript file (for visual output).

On the French-language issue, I haven't heard anything recently. Hopefully one of those involved with the project will see this thread.
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General Discussion / Re: Ghost notes
You'll also set ghost notes indicated in some transcriptions (e.g. guitar solos, etc.) where - in the opinion of the transcriber - the soloist intended to play the note, but "missed." For example, there may be a fast scale run where one or more notes are inaudible, but are nonetheless implied in the structure of the run. In a case like this, if you are learning that solo, you're probably best advised not to "ghost" the notes, but rather to try to voice them normally.

In NWC, you can mimic the effect of a "ghost note" by selecting the note, CNTL-E or CNTL-Enter, tick the "Muted" check box. ;-)
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General Discussion / Re: NWC being read as PDF files
Apparently your friend's computer lost the association to NWC files, and is incorrectly associating them with Acrobat Reader.

Uninstalling/ reinstalling NoteWorthy Player should fix it.
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General Discussion / Re: Thanks for removing that thread
I agree also. If the thread were allowed to persist it would very possibly have encouraged similar lists of exam questions in the future.

I personally found some of the replies amusing, but obviously at least one other person (perhaps the original poster) was not similarly amused.
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General Discussion / Re: How much change needed before original copyright doesn't apply?
A short "quote" for instructional purposes might fall under the "fair use" part of copyright law. However, I'm not a lawyer, and even if I were it's unlikely that a clearcut answer could be given. There are a number of criteria that must be fulfilled for fair use to apply... and then there are questions of degree, intent, etc. etc.
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General Discussion / Re: Error: GDI Failure
NoteWorthy Support is probably much better qualified to answer this, but until then here's my two bits' worth.

GDI is the "Graphic Device Interface" component in Windows, and in my experience only acts up if there's something seriously wrong. Did you change anything recently, especially as regards your video card or video drivers? Other information that might help narrow this down is:

Which Windows version?
Does it happen with other software, or just NWC?
If it happens with NWC only, have you tried reinstalling it?
Does it happen immediately when you launch the program, or only after you load an NWC file?

Good luck.
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General Discussion / Re: Duolet in 6/8 measures
Hank-
Once again, it depends on which end of the telescope you look into. A duplet is two notes in the time of three. In can be considered the converse of the triplet. However, the length of each dupletted note is 1-1/2 times that of the original.

For instance, in 6/8 time, you'll normally have two sets of three 1/8 notes. "Dupletizing" such a set of three 1/8 notes gives two 1/8 notes, each with a duration of 1-1/2 times that of a "normal" note. It will therefore be exactly equivalent to a dotted 1/8. (Two dotted 1/8's = three normal 1/8's).

Make sense?

Cheers,
Fred
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General Discussion / Re: MPC settings
Select it (highlight it, either by dragging with the mouse or by using SHIFT and the cursor keys) and edit using CNTL-e or ALT-Enter (or mouse right-click | Properties or Edit | Properties).
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General Discussion / Re: when writing more than one voice on a staff, why...
As I recall, it was precisely the limitations of the "chorded" multi-voice approach that ultimately led to the development of layered staves. As a side-note, in at least one major release the layering function was marked "experimental," with no commitment to support it in future releases.

Thankfully, this excellent facility was indeed perfected and is supported along with the rest of the program's features. Also thankfully, the older "chorded" approach was left in, since there are many situations where it saves the need for an extra staff.
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Version 1.75 Discussion / Re: thrill , getting louder , getting softer
Hmmmmmm... so, a LESS THAN sign < means to increase and a GREATER THAN sign > means to DEcrease? No wonder so few people major in both math and music.

No, you're just looking at it wrong-way-to. In the case of the > (greater-than) symbol, the quantity on the left is greater than the quantity on the right. Musically it's the same. If we say f>p, the quantity on the left is still greater than the quantity on the right.

How about p > f or ff < f ??

Interestingly, this is possible in NWC, even though it doesn't make much sense musically or mathematically. It's like saying 3 > 7 or 14 < 7.
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General Discussion / Re: Forcing alignment in measures without a time signature
Inserting spaces won't change anything as relates to relative note alignment. It will only spread everything out.

NoteWorthy Composer has a keen sense of time, and will always make notes occurring at the same time line up. If your notes are not lining up, then - very simply - you have a timing problem. Perhaps a note that shouldn't be (or should be!) dotted, or a wrong note duration, or an extra (or missing) rest... anything like that.

One other thing that sometimes trips people up is the net duration of chorded notes of different durations. Such a construct will always take the time of the shortest member. If this is problematic, it's best to split the voices into individual lines on different staves, and then layer them.
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General Discussion / Re: More percussion instruments
No. Here (North America) "transit" usually is taken to mean transportation of the public variety. So here that venerable Latin phrase translates to "Gloria was sick on the city bus Monday." Has a bit more impact, doncha think? :-p
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General Discussion / Re: Interesting error...
And the Grammar Police strike again

Hm... is "Police" singular or plural? I would think it would be  grammatically singular, so I'd say "... strikes again."

But I may be mistaken. And don't care much either way. :-p
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Version 1.75 Discussion / Re: NTW True-Type Font Error
A slightly "better" procedure might be to use the Fonts applet (Control Panel | Fonts) to reinstall the NWCV15.TTF font after deleting it and rebooting.

Fonts | File | Install New Font. Make sure that the "Copy Fonts to Fonts Folder" box is checked. Browse to the directory (folder) containing NoteWorthy Composer, usually the default is C:\Program Files\NoteWorthy Composer. Double-click the NWCV15.TTF font. OK, Exit.
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General Discussion / Re: My MIDIs
There is no such thing as a 4/4 written in triplets all over. It's the musical equivalent of spelling and grammar mistakes.

I think you'll find Bach and Schubert disagreeing, also probably quite a few others. Oh right, but what do they know about jazz... ;-)
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General Discussion / Re: MPC
Hi Jesse,

Pick up the NWC Command Summary, a lovely book written by Barry Graham and edited by Richard Woodroffe for V1.7x. It contains a step-by-step tutorial on using mpc's in the Appendix. The entire book (or just sections) can be downloaded for free from The Scriptorium - Documentation page.
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General Discussion / Re: Importing and accidentals
Not directly. In general, if the source midi has a key signature, NWC will respect that key signature and import accordingly. However, not all midi files have the key signature; it's not a necessary part of the midi spec, and I believe that some midi creators intentionally omit them to make importation into other sequencers more challenging.

If you have access to a sequencer, or other means of adding a key signature to the midi file before importation, it might save you some time. Otherwise, import it as usual, add the proper key signature, and use NWC's "Audit Enharmonic Spelling" tool to fix up the oddballs.
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General Discussion / Re: Weird Composer problem...
Hm... just looked at the version number, and the poster's pseudo. Wonder if there's a bad crack floating around? Either way, seems like Black has a lot of gall asking for support...
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General Discussion / Re: more questions
I think the important thing to remember wrt music theory is that it should be something useful rather than a hindrance.

If you write something in Fb just to be "different", you're probably just a fool, and your performers will curse you from capo to coda. However, if you modulate from Gb to Fb to emphasize the underlying harmonic relationship, you're possibly doing your performers a favour.

Don't be afraid to break a rule if it makes the music better. But don't break rules just because you can.
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General Discussion / Re: Bar number
You'd have to manually put a number every fifth bar. You could use the Boxmarks font available at the Scriptorium if you want numbers with boxes around them.
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General Discussion / Re: About the product package...
Hi, SA/ uh-oh,

There isn't much to add about Noteworthy Support's clarification, but I'd like to encourage you to go ahead and purchase the license now, or whenever you can afford it. NoteWorthy Composer has been under continuous development since its inception, and Version 1 updates have always been free. Also, there has never been a documented issue with problems installing/ un-installing, except perhaps on unstable machines with other (unrelated) problems. Even in this case, NWC Support has been incredibly supportive both here on the forum, and on the newsgroup, to help resolve the issue - which almost always was a driver or other problem external to NWC.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to use this software waiting for a "final" version.
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General Discussion / Re: Bar number
If the automatic bar numbering option is enabled, the bar number is shown in every bar only in the editor; when printing, just the first bar of every system is numbered. If you'll have a look at standard scores, you'll see that this is the way it's most commonly done. (Another system of numbering puts a number every five bars, regardless of where they fall; this system seems to have become quite obsolete, and for good reason IMO.)

If you want to have printout show numbers in every bar, you have to insert them manually as "text" items. Rather time-consuming, to say the least.
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General Discussion / Re: ACCIDENTALS
But - when inserting a barline, you've created a new bar (measure), so NWC's behaviour in cancelling the accidental and returning to the stated key signature is entirely correct!
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General Discussion / Re: CD burning troubles
As I was saying, maybe they've just found a way to rip me off!

I think that's the case. There's a tax surcharge (at least in Canada, don't know about the States) on CDs intended for music use; the proceeds go to big-money outfits like ASCAP, RIAA and the other fine folks who brought you the Sonny Bonehead Copyright Extension -- purportedly to repay "artists" (i.e. record companies) for lost revenue due to copying.

I routinely use only "data" CDRs for all my music, data, and mixed-mode needs. Aside from the coasters I made out of sheer stupidity, I haven't had a single problem as a result.
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General Discussion / Re: CD burning troubles
Hm... I get the sense that Kiwi simply renamed the .mid file to .mp3. It's still just a midi file, putting a sign on a dog's collar that says "Cat" doesn't make it meow. Explorer simply looks at the file extension when using the "Properties" item in the right-click context menu; it doesn't actually analyze the file for its true nature.

You need to actually convert the midi file into a .wav or .mp3. There are quite a few ways of accomplishing this, and has been discussed a great length on this forum. Try a search on "midi mp3 conversion".

If this is not the case, and you still have trouble burning valid mp3 files, check for an update to your Adaptec CD burner software. Older versions didn't support mp3 drag-n-drop directly.
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General Discussion / Re: Setting different staves to different instruments
Yes, NWC does try to be accomodating and assign unused channels to new staves. Usually this is a good thing, but sometimes it can backfire. (For example, when you reach the tenth staff it doesn't skip over the percussion track channel 10, and you have to manually increment it to 11.)
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General Discussion / Re: How come nobody uses the forum anymore?
Your newsreader should have an option as to how many of the bajillion message headers you download. You could set it for something reasonable, like the last 100 or so, just so you get an idea of what's presently being discussed -- and never mind the stuff that happened last week, month, year...
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General Discussion / Re: Connecting Stems
Select (highlight) the notes you want beamed, either by dragging with the mouse or by pressing SHIFT and the right-left cursor keys, then press CNTL "b" or click the toolbar button that shows the two 1/8 notes beamed with a red line.

You can also use the "Automatic Beam" function, by pressing ALT, t, a or by clicking Tools | Automatic Beam.
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General Discussion / Re: NWC 1.0
Francis - One thing that really helps get your site onto search engines is to have other sites link to you. Then when the Google (or other) spider comes by to re-crawl the previously indexed site, it finds the link to yours and then proceeds to crawl your pages also.

Robert - amazing how gutsy (and dumb!) some people are, isn't it? A similar thing happened to me some time ago, and they were flabbergasted that I found out about it.
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General Discussion / Re: Do we have to order the latest version?
I'm not sure where this thread is going... but yes, you can even have multiple instances of the same version of NWC running at the same time.

However, unless you have a multi-midi client add-on (e.g. "Hubi's Midi Cable") or multiple playback devices, you couldn't have more than one instance of any version(s) of NWC play at any given time in the Windows environment.
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General Discussion / Re: Something About a Floppy
Normally it won't matter if you install a newer version of NWC on top of (or alongside) an existing one. I've done that many times, for various reasons.

In general, however, it's wise to un-install previous versions of software before installing a newer one. NoteWorthy is exceptional in this regard; but just because it's well-behaved about this does not mean that all software will be as polite!
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General Discussion / Re: Something About a Floppy
Common problem with floppies. They can be readable/writable on one machine, but not on another due to alignment differences or something... especially if one of the floppies is worn out, as is likely to be the case at a library computer.
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General Discussion / Re: Chords on music
No, you're not missing anything. This is one of the things that NWC doesn't do. You need to balance the features you need with the money you're willing to spend in deciding on the appropriate software package.