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1001
General Discussion / Hint
Just before a concert, my daughter mixed up the pages of the various pieces she had to play.
She had no time to sort them all, so my wife volunteered to do it for her.

Small problem: my wife knows very little about musical notation and many pages had the page number but not the title of the piece...

Why not allow to print somewere in all the pages (header or footer) the title in small characters?

N.B. My daughter had to play by heart. :-)
1003
General Discussion / Re: Upgrade problems?
Yes, many if not everybody.

This problem showed up during the beta stage but back then it had to be considered normal.
I expected it to be fixed in the official release but it seems it's not the case.

You have to "fix" the toolbars yourself by hand.
1005
General Discussion / Re: Problems with customizing toolbars
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I don't have a "save all" button in the customize toolbar dialog box.

So do I. :-)
I suppose Harald intended to click the normal "File->Save all".  (Unneeded operation, anyway)

I suppose you are using windows 7 or 8, in which case the directories c:\programs (x86)\... are protected and only the administrator is autorized to write there.
The file with the NWC toolbars is in that area.

Windows >= 7 don't care if you ARE the administrator; you have to expressly say "run as administrator" each time you have something important to do.
Don't ask me what I think about that!

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the setup-program gave an error that I didn't have a proper copy of version 2.5.5.

The update program checks the actual installation and wants the configuration to match what was installed.
Probably, moving it here and there you screwed it up.

A solution is to simply remove the installed NWC, reinstall the first version you bought and then follow the chain of updates.
A bit annoying but nothing so terrible unless, of course, you have to do it every day. :-)
1006
General Discussion / Re: Problems with customizing toolbars
Indeed there are some "error" buttons, relics of the previous toolbar.
Their removal is as Harald said.

If the removal is not permanent I suspect there are problems in rewriting the toolbar description file under "programs (x86)\....". Another instance of the old problem of the permissions.

Try opening NWC as Administrator before changing the toolbars.
1008
General Discussion / How do you say "OK"?
In the dialogs, how do you say "Ok" with the keyboard?
The only way I found is to press tab until the focus is on the "Ok" button.
Very annoying, in particular in the dialogs with a lot of components.
1009
General Discussion / Re: Merry Christmas
Very nice!

Many years ago I saw people playing glasses live in Quebec city.

I also saw a glass harmonica, the Benjamin Franklin type, in the musical instruments museum in Rome and I have a CD recording of Mozart's adagio for glass harmonica K617a.

Season greetings to all of you.
1011
General Discussion / What time is it?
I have a couple of scores by Alan Stivell.
For both the time is 6/8 and the tempo is indicated as "100 = quaver" and "132 = quaver".
I set the tempo in NWC as "quaver = 100" and "quaver = 132". It's the same thing, isn't it?

I never heard the first piece but, sure, the second one is waaaaay too slow.
An acceptable value for the latter is "dotted crotchet = 132".

How should I read the Stivell's tempo indications? (I don't think I could ask him ;-)
1012
General Discussion / Re: tablette IPAd
Non, et il n'y a pas d'idée de l'exporter sur d'autre systèmes operatifs. Même pas Linux.
Au moin ça c'est nôtre impression. (Nôtre dans le sens des utilisateurs...)
1015
General Discussion / Re: Staff justification
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I just set it once and clone the staves I need. I have ceased to be annoyed :)

Like my other "standard settings", I did it in all the templates, but I must remember NOT to use the default for it's not customizable...
1020
General Discussion / Re: Hidden dot
But...

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.51,Single)
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted,Slur|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Slur=Upward|Dur2:Half,Dotted|Pos2:-3
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted,Slur|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Slur=Upward|Dur2:Half,Dotted|Pos2:-2
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted,Slur|Pos:1|Opts:Slur=Upward
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End


Why not doing something for the dots also when the notes are in the space?
1022
General Discussion / Hidden dot
In this snippet, the dot of the first note is hidden.

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.51,Single)
|TimeSig|Signature:6/8
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted,Slur|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Slur=Upward|Dur2:Half,Dotted|Pos2:-5
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted,Slur|Pos:-1|Opts:Slur=Upward
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

The score where it comes from allows a bit more space between the notes to show the dot.
1023
General Discussion / Change staff metrics
I think I already asked this, but I don't remember the answer.
Why, while changing staff metrics with "proportionately scale other staff font sizes", the user font sizes don't change?
Maybe they were conceived as something not "staff font", but more often than not, if not always, I'd prefer them to scale.
What do you think about it?
1025
General Discussion / Re: PDF vs printer
Well, papi22, sure it works, but I don't see any advantage to do it in two steps instead of generating a pdf directly.
Anyway, each one is free to use whatever he prefers.
1028
General Discussion / Re: Import resolutions
Haymo, let me expand my second post:

I checked Use the import wizard on open, then I dropped my file to NWC.
The wizard opened, I choose Note Resolution = Quarter Note and, pronto!, all was as I expected.

As I wrote, all this seems to work only if Use the import wizard on open is checked (i.e. you use the wizard).
1030
General Discussion / Import resolutions
I must admit I never really understood what Note Resolution and Rest Resolution
 do. I never found any difference.

Now I imported a file with a slight defect in the rhithm.
I find very boring to adjust it by hand, so I selected Note Resolution = Quarte Note: no change.
I then selected Whole Note: no change.

No matter what I choose, I keep getting this:
Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.51,Single)
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-4
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:3^,5^,7^
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:3,5,7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:3^,5^,7^|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:3,5,7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:3^,5^,7^
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:3,5,7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:3^,5^,7^|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:3,5,7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-4
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:3^,5^,7^
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:3,5,7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:3^,5^,7^|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:3,5,7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:3^,5^,7^
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:3,5,7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:3^,5^,7^|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Chord|Dur:32nd|Pos:3,5,7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Am I missing sometring?
1031
General Discussion / Re: Grace notes and ties
All the rest was known to me.

This was the missing tile:
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I know from experience that once grace notes exhaust a "following note", they steal time from the next one.
1033
General Discussion / Grace notes and ties
I discovered that, for the grace notes, the ties are not considered.
The grace notes only steal time from the first note.
Listen to the mordent here:

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.5,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble|OctaveShift:Octave Up
|TimeSig|Signature:2/4
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet=First,Slur|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet,Slur|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet=End,Slur|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet=First,Slur|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet,Slur|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet=End,Slur|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Rest|Dur:16th
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Rest|Dur:16th
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace,Slur|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up,Slur=Upward|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace,Slur|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Slur=Upward|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:2^|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Rest|Dur:16th
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-1
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

I think it shouldn't be so.
1036
Avant-garde / Re: Guitar Tablature
I would say: how to display repeat barlines and TimeSigs on staves with a number of lines different from 5 or 1 (N.B. the only ones I use).
6 is certainly the number of strings most used in tablatures, but there are other string instruments with a different number of strings.
1039
General Discussion / Re: Availability of shared NWCITREES
Still another detail that maybe is unclear.

You always have access to all your keyboard voices from NWC (except if the keyboard must be explicitly put in GM/GM2/XG/GS mode through SysEx commands, but that is not your case), no matter which itree is selected.
The itree simply lets you access the voice you need by choosing from a human-readable list instead of inserting manually the voice codes (bank and patch numbers).

If you really need to, as Lawrie said, you can always edit an itree file to suit your needs.
I strongly suggest to start from the XG one because of the huge number of voices it already contains.

N.B. GM is a proper subset of GM2, XG and GS.
1040
General Discussion / Re: Availability of shared NWCITREES
Well: the PSR S900 is an arranger keyboard and supports all the General MIDI (GM1 or simply GM) voices; for that the default itree is ok.

Then that keyboard implements the XG (Yamaha) extensions. If you want to exploit all the other voices available with that extension you can use the XG itree available in the "instrument trees" section of this forum.
N.B. I don't know if that itree includes the whole XG standard and/or all the XG revisions.

For completeness: there is another standard, the GS (Roland) one, that should not be useful for you.

A mix of those standards has since many years now become the official General MIDI 2 (GM2).
Someone told me it's very similar to GS.
I don't know if your keyboard is GM2 compliant.

Then there are many instruments that, because they are old (pre-GM1) or special (analog synth, samplers...), should have their own itree, useful only for those that use that specific instrument.

Be careful: if you want to distribute your scores it's far better if you stick to GM1 or GM2 (or at most, with caution, GS or XG), otherwise only people that play them on the same instrument you used can hear them as you intended.
1041
General Discussion / Re: Got it, at last!
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an older version of NWC is likely to be the original culprit.

I agree.
I don't think there is any other way for that file to become corrupted.
1042
General Discussion / Got it, at last!
Sometimes happened to me that suddenly the '+' and '-' keys stopped working, but I was always in a hurry and I had no time to investigate.
Each time, when later I tried to reproduce the effect, it never reappeared.
I started suspecting I had dreamed. ;-)

Now I got it!
Open the attached file, select the 1/32 note and try to change its duration using '+' and '-'.
It doesn't change.

Be careful: the effect is very fragile. If you try the same on a file saved as .nwctxt the keys '+' and '-' work as expected!
1043
General Discussion / Odd fermata
Compare this fermata:

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposer(2.5)
|AddStaff|Name:"Staff-1"|Group:"Standard"
|StaffProperties|EndingBar:Section Close|Visible:Y|BoundaryTop:10|BoundaryBottom:10|Lines:5|Color:Default
|StaffProperties|Muted:N|Volume:127|StereoPan:64|Device:0|Channel:2
|StaffInstrument|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:F#,C#|Tonic:D
|Tempo|Base:Eighth|Tempo:140|Pos:10|Visibility:Never
|TimeSig|Signature:3/8
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet=First|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet=End|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet=First|Pos:7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Note|Dur:16th,Triplet=End|Pos:7|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:10^|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:10
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:4|Pos:6|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:3
|Rest|Dur:8th
|AddStaff|Name:"Staff"|Group:"Standard"
|StaffProperties|EndingBar:Section Close|Visible:Y|BoundaryTop:12|BoundaryBottom:12|Lines:5|Color:Default
|StaffProperties|Muted:N|Volume:127|StereoPan:64|Device:0|Channel:1
|StaffInstrument|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:F#,C#|Tonic:D
|TimeSig|Signature:3/8
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-4,-2,0
|Rest|Dur:4th
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-4,-2
|Spacer|Width:50
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:-6^|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:-4^|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:-2^|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End|Visibility:Never
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:0|Pos:8|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-6,-4,-2,#-1
|Rest|Dur:8th
!NoteWorthyComposer-End

with this one:

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposer(2.5)
|AddStaff|Name:"Staff"|Group:"Standard"
|StaffProperties|EndingBar:Section Close|Visible:Y|BoundaryTop:12|BoundaryBottom:12|Lines:5|Color:Default
|StaffProperties|Muted:N|Volume:127|StereoPan:64|Device:0|Channel:1
|StaffInstrument|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:F#,C#|Tonic:D
|Tempo|Base:Eighth|Tempo:140|Pos:10|Visibility:Never
|TimeSig|Signature:3/8
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-4,-2,0
|Rest|Dur:4th
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-4,-2
|Spacer|Width:50
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:-6^|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:-4^|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:-2^|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End|Visibility:Never
|TempoVariance|Style:Fermata|Pause:4|Pos:6|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-6,-4,-2,#-1
|Rest|Dur:8th
!NoteWorthyComposer-End
1045
General Discussion / Re: how to connect NoteWorthy Software to yamaha psr-e433
You don't help yourself a lot!
What do you mean with your question? What's your problem?

The Yamaha PSR must be connected to NWC in the very same way as any other MIDI device.
To do so, of course you need some kind of MIDI hardware interface.

Which one do you have?
Can you use it with other programs?
1046
Tips & Tricks / Re: Download this PIANO.NWC, the ideal dynamics!
Well, thank you for your suggestion.
But things are not so simple.
The attached article is a bit old but can explain why.

Unless, of course, in the meantime the sound card (and instruments) producers found an agreement... :-)
1050
General Discussion / Subtitle
Why not to introduce the possibility of an optional subtitle just below the title?
It doesn't seem so difficult to program and lately I found myself wishing for it.