Thanks for the ideas. We'll give this a try and see what success we have. I'm using the Soundblaster Audigy card, which has some decent sound qualities when playing MP3's and other music. I haven't used it much for midi tunes so I don't have any idea as to quality with various instruments, however, your suggestion on going up the scale sounds interesting. It certainly would give me an idea of how a specific instrument plays across up the scale.
When we started on this venture all my wife was interested in was a method of putting notes into a program and printing them to produce sheet music that she could play. We finally stumbled onto NWC and from our initial impressions it was what she was looking for.
As I'm not musically inclined whatsoever, I handle the computer end of things and she does the hard work on the keyboard
I guess that we're just unlucky, but being newcomers to Noteworthy, we have another question. The group was so successful in helping us resolve a question on the implementation of the "slur" that we have decided to try again.
The issue is playback volume.
We have a simple organ piece with three rows (sorry, I'm not musically inclined, but my wife is) of notes. One for the right hand (top row), another for the left and a third for the foot pedal. The piece uses the "church organ" instrument for all three. Each row is assigned a different midi channel (1-2-3).
The volume levels of each channel are set to their maximum. However, the sound coming from the 2nd and 3rd rows (left hand and foot pedal) are so loud that we can't hear the top row. Turning the levels down for the 2nd and 3rd level helps, but not enough. The top row is just so low that we can hardly hear it.
At this point we're scratching our heads. Regardless as to what we try the level of the right hand (top row) cannot be heard.
Thanks for the help. At this point we don't know if we're purchasing the product or not. It's not something my wife does a lot of, but it might be helpful on occasion. She's still evaluating it and if we don't have any additional problems, then we'll go for it.
I think I've discovered the problem. After highlighting the notes for the "slur" and clicking the ";" key, I see nothing change on the screen. However, what's actually happening is that the Slur IS being applied. It's just above the top of the screen and can't be seen. When I do a PRINT PREVIEW it would appear that the Slur is there.
Don't know why it's not showing up in the editing screen, but maybe there's a way to lower everything down a little so the top row of notes is lowered down a little.
Hello and thanks for the quick response. I've already tried drawing the cursor through the notes (except the last one) that we want the SLUR to be place on and it didn't work. Pressing the ";" key did nothing.
I'm not musically inclined, so please keep your responses simple
My wife's the one who's trying to accomplish something and we're running into block walls. At present we're working on the FREE downloaded version of Noteworthy. If what we're trying to do is successful, then we'll probably purchase the software.
Here's the problem: We've already created the Hymn - an Organ piece - from sheet music. Not really knowing what we were doing we're now faced with the need to go back and enter some "slurs" that extend over 3-4 notes and into the next measure. We haven't found a way of doing this without removing notes already entered - and even that didn't work.
Question: Do "Slurs" need to be entered as a note is entered ONLY or can they be placed afterwards? If afterwards, exactly HOW? We've check the FAQ's and been through the helps in the manual and haven't been successful in finding anything detailed enough to resolve this.
