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General Discussion / NWC2 Viewer - suggested enhancement
Hi

While I'm on the subject of NWC2 Viewer, any way we can get the following functionality on the wish list for the viewer, please?

1. a PAUSE button on the viewer.  Users tell me that it's a bit of a schlep when they're trying to rehearse a part and press stop only to have to start from the beginning again.. 

2. A way to start from a specified location in a file - if there are 400 bars and you want to rehearse say from bar 320, at present you have to play it all the way through to 320..

Thanks all

Cliff
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General Discussion / NWC2 Viewer for Mac
Hi All

Searched the forum but can't find a recent article on this.  I publish my SATB work to our restricted choir members-only website and then my choir members use the free NWC2 viewer to rehearse their individual voice parts.  For the first time in 3 years I now have a member that uses Apple Mac and he's pulling his hair out that he can't use his mac to rehearse.

Does anyone know of a way that he can install NWC2 Viewer and use it on a Mac?

Thanks all

Clif
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General Discussion / Resetting durations and accidentals
Hey there - not sure if I'm really being stupid here, but suddenly my NWC2 is not resetting the accidentals and durations of notes immediately after I use them, so I keep having to unset them if for example I need to enter say a F sharp and then a F natural, the second F stays a F sharp - I seem to remember that before I upgraded to 2.24 this reset automatically...

Is there a setting that I have messed up?

Thanks

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: Different Lyric fonts
Hey Guys, thank you so much for all your good ideas and help here!  It's such a great forum and wonderful to know that there are so many people willing to help others - keep it up.  Lawrie, by the way, seems the typecase_vc executable doesn't run under Vista.. after all that.  Just wrote to the author to see if he could recompile for Vista.. :)

Cheers

Cliff
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General Discussion / Different Lyric fonts
Hey All, just wondering whether there are any tricks to have a different font for lyrics line 1 and line 2 - i want to use line 2 for the phonetic pronunciation of line 1 which is in a different language so thought of making line 2 italics but can't seem to find a way at all....

Cheers

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: NWC2 Issue resolving note values
Thanks Lawrie, as always you are a star!!  Now that I know about Rick G's trick (bless his cotton socks) I will use it for sure!!

Oh yes - go to bed now!  t's just started snowing in London (in March for goodness sake!) so I'm all snuggled up in front of my computer and Noteworthy.. :)

Thanks again

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: NWC2 Issue resolving note values
Thanks Admin - great trick and I will use it for now as it solves the issue.  Not sure why you thought I did not mean to write bar 6 as I did - I enclose a pdf of bar 5,6 and 7 and how it should look, but in bar 6 of my NWC example I tried fitting in the eighth note on the bottom staff..  fun and games!  Will this type of situation ever be accommodated in NWC2?

Thanks a lot

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: NWC2 Issue resolving note values
Thanks for getting back to me Lawrie - actually, I need them on only 2 staves, not four as I am forced to do - you will see that the odd note or two has to go on the bottom stave of the treble clef. As a good example, see bar 6 - the single eighth note has to be on the second stave because it won't fit into the top stave and Noteworthy can't resolve it on the top stave...  Hope that is clearer.

Cliff
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General Discussion / NWC2 Issue resolving note values
Hi Everyone...

I'm quite experienced with NWC2 but today I'm having quite a problem with a piece of music where it seems that NWC can't resolve some of the note values when it comes to chord notes, so I am forced to use layering which is a bit messy - I'm used to the software being quite adept at handling this normally so not sure if I have done something stupid - can anyone look at the enclosed example and make any suggesions - the bar numbers I am having trouble with are for example 5,6,7,9, 10 etc.  It seems as if NWC2 is having difficulty resolving a rested quarter followed by an eighth when chorded or paired with two quarters or even a quarter and two eighths...  Lawrie... I'm sure this is an  easy one for you :)

Thanks a lot

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: MIDI Import errors - any ideas?
Thanks for the reply Lawrie - I enclose a sample of what I mean - see bars 2 and 4.  They should be, I think:

BAR 2 of Staff 1 : minim rest, crotchet rest crochet, however NWC2 imports and displays as minim dotted rest and crotchet

BAR 4 of Staff 1 : crotchet rest, quaver rest, then the rest of the bar, however NWC2 imports and displays as crotchet dotted rest

I don't want to ride this subject to death, and if you like we can close it, but if it is wrong then I guess it is, but then again I may be wrong.  I'm just not used to seeing rests as in BAR 2 of Staff 1 of the sample for example!

Cheers

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: MIDI Import errors - any ideas?
Thank you both David & Lawrie for your valuable input.

Lawrie, on the MIDI import comment - point taken, thank you.  However, I wonder whether it wouldn't be more correct for NoteWorthy, when it detects a space/rest of a quarter and an eight between a sound ending and the next sound beginning, to interpret it as a rest of duration 4th followed by a rest of duration 8th, rather than a 4th dotted which in my opinion is not normal convention for rests? Just wondering..

Cheers

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: MIDI Import errors - any ideas?
UPDATE:

I used the MXML2NWCC utility supplied by Nicolas to import MXML rather than the MIDI format  and all my problems are solved. It may be interesing for NoteWorthy to note that there may be some bugs with import of the type described above (but then again I may just be dopey too!)

Cheers all

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: Scanned music
Lawrie

I cannot believe this - it's amazing!!  Used the MXML2NWCC utility and it converted the file PERFECTLY first time - wow - well done to Nicolas - this will save me many many hours of correcting!!

Thanks once again!

Cheers

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: Scanned music
Hey Lawrie

Thank you so much for your constructive answer - GREAT to hear there is a MXML import facility - wow!  Great news.  This probably negates my next post then as well... :)

Cheers and have a great day

Cliff
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General Discussion / MIDI Import errors - any ideas?
Hi There

I have three interesting (well for me they are painful) problems when importing MIDI files (exported from SharpEye music scanning software). See attached PDF of page one of a piece of music (UP! - Shania Twain for SATB) and enclosed raw import of the MIDI into NWC2.  A few things happen:

i. See in bar 1, the fifth note on the original music is a quarter, buit in noteworthy it is represented as two eight notes (beamed) - this happens throughout this and any other piece of music that I happen to import.  Can't quite get the pattern but it seems to happen if there is a quarter duration before or after two beamed eight notes...
ii. Despite trying everything I can, I cannot seem to get it to auto beam eight duration notes in 4,4 grouping - even tried the user tool but again I must be doing something wrong... (See bar 3 of the S&A staff of the PDF)
iii. It seems that all rests of quarter duration immediately followed by a rest of eighth duration, are converted to dotted quarter rests when imported by NWC2 (see PDF bar 4 of the S&A staff)

Is there anyone out there that knows how at least the first of these problems can be fixed at all?  :)

Thanks a lot

Cliff
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General Discussion / Re: Scanned music
Hi There!  I run a community choir here in England and I have been using Noteworthy (then NWC2) for about 5 years, and SharpEye for about a year now - I use both extensively and I find that if I scan Sheet Music using around 300dpi, black and white, and save it as TIF then for a piece of music around 300 bars, I get about 20 or so rythm errors mostly.  just this past weekend I scanned a medley of 14 of the hits of the Beatles and it took me around 1 hour to scan it, read it into Sharpeye, fix errors, and then export a MIDI file for import into NoteWorthy2 and then creating individual SATB staffs for rehearsal purposes.

Biggest problem I find after all this time, is that when I import the MIDI into NoteWorthy2, NWC2 consistently creates two eighth notes, beamed in the place of quarter notes (and btw quarter rests followed by an eighth rest it changes to a dotted quarter rest) - that's a HUGE pain - that is what takes most of my time to fix in NWC.  Has anyone have a solution for this?  I tried using Global Modification, but gave up after an hour of trying....  I'm interested in what you had to say about MXML -= SharpEye supports this export but I cannot see that NWC2 supports that import?
Thanks and kind regards
Cliff