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General Discussion / NWC 2 Enrollment frustration
I am a band director, and love NWC.  I used my own copy of the program here at school last year and bought a copy for the school this year so I could take the program back home.  Anyhow, I want to use NWC 2 at school, and am having trouble enrolling.  I go through the wizard but it tells me I do not meet the eligibility requirements.  I triple-checked everything.  Could it be the firewall and browser settings?  Should I enroll from my home computer?  I only have 3 more chances to not mess it up!  I'm sorry, that's just not freaking fair when they don't tell WHY you're not eligible.

I have 1.75c, and it was ordered in xxxxxxxxx.
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General Discussion / Re: Midi Playback Timbre/Octave
Guess I was thinking that if they all had the same instrument they were in the same channel already- now I know better.  Can you tell I rarely use the playback on a large scale?  I was messing around with using brass timbres for the brass and woodwind for the winds for kicks but didn't realize it would be so complicated with the channels.

Anyhow, the problem is fixed now.  Thank you!
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General Discussion / Midi Playback Timbre/Octave
Hi,
I'm working on writing out a band piece (and developing it at the same time) in NWC 2.  I usually use the playback as a tool to double check for typos and chord spelling errors.  The piece is still in the stage that all lines are in the same key.  Transposition is the last step and therefore not an issue yet.

I have 27 staves, threee of which will never have music on them- they are just there for the visual effect of the orchestral bar lines (so all the winds, brass, etc. will be connected).  Right now I just have the intro of the piece, which is all brass, so the top several staves are not in use yet- but they will be.  Anyhow, when I play it back all together, the timbre of the instruments is all messed up.  The top 4 brass staves sound fine, but each staff below it sounds like a xylophone.  I experimented with several MIDI voices to use but no matter what it is they still sounds like that.  The problem is that it changes the octave of the low brass notes and it's driving me crazy!!  I'd like to fix it if possible- my ears are more reliable than my eyes.

My guess- perhaps someone could confirm this or suggest something else- is that there are simply not enough MIDI channels in either the program or my sound card to handle the number of staves.  If that is the case and it's the program, how many staves do I have?

Thanks!
Lindsay