Well, it often feels that way as we wait for the next beta release. But, actually, NWC2 is out. The betas are rock-solid.... It will definitely be worth your while to move to NWC2.
Sounds pretty good! I'll go get it - but it'll be awhile as I had bought mine before they came out with that CD with the beta2 unlock stuff on it. So I have to buy one... and WAIT until it comes by snail-mail in order to use it to get the NWC2. Argh!
If you really want to notate: Blaze Away - March and Two-Step - 1901 - Abe Holzmann a better starting point is <here>.
Yup, that version is history. The link you suggest is a simplified version for piano and is missing a lot of the inner voicing and other interesting stuff. I'm looking more for something like this.
BTW, have you registered for the NWC2 beta? If not I reckon the added features are well worth it and this will give you access to user tools, as well as the ability to "save as" NWC1 format if you want to work in that format too.
I've given NWC2 some thought - occasionally - but I've heard other folks say that NWC is dead, and little work is being done on NWC2, that it'll never come out... plus there other programs are currently easier to use (rather that wait for NWC to get it's act together). I've tried a few of the others out and am very pleased with them - BUT - stick with NWC as I've been at it for the last decade or so and am pretty comfortable with it (despite it's limitations) AND have a large amount of notation in it that I don't want to have to redo. The costs and learning curve of new software is also a significant deterrent.
I just checked out the "tools"... which mean coding/scripting? I *really* no nothing about coding.
But look for a link that says "External Mirror" and click it for the download.
Maybe that was why I was unable to download it the first time. I *was* able to download it using the mirror but when I unzipped and clicked on the exe file a little window opened with a black background and white text that went flying by and then it disappeared. I tried several times but could hardly see what was going on. Nothing remained after it closed. I can't seem to find any "program" of it anywhere.
The other txt2midi I found opened a small window that said "load midi file here" and then it converted it to text. Pretty simple. What's with the file one the mirror site and why did it act like that?
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Sounds like you're holding the <Alt> key down while you're pressing the <+> key... That changes the display font size in the editor... The <+> key on its' own changes duration.
Nope. I just tried it again. After I select some notes (or the entire staff of notes) and press the + key all by itself the notes get smaller (their value remains the same, they just appear littler). When I hold down the alt while hitting the + key... nothing happens. When I hold down the shift key and hit the + key the notes duration changes to twice as long - ah! That's the one that works!
Yup, that's the point. You get a 4/4 import because there is no tact line, so you get to create it. Find some code in the text file near the top that contains something like this:
mtrk // track 1 trackname "Vocal with Piano Accompaniment Template" text "By <Name>" copyright "Copyright \xa9 <Year> by <Name>" copyright "All Rights Reserved" text "Generated by NoteWorthy Composer"
end mtrk
But there *is* nothing that looks like that. This is what the text file looks like:
As for the 4 flag notes, you could try highlighting everything after you've imported to NWC and pressing <+> a couple of times. Each press will double the duration of the notes and rests.
My NWC seems to operate very differently. When I select stuff and press the + key the notes get smaller and closer together while the staff stays the same size. Each time I hit the + key it alternates back and forth between regular and squished. The value of the notes and rests remains the same.
Whew - that sounds incredibly difficult but as the text converting thing didn't work I tried your method here... and I can't seem to get it to work either. In it's original state the midi file sounds like a jig but opens in NWC as 4/4 with zillions of 4-flag notes (64ths?) even though I tell NWC to import with the longest duration notes 1/8th.
So I redid the time sig as 6/8 and tell it to be in G maj. I can't figure out how the "tenuto" affects anything. It seems to add a line above the notes but doesn't make it sound any different.
I resave as mid, open again and all staves open as 6/8 but yet it NOW sounds as 4/4, still with zillions of 4-flag notes and incredibly discordant and mushy.
There are tools that allow you to edit the MIDI directly, or by export to text file and then importing back to MID. Using these it should be possible to insert a corect time sig. in the midi files before you import them to NWC.
Unfortunately I can't seem to be able to download those files from that site. I can't figure out why it doesn't work, but it doesn't. I Googled around a bit to find that I *could* download them from here.
Now I have a problem in that there is no code as you describe in the text version of the midi file I'm trying to correct time sig of. Just columns of numbers with the occasional square.
How do I import jigs and waltzes? All those midi files I import automatically come in as 4/4 which takes forever to convert to the right time signature.
Enjoyed them all very much. Listening prompted me to google concertina, and I came across http://www.concertina.net/ so I'll be exploring there a bit.
Yup - that's where I hang out a lot. We're having a very interesting go at isomorphic keyboards at the moment. I play a concertina version of one. Its layout has "taught" me a lot about music theory - but that doesn't help me with my NWC notation issues!
Note that some of the instruments are voiced very much like their orchestral counterparts. Everything (but for the train whistle in the GM medley) you hear are concertinas.
Hmm, I reckon that flute is really a Bb, does it have a nat. sign in front of it?
No, just says "Flute". About half of the other instruments just say their names too and the other half say what key they are such as "Eb Baritone Saxophone".
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How I'd do this is: ALL Bb instrument staves - use NWC to automatically transpose DOWN 2 semitones ALL Eb instrument staves - use NWC to automatically transpose DOWN 9 semitones ALL F instrument staves - use NWC to automatically transpose DOWN 7 semitones
That's very clear - thanks!
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THEN take into account octave shifts - Tenor sax is really 14 semitones, not 2; Bari sax is 21 semitones, not 9 etc... Just add 12 semitones per octave shift required (or is that take away...
Actually I'm rearranging the piece for concertina band which has all parts scored in the same clef and key. Concertinas are "C" instruments (typically but not always...). Their range is usually 3 1/2 octaves each and there are piccolo, treble, tenor, baritone, cello, bass and contrabass concertinas. Each is a 5th different in pitch. All the parts are scored in treble clef but depending on which instrument you play it comes out in the "correct" octave. The fingering is identical for all the instruments so anyone can pick up any box and read whatever score and play the part right off. The only tricky box is that some of the basses and all the contrabasses are single-action (they only sound on one bellows direction - because the reeds are so huge there's not room for more than a couple octaves of them). They take so much air that you can only get 3 or 4 notes before you run out. The bellows have "gills" in them that allow you do suck in another fill very quickly as they automatically open when you expand the bellows for another run.
Yes - I do use the octave shift thing a lot with this type of score....
If anyone's interested I could post a few links of concertina bands playing?
One of the wrinkles you guys didn't address was that the first half of the piece is in the key of Eb and the second half is in the key of Ab. At least I think it is. For instance:
The 2nd staff says "Flute", the staff key is in Eb and 1st note is a B. The 4th staff says "Bb Clarinet", staff key F, 1st note C. The 5th staff says "Eb Alto", staff key C, 1st note C. The 14th staff says "F horns", staff key Bb, 1st note F
That UNCHECKED "Update Staff playback transposition" was key. So far I've been able to move transpose the Bb instrument staves into Eb and make them sound good. I'll work on the others and then at the end transpose ALL the staves into D.
Certainly is confusing to a non-classical/band guy like me!
I'm really having problems wrapping my head around transposing a march I need to rearrange for concertina band. The march has 20 some instrument parts in Eb,Bb, F, and C. Half way through the march it modulates one flatter. I'd like to turn the piece into D modulating into G. I've read http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/composer/faq/95.htm and Googled around but *can't* figure out how to do it.
Could someone please tell me which keyed staves to transpose by how much (I'm assuming the Tools/Transpose Staff command?) and then adjustments for the instrument (I'm assuming the Staff/Properties for Staff/Midi/Transposition command?).
I've spent hours trying to figure it out and just can't!
