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General Discussion / Re: Request: Advanced player for choir members
The Viewer is one of the support acts of NWC Composer. Every NWC Composer user has bought into the NWC system with an investment in money and time. That system includes both the Composer and the satellite (Viewer) applications.
As a NWC Composer user, it's a feature I paid for: The ability to distribute my work to the other band-members, giving them the ability to rehearse their parts, *that* is what the Viewer in the NWC eco-system implies.
Unfortunately, this feature is severly broken - not having the pause option decreases the value of the NWC Composer significantly.

Workarounds to distribute through MIDI are just that: workarounds. (to -partially- solve a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.)

Noteworthy Software seems to leverage this brokenness to entice users of the Viewer to upgrade. (And given the "it's a freebie" responses it seems to work remarkably well. Just to repeat myself: It's *not* a freebie; I invested time and money to create these scores in the NWC eco-system, but I can't put them to use effectively because of brokenness of the Viewer.)

Not responding to the requests at all (note that Noteworthy Software is silent *again* in this thread) is another scoffing of *paying* customers. (Yes, I'm quite peeved, thank you very much!)

But don't listen to me, I'm already switching to another package. As soon as that package supports MusicXML I'm out of here for good.


Regards,
Alvatrus
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General Discussion / Re: Any mathematicians among us?
By way of explanation what Rick just said:

The first note can have 2 states (accented and unaccented), and thus creates 2 possibilities.
The second note, also having two states, doubles that number: 2 x 2 = 4 possibilities
The third note, in turn, doubles the number of possibilities of the two previous: 2 x 2 x 2 = 8

I'm sure you see the pattern emerging now...
The final 16th note: 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 = (2 to the power 16) = 65536

Add a three state possibility for every note, and every added note triples the number of possibilities:
3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 = more than you'll care to count.


Regards,
Alvatrus
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General Discussion / Re: 2007 Software Review Notation Pragrams

Andrew Purdam wrote:
So that you get the picture, I've been using NWC for about 10 years. I ditched Mozart for it, as Mozart didn't do (and still doesn't - apparently) polyphony on staves...

Hello Andrew,
I just wandered in here (as a MOZART-user) and I find it a bit ironic that you make the same mistake as you accuse TopTenReviews of. You could at least have *verified* your above statement.
I'm really not here to pick a fight; I apologise if you did check but could not find it.

Anyway, reading that review gives me the distinct impression that the whole excercise was meant to put the silver medal in the most favourable light, and the errors and mis-information in both the Noteworthy and MOZART reviews (and possibly others) are so obvious that I have the impression they were put there deliberately.

I'll watch this thread to see if there will be a reply from TopTenReviews.


Regards,
Alvatrus