Noteworthy is probably preferred so much by us all because it's easy to use and very efficient, however I find that I waste a lot of time, when working with large scores, copy and pasting measures and measures of nothing but rests so that the orchestra can catch up to where I am. For example, I'm working with a 24 part orchestra but there is a secion where I only have a quartet playing, for say 16 measures, I'm ready to go in and use everyone else now but before I can do that I have to go copy and paste 16 measures of whole rests 20 times! Would anyone mind making me a user tool that would auto fill the empty spaces, can it be done?
Has anyone been able to find a way to hide a staff in systems where it is inactive? When I set the unneeded measures to invisible they are displayed as empty but till take up space on the score. I've used noteworthy for over five years now and fourn that if anything docks it as an inadiquate program this is it. Right now I'm working on a Wagnerian opera cycle where one piece of music can go on for half an hour and having all staves visible on the printed score at all times is more than just unwieldy. Can anyone help?
A good thing to do is to write your score out using eigth notes and place eigth rests on between the 1st and second on each beat and then highlight the rest go to visibility and set it no never. Then, at the start of your score give your quarter = 120 bpm tempo followed by an invisible dotted-quarter = 120 bpm tempo.
