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Messages - Al

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General Discussion / Print Preview and Word-wrapping stalves
Two questions on physical arrangement

OK, so I bought myself a 24" monitor and now I have all sorts of real estate for displaying my music.

Q1: Is there a way to do a print preview that will show more than one page simultaneously? Two pages would fit beautifully side-by-side on this screen.

Q2: Is there a way to word-wrap the staff line (only one staff needed for my guitar work) so that I don't have to scroll back and forth so much when I'm editing music? I could easily let the staff word wrap to about 5 staves if this was possible.

I have a hunch the answers are No and No, but perhaps some clever musician has some ideas which I will gladly entertain.

Thank you.
Alfred
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General Discussion / Text Does Not Print
I want to notate a chord (take a simple C) to name the notes in it. I selected a small font, 8-point and placed the name of the notes just left of the chord. The note names look small but good in the Editor but when I select Print Preview or Print, the note names are not there. Do I have something turned off somewhere?

Al
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General Discussion / Larger Noteheads and/or Staff
At 70 years old, my eyes aren't what they used to be, but I still like playing the guitar and piano keyboard. Is there a way to increase the diameter of the printed noteheads or the size of the staff in general? Can't find anything in the tutorial manual.

Thank you.

Al
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General Discussion / Turn off piano toolbar note entry
I would like to turn off note entry into the staff when I use the piano toolbar. I don't want to delete the piano toolbar entirely. I want to be able to play notes on it, but not have those notes entered into the staff until I want them entered into the staff. Any ideas?

Al
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General Discussion / Re: Too many beats in the measure
Thank you for your replies.

Rich, what you did certainly fixed the song. The timing lines up and the song sounds right. However, conceptually I don't know what you did. I am having a hard time picturing a chord composed of a note and a rest. For example, I can play A-B-C-D or I can play A-B-REST-D but I don't know how to play A-B- C plus REST - D. If I ignore the REST, the C sounds the same as it did with the rest.

I am not asking you to solve this for me, I realize it's my problem and I will work on it. However thank you for the two fixed measures. I will somehow figure out what you did and apply it to the rest of the song.

I thought music was supposed to be fun and easy. I bought a Yamaha keyboard and a guitar, and so far I can't play either of them equally well. When does the fun part begin?

Al
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General Discussion / Too many beats in the measure
I have a music sheet for "Love Me Tender" that I am attempting to enter into NWC. When I input the first two measures, they look like the attachment with this post. The top staff has four beats per measure and I'm not sure how many beats the bottom staff (for guitar) has. The measure lengths look right on the music sheet I have and the notes are correct. Would someone please tell me what's going on here.

The music sheet also has a third staff, tablature for guitar, which I did not enter (just as an aside, does NWC allow tablature?). I have the NWC 2.5 User's Guide (very nice document by the way) but I cannot find answers to my problems.

I can scan the music sheet as a jpg or pdf if that will help. All replies will be gratefully appreciated. Thank you.

Al
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General Discussion / Post a simple pdf file
I would like to address a problem to the forum but I need to post a small pdf file that shows two or three measures of a song that I wish to question. Is there a place I can post such a file so I can comment on it to the forum?

Al
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General Discussion / Re: Play a chord one note at a time
Thank you for the replies. Every time I ask a question here I realize how much I don't know. I found the MusikDingsSans installer/remover and information, so I should have plenty of new information.

Thank you.

Al
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General Discussion / Play a chord one note at a time
How do I show that a chord is to be played slowly one note at a time? The chord would typically be at the end of a song and should be played slowly like a slow strum on a guitar. If I'm not mistaken it looks like a snake-like vertical line just before the chord, but I can't find it anywhere in the menus.

Thank you.

Al
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General Discussion / Re: Please recommend a simple mixer
Lawrie, thank you for the reply. I never did understand what What-U-Hear is all about, but I think I get the picture now. I will download Audacity and try things out together. This sounds like it should fulfill my needs. Thank you.
Al
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General Discussion / Please recommend a simple mixer
I now have my Yamaha 61-key keyboard to play on and Noteworthy software for composition writing. I am enjoying both.

I would like to take a song that I composed in Noteworthy, output it to a MIDI file, then mix that MIDI file with singing through a microphone plugged into a Soundblaster Live card, then save that to a file. What relatively simple mixer program would you recommend that would mix the MIDI with a mike input and save it to a file? This is strictly for my own entertainment, nothing professional required.

Thank you.
Al
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General Discussion / Re: What is the default dynamic?
I guess I did not word my question properly. Let's assume I have a 3 measure song. The first measure is a a normal (default?) volume. In measure 2 I click on Insert, then Dynamic, then I choose Fortissimo (fff). Measure 2 is now much louder. I would like to set measure 3 and the rest of the song to the same volume as measure 1. What do I choose from the Dynamic selection that implies "go back to the previous volume?" In other words, which of the eight choices, ppp, pp, p, mp, mf, f, ff, or fff was the first measure set to?

I'm new to this program and music in general so I apologize if my question is worded poorly, but I don't know how else to state it.

Thank you.
Al
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General Discussion / What is the default dynamic?
If I change my dynamic of a note within a song, how do I change the dynamic back to what it was? I know I can change it to any of the available options, but which is the default at the start of a song?

Thank you.
Al