I've never found any. All the other products I've tried don't come anywhere near the ease of use of the NWC user interface IMHO. Yes, there are limitations and stuff I'd like to see which is why I've tried others, but the UI gets me back every time.
In reality, how often is a minor second like this likely to be seen? I never have, but I don't notate all genre's either...
Hey Lawrie, I actually study composition at university, and I just thought I'd say that I see a lot of minor seconds in the music we study, especially music that's been written within the last 50 years. But then you start getting into micro-tones and the like as well. Don't get me wrong, I've been using Noteworthy for years and it's great, but it doesn't seem to have much support for a lot of this kind of thing.
Bill, I've been using NoteWorthy for about eight years now and I'm not quite sure I entirely agree with all that you said in your original post. I'm a bit torn between my contradicting opinions now.
You said: * Why, if the initial staff volume is set at 127, is the initial MPC volume set at 64?
I totally agree with you here. It would make much more sense to me to have the default MPC volume set at 127. But that's only because the initial staff volume is set at 127.
At the same time I start to think of dynamics. The default dynamic is mp (when you go to insert one), which I think is good. But if you don't insert any dynamic markings, the playback is fff (which is the same as saying the initial staff volume is set at 127). Why is this? Wouldn't it make more sense to have the initial staff volume set to 60 (which is mp) since the default dynamic is mp? I've had lots of experiences when I've wanted just see what something would sound like and it blasts out of my headphones at fff just because I forgot to put a dynamic marking in! (Maybe this idea would make it easier to work with your crescendos ... I dunno just an idea)
But then part of me disagrees with everything I've just said in the previous paragraph. Because if I insert a forte, I'd want the velocity to be 90 (or 92 or something). But if the initial staff volume is set at 60 and I insert a forte, the final velocity is gonna be about 45 right? (I figure if 60 is about half of 127, the playback will be about half of forte) So that'd just make it confusing. As I said, if I insert a forte, I'd want the velocity to be 90, so that'd mean the initial staff volume would have to be 127.
Or maybe I'm just confusing myself! Maybe it's just better to make the initial MPC volume set at 127 and be done with it!
So that's what I'm wrestling with at the moment. Feel free to join me in my wrestle!
Whenever I use the multi-point controller for volume I always set the actual dynamic to fff. That way when the volume in the MPC is set to 127, the playback is fff and, for example, when it's set to 60 the playback would be mp.
I see in your example the last dynamic before your long note is p. This means that even though the MPC volume is at 127 after three beats, 127 would represent the dynamic p in this case.
I've tried NoteWorthy Online's code and it works just great but it doesn't have any dynamics like your example. The following code is your example plus the one fff dynamic (visiblity set to Never). Simply copy and paste this into a NWC file...
