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General Discussion / How to make a drum line?
Okay, I'm having some troubles.  I imported a MIDI file into Noteworthy (v1.75c) and it had a nice drum line on it (Staff #11).  I tried to duplicate it in my own midi file, making certain all the staff settings were exactly like those in the original, and mine doesn't sound like drums.  Okay, I'm missing something, but how did the author of the original MIDI make staff #11 sound like drums?  And how do I do the same with my own drum line?

Original MIDI file, by Don Carroll, that has drum sounds from staff #11:
MIDI: http://midistudio.com/midi/Carroll/WatChild.mid
NWC: http://gpomusicsamples.homestead.com/files/what-child-is-this-carroll.nwc

My very simple attempt where staff #5 (measure 18) does NOT sound like drums:
http://gpomusicsamples.homestead.com/files/Ode_To_Joy_-_MAG.nwc

I am obviously missing something... BUT WHAT?????
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General Discussion / Re: Problems with MIDI input from keyboard.
Okay, I read your reply and the linked thread you provided.  Thank you for that.  However, the thread never really defined what a "click track" is.  It did provide a link to a FAQ that indicated I need to open a rythmn file before recording, but at the moment I'm conceptualizing melodies and I really do NOT need a rythmn track playing.  It'll throw me off.

So I'm still not positive what you mean by a click track.  My best understanding is that I create a staff that is set at the proper tempo and holds many measures of whole rests... as many measure as I'll need for my playing.  Then I record what I play into a different staff, and NWC records it properly.

Am I correct? 
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General Discussion / Problems with MIDI input from keyboard.
Okay, I've been using Noteworthy Composer (registered 1.75c) to enter music manually.  This past weekend I hooked up a Yamaha CP33 stage piano to my system, and tried recording what I played.  I downloaded and installed the MIDI driver for the instrument, configured NWC to recognize it, created a blank project, hit record, and started playing.

I have several problems, but this is the big one.  I played a very short melody... it recorded the correct notes, but not the duration.  Everything was recorded as a quarter note, even if it was actually a half  or sixteenth note.  And rests between notes were ignored entirely.  Not sure what I did wrong, but surely it HAS to be able to record from a keyboard better than that!

I have it set to notate pedal marks, insert instrument changes, automatic beam, and detect compound time.  Note resolution is set to 32nd, and rest resolution is set to 16th.  Seperate midi channels is checked.

Any ideas as to what is happening... and suggestions on how to fix it?