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General Discussion / New PC, new setting, old soundfonts, new doubts
Hello, my dearest community!

I'm a veteran NWC user (25 years of love, more or less). I'm going to build a new computer for myself soon and I'm looking for your kind advice regarding soundcards and soundfonts.

I'm now using a SoundBlaster Audigy RX, which supports soundfonts and has been working great for the last 10 years. I was wondering whether I should get a new one for my next PC. I've seen some cool looking new soundcards around, e.g. the SoundBlasterX AE-5 Plus.

I will definitely need 16 MIDI channels and the capability of using soundfonts, but I really don't know if any "recent" soundcard (or even the one integrated in each motherboard) supports them anymore.

Do you have any advice for me? Would I be able to use soundfonts on any device other than my beloved old Audigy RX?

Even more importantly... Will NWC2 be working smoothly on Windows 11?

Thanks in advance!
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General Discussion / Re: Blue screen on Win7
Hello!

I had already cleared all cache, deleted temporary files and scanned my system for viruses or malware. But still, thank you for your hints!

I was suggested Audacity by a friend as well: downloaded it and... guess what? The problem is the same! So it's not Nero, nor should it be Audacity. I guess it is either NWC-related or due to an excessive stress on the sound card while simultaneously playing a song and recording "what you can hear" with any other program (be it Nero, Audacity or whatever).

May it be a problem of complexity of the .nwc file? I now recall that before having any troubles my score used 24 midi channels (Sound Blaster Audigy Rx has the usual Synth A + Synth B, for a total of 32 midi channels [30 + 2 perc.]), and the newer problematic version of the score uses all 30 non-percussion channels. I tried today recording another score with less channels, and all went well.

I wonder why the complexity of the file should cause all these troubles, though.

Anyways, I now noticed that, when I first launch NWC (Composer, never tried with Viewer), open a complex song and hit F5, it gets kinda stuck for several seconds. After "meditating" for a while (7-10 seconds...), it starts playing normally. If I then stop the song and press F5 again, it starts playing immediately. So mysterious...
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General Discussion / Blue screen on Win7
Hello!

I can't figure out why I keep getting blue screen on Windows when I'm recording a score.

I try to be more specific:

These days I've been recording a lot of music with Nero 10 Wave Editor, while playing it on NWC (ver 2.51a). Until yesterday afternoon all was going well, but suddently my system became unstable: every time I try to record a score while it's being played on NWC, after some time I either get blue screen while the song is being recorded (not always at the same point) and my PC reboots, or NWC gets stuck, keeps playing a couple of notes even though I try to stop it and (most strangely) doesn't even switch off, even if I try to kill it from the task manager. The only thing I'm able to do in this case is to manually restart my computer by the case button, since it won't even exit Windows and reboot on its own. On the other hand, If I just play songs with NWC, all goes well without any problem.

If you ask me what has changed yesterday, I really can't tell: I had not installed any software, nor changed any setting... It just began to be unstable, that's it. Even Nero Wave Editor is always the same: it worked before, and it looks to work now. Maybe it's NWC to cause all crashes and stuff? The only error messages I get are those on the blue screen, but they disappear quickly and I don't know if and where they get recorded on my hard drive before my computer reboots automatically.

One thing I can say is that after the first time this problem occurred, I had to reinstall all soundfonts, because they had been magically uninstalled by the Audigy Soundbank Manager. This never happened again, though.

I'm running a 5 months old PC with Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, I have a Sound Blaster Audigy 5/Rx, a SSD C:/ with 110 GB of free space (51%) and 16 GB of RAM. The hardware wouldn't be an issue, I hope, since everything is 5 months old!

Any suggestion on what to try and to test?

Thank you!
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General Discussion / Any suggestion for a new sound card?
Hello!

My old PC has left me alone, and I'm going to build a new one from scratch this month. I'll be running Win7, I doubt I'll be going for Win8.

As for the sound card, I'd need some advice on what to buy: I have always had SoundBlaster cards and have loved them all, so I think I'll go for a new SoundBlaster (not even taking into account the built-in sound card on the motherboard...), but I can't decide which one would be best for NWC use. I mostly use NWC for recording study bases for my choir to rehearse and for composing orchestral music: I usually need complex files with many voices and instruments to perform well.

My old sound card was an Audigy with (just?) 48 MIDI channels, I'd like to have some recent card with good Win7 drivers, but still with many MIDI channels and soundfont support.

The one thing I'm sure I won't be changing at this moment is my 5.1 analogic speaker system, so I need a card with 5.1/7.1 analogic connectors.

Any advice (or wise info on what not to buy) will be much appreciated, thank you all!!!


[Just to know: are there any good 1150 socket motherboards with good soundcards which support soundfonts, MIDI files, NWC and the like?]
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General Discussion / NWC 2.5.2 - Behaves badly on playback - HELP!
Hello!

I've been using NWC for more than 7 years as a registered user, and I had been using it earlier as an unregistered one for long time.

I upgraded yesterday from version 2.1 to 2.5.2, and I already regret having done it! :-(

I'm typing old slow sacred music, in time 6/2. The typical set of measures is like this (Lyrics: Gra-ti-as a-gi-mus ti-bi):

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.5,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:Bb|Tonic:F
|Instrument|Patch:52|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127|Pos:7|Wide:Y
|Tempo|Tempo:120|Pos:11|Visibility:Never
|TimeSig|Signature:6/2
|Note|Dur:Whole,Dotted|Pos:-1
|Note|Dur:Half|Pos:-1
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:-1
|Bar
|Note|Dur:Whole,Dotted|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:Half|Pos:-1
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:-2
|Bar
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:-1^
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:-1
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:-1
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

The issue is: if you try playing it with NWC 2.5.2, you'll hear a sort of unavoidable rest after each note. In all NWC versions until 2.1, these rests used to always have the same duration (short!), but now they don't: the longer the note before, the longer the implicit rest after it!

This makes the entire score sound extremely crippled and disastrously hilarious. :-(

I could use either a "legato" or a "tenuto" Performance Style, but this is not the effect I want! I just want my old rests back, keeping notes separate but not driving me mad when I listen to the score!

I still have my old NWC Viewer installed and renaming the .bak file I could save it as it was in the previous 2.1 version. With the old player, it sounds great as ever... ;-)

Thanks for your support!

Aure
Italy


P.S.: Will we ever be able to use unicode text and lyrics? :-/