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Messages - Jonathan E. Brickman

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General Discussion / Working well! Re: NWC MIDI sound on Ubuntu 20.04 ?
Wow, it was simple!  Here's the sum total of steps:

  • Installed default Ubuntu-native non-snap non-development wine.  This is wine 5.0, which according to winehq is a lot older than they like, but I wanted to run using minimum changes to the distro for now.
  • Install NWC with Wine.
  • Try running NWC.  No sound. 
  • Opened the MIDI options (Tool > Options > MIDI), selected the single available playback device "Midi Through Port-0".  No sound.
  • Installed Timidity with 'apt install timidity'.  It automatically set up to run using ~/.config/autostart/timidity.desktop .  Rebooted.
  • Ran NWC.  No sound.
  • Opened the MIDI options (Tool > Options > MIDI), added the rest of the available playback devices, "TiMidity - TiMidity port 0" through port 3.  No sound.
  • Edited ~/.config/autostart/timidity.desktop .  Third line was "Exec=timidity -iA".  Changed it to "Exec=timidity -iA -Os".  Logged off and logged on
  • Used apt to install the OSS wrapper for ALSA, package "alsa-oss".
  • Started NWC and loaded a score.  No sound.
  • Opened the MIDI options (Tool > Options > MIDI), de-selected the playback device "Midi Through Port-0", leaving the "TiMidity" devices in place.
  • Sound working very well!
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General Discussion / Re: NWC MIDI sound on Ubuntu 20.04 ?
Bart, thanks for writing, that does help a lot.  Recently I received a suggestion that the LTS versions of Ubuntu are very stable indeed, whereas the others aren't; so far this has carried well, I used MX Linux on desktop for a number of years.  The only thing that is not working now, is NWC MIDI :-)  Timidity is in, working, and recognized as present in NWC-in-wine, and NWC even says that it is working, it does play, there's just no actual tone.

I do hope and pray for a resurgence in development in NWC, there's nothing like its intuitive setup and keyboard note-entry.
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General Discussion / NWC MIDI sound on Ubuntu 20.04 ?
I have followed several sets of instructions; NWC 2.75a.2 installs and runs, graphics and fonts work great.  Timidity ports show up, have selected them.  Timidity works fine, responds to aplaymidi.  But NWC doesn't send a peep to Timidity.  Anyone have suggestions?
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General Discussion / Suddenly cannot layer staffs?
Very odd, never seen the like.  This is happening with existing scores that have seen layering work just fine, and new scores, even blank ones with two empty staves.  Windows 10 20H2.  Any clue what to do?  My sweet Lori does depend on layering, for barbershop score creation.

In both of the following screenshots, layering is turned on (allowed) in File / Page Setup.  First, the top score is set to not layer the next:

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and second, the top score is set to layer the next:

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You'll notice the slight difference.