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Messages - Mike Shawaluk
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General Discussion / Re: Natural symbol
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General Discussion / Re: Including small note-heads in a NWC score
Note: you don't need to install the object; if you have NWC 2.75 installed, it is already included.
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General Discussion / Re: Tremolo with octaves
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General Discussion / Re: Tremolo with octaves
Perhaps it is a typo in the score, and it was meant to be quarter note tremolos? In that case it would add up to 4 beats.
I would welcome a comment or correction from someone else who is more familiar with tremolos.
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General Discussion / Re: Tremolo with octaves
1 My apologies to UK and Australian members who are used to seeing minims, quavers and crotchets ↵
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General Discussion / Re: Tremolo with octaves
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To create a tremolo, first create two RestChords of the desired duration. For whole, half and quarter note tremolos, the rest duration should be half of the note's duration. For eighth tremolos, the note duration should be quarter and the rest duration sixteenth.
I chose this approach for eighth note tremolos since there is no easy way to hide the flag on eighth notes
Here is a fixed version of that measure. Also, please note that you should mute the notes on each side of the tremolo object if you are using playback.
Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.751,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-9,-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-9,-2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Spacer|Width:200
|RestChord|Dur:16th|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem,Muted,HideRest|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-7|Color:1
|Spacer|Width:300|Color:1
|User|Tremolo.ms|Pos:-8|Color:1
|RestChord|Dur:16th|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem,Muted,HideRest|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-2|Color:1
|Spacer|Width:375|Color:1
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:-9,-2
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
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General Discussion / Re: Tremolo with octaves
Good morning to you,
I need to insert a tremolo between two octaves. I get the result, the tremolo appears and sounds as it should but the octaves still appear with the "whisker" ("flag" in English?).
How can I remove it?
Thanks.
Lorenzo
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Object Plugins / Re: Glissando.ms (2.8)
- New parameter PitchBendPeriod to allow a user-specified delay between pitchbend glissando updates.
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Object Plugins / Re: Ottavamatic.ms (2.0)
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Object Plugins / Re: Ottavamatic.ms (2.0)
I don't think I've ever seen a score with an 8va bassa above the notes being shifted. I designed the object's appearance based on Elaine Gould's "Behind Bars" and I can't find any mention in that book of doing this. Of course, you can move an 8va bassa mark above a set of notes, except that the dotted line will point up instead of down. Maybe this is desirable to cue the player that the shift is downward? Alternately, if you are just creating printable notation and you don't need playback, you could do an upward shift, but change the text from "8va" to "8va bassa" or "8vb".
Let me know if either of the above workarounds would work for you.
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General Discussion / Re: Buglet
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General Discussion / Re: Page layout
... I take this opportunity to ask for information.
Is it possible to add an accidental or other to a single member of a chord?...
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General Discussion / Re: Bug Report - MIDI Folder Ignored in Windows 11
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General Discussion / Re: Question on tremelo
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General Discussion / Re: Question on tremelo
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General Discussion / Re: Wav and MP3 files from NWC.
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General Discussion / Re: Finale’s finale
You might want to set up a login on Discord in case this forum doesn't work anymore.
That leads me to an error message. Is it an invitation only hidden channel?
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General Discussion / Re: Finale’s finale
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General Discussion / Re: Weird result of print out
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Object Plugins / Re: Tremolo.ms (2.2)
- A bug has been fixed which caused incorrect beam placement for offset whole notes for the first chord.
Please refer to the parent post for a description of the available parameters and a sample clip.
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Object Plugins / Re: Tremolo.ms (2.1)
Code: (lua) [Select · Download]
x1s = x1s or x1+1.3to:
Code: (lua) [Select · Download]
x1s = x1s or priorNote:xyRight()I am still testing to make sure it doesn't break anything.
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User Tools / Re: Beat Count
I think that is a reasonable assumption. However, I also think that it won't be difficult to come up with a score that will mess with your tool. For example, a 4/4 score that temporarily changes to 3/8 time.
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User Tools / Re: Beat Count
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General Discussion / Re: Tie (or slur?) without the tied note.
Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.751,Single)
|Clef|Type:Bass
|Key|Signature:Bb|Tonic:F
|TimeSig|Signature:6/8
|Rest|Dur:4th,Dotted|Visibility:Never
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:5^|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:3^
|Chord|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:5z|Opts:Stem=Up,StemLength=0,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:3z
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:4^|Opts:Stem=Up|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:2^
|Chord|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:4z|Opts:Stem=Up,StemLength=0,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:2z
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:3^|Opts:Stem=Up|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:1^
|Chord|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:3z|Opts:Stem=Up,StemLength=0,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:1z
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
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General Discussion / Re: Tie (or slur?) without the tied note.
Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.751,Single)
|Clef|Type:Bass
|Key|Signature:Bb|Tonic:F
|TimeSig|Signature:6/8
|Rest|Dur:4th,Dotted|Visibility:Never
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:5^|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:3^
|Spacer|Width:250
|Chord|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:3|Visibility:Never
|Spacer|Width:150
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:4^|Opts:Stem=Up|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:2^
|Spacer|Width:250
|Chord|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:2|Visibility:Never
|Spacer|Width:150
|Chord|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:3^|Opts:Stem=Up|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:1^
|Spacer|Width:250
|Chord|Dur:8th,Grace|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Muted|Dur2:8th,Grace|Pos2:1|Visibility:Never
|Spacer|Width:150
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
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General Discussion / Re: Violin harmonics
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General Discussion / Re: Violin harmonics
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Select All Staves - How To?
Surely there must be a user tool out there that can transpose multiple staves at once (skipping any staves that use channel 10).
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Select All Staves - How To?
And I apologize for calling you Shirley.
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General Discussion / Re: Wav and MP3 files from NWC.
Otherwise, did you know you can export to mp3 or Flac directly from the NWC Viewer?
You just need to make sure your preferred soundfont is installed.
Set/check soundfont in |Tools|Soundfont...
Do the export using:
|File|Play to...
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Object Plugins / Re: Trill.ms (2.4)
- Multiple notes can be trilled/untrilled at one time.
- The trill vertical position will default to a nicer value.
- Trill objects will be avoided when a trill note is tied.
- Parameters for new trills will be inherited from prior trills on the staff.
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General Discussion / Re: View from DownUnder?
(As I say this, I smile and give you a Vegemite sandwich.)
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General Discussion / Re: Changing to another computer
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Object Plugins / Re: GuitarChord.ms (2.2)
- Corrected a bug where playback did not honor current staff transposition.
Please refer to the parent post for a description of the available parameters and a sample clip.
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Object Plugins / Re: ChordPlay.nw
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Object Plugins / Re: ChordPlay.nw
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Object Plugins / Re: ChordPlay.nw
I note that in my installation the function is called this:
play_ChordPlay(t)
instead of this:
play_ChordPlay()
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Object Plugins / Re: ChordPlay.nw
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Object Plugins / Re: ChordPlay.nw
Make these changes to the code toward the end of the play_ChordPlay() function:
local noteCount = #k
local arpeggioShift = (strum ~= 'No') and math.floor(math.min(duration,nwcplay.PPQ)/math.max(12,noteCount+1)) or 0
local trans = nwcplay.getTransposition()
for i, v in ipairs(k) do
local thisShift = math.min(duration-arpeggioShift, arpeggioShift * ((strum == 'Down') and (noteCount-i) or i))
nwcplay.note(thisShift, duration-thisShift, startPitch+v+nshift+trans)
end
(Note: I would have used the "code" block feature, but that wouldn't let me use colored text)
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Object Plugins / Re: ChordPlay.nw
When I saw this, I thought that perhaps more of my objects that have playback would suffer from this, but it appears that objects that look at existing notes, like Arpeggio and Trill, are getting the staff transposition information. I will look at the code for GuitarChord.ms to see if there is an easy fix for this, which hopefully could be applied to the other objects.
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
Once you're aware of it it's not absurd, but maybe changing it to take care of the already present beams would be more intuitive.
In this optic, there is also the problem of manually lengthen the note stem to make room for the tremolo.
At least now it is easier to lengthen/shorten note stems on the fly, using Alt+Up/Down arrow.
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
Does that make sense?
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
I recently made the same discovery.
The fact is that the speed of the tremolo is computed by dividing the note duration by the number of beams of the tremolo.
So, if the note already has some beams...
Indeed, if you lengthen the note stem as you should to have something decent to show, the thing starts having sense.
I thought that this is how tremolos are supposed to work. If it is not, please explain how it should be, and I'll make the necessary fixes.
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
I expect I missed out years ago (again) on the explanation as to why the User object mutes the relevant notes, and why they nevertheless sound...
And that; is precisely the problem in your score. You don't have the tremolo notes muted, so they are sounding along with the tremolo playback. And NWC does not give us a way of muting only one side of a split chord. The way to fix this would be to use layered staves, with the tremolo notes on one staff and the slurred part on the other.
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
When I opened some old compositions (having rearranged my Plugins folder, I was warned that Noteworthy had "detected 71 unkown objects". I warily did not then save the compositions, but now I am wondering how to put things back in a sensible place, and how to let Noteworthy know where that is, so that I don't lose all my previous Tremolo work...
Thanks again (and in advance!)
Jonathan
I'm not sure how you "rearranged" your plugins folder, but if NWC says it detected 71 unknown objects, it sounds like it couldn't find your plugins folder. It might have created a new empty folder in its place.
If you go to Tools > Options and go to the Folders tab, it will show you the locations of the various file types. For Object Plugins, it should say something like ":programdata:\Noteworthy Software\nwc2\UserPlugins". If you moved the plugins folder somewhere else, you can modify that entry to point to the new location.
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
A further thought: if you recommend me not to use the Make Tremolo user tool, am I still able to select a whole passage of several bars and apply the tremolos all in one go - or shall I need to apply them to each note/chord separately?
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Object Plugins / Re: TremoloSingle.ms (2.1)
You don't need to install the TremoloSingle.ms object, because it comes with NWC. You will just need to make sure you have the latest version, by going to Tools > Manage Objects... and clicking on the "Online Synch..." button, and following the prompts. If you haven't done this in a while, there may be a bunch of objects that are in need of updating. The program will automatically pull the current version that is posted in the forum, so you don't need to download any files.
Once the object is updated to the latest version (which is 2.1a), all you need to do is insert two TremoloSingle.ms objects before a split chord. Set the "Split Chord Member" parameter on one of the objects to "top" and set that parameter on the other one to "bottom". Each side of the split chord can have a different number of beams.
I don't recommend using the old "Make Tremolo.ms" user tool, since user objects can now have built-in tools. If you go to the User Tool... menu, there is a .Plugins group, which has tools for each plugin that implements them. The tool "TremoloSingle.ms: Apply" is the one you want to use. Just highlight the note and run the tool. It will prompt for the number of beams, create the plugin and mute the note. Run it a second time to get the object for the bottom note (It doesn't currently prompt for top vs. bottom, so you will have to change the property on one of your objects to point to the bottom note).
Let me know if this answers your questions.
Mike