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General Discussion / Re: extend final staff

2009-06-04 12:39 pm

File-Page Setup-Options-Extend Last system.

General Discussion / Re: MIDI Delay - Windows XP

2009-06-04 12:37 pm

I bet you have the Windows power save set on for your sound card/peripherals.

It hibernates while you are away - and wakes up when you resume (with delay).

General Discussion / Re: Importing from midi files

2009-02-24 05:57 am

Except that note on at zero volume effectively halves the polyphony on midi keyboard modules .

General Discussion / Re: Is there an easy way to produce a piano vocal score with appended text??

2009-02-21 09:19 pm

Thanks, everyone.

I've always been an advocate of Noteworthy Composer. The software is really compact, well written, and is orders of magnitude faster than other music editors.

I don't want to digitize the score as an image if I can help it because when it passes to PDF if there is scaling there are sometimes aliasing issues - no good for pre-press quality.

Here's how I managed to kudge it...

I first print the score from Noteworthy using the Adobe PDF driver and saving as score.pdf as ISO B5 page size (from the print properties).

I next printed a blank page from Wordpad to the Adobe PDF driver specifying ISO B5 paper size in the print properties.

Then I concatenated the blank.pdf to the score.pdf and then used the Adobe typewriter tool in Acrobat to type in the text on the appended blank page.

I really appreciate everyone's tips - I'll experiment further. And it looks like I'm up for a copy of NWC 2.x ;-)

General Discussion / Is there an easy way to produce a piano vocal score with appended text??

2009-02-21 02:34 am

http://www.wesleycollegesongbook.com/Schola%20Carissima6.pdf

To get this I use Noteworthy Composer 1.75, via a PDF printer driver (Adobe) then edit the trailing text verses inside Acrobat. Horrible.

Can I imbed trailing verses withing NWC somehow? or via NWC version 2 ??

Thanks for any tips.

General Discussion / Re: Importing from midi files

2009-02-21 02:22 am

I've examined midi files at hex level from many many packages.

Some midi files turn a note "off" by repeating the note "on" message at zero volume.

Some packages produce gaps (up to 20 percent of note duration) between notes on a staff.

I've had success moving noteworthy's midis into other packages by putting a slur over the WHOLE staff before exporting - thereby making the note values 100 percent of their intended duration.