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151
General Discussion / Winamp plugin temp files
I noted that very often I have lots of empty (i.e. 0 length) files in my temp directory.
These files are called nwcxx.tmp, with xx a progressive hex number.

I think I can say that these files are relics generated by the NWC Winamp plugin.
Am I right?
152
General Discussion / SoundFonts on SBLive!
One year ago I wrote this:

https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=6545.0

Now I'm reinstalling everything and would like to be able to use the SoundFonts feature of my SBLive without having to install all that obsolete crap.

After all it was developed for win98!
For example, Wave studio complains that there is not enough free disk space to save the current file because there's more than 2 GB of free space; all the parameters for the audio environment (reverb etc.) bloat the registry to no avail etc. etc.

So: anyone knows a lean and mean solution for this?
153
General Discussion / ClearType? Not so much...
I was forced to switch to XP reinstalling everything.

A friend suggested me to activate the ClearType option.
I installed ClearType Tuner PowerToy.exe, selected the cofiguration that looked better and then I forgot about it.

Sometimes I saw a strange "halo" on the chars and I wondered what was provoking it.
I use DVI and the native screen resolution exactly to avoid it!

Yesterday I was working with NWC and I saw the stem with a blurred color changing between the classic blue and a kind of purple.
Ouch, what happened to NWC?
Nothing I can blame NWC for!

I discovered that all the strange effects I was seeing were due to ClearType.
Deactivate it and everything returns perfect.

Just to let you know...
154
General Discussion / Dot position
I think the dot position in this snippet is horrible:
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|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:-3o|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Half,Dotted|Pos2:-3o,1o|Color:0|Visibility:Default

Of course, using layering...
155
General Discussion / Broken bars
In the example attached, having some layered staves that end before the end of the piece, the bar lines in the grand staff are broken. I mean: the bar lines are two segments with a hole in the middle.
Is it there a reason for that behaviour?
156
General Discussion / Accents
Here I can't put the accent where I need it:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-4,0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-4
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:0,5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-4,0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-4
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:0,5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

What I'd like to have is something like:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-4,0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Dur2:4th,Accent|Pos2:-4
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:0,5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-4,0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Dur2:4th,Accent|Pos2:-4
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:0,5|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Here the accent is in the wrong note:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th|Pos2:0^
|Note|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:#2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End,ArticulationsOnStem
|Chord|Dur:8th,Accent|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:8th|Pos2:4
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
It should be on the upper F but I found no way to put it there; that is, this snippet doesn't work:
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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th|Pos2:0^
|Note|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:#2|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End,ArticulationsOnStem
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:8th,Accent|Pos2:4
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Of course I can easily solve the problems using layering, but the thing surprised me.

A last thing.
I found no way to remove the accent using the GUI. I had to copy, edit and paste back.
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|RestChord|Dur:8th|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:4th,Accent|Pos2:-1o|Color:0|Visibility:Default
158
General Discussion / Il trillo del diavolo
that is: what the hell of a trill...

As Lawrie wrote:
Quote
In NWC, a grace note is fixed at a 32nd note (demisemiquaver) duration.

I wrote a trill like this (see attachement).

Why the trill stops early?
And why the final note doesn't play?
159
General Discussion / Resizable columns
In the "Score review" dialog the columns are resizables. (Discovered by chance)
It would be easier to do if the separating line are made visible.

What about adding the "group" property too?
160
General Discussion / Unbreakable triplets
Having to deal with an exaggerated span, I was trying to put a key change inside a triplet.
No way, as far as I can go.
Look here:

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:10|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:b14|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

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!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Bass
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Down
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:b2|Opts:Stem=Down
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Anyone a good idea?
161
General Discussion / Missing help
In the help of the latest NWC version, under "Notation Properties" I can't find any reference to:
- Override stem length
- Use stem for articulation

I know what they are for, but for a novice...
162
General Discussion / Winamp plugin problems
I have winamp 5.35, SoundBlaster Live and Win2000.
When I listen to NWC files in winamp I have a couple of odd behaviours.

If I press winamp pause and then I press it again the play doesn't restart.
I must press play, but then the playing restarts from the beginning.
Luckily I can move the cursor to approximately the previous position but the thing is tedious.

Second, the winamp volume control does nothing.

These problems are specific of playing NWC files.
With WAV, MP3, MID etc. everything is fine.

Any hint?

N.B. The problem is not new at all. It's always been there. It's just that now I'm using winamp more frequently so I find it more annoying.

Winamp Output plugins settings
Wave Out device: SB Live! audio, Volume control enabled.
Direct sound output: SB Live! audio, Volume control enabled.
163
General Discussion / Don't change the cards on the desk!
While I was listening a piece I decided to move a staff upward.
The playing was still perfect.
The note catching... funny!

Nothing really serious.
After a stop and go everything was ok, but perhaps it can be a good idea to lock such commands while NWC is playing.
164
General Discussion / NWC takes a little snooze
Listen to the example attached and take care of the ending.
After the song is finished, NWC waits 4 more bars before stopping the playback.
I could understand if the MPC were still pending but no, the MPC is finished.

A small NWC bug or my misunderstanding?
165
General Discussion / From pan to embers...
I don't know if that saying is used outside of Italy, but we use it to say "from bad to worse".

The question is somehow the opposite of the one continuing to appear on this forum :-) and is a matter of MIDI, not strictly of NWC, but bear for me.

I need to pan some instruments of the drum kit.
The problem is that the pan command is unique for the whole channel 10.

Easy way out: I put the percussions I need to pan in a channel at wish (<> 10), then I tell NWC to use the bank select command with the MSB = 127, LSB = 0 and patch at wish (MSB = 127 are the drum kits). At this point I can pan that channel as I like.
Wow! It works perfectly... on a XG keyboard.
When I try with the (GS?) sound card it's a mess.

I could use the <Drums Setup Data Parameter Change> to pan the single percussion but, beside being a system exclusive message with all the problems of handling it in NWC generated file, it's supported only on XG keyboards. And I'm back at the starting point.

I think to remember that General MIDI 2 allows up to 2 simultaneous percussion kits (channels 10 and 11) but how to exploit that?

I think to remember too that General MIDI 2 (and GS) has the drum kits on MSB = 120, LSB = 0, but it doesn't seem to work.

What can I do to stay, more or less, in the GM standard?

Of course, beside: forget the pan... and get in the embers. ;-)
167
General Discussion / Simply foolish!
A friend passed me some MIDI files on which someone had the wonderful idea of adding lyrics using NWC.
No need to say what happened to dynamics, MPC, n-tuplets, slurs...

NWC was never conceived for that. The wrong tool for the wrong result.
It's like using a knife to open a can: unless you're really skillful you'll end up enjuring yourself... and anyway the result isn't worth the effort.

There are so many programs in the web explicitly made for that purpose!

Of course those MIDI files went quickly to the wasteba... ooops, sorry, the recycle bin.
169
General Discussion / OT: Traditional Kletzmer scores
Sorry for the off-topic.
Where can I find some free scores or midi files of traditional Kletzmer music on the net?
Beside "Hine Ma Tov" in the scripto (courtesy of Andrew Purdham), that is. ;-)

Maurizio
170
General Discussion / Repetita juvant
I have a structure of this kind:

Intro (MRO) (segno) Chorus (SE1) ... (MRC)   (SE2) ... (Fine)     bridge (Dal segno al fine)

Since master repeats are ignored after one of the flow directions have been
executed, how can I force the chorus repetition (with the different special
endings) even after the "Dal segno al fine"?

Thanks in advance.
Maurizio
171
General Discussion / Can you understand?
I was listening the attached file in WinAmp (with plugin_nwc2winamp_v2beta2 installed, of course) when I noticed an odd time change in bar 58.

For sure I didn't put it there, but also I never heard it before.
Indeed, playing that file using NWC2 or playing the exported midi file has not that problem.

It seems like WinAmp plugin has an interference between pitch bend and tempo.
Is it a problem of my sound card (SB basic)?
Someone else can replicate this problem?

Can you understand? ;-)
172
General Discussion / MPC restoring
I stumbled upon a case like this: in a piece I had a 4 bars long trumpet note fading away.
I obtained this by applying the expression MPC linearly sweeping from 127 down to 0.
Very good.

I stopped the playback near the end of this fading then I restarted the play a dozen bars early.
The trumpet was very soft, almost non-existent.
What happened was that I stopped the play while the expression MPC was already very low and when I restarted the play the MPC remained untouched.

Of course this is a problem with all the MPCs. Guess what happens with an "engaged" pitch bending!

The best would be if NWC could restore the MPC settings virtually active at the restarting position, but I think it's not a simple matter. That is: the matter isn't worth the effort.

Opinions? Eric?

Maurizio
173
General Discussion / What time is it?
Well, my idea was to play measures 63..80 at 105 bpm, then repeating them gradually accelerating until reaching measure 81 at 135 bpm and keeping that time until the end,
IE the effect of "La seconda volta accelerando" ("the second time accelerating") in measure 63.
What I got instead is twice measures 63..80 at 105 bpm then a sudden awful jump to 135 bpm.

Writing the accelerando at measure 63, I expect a slow acceleration until measure 81.
Instead I have measures 63..80 accelerating up to 135 bpm, measure 63 that progressively slows down again at 105 bpm and then the final acceleration in measures 64..80 (the only one I want).

Of course there is always the possibility to copy measures 63..80 and then applying the accelerando only to the second copy but that's too easy! ;-)

I'm missing something on how NWC handles the tempo variances.

Anyway this is a (sort of) achademic question; I think I'll settle for a hidden staff having the repeat expanded, because in this piece almost all the grace notes must really be taken from the previous note, not the following one.

Cheers
Maurizio
174
General Discussion / No page numbers?
I just finished notating a score (soon in the Scripto) so I took a look at the print preview.
All is right, where it not that there is no page number.
Of course I checked that "Page numbering" was selected and "from" was 1.
No way.

Well, I don't actually printed the score, I just looked at the print preview, but anyway the page number should be there.

Anyone got the same problem?

By the way: I'm talking about beta 2.22.

Cheers
Maurizio
175
User Tools / TransposeChords enhanced
To begin with: being that this is my very first php program, were it not for Andrew for sure I didn't succeed. Thank you very much, Andrew!
("If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton, hi!)

So, what's new?
Well, I'm Italian.
I don't care at all if a chord is spelled G or sol, but when I prepare the scores for my friends they are far more comfortable with the Italian style: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si.
I modified the program so that it's able to transpose also the chords written that way.
As a kind of side effect, it's now possible to translate the chords from a name system to the other.

I suppose there is some other noteworthy user that can find it useful so here it is.

Once again: Thank you, Andrew!

Cheers
Maurizio Spagni

Update: Transformed the code in the message in a file attached.
176
General Discussion / Probably it's a stupid question but...
Hi all.

I opened a file I dowloaded from scriptorium and discovered that in the print preview the score showed up being gigantic: just a bar per page!

(Off topic: as I already suggested trough the wish list, why in the print preview the page-up, page-down, home and end keys don't do what they are used to do?)

I went to the Page setup dialog looking for the well known "staff size" parameter and I discovered it's no more present.
I remembered having read somewhere that Eric changed it for something more flexible and powerful so I wandered in almost all the dialogs but I wasn't able to find anything useful.

Last resort (when all else fails, read the instructions...): a search in the help.
I wasn't able to find anything in the index so I tried with the "find" tab.
Well, the relevant argument names were:
IDH_DLGPRINTCLASSIC2
IDH_DLGPRINTCLASSIC11
IDH_PGSETUPSTAFFSZRESCALE
A little bit cryptic, aren't they? ;-)
Anyway, even in the explication there is no clear indication where to look for the staff size parameter.

I think I'm overlooking something obvious.

Cheers
Maurizio
177
General Discussion / Staccato or not staccato: this is the problem
I'm not sure if this is a problem of NWC2 or a music writing problem.
Take a look at this.

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|TimeSig|Signature:4/4
|Rest|Dur:8th
|Note|Dur:4th,Staccato|Pos:-4
|Note|Dur:4th,Staccato|Pos:-3
|Note|Dur:4th,Staccato|Pos:-2
|Rest|Dur:8th
|Bar
|Rest|Dur:8th
|Note|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:-4^
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4
|Note|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:-3^
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3
|Note|Dur:8th,Staccato|Pos:-2^
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-2
|Rest|Dur:8th
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

I expected the two bars sounding the same, but reflecting on it I'm not sure at all on how I would have read it in a printed score.
What do you think, people?

Cheers
Maurizio