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Messages - Warren Porter

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General Discussion / Re: How to crescendo on one note
I had a user tool of sorts to do the dynamic markings:  I cut the whole score to the clipboard where I changed the dynamics en mass.

I cleaned up the piece a little bit.
1056
General Discussion / Re: Comfotable Notation Size?
As a violinist, page turns are a big problem and I will sometimes transcribe my part just to avoid it.  I am doing the 1st violin of Helios (Neilson) and a staff size of 16 currently.
1058
General Discussion / Re: Playing tied notes together
Quote from: Josh, The Magnificent Composer –
In music theory, I drew my ties coming straight out of the note, like you explained. My theory teacher told me that ties don't touch the note. Cleric, the way to tell the difference, is that ties are with note the same pitch while slurs have different pitches.
I was describing what the icons looked like in my original post.  FWIW, slured notes may have the same pitch.
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General Discussion / Re: Playing tied notes together
The tied feature works for me though.  You may be confusing slurs and ties.  The slur icon has a curving arrow under a note while the tie icon is a note with a "slur" that goes straight out to the right.  You will need to click on the tie icon (or the "/" shortcut key) before entering each note in a chord to be tied.

HTH
1065
General Discussion / Re: How to crescendo on one note
Guess I was a little depressed the other day.  At any rate, I cut the entire staff to my text editor where I could override every dynamic.  I changed the più forte to something between mf and f and added a few more hairpins and mpc:volume's to keep the dynamic changes from being as abrupt.  It's back on the link I mentioned earlier.
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General Discussion / Re: How to crescendo on one note
My favorite class in high school was geometry.  Everything new I learned there was on top of what had been covered already and easy to keep track of and apply to later stuff.

Few things in life are like that though.  I see I have a lot to study and experiment with to be able do this.  At this point I don't know if I am just a few "all ya' gotta do" steps from picking this up or if I need to become a midi master.

If anyone would like to start a user tip on "First steps in creating a performance ready NWC file", please be my guest.
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Inserting Groupings such as 5, 7, 9
Quote from: manning120 –
I've been inserting such groupings by writing down the grouping and changing the tempo in that place to allow the grouping to fit. Any other notes contemporaneous with the grouping have to be lengthened so that their tempo doesn't change. But since I'm new at this, I don't know how to do all this on a hidden staff and show the correct printed notes on the display staff. Any suggestions on how best to do that?

For pentuplets, every "ordinary" note being played concurrently with the pentuplets needs to be lengthened by 1/4.  On the hidden/played staff, tie each note to one with a quarter of the original length (or add two flags).  E.g., a dotted eighth would be tied to a dotted 32nd and a 16th would be tied to a 64th.  On the displayed/muted staff, no ties would be needed, but each note would be followed by a [shadow=red,left]hidden rest[/shadow] with the same duration as the new notes following the ties in the played staff.

Also check this tip:
https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=2326
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General Discussion / Re: Dynamically hiding staves
I would like to see an attribute of objects on a staff as "display optional", i.e., if everything on a given line was thus marked, that would not print there.  For example, if a part had 80 bars of rest with that attribute before coming in, the staff would be hidden until then or a few measures before then.
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Tips & Tricks / Re: Keeping track of where you are
Quote from: Chuck Mullen –
In case anyone's interested, I have a very low-tech way to see where I am when enteringparts for the purpose of practice.

Following an earlier suggestion (Sorry - I forget by whom), I tend to enter the lyrics for the part I'm entering before the notes. In order to go back and edit the inevitable typos, I make sure to hit ENTER before typing in the text for a new system. Since I tend to be entering baroque of classical music, the lyrics do tend to get repetitive. This makes it still hard to see where I am, so each time I get to the words on a new page, I prefix the first word with the new page number. It ends up looking like this:

si-cut e-rat in prin-ci-pi-o
11in prin-ci-pi-o etc.

I do something similar except I keep both the numbered text and un-numbered text in the lyric area.  When all mistakes are taken out, I copy everything to the clipboard where a script, envoked with a shortcut key, strips off all digits.  This is pasted in front of the numbered text.  If I can use (most of) the text in another part, I copy the numbered text only.
1079
General Discussion / Re: NWC2 User Tools V1.11
I have tried to use some of the tools (i.e., I double click on a *.php file), but all I get is a small black window.  Nothing happens.  I can type words such as "help", "run", or "exit" followed by Enter, but still nothing happens.  I am using XP Professional version.

Although I have several scripts written for macro processing in a text editor, they would me more useful in php if I can ever get it off the ground.  TIA
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General Discussion / Re: Modified clipboard to fix triplets and measure numbers
While it is quite useful (user since 1991- my first PC), The Semware Editor is an extra expense, so the same functions done with another program might be better.  I have another script which deletes all digits from the clipboard after entering measure numbers in lyrics.  Helps ID the measures where there is an extra or missing hyphen or syllable in a hurry.
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General Discussion / Re: Organ Pedal
Jan's method of making the organ sound an octave below what is written is correct, but often there is no "8" on the bass clef although there may be for the tenor part written on a treble clef.  To do the same thing without the "8", select "Tools" then "Transpose".  Transpose down by 12 semitones w/o Playback Transposition.

If you need to transpose by two octaves you will need both methods.
1091
General Discussion / Re: Rest notes
NWC 1.75a doesn't allow unused staves to be ignored on any system.  When printing parts you can hide empty measures and insert "[16]" with the boxmark font, but you can't make the staff disappear from the conductor's score.

One more for the wish list.
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General Discussion / Re: Trasposition
First of all, be sure the staff has a key signature--if it is in C insert a key signature with no sharps or flats.  It will appear as a greyed out F Natural.

When you are on the staff to be tranposed enter Alt/T then T again (or from the Tools menu select Transpose).  Select the number of semitones to be transposed up or down.  If you are actually changing the key, leave the "Update staff playback transposition" unchecked.

Playback transposition is only used for instruments which don't play at concert pitch.  If you wrote for a Bb clarinet in concert pitch, you would transpose it up two semitones but leave the box checked.
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General Discussion / Re: Measure Number cannot shown
To expand on Robert A's excellent reply:

When printing parts it is sometimes helpful to create a "tempo" staff which will be layered with the part currently being printed.  It would contain hidden bar lines and rests, but all tempos, tempo variences, rehearsal letters, and frequently referred to measure numbers would be on this staff.  As Robert said, the Boxmarks font is quite useful for this.  See also https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=2316.
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General Discussion / Re: sustain trill
There are different ways of introducing delays.  If you don't mind slowing down the trill, don't specify a delay in the fermata but add tempo changes before and after the fermata on the hidden staff.  If slowing the notes isn't an option, then on the hidden staff add two more notes to the trill and change the last six notes into a triplet.  You can then temporarily reduce the tempo by a third but the notes in the trill will sound just as fast.  This file from a user tip attachment shows a way to do the temp tempo change.

BTW, you can make your trills look better than just trl with "tr~~~~~~~~".  Better yet, use the Boxmarks or Boxmark2 fonts from here.
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General Discussion / Re: NWC 2004?
When printing parts, if any staff is flagged as orchestral, change it back to standard.  That will fix your thick black line on the left end.  Any visible staff with the Orchestral attribute will force that black bar to all other visible staves.

When printing parts, either a style of "Standard" or, if appropriate for that instrument, upper or lower "Grand Staff" should be the only styles in use.