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Messages - fitzclan
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General Discussion / Re: .PDF?
http://www.primopdf.com/
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General Discussion / Re: .PDF?
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General Discussion / Re: How Do I make a Staff wrap to the next line?
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Tips & Tricks / Re: adding a rest underneath a note
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General Discussion / Re: A heated argument at last night's music practice.
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General Discussion / Re: A heated argument at last night's music practice.
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Tips & Tricks / Re: adding a rest underneath a note
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General Discussion / Re: A heated argument at last night's music practice.
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General Discussion / Re: A heated argument at last night's music practice.
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Tips & Tricks / Re: adding a rest underneath a note
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Tips & Tricks / Re: adding a rest underneath a note
Top staff:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:F#,C#
|TimeSig|Signature:Common
|RestChord|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Opts:Stem=Down,ArticulationsOnStem|Dur2:Half|Pos2:4^
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:-3,-1,2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:-3,-1,2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-3,-1,2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:-3,-1,2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:-3,-1,2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-3,-1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First|Dur2:8th|Pos2:2,4
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Down
|Note|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:7|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Bottom staff:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Bass
|Key|Signature:F#,C#
|TimeSig|Signature:Common
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:-7,0|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:0,2,6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:0,2,6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:0,2,6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet|Pos:0,2,6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Pos:0,2,6|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:8th,Triplet=First|Pos:0,2,6|Opts:Stem=Down
|Rest|Dur:8th,Triplet|Opts:Stem=Down
|Rest|Dur:8th,Triplet=End|Opts:Stem=Down
|Rest|Dur:4th|Opts:Stem=Down
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
The 1/8 rests underneath the 1/8th notes will have to be added as text if you want them. They are really not necessary in my opinion, but if you do want them, use boxmarks font or Lawries Dings font available from the scriptorium.
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General Discussion / Re: A heated argument at last night's music practice.
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General Discussion / Re: Alternative handwritten-style music fonts available for purchase!!!
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General Discussion / Re: Signs missing
There you will find several downloadable font sets that include any symbol you want. Once imported into your font file they can be accessed by NWC through the page setup/fonts tab. There are several threads that explain the procedure on this forum, and I believe there are instructions included when you download the fonts. Just be aware that as text items, they have no effect on playback.
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General Discussion / Re: Confusing marks in printed music
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General Discussion / Re: A very cheeky question...
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General Discussion / Re: A very cheeky question...
There are pre defined templates for SATB, and other types of scores, and you can make your own if you like, that will be suitable for your particular needs. Other users share their own features and added user tools through the Scriptorium and this forum. There is some real talent out there. Some are programers who share their knowledge and hard work with others which is nice. For instance, you can write your guitar chords as text above the measure, and if you want to transpose them, there is a user tool offered by another user that will do that for you with a few quick strokes on the keyboard. There is always something new.
As far as your feature list,
1. Ease of use: Probably the easiest you will find.
2. At least 5 staves: I believe you can have 16. Someone else may have a better answer to that.
3. You can choose which staves you want to export to midi. All, none, or any combination. Simply mute what you don't want to hear. You can also print each staff seperately, or any combination therof.
4. I think there are up to 8 lyric lines available for each staff.
5. Guitar chords - Can be written in as text. I used to have a guitar chord font that came with MS Works in a very early version. I think it was back with Windows 3.1. I'm sure it can be found somewhere. Another feature of NWC is that you can add new fonts. There have been several new additions of late by another user Lawrie Pardy who has done a wonderful job in this area. Someone else may be able to guide you to an available guitar chord font.
6. I have heard that scanning in sheet music is possible, however it is way less than perfect and you may need additional software (possibly free), that will enable you to do this. From what I hear, it generally takes as much time to fix the errors as it does to key the piece in.
7. The ability to write out in MusicXML. Not a question I can answer as I don't know what it means! I'll be interested to hear a reply from someone who does.
All in all - For the price, you will not beat this program. I would say that for your use, it would be the right choice. Although I have never usen Cakewalk, I understand that it is also difficult to learn and use. It seems that once you have 'found the pearl of great price', you stop looking. It suits my needs quite nicely.
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General Discussion / Re: Cadence
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General Discussion / Re: Cadence
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General Discussion / Re: Confusing marks in printed music
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General Discussion / Re: Confusing marks in printed music
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General Discussion / Re: My biggest bugbear with Noteworthy Composer!
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General Discussion / Re: Help for non-composer users
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General Discussion / Re: Bug: beta 2.05 Slur Print Preview
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General Discussion / Re: Bug: beta 2.05 Slur Print Preview
Upper staff:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:1|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:1|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:1|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Lower staff:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:1|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:1
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
|Rest|Dur:4th
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
As far as aligning notes in staves with invisible notes in one staff and not in the other, the last measure shows what I mean. The upper staff contains three beats although only 2 are showing, so the notes do not align properly. I can't imagine a use for this. It would only confuse the musician reading it. In order for the staves in the last measure to be in accord with one another, the top would have to show three quarter beats.
If you wanted to change the appearance or distance between certain notes, you would add note spacing in the note properties box, not add an invisible note which has a specific time value. While all of the measures contain three quarter beats, not all will show when printed. Why not just make the first note in the measure a half note?
Another problem I see with this example is that the third bar line does not show up in print preview, nor does it print! Understandably if this was the end of the piece, it shouldn't be there anyway, but...
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General Discussion / Re: Bug: beta 2.05 Slur Print Preview
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:1|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:1
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
|Bar
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th,Slur|Pos:1|Opts:XNoteSpace=1|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-1
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
Which looks about right (but not quite!), to me. It looks as though the notes in a subsequent staff would not line up properly as there are only two quarter notes showing while there are actually three quarter beats of time in the example. But that's another problem. It seems that making the note invisible changes the distance between notes making the arc higher as the notes are squeezed together. I can see how this would present a problem, especially when its effect is not visible until print preview. I would hate to have to go back through a whole score fixing this little aberation. On the other hand, I am having a tough time understanding when this usage comes into play, (except when trying to do work-arounds for other annoyances like getting the triplet bracket to go the right way). I would be interested in seeing an example where this hidden slurred note is useful or how you came upon such a thing. Were you actually using it or was it happenstance?
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General Discussion / Re: Bug: beta 2.05 Slur Print Preview
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General Discussion / Re: Bug: beta 2.05 Slur Print Preview
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General Discussion / Re: Playback Volume
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General Discussion / Re: Multi Measure Rests
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General Discussion / Re: Serious bug in length of Whole Notes (But Not Rests)
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General Discussion / Re: Serious bug in length of Whole Notes (But Not Rests)
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General Discussion / Re: Serious bug in length of Whole Notes (But Not Rests)
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General Discussion / Re: how to enter composer's name?
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General Discussion / Re: i Need someone's opinion
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General Discussion / Re: Special Endings and ties. Visual glitch
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General Discussion / Re: Triplet notation appearing in wrong place
Your method like mine, only works for quarter notes or notes with no flags - I think. I am not sure I understand the whole white out thing. Can you remove the flags from stems of the eighth notes? If you use quarter note stems, the lateral distance between notes becomes a problem and as of now, there are no negetave values for note spacing so that you can only create more space, not less. It would be a lot easier if they just gave us the option to have the bracket above or below.
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General Discussion / Re: Triplet notation appearing in wrong place
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General Discussion / Re: Triplet notation appearing in wrong place
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General Discussion / Re: Converting WAV to NWC
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Try doubling your tempo and doubling all the note and rest values (just highlight all the notes and rests at once, and press the plus sign).
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General Discussion / Re: Master repeat, more than twice
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General Discussion / Re: Converting WAV to NWC
I got the bit you sent. You must have some church orchestra if you can play that kind of stuff. Nice. I think I must have misunderstood your initial request. I was going to write the solo with NWC as I can usually pick out the notes with out too much problem, but you say in your e-mail that you have already done that. I believe Lawrie is right about there not being software capable of doing that for you. Especially a jazz piece like that. There is an awful lot going on besides the "solo" so that no software would be able to single out the trombone part or even distinguish between it and the other horns playing simultaneously.
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General Discussion / Re: Converting WAV to NWC
You can't post an mp3 on this forum so send it to: Pisteuomusic@yahoo.com. I can't promise anyting but I'll give it a shot. If it's only a portion of the song it should be doable.
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General Discussion / Re: Serious bug in length of Whole Notes (But Not Rests)
The Cyberhymnal uses NWC for it's music which is a free service.
While I wasn't able to come up with any 5/4 scores off hand, you can go to http://www.cyberhymnal.org/index.htm and check out a few of these unususal time signatures.
9/4 Have thine own way Lord
3/2 Hear the voice of Jesus calling
9/8 I will sing of my redeemer
9/4 One day
12/8 O Holy Night
6/4 Make me a blessing
They would be much easier to understand than Igor.
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General Discussion / Re: Serious bug in length of Whole Notes (But Not Rests)
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General Discussion / Re: Serious bug in length of Whole Notes (But Not Rests)
"What I'm trying to say is that the length of a whole note is equal to the top note of the key signature."
What you are trying to say makes no sense to me.
The number in the top of the time signature is the number of beats per measure. The bottom number is the type of beat. 2/2 says there are 2 half beats per measure. 6/8 says, 6 eighth beats per measure, 3/4 says there are 3 quarter notes per measure and so on. Again, the top number in the time sig. does not dictate the value of any type of note including whole, half, quarter, eighth or any other type of note. It will however establish the duration of the rest.
OK Lawrie, bail me out! I don't seem to be articulating very well. Maybe you can make it clearer. I could be wrong!
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General Discussion / Re: Serious bug in length of Whole Notes (But Not Rests)
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General Discussion / Re: Serious bug in length of Whole Notes (But Not Rests)
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