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General Discussion / Re: REINSTALL nwc after computer crash

Last post by binsley - 2025-10-20 10:43 AM

Well, mine wasn't a crash, it was a recent burglary in which my Windows 10 laptop was stolen. I was happily running 2.75; I have the Status Key and installation CD from 2.5, and I guess I must have paid to upgrade it to 2.75 at some point, but I can't see any email history of this. I've just bought a replacement laptop (Windows 11) that I'm using to type this message - but of course, like most modern laptops it has no optical drive...

I had fairly recent backups of all my NWC work, but none of the software itself, sadly.

Do I have any other option but to buy a new 2.75 licence?

General Discussion / Re: CHANGING THE INSTRUMENT IN MY NOTEWORTHY COMPOSER

Last post by Bart - 2025-10-17 10:34 PM

Hi, Niki.

What do you mean by " I can only get an electronic instrument when I play the music I have put in"?

When you open TOOLS\OPTIONS there is a MIDI tab where you can choose the playback device. At least Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth should be available on Windows. Make sure that this one (or another if you have multiple devices) are moved to the right panel "Devices used by play back".

Once you did that, you should be able to assign each staff to an instrument at your choice. Just hit F2 when in a staff and select the "instrument" tab. If no predefined instrument is chosen, the staff will use the first channel (piano) or the one that was assigned before. But it is always better to assign explicitly an instrument to be sure this will be used. Also check the midi tab where you can choose a play back device limited to the devices you selected in the TOOLS\OPTIONS list.

If this doesn't answer your question, please explain again what you are missing.

Bart

General Discussion / CHANGING THE INSTRUMENT IN MY NOTEWORTHY COMPOSER

Last post by Niki - 2025-10-17 01:30 PM

I have just rejoined NWC after an absence of 6 years. I can only get an electronic instrument when I play the music I have put in, and I want to get piano. How do I do this?

General Discussion / Re: Beats in a bar

Last post by Mike Shawaluk - 2025-10-06 01:13 PM

One thing I forgot to mention about rest chords is that you have to create them by first placing the rest, and then press Ctrl-Enter to add the chord member notes. If the rest chord's note is pointing in the wrong direction, you can highlight the rest chord and press Shift+up arrow or Shift+down arrow.

General Discussion / Re: Beats in a bar

Last post by AndyL - 2025-10-06 12:56 PM

Again - thank you so much for your help.
I *thought* I had tried your solution, and couldnt get the 'rest chord' to enter.
(I tried many varients, trying to understand what Mike had written. I see now where I had misunderstood)
And take your point about the stem direction on the 2/4 chord.
It was correct in my original - must have changed as I tried various opotions..

Thanks David - I had considered layering - but thought there must be a more elegant solution!

Again - thank you Mike and Flurmy for your help with this.
On to the next bar!

Andrew.

General Discussion / Re: Beats in a bar

Last post by Flurmy - 2025-10-06 12:00 PM

Layering works but, if only for this, it's an overkill.

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.751,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:Bb,Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Cb|Tonic:G
|TimeSig|Signature:3/4
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:-4,-1|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:2
|RestChord|Dur:8th|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem,HideRest|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-2
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-2,1
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-5^,-3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:2
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-5,-1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|RestChord|Dur:8th|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem,HideRest|Dur2:Half|Pos2:-5,-2
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Hint: read attentively what Mike wrote.

N.B. NWC doesn't care, but the stem direction of the 2/4 chord was wrong.

General Discussion / Re: Beats in a bar

Last post by David Palmquist - 2025-10-06 11:34 AM

Sometimes strugglng to understand the workings of these complicated chording and apply your knowledge just isn't worth the effort.

Layering can be your friend.

Here I think you can do what you need using a layered staff. Add a new staff below the one you're working in. You can either fill it with rests (with visibility=never) until you reach that particular bar, then copy the lower notes of the chords in that bar to the new staff. Delete them from the top staff, and set the top staff to "Layer with next staff."

You can also simply copy the entire original staff to the new one, and going to the target bar in both staffs, do the same as above.

General Discussion / Re: Page layout

Last post by David Palmquist - 2025-10-06 11:24 AM

Just looking at previously unread posts, don't know why there are so many.

The original question here commented on the length of the last staff on the last page. Here is someone's trick from years ago that I use for multi-page single instrument charts:

Add a Section Close bar line at the end of the last bar and assign a system break to it. This forces that bar to end at the right margin. Then add a system break at, say, 5 or 6 bars from the end so the last line looks right. Depending on whether or not you have other system breaks near the end, tweak them until you get the layout looking right to you.

(This is for single staffs. If you're printing a piano part or a score, you would work with the top staff in the group.)

The charts I did recently ran two and three pages. If I plan to print to PDF and print both sides of a page, I try to put a page break either side of a long rest to make page turns less frantic. If I plan to print just one side, I try to use not more than 3 pages, because they will fit a music stand when opened out.

I try to fit the same number of systems on all the pages, but if, for instance, I have 29 systems, that will take three pages. I would use page breaks to make the first page 9 systems and the second and third 10 each.

last line is not 6 bars from the end so 5 bars appear on the last line. Move back a few bars again and add a system break. Usually by the time I've done the last 3 of 4 systems on the page, everything looks good.

Generally I don't want the same number of bars on every system on the page. It is easier on the instrumentalist's eyes if the bar lines aren't perfectly aligned.

General Discussion / Re: Beats in a bar

Last post by AndyL - 2025-10-06 11:17 AM

OK (Sigh) this made perfect sense to me - until the next bar.
Please help me understand how this should work.
From what I understand I need to 'steal' 3 eigth beats from the top line.
But whatever I try doesnt work.

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]

!NoteWorthyComposer(2.751)
|Editor|ActiveStaff:1|CaretIndex:4|CaretPos:-3
|SongInfo|Title:""|Author:"<Name>"|Lyricist:""|Copyright1:"Copyright © 2025 <Name>"|Copyright2:"All Rights Reserved"
|PgSetup|StaffSize:16|Zoom:4|TitlePage:Y|JustifyVertically:Y|PrintSystemSepMark:N|ExtendLastSystem:N|DurationPadding:Y|PageNumbers:0|StaffLabels:None|BarNumbers:None|StartingBar:1
|Font|Style:StaffItalic|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:10|Bold:Y|Italic:Y|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:StaffBold|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:8|Bold:Y|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:StaffLyric|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:7.2|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:PageTitleText|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:24|Bold:Y|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:PageText|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:12|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:PageSmallText|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:8|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:User1|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:8|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:User2|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:8|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:User3|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:8|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:User4|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:8|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:User5|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:8|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|Font|Style:User6|Typeface:"Times New Roman"|Size:8|Bold:N|Italic:N|CharSet:0
|PgMargins|Left:1.27|Top:1.27|Right:1.27|Bottom:1.27|Mirror:N
|AddStaff|Name:"Staff"|Group:"Standard"
|StaffProperties|EndingBar:Section Close|Visible:Y|BoundaryTop:12|BoundaryBottom:12|Lines:5|Color:Default
|StaffProperties|Muted:N|Volume:127|StereoPan:64|Device:0|Channel:1
|StaffInstrument|Trans:0|DynVel:10,30,45,60,75,92,108,127
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:Bb,Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Cb|Tonic:G
|TimeSig|Signature:3/4
|Chord|Dur:4th|Pos:-4,-1|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:2
|RestChord|Dur:8th|Opts:Stem=Up,ArticulationsOnStem,HideRest|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-2
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:5|Opts:Stem=Up
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:4|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First|Dur2:4th|Pos2:-2,1
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Bar
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-5^,-3|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=First|Dur2:4th,Dotted|Pos2:2
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:-5,-1|Opts:Stem=Down,Beam=End
|Chord|Dur:Half|Pos:-5,-2|Opts:Stem=Up
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:2|Opts:Stem=Up
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposer-End

Really appreciate the help you are giving me....
Noteworthy is a great programme - and so well supported...
I dont normally use it for complex things - but just occasionally things crop up

Andrew.

General Discussion / Re: Beats in a bar

Last post by AndyL - 2025-10-06 09:46 AM

Brilliant! thank you....
Exectly what I wanted - in a elegant way.