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Object Plugins / Re: User object for lyric-dependent ties?

Last post by Bart - 4 months ago

If it is possible to find out the repeat count, I expect to find it in nwcPlayContext (SeenFirstEnding and Ending1Context), but I never used these, so it may be a false path.

Bart

Avant-garde / Re: Windows Copilot may help faster than searcing the forums for help .

Last post by David Palmquist - 4 months ago

Regardless of its lousy wording, Copilot was telling me the Db part was written half a tone below a C part.
I read

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Since D-flat is one semitone below C, you need to transpose the staff up by 1 semitone.

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Since a D-flat part is one semitone below a C part, you need to transpose the Db instrument up a 1 semitone for a C instrument.

So that's what I did. The Db Picc in G major needed to become C Picc in Ab major. The result jibed with a C Flute part someone manually transposed in the distant past. The key signature also matched the bass clef parts.

I played this piece on 3rd clarinet in concert around 60 years ago, when I had only been playing maybe a year. The 2nd and 3rd parts shared a march size page and lots of the notes were above the staff, then around the upper end of my range. A few notes went into the altissimo. . This was my first ever concert, I think we filled our 500 or 700 seat theatre. I was terrified. It's funny, that was our junior band; the senior bandleader was my clarinet teacher. He's still alive and will be 104 this month.

I recently found a full set of PDF parts and thought I'd like to hear how the music sounds with a more experienced band. One of my current bandleaders agreed to take it on if I print it all out. The instrumentation is from the turn of the century, so some parts need to be transposed for modern band instruments. I'm too cheap to buy the commercial arrangements that are available; I suspect they've been dumbed down a little.

General Discussion / Re: Scriptorium Update

Last post by Richard Woodroffe - 4 months ago

Folks
The Scriptorium has been updated with works submitted by :

Richard Woodroffe    D737 Opus 56 No.2 An die Leier   (Schubert)
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Maurizio Spagni   Die Spieldose (Music box) - n. 2 (Humoreske) from "Drei leichte stücke" Op. 29   (Poenitz)   (Updated)
Maurizio Spagni   Wiegenliedchen - n. 3 from "Drei leichte stücke" Op. 29   (Poenitz)   (Updated)

If you would like to be notified every time the Scriptorium is updated, please send an e-mail requesting Scriptorium Update    notification to nwcscriptorium "at" gmail "dot" com

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Stay safe

Richard

Object Plugins / Re: User object for lyric-dependent ties?

Last post by Flurmy - 4 months ago

I'm not sure if it's possible to know which verse is playing.
Theoretivally NWC knows because it higlights the correct verse, but I don't know how to have that information in a plugin.

Object Plugins / User object for lyric-dependent ties?

Last post by Opagust - 4 months ago

As a choral singer, I export the songs from nwc to midi and play them while following on the printed score. But consider the following:

As you can see in the attachment, there are 2 tied notes in the beginning of the measure 4. That's OK for the first 2 verses, but not for the third one, where we have 2 syllables.
On the original score this is indicated with a dashed tie, but in NWC this causes a problem when you want to play the song or export to midi. Wit a real tie, the third verse isn't played correctly, when removing the tie and inserting a dashed slur.ms object, the first two verses aren't played as they should.

I managed to solve this problem as you can see in the second attachment and the code snippet below. But it's a lot of manual work.
I'm considering to write a user tool to achieve this, but I think it would need complicated logic to make it user friendly.

So I was wondering if it could be solved with a new user object?
(I'm not experienced enough with making user object plugins).
The tie should be manually be removed and the object be inserted before the first note.
I think could work as follows:

- input:
° span: number of tied notes
° verse numbers where the tie should be active
- actions of the plugin:
° draw a dashed tie
° play one longer note for the indicated verses
° play the notes as if not tied, for the other verses.

Code: [Select · Download]

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.751,Single)
|Ending|Endings:1,2|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:-3^|Opts:Stem=Up,Lyric=Never,Beam=First|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Lyric=Never,Beam|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Lyric=Never,Beam=End|Visibility:Never
|Ending|Endings:3|Visibility:Never
|User|Slur.ms|Pos:-3|Pen:dash
|Note|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Ending|Endings:1,2,3|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:8th,Slur|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Diminuendo,Lyric=Always,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-5|Opts:Stem=Up,Diminuendo,Lyric=Always,Beam
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:-4|Opts:Stem=Up,Lyric=Always,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

General Discussion / Re: Eighth Special Ending

Last post by Flurmy - 4 months ago

I don't know if this can be of help for you, but you can fake the master repeats.

Code: (nwc) [Select · Download]

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.751,Single)
|Text|Text:"  "|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:0|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Bar|Style:SectionOpen
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Text|Text:"  "|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:0|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Bar|Style:SectionClose
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-4
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-4
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-4
|Bar
|Text|Text:""|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:-3|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:""|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:-1|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:""|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:1|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:""|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:3|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:" "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:-3.5|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:" "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:-2|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:" "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:0|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:" "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:2|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:"   "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:0|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Bar
|Spacer|Width:300
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:0
|Spacer|Width:300
|Text|Text:""|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:-3|Justify:Right|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:""|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:-1|Justify:Right|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:""|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:1|Justify:Right|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:""|Font:StaffSymbols|Pos:3|Justify:Right|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:" "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:-3.5|Justify:Right|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:" "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:-2|Justify:Right|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:" "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:0|Justify:Right|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:" "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:2|Justify:Right|Placement:AtNextNote
|Text|Text:"   "|Font:StaffSymbols|Scale:90|Pos:0|Justify:Center|Placement:AtNextNote
|Bar
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

General Discussion / Re: Eighth Special Ending

Last post by Bart - 4 months ago

Dear Keith,

It all depends on your score, but maybe "local repeat open" and "local repeat close" can solve your problem.
The repeat count can be set at any number. For the music this may be a valid option.
Be aware that in professional scores, local repeats are (almost) never used, so your score will not have a professional look.

Bart

General Discussion / Eighth Special Ending

Last post by Keith D - 4 months ago

I want to include an eighth special ending in a piece, but the command only goes to 7. I have simulated the eighth ending by using flow direction commands, having tried editing the nwctxt file ( |Ending|Endings:8 ) to no avail, but would prefer a proper solution. At the end of the bar I have a close master repeat as I want to go back to the open master repeat section for a final time after the 8th verse.

Any suggestions?

Avant-garde / Re: Windows Copilot may help faster than searcing the forums for help .

Last post by Mike Shawaluk - 4 months ago

Below, above, it's all the same, isn't it?

General Discussion / Re: Recovered Files

Last post by Flurmy - 4 months ago

Maybe they are in a directory for which you don't have the right to write (or delete).
(Just guessing)