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User Tools / Re: Percussion splitter
Last post by Flurmy -
Argument #1 is the name of the staff. There something odd with them.
What are the names of the staves in your score that begin with "Perc. staff "?

P.S. I'm not Bart!  :D
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User Tools / Re: Percussion splitter
Last post by yukulele -
Hi Bart!


I just reinstalled NWC, one of the first things to do is to reinstall the essential percussions-split plugin!

Unfortunately, I'm getting an error that I don't think I've encountered before:

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Usertools\fl_PercussionSplit-2.0.lua:738: bad argument #1 to 'match' (string expected, got table)


I tried this quick fix:

replace line 738
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    local PercStaffNumber = string.match(Item.Opts.Name, PercStaffName.."(%d+)")
with
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    local PercStaffNumber = 0

This hack seems to work, but I assume this line must serve some purpose, right?

- Are you also experiencing this problem?
- Is it a configuration error?
- How can it be fixed?
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General Discussion / Re: Sound problem
Last post by David Palmquist -
To add a bass saxophone to Lawrie's great table:

Bass sax is written in treble clef, 26 semitones higher than concert pitch.  If you start with a tuba part, you change the clef from bass clef to treble clef, highlight all the notes, and use the down arrow to move them down 12 steps.  Bass clef top line A should become treble clef A two leger lines below that staff.  Then transpose up 26 semtitones - you have to do this in three steps - transpose up 12, then again up 12, and finally up 2, make sure each transpose operation has the Update staff playback box checked. 

Rather than change the tuba staff I copy it and transpose the copy.  That lets me compare my tuba notation with the original hard copy, and check my transposition with the little piano keyboard in the toolbar (highlight a tuba note, see which key is red in the keyboard, then compare that to what is red when the corresponding note is selected in the transposed staff). 

(Why did I need to learn to do this?  A new musician joined our community band, bringing us up to four tenor saxes - way too many.  One tenor player then switched to bari sax, giving us three tenors and three baris.  One bari decided that was too many, and decided to support our lone tuba with his bass sax.  I transposed the entire tuba folder for him.  SharpEye and Niversoft (Music-XML to NWCText converter) saved me many hours.)
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General Discussion / First submission to imslp
Last post by Warren Porter -
In the early 1960s, my violin teacher gave me an old piece of music, Historie by Pier Tirindelli. I've kept up with it since then but have found few references to it on the internet.
The scan of the music plus a pdf that NWC created is on imslp.org .
My NWC transcription has been on Scriptorium for several years.
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General Discussion / Re: Sound problem
Last post by tarala -
Thanks Lawrie, that was the most amazing answer ever, I've learned a lot. The problem was  a simple (and stupid) one; as you mentioned early on one of the staffs was missing a key signature change in the middle of the piece. I'd thought maybe the sound card on my old computer was going but nope.
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General Discussion / Re: Sound problem
Last post by Lawrie Pardy -
Firstly, please excuse the detail - I know you're a long term user, but I figured it best to give a detailed reply in case a newbie read this and wondered what I was going on about.

OK, I'm not sue what you mean by "sounds awful" but I'm going to assume you mean it sounds discordant.

If that's the case, then the first place I would look is for an erroneous key signature.  If the staff is in "C" or "Am" then make sure you still have a key sig.  It will be a hidden (faint) natural sign on the "F" line, and you have to enter it yourself, they are not automatic.

Another thing to check is that the clef is correct - E.G. an erroneous tenor clef instead of an alto clef can easily be missed but would cause all sorts of odd results.  Ditto any other clef substitution but they would be more obvious.

Next you might check to see if there's an erroneous staff transposition.  Check the properties for each staff:
Select a staff; press <Alt+Enter>; select "Instrument [tab]"; check the "Transposition" scroll box; rinse and repeat...
Normally this will be "0"* unless you have performed a transposition for a transposing instrument (E.G. saxophone) in which case it should be a number of semitones opposite to the transposition you did (E.G. transpose +9 for an Alto sax, the transposition in the staff properties should be -9).

It should be noted that if you've transcribed a score from a source that has transposing instruments included then the transposition scroll box in the staff properties needs to be updated accordingly.  See below for a table of common transpositions.

NB this transposition could also be in an instrument change object <I> or "Insert|Instrument Change..." <Alt+I> then <I>.
Locate and highlight the Instrument Change object; press <Alt+Enter>; select "Instrument [tab]"; check the "Transposition" scroll box as above for staff properties.

When transposing a staff "Tools|Transpose Staff", or <Alt+T> then <T>, the dialogue asks via a checkbox if you want to "Update the staff playback transposition".  This is used to transpose from concert pitch to the correct notation for a transposing instrument and will enter the reverse change as discussed above for the Alto sax example.  If you are changing a piece to a new key completely, then UNCHECK this box, otherwise if you are transposing for a transposing instrument then you should check it.

It is very important when using this feature that the staff have a key signature, even if it is in "C" or "Am" (this would be a hidden natural on the F line).  If this is not there the transposition has problems.

Some common instrument transpositions (where TC means Treble Clef):

InstrumentInst. KeyTrans from Concert Pitch (semitones)Reverse trans. for staff properties (semitones)
Trumpet, Sop SaxBb+2-2
Horn in F, TC F Tuba? (never seen it done)F+7 (+7 or +19)-7 (-19)
Alto Sax, Tenor (Alto) HornEb+9-9
#Tenor Sax, TC Trombone, TC Euphonium etc.Bb+2 (or +14)-14
#Bari Sax, TC Eb TubaEb+9 (or +21)-21
#TC Bb TubaBb+2 (or +26)-26
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<edit> N.B. F Tuba has been edited - if an F tuba were ever to be put in transposed treble clef (unlikely but who knows), then you would have to lower it by an extra octave compared to a Horn in F) </edit>
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# this is a little dependent on how the score was first written.  Quite often a score will be originally set up an octave high for ease of notation, BUT the playback must be an octave lower than would at first appear because these instruments are at least an octave lower than written Treble Clef at concert pitch. 

When I'm preparing a score that will include transposed instruments, I will usually preset the staff transposition accordingly, E.G if there's a Tenor, or Bari Sax, I will preset the staff transposition to -12, notate in concert pitch, then transpose the staff accordingly (+2 for the Tenor and +9 for the Bari), WITH the staff playback checkbox mentioned earlier checked.  This will result in the correct final staff transposition of -14 for the Tenor and -21 for the Bari.

Note that Trombone (excluding Bass Trombone), Tuba, Euphonium, Tenor (Alto) Horn, and Baritone are  written in Transposed Treble for British tradition brass bands (this includes Salvation Army scores) otherwise Trom, Euph, Bari. and Tuba are written in Concert Pitch bass clef - the only exception I've seen to this is the occasional European score that also includes BC versions of Trombone, Euph or Baritone in Bb - in these case the BC score is transposed - a true sacrilege IMHO.

Note also that in old scores, the Horn was written in bass clef without a key signature and referred to as Horn in F, or Horn in D etc. to denote which crook was being used.  In "modern" literature (from sometime in the mid 20th century) Horn is always written in transposed F, in both Treble and Bass clef, WITH a key signature.

Horn is hard... - https://www.hornmatters.com/2008/08/transposition-tricks-old-vs-new-notation/
especially for us non-horn players.

* there are cases where it might be -12 for certain instruments - this is just an octave shift for instruments that are normally notated an octave high, like a guitar, bass guitar, or double bass - I'm sure there are others.
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General Discussion / Sound problem
Last post by tarala -
I've used Noteworthy for 20 years with no real problems. I have checked and it appears to be updated. What's happening is, the sound when two or more staffs are played together is awful; at first I thought I must have entered completely wrong notes. When each staff is played individually, the sound is fine. Not much of a techie here, any suggestions? Thanks.