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Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chuck on 1998-04-17 04:00 AM

Title: Percussion
Post by: Chuck on 1998-04-17 04:00 AM
I love Noteworthy! I think it is a fantastic value. I cannot,
however, figure out how to write my own percussion line. I can
use the ones provided with Noteworthy and then modify them as
I need, but I would also think that I could start from scratch
and create and notate a percussion staff.
Here is what I want to be able to do:
1) Create a new staff
2) select the intrument for this staff to be a percussion set
3) notate the percussion I want for my musical composition.

HOW DO I DO THIS?
Thanks in advance.
Chuck
Title: Re: Percussion
Post by: Andrew on 1998-04-17 04:00 AM
1) Create a new staff
Press Control-A (for "Add")

2) select the intrument for this staff to be a percussion set
F2 (staff properties, nothing mnemonic there, I'm afraid). Change the Channel to 10 (normally, 16 in some cases, suck it and see).

3) notate the percussion I want for my musical composition.
Somewhere, someone created a file called Drum.nwc (either in the online help, user tips or on the newsgroup), which gives every percussion sound generated by (most) general midi devices. That should do the trick.

Andrew P
Title: Re: Percussion
Post by: Peter Vasey on 1998-04-17 04:00 AM
Also look at common questions no. 6 in NWC Help, and at the file 'drumref.nwc' in the 'samples' folder (which I suspect from your questions you've already found).