NoteWorthy Composer Forum

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Whole|Pos2:6
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:6
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:#4
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:7
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:3^
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:3
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End


The dotted whole note A disappears after it's doubled.

I am not sure what you mean. Would you elaborate?

The sound. You no longer hear the A after it's been briefly duplicated by another note in the counter-melody. (Admittedly, this was fiddling around that is now significantly different, but it's a case that could come up in intended passages easily.) at the end of

|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:6

the Whole note from

|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Whole|Pos2:6

Is cut off two beats early.

This is a function of your MIDI synthesizer, and its driver. Some synthesizers are capable of accepting and queueing overlapping "note on" events at the same pitch (playing each separately), and then handling each corresponding "note off" event chronologically.  However, many MIDI synthesizers are not capable of handling this.

I've run into this problem many times and the only workaround I know that works is to create a hidden staff with the same instrument on a different chanel.  Mute the visible dotted whole note and insert the note you want sustained in the hidden staff.

*nod* Fair enough. And it's easily got around with layering, anyway.

If the two layers are on different channels.

This will produce the desired sound:

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.5,Single)
|Chord|Dur:8th|Pos:3|Opts:Stem=Down|Dur2:Whole|Pos2:6
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:6^
|Note|Dur:4th,Grace|Pos:6|Opts:Stem=Down,Muted|Visibility:Never
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:#4
|Note|Dur:8th|Pos:7
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:3^
|Note|Dur:4th,Dotted|Pos:3
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

Unfortunately, NWC currently has no provision to hide the tie. IMO, it should.