Confused by this topic's title? You soon will be...
I imported a nice jazzy MIDI into NWC2. In this case, the jazzy rhythm winds up in my NWC file like this:
!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Note|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:-6|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:-3|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
|Note|Dur:8th,Dotted|Pos:-1|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=First
|Note|Dur:16th|Pos:0|Opts:Stem=Up,Beam=End
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End
That is, dotted 8ths paired with 16ths. I want all these pairs to change into pairs of 8ths, in order to control the jazz sound myself with a "standard" NWC method (MIDI controller)
The GlobalMod user tool does not seem to be able to change pairs of objects. (My judgement, please correct me if I'm wrong).
Is there another (easy) way to accomplish what I want? I started editing the pairs by hand, but that is a long and tedious process.
Thanks,
Wilm
The "reward" will be: a nice arrangement of "Take Five" for saxophone and piano
G'day Wilm,
You can do this in 2 passes with Global_Mod
Assuming they are all beamed pairs as in your example.
First pass:
Note,Dur.8th,Dur.Dotted,Opts.Beam==First Dur=8th
Second Pass:
Note,Dur.16th,Opts.Beam==End Dur=8th
If you have some that are not beamed then you can remove the "Opts.Beam==xxx" part but beware that it could change bits you don't want changed. I would make selections and run the tool over each selection in turn.
Lawrie,
Thanks for giving this a thought.
However, there are dotted eights that are not in any pair, and they will have to remain dotted. So, still a lot of selecting and GlobalMod to do in that case.
I have been a programmer in a previous life, and am now taking a flight forward, away from Windows and on to the only platform I know how to program on: OpenVMS and DCL. Ahh, those were the days.
I'll post the outcome in the NWC2 newsgroup. (Why? I'm still a bit confused on what should go where and why we have 2 (3?) newsgroups)
/Wilm
I created a user tool for you which will do what you want. It is posted at:
https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=5564.0
Thanks. Just for old times sake, here's how to do it in OpenVMS DCL.
Invoke: @UnJazz clip.txt clip.out, where clip.txt holds the input clip and... well, you figure it out.
How this must be rewritten for pairs of (16.,32) and others is left as an exercise for the reader.
/Wilm
File UnJazz.COM
$ get := read infile /end=EOI
$ put := write outfile
$!
$ open /read infile 'P1'
$ open /write outfile 'P2'
$ LOOP:
$ have_rec2 = 0
$ get rec
$ if F$element(1,"|",rec).nes."Note" then goto PUT
$ if F$element(2,"|",rec).nes."Dur:8th,Dotted" then goto PUT
$!
$! Now we have a dotted 8th, read the next record...
$!
$ get rec2
$ have_rec2 = 1
$ if F$element(1,"|",rec2).nes."Note" then goto PUT
$ if F$element(2,"|",rec2).nes."Dur:16th" then goto PUT
$!
$! Now we have a pair of [dotted 8th,16th], modify the records...
$!
$ fr = "8th,Dotted"
$ to = "8th"
$ di = F$len(fr)-F$len(to)
$ ifrom = F$loc(fr,rec)
$ rec = F$ext(0,ifrom,rec)+to+F$ext(ifrom+F$len(to)+di,255,rec)
$!
$ fr = "16th"
$ to = "8th"
$ di = F$len(fr)-F$len(to)
$ ifrom = F$loc(fr,rec2)
$ rec2 = F$ext(0,ifrom,rec2)+to+F$ext(ifrom+F$len(to)+di,255,rec2)
$ PUT:
$ put rec
$ if .NOT.have_rec2 then goto LOOP
$ put rec2
$ goto LOOP
$ EOI:
$ close infile
$ close outfile
G'day Wilm,
While Eric has made this redundant (Thanks Eric for the new tool) the "Opts.Beam==First/End" part of the selection section causes this Global_Mod expression to ignore unbeamed notes.
PS I like your
signature photo
OK, I promised you a "Take Five".
Here is the first installment. Work to be done:
- "Collapse" the flow control
- Listen to a recording and do the dynamics
- Ask Eric -politely- for an extension to his UnJazzify.php. Note the piano score with in the RH pairs of (Dotted 8th rest,16th note) and in the LH pairs of (Dotted 8th note, 16th rest). For this to work with the tempo controllers, each staff must have straight eighths
/Wilm
PS [glow=red,2,300]all Page and Staff fonts are SwingText, User1 font is SwingDings[/glow]
Hmm, thanks, but I'm not sure. I've been messing around with my signature (added a link to a photo), but I'm not seeing it myself. Does this post have a signature? What do you see?
Have you tried using the Find tool? Sometimes the older features are quick and easy.
G'day Wilm,
I see a quite sharp photo of yourself against an indeterminate but colourful background.
BTW I'm really pleased to see SwingDings getting a guernsey (Aussie slang for being put forward or having an opportunity to appear etc.) Thankyou. Of course now I'll have to hurry up and publish to the Scripto. Not quite ready yet but Real Soon Now. NG denizens have access to the beta links... Thankyou Wilm!
I have. Find will let me find a single dotted 8th. It will not let me find a
pair of anything. I would then have to modify all dotted 8ths, then finding the 16th rests (by now the 8th aren't dotted anymore, so I will quickly lose the context of what I'm doing)
Back to DCL then...
Yup, that's the one. Quite artful, innit? Now if I could only see it myself...
You're welcome. I
like the Swing* Font Suite (now doesn't that sound fancy, a suite!) Every print looks like it's straight from the Real Book!
I see what you mean. Seems to me this is a changed behaviour. I think I used to be able to paste a text string of more than one element into the Find search window, and it would highlight the string each time it was found. Then with something else in the clipboard, it was just a matter of F3 to find the target, and Ctrl V to paste the subject over it.
If you wanted to find all dotted 8ths, you could edit the text string in the Find window too, so it wouldn't matter what pitch.
Maybe I'm misremembering the capability, but if I'm right, I'm sorry it's gone.
I do see the picture using Internet Explorer, I don't see it when I'm using Mozilla Firefox.
Browsers... pfui!
[Edit] Users... more pfui...
It turned out that I did not allow this forum to download remote images. Now I do, and all's well with the world.
I have never noticed/used the capability before, so I wouldn't know.
Anyway, it's moot now, since Eric has provided V1.1 of UnJazzify (see User Tools section of this forum). It now also straightens out (rest,note/chord) and (note/chord,rest) pairs.