I have absolutely no idea how to add a drums/percussion part to m y music. There's no inst. Patch for it, so how do i add it?
Set the drum staff to MIDI channel 10
For more info, open:
Program Files\NoteWorthy Composer\SAMPLES\DRUMREF.NWC
If you set the instrument for the drum staff to Acoustic Grand Piano, and the midi channel to 10, you'll get decent drum effects. Each sound is at a different vertical position. You can use a hidden staff for creating the sound, and use a muted visible staff for the notation.
Also, if you use NWC2, you can get x-shaped note heads.
And diamond-shaped note heads, headless notes, and percussion clefs.
I don't know if anyone's written a user script (NWC2 only) to transform from the percussion notation to MIDI channel 10 notes.
I don't believe a script would be of much use since it has no concept of clef, key or transposition.
But if you are after a means of notating percussion notes at a specific notated clef position while having them interpreted at a particular MIDI pitch then you simply use transposition on as many layered staffs as required.
Edit: what is a "MIDI channel"?
"MIDI Channel" is an arbitrary contruct of the
MIDI Specification.
If you press
F2 on a staff, click on the
Midi tab, click on the
? (upper right corner), then click on
Channel, you get this:
I would add that channel 10 is usually percussion and that it would help if NWC would skip it when assigning "a new, unique channel".
See also:
FAQ - Staff versus MIDI Channel
http://ntworthy.com/composer/faq/97.htm
Thanks! Now i can finally have pecussion sounds on my music
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