I know that in the past a wish-list item has been an expansion of the "Transpose" function to work not only on one Staff at a time but in addition, and if so chosen, on the entire (multi-staff) Score in one fell swoop. This latter would be very convenient when trying to match/compare a previously-written NWC Score with a recording of the Work that has been made at a lower pitch - typical of many Classical pieces which were originally intended for playing at "Baroque" pitch (C=415) rather than modern pitch (C=440). Changing an orchestral score staff by staff, while perfectly possible, is a bit of a drag! And it's especially irritating for me, when working on a Choral Score, such as a Mass, with maybe ten or more independent sections.
So: can we do a "whole Score" transpose now, with 2.75 (if so, I can't find how!), or ... has someone made a User Tool for this?
MusicJohn, 4/Oct/15
The Viewer can be used to transpose the play back of a file.
If you actually want to transpose all staffs, you should probably do them one staff at a time. Theoretically, a user tool could be made to do this. If you just want to set the staff transposition in staff properties, a global mod expression like this might help:
StaffInstrument Trans+=2
This expression transposes the play back of all staffs up by two semitones.
Take care of channel 10! :D
Excellent point...if you use that expression, you will need to fix any percussion staffs.
To change all the transpositions, use:
StaffInstrument,Trans Trans+=2 Instrument,Trans Trans+=2
But, as Flurmy says, you will need to reset anything assigned to the drum channel(s)
"The Viewer can be used to transpose the play back of a file."
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Sorry: I hit the wrong key!
"The Viewer can be used to transpose the play back of a file."
Ah. I didn't know that. But ... if it can, then presumably the main NWC ought to be able to - could easily be modified to - do such a global transpose as well?
And ... if I could send the transposed version to NWC2 - which I can't; probably because I'm still using W2K I get an error message
"The Windows Shell reports that the file
could not be opened using the "open with
NWC Version 2" verb. NWC 2 may not be
completely installed on your system"
- or to NWC 1 - which again I can't but this time because the choice is "greyed out" - I think I'd be happy.
At the moment I am totally higgorant about global mods and the like.
MusicJohn, 4/Oct/15
You can't. The viewer does not modify song files.
Thanks for all your comments. Once I move over to NWC2 - 2.75 - I will endeavour to make use of them.
Meanwhile ... still using W2K I fear I may have to continue adjusting each staff, one by one, changing the pitch using the Staff Properties (F2)/Midi window (in 2.75, of course, this pitch control has been moved over to the selected Instrument Window).
It really, really would be nice if I could transpose - ie, modify the pitch - the lot all in one fell swoop!
Of course, one possibility, albeit rather time-consuming, is to convert the File to nwctxt, do a find-and-replace of the several "trans" commands, and then convert back to plain nwc. That works - provided I choose the right variety of plain text to convert back to - though it's a bit draggy to import to 2.75, save as nwctxt, load into Notepad and do the f-&-r and save, import back into 2.75, and finally export as 1.75. Still, worth doing with a File with lots of staves.
MusicJohn, 12/Oct/15
Hello MusicJohn,
Does the following tool meet your needs?
TransposeScore (https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=9248.0)