After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

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After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

16 years ago

I've had some troubles in NWC, so I uninstalled(unsuccessfully) and installed again (with setup.exe).
I have 1.75, but I also have 2.0.
(2.0 is an evaluation version. To me, 2.0 is for view others' 2.0 edition.)

I used to use 1.75 often.
When I open 1.75 format, it's opened with version 1.
Or when 2.0 format gets opened, version 2 appears with it.

But after NWC 1.75 re-installation, I get some problems with 2.0 format files.

I want to open 2.0 files, and open with Internet Explorer Downloader, then NWC ver 1 cursor appears, and then another cursor appears. It says,

Code: [Select · Download]

File: Beam Across Staves a.nwc
      This is a version '2.0' file, which is from a newer version of this application. It cannot be loaded using this application version.

I have opened 2.0 format files with version 1.75 (on purpose) before, so I know that the saying appears.
I wanna make it like before.

How can I do? Do I have to uninstall 2.0?

Sesirine.

Re: After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

Reply #1 – 16 years ago

https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=6680 may be of some help.

Re: After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

Reply #2 – 16 years ago

There was a member who's on the same boat. I didn't know. Thanks. It helped me.

Sesirine Erika.

Re: After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

Reply #3 – 15 years ago

I see this is an old thread, so I expect this problem has been solved already
to the initiator's satisfaction, but I kept version 1.75 and just installed version 2.
I can play both of them, but since Noteworthy files were associated with version 2
as part of the version 2 installation, If I want to play something in version 1.75
now, I have to start up version 1.75 then pick out the file I want to play with it.
I can have both versions running at the same time though, no problem. Getting
1.75 to be the default version instead of version 2 would be easy. In Windows
Explorer, highlight an ".NWC" file then from the toolbar choose
"file"/"open with"/"browse", then hunt for NWC32.EXE in Noteworthy 1.75 or
NWC2.EXE in Noteworthy 2.00, and set what you find as the new default application
to run an ".NWC" file.

My problem is that I haven't succeeded in getting good sound out of version
2.00, even though the same SoundBlaster card is the only sound working on my
system so the versions have to be using the same card. I'm going to start
another thread to see if anybody else has had and fixed this problem.

Since I can run Noteworthy 1.75 and 2.0 at the same time, on the same file,
I can flip back and forth to see if anything I do improves the sound on version
2, but so far nothing has helped.

Re: After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

Reply #4 – 15 years ago

G'day Arrowsmith,
welcome to the forum.

If you install the viewer: http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/nwc2/viewer.htm
it is capable of distinguishing between 1.75 and 2.0 files. By default it will be called when you double click on an NWC file but it can also be configured to launch the apropriate editor rather than simply playing the file in the viewer. Go to |Tools|Options| and tick the "Automatic launch into NWC" check box.

NWC2 Play-back Instrument Sounds

Reply #5 – 15 years ago

Quote from: arrowsmith – 15 years ago

Since I can run Noteworthy 1.75 and 2.0 at the same time, on the same file,
I can flip back and forth to see if anything I do improves the sound on version
2, but so far nothing has helped.

You can make NWC2 use the same instrument sounds as version 1 by doing the following:

In NWC1, open Tools, Options, Midi and make a note of what is in "Devices used by play back."
Close NWC1.
Open NWC2, goto Tools, Options, Midi, and configure the exact same "Devices used by play back."
Your copy of NWC2 will now use the exact same instrument sounds as NWC1.

Re: After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

Reply #6 – 15 years ago

This is a response from Geoff Arrowsmith to Lawrie Pardy and to Noteworth online admin

to Lawrie Pardy:

Thanks for your help, but I got the same result, the sound is as poor with the
viewer in version 2 as it is using version 2 directly. The viewer would be a
good way to send stuff out though, but I'd prefer to make WAV or MP3 files
by recording the "what you hear" sound from my card, so as not to depend on
other people's sound cards. I use a program called "GOLDWAVE" which does a
super job on that, at least with 1.75, but I get all the stuttering because of
my gummed-up 8-year old registry with that. I haven't tried it with 2.0 which
seems not to have the problem that I have with that about 1.75.
http://www.goldwave.com/
There's a pretty hefty pricetag on Goldwave, which I haven't paid. I only got
it the other day, so I don't know yet if it will eventually stop working if I don't
pay up.

I gather you're in Australia. If it's Sydney, you're approaching blazing hot
season about now. I was there in 1999 or 2000 in February, and I couldn't
believe how hot it was. I'd been planning on taking a side trip up to the
Gold Coast, but after I got to Sydney, I didn't want to get any closer to the
equator at that time of year.

to Noteworthy Online Admin

Thanks for your help, but as noted in the other thread, I've already tried
that, and it didn't work. I may try re-installing SoundBlaster next, to see
if that helps. Whenever I have a computer problem, it always seems to
be something bizarre - I'm just star-crossed that way, I guess.

Re: After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

Reply #7 – 15 years ago

Quote from: arrowsmith – 15 years ago

Thanks for your help, but as noted in the other thread, I've already tried
that, and it didn't work.

Trust me, if you configure the same device for play back in NWC1 and NWC2 while using the same computer, you will get the same instrument sound quality for both when playing back. If you do not get the same instrument quality for the same song, then you aren't using the same device in both programs.

Re: After NWC 1.75 re-installation...

Reply #8 – 15 years ago

G'day Geoff,

Quote from: arrowsmith – 15 years ago

This is a response from Geoff Arrowsmith to Lawrie Pardy and to Noteworth online admin

to Lawrie Pardy:

Thanks for your help, but I got the same result, the sound is as poor with the
viewer in version 2 as it is using version 2 directly. The viewer would be a
good way to send stuff out though...

Umm, I was responding to the part about opening the correct version of NWC...:

Quote from: arrowsmith – 15 years ago

I see this is an old thread, so I expect this problem has been solved already
to the initiator's satisfaction, but I kept version 1.75 and just installed version 2.
I can play both of them, but since Noteworthy files were associated with version 2
as part of the version 2 installation, If I want to play something in version 1.75
now, I have to start up version 1.75 then pick out the file I want to play with it.
I can have both versions running at the same time though, no problem. Getting
1.75 to be the default version instead of version 2 would be easy. In Windows
Explorer, highlight an ".NWC" file then from the toolbar choose
"file"/"open with"/"browse", then hunt for NWC32.EXE in Noteworthy 1.75 or
NWC2.EXE in Noteworthy 2.00, and set what you find as the new default application
to run an ".NWC" file.

The viewer solves this problem by opening v1.75 files in NWC 1.75 and v2.0 files in NWC2.

Quote

I gather you're in Australia. If it's Sydney, you're approaching blazing hot
season about now. I was there in 1999 or 2000 in February, and I couldn't
believe how hot it was. I'd been planning on taking a side trip up to the
Gold Coast, but after I got to Sydney, I didn't want to get any closer to the
equator at that time of year.

Yeah, it gets pretty warm this time of year, but you get used to it. Humidity is the real killer though. I grew up inland where it's dry and much easier to cope with much higher temperatures.

These days I live just North of Sydney.

I see from the other thread that you resolved the sound quality issue.