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Stuck Notes

Hi, i am transcribing the overture to The Marriage of Figaro into NWC and i am having trouble with notes sticking after the ties have stopped. I have looked in the help and i did what it said, butit didn't work...anyone willing to help???

Re: Stuck Notes

Reply #1 –
If you make sure that notes on both sides of a tie (especially across a barline) have the same accidental, it /should/ work. The accidental will show up in grey, which means it's there as a courtesy for you but won't show up in printing (as should be).

HTH
Fred

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Reply #2 –
Also be sure not to be confused between slur and tie.
I'm often, because in french there is only one word for both...
The tie is on the right of the note.

Re: Stuck Notes

Reply #3 –
...and slurs won't cause a stuck note, like a tie could do if not terminated properly.

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Reply #4 –
How can one be sure that a tie is "terminated properly?"
 

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Reply #5 –
You just stop hearing the note when the tie is done properly.

Why does NWC allow stuck notes?  I think it's something like this:

Some people add a tie after entering the two notes, some people set the tie characteristic when entering the first note.

Within a single measure NWC doesn't care. If follows conventional rules and applies the accidental to both the first and second note of that value in the bar, regardless of whether you add the tie before or after entering the second note (by default it will only display the accidental sign for the first one).

The rules change when you cross a bar line.  The notes in the second bar have to have an accidental marked again, in written music, unless it is on the receiving end of a tie.

NWC doesn't have the ability to know whether or not you intend to make the first note in the new bar the target of a tie or not, so it requires you to tell it the note needs to be an accidental, whether or not the tie is already in place.

This is only an issue with playback, so if you forget to sharpen or flatten that target note in the second bar, NWC gives you an audible warning by just continuing to play the preceding note as a stuck note.

Hope this makes sense, gotta run and don't have time to double check / edit what I wrote.