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NWC to WAV

In addition to user tip 136 on converting to WAV:
I frequently use this to make CDs for helping people rehearse choir pieces:
In start NWC and open the file I want;
I start my Wave recorder (any will do, I use Sound Forge) and start the recording;
I shift to NWC and start playing the piece.

A few requirements:
You need a full duplex sound-card
you need to choose the propper input in the volume control after you've choosen for: recording.

Drawback: relatively slow (it's real-time!)

Were do I submit user tips, or comments on them by the way?

Re: NWC to WAV

Reply #1 –
Thanks for your comment, Michiel. As you noted, https://forum.noteworthycomposer.com/?topic=3468 has a lot to say about this topic.

Not everyone can submit a user tip, or add a comment to an existing user tip. I don't work for NWC, but it is my belief that the user tips part of the site has limited access. The reason is that a tip becomes less useful when it receives a lot of additional comments. Also, a tip could rapidly become an alternative forum with proponents of this-or-that method sparring with each other.

But this ordinary forum can normally be used for tips and commentary, as you have done. Since there is a search capability, be assured that anyone looking for the topic will find it.

A certain portion of the NWC customer base, I believe, consists of educational users who do not always have the fanciest equipment, and cannot get it. For them, real-time recording (the method you suggested) may not be the best way. If (as is likely to be the case) their sound card is of low quality, or they have no sound card, then software conversion is better. Also, computers with few resources (low memory, slow processor) will not be able to record complicated MIDI files to WAV in real time, without hesitation and noise.

On the other hand, those users who have a great sound card with huge sound fonts, and so forth, may find that real-time recording produces the best results.

Re: NWC to WAV

Reply #2 –
My own way to do it:

YOU WILL NEED: (H=Hardware S=Software)
S - Windows Sound Recorder
S - Goldwave
S - MSN Messenger
H - Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth (for quality)
H - A Microphone

METHOD:
Unplug your Microphone and open sound recorder. With your Microphone still unpluged, press record and leave it for a whole minute. Save that file and make a new one. Add the blank file until the duration reaches a minute more than your song. Use the Audio Tuning Wizard to make sure everything is okay, then Open your song in NoteWorthy. Plug in your Microphone again and set sound recorder to record. Quickly, go in to NoteWorthy and press play. Leave the room and QUIETLY shut the door. When NoteWorthy has finished, enter the room again and stop recording. Test the playback and delete any space after the end and before the beginning of the tune. Use GoldWave to fine tune the file, by silencing all the quality and saving it to MP3.

Not quite perfect, but the best most of us can do with Sound Recorder.