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Arpeggiation

How does one do arpeggio in Noteworthy? Can anyone help me?
Thanks

Re: Arpeggiation

Reply #1 –
It depends a bit on how you want the arpeggio to sound, or how much trouble you want to go through. (Neither of the ways is too difficult, though.)

The easier one is like this: put the chord you want to arpeggiate wherever you want it. Then add individual grace notes (not a chord!) before the chord. Finally tie the grace notes to the chord, and if you wish, hide the graces.

This one has a little bit more to do: again, put the chord wherever you want to. Then, create a new staff, set its properties the same as the staff to be arpeggiated (instrument, channel, etc.).
Then copy the above staff's contents to the new one and do as you would do in the previous one, except this time use actual notes and make sure the chord note is suitably shorter. There is no need for hiding here, though.
Finally, mute the above staff and hide the new one.

You can add an arpeggio sign as a text entry, using the Boxmarks font. This font, as well as other musical symbol fonts, is available in the NWC Scriptorium.

Re: Arpeggiation

Reply #2 –
Thanks for help Jussi

Regards

Re: Arpeggiation

Reply #3 –
the grace notes before the chord would NOT WORK WELL if you need an arpeggio with accidentals, because hidden grace notes (and notes) hides the accidentals/ties/slurs before it, you would need to re-insert the hidden accidentals/ties/slurs as text or use layering

Re: Arpeggiation

Reply #4 –
Just a word of warning.  In the current implementation of grace notes in NWC, be aware that regardless of the type of grace note you select (quarter, eighth, sixteenth, 32nd, etc), they all sound the same length of time.  Also, grace notes start on the beat, so using grace notes would not allow you to create an arpeggio that starts slightly before the beat to allow the actual full chord to play on the beat.  I know that both of these items have been requested on the wish list (grace notes ahead of the beat and actual note resolution), so we'll just have to wait for that.

Thanks,

John