Re: Hello there!
Reply #1 –
G'day Matt,
welcome to the community.
That's quite a few instruments you fiddle about on Nothing like a bit of versatility I reckon.
Conductors Score - best to check out the Scripto for examples:
nwc-scriptorium.org
In NWC virtually everything you do is effectively a conductors score. You can then choose to extract parts at print time...
Now, transposing...
If you select a staff and press <Alt-T>, <T> you'll get the staff transpose dialogue.
This will allow you to select how many semitones and in which direction you want the music to move.
The "Update staff playback transposition" is about having MIDI play the staff back in the right "place".
To give an example, suppose you have a score with a vocal line and you want to play the vocal line on you trumpet. You can use NWC to play back the rest of the score but if you play the vocal line as written it will, of course, sound a tone low. So ya gotta fix it.
Select the vocal staff; press <Alt-T>, <T> (|Tools|Transpose| menu option); choose "2" in the "Transpose by how many semitones:" box and make sure "Update staff playback transposition" is checked. This is important or the playback of the vocal staff would be a tone too high.
Now, you have a vocal line transposed for the trumpet, and the playback will still be at concert pitch so you'll hear if you play a wrong note . You can play along with your own personal accompaniment.
You would only want to uncheck "playback transposition" if you were moving the whole song to a new key.
In NWC1 crescendo and decrescendo are directives under the |Tools|Dynamic Variance| menu option.
In NWC2 you can also highlight a range of notes and select "<" or ">" to add a functional "hairpin". Note that you MUST have dynamic markings for the variances to work, and they do not work on sustained notes - there are other techniques around this.