Skip to main content ↑ ↓
Topic: Newbie struggles!! (Read 2892 times) previous topic - next topic

Newbie struggles!!

Howdy all you cyber-music types!

I am fairly new to Noteworthy but a keyboard player and electronic designer. I am in the process of building a Calliope with a Midi interface and chose Noteworthy as my music editing program.

I have downloaded a nice collection of Midi music and am trying to massage them into  a suitable form for the Calliope (such as a piano score). Unfortunately, the majority of nice Midi pieces seem to have ten zillion staves and I am having a duce of a time condensing them down to a single Treble and Bass stave. I'd hate to have to transcribe all the pieces from sheet music - I am inherently lazy ;-)

Is there any way, when importing or editing a piece of music to combine or merge two staves into one without copying every note?

Thanks folks!

Dianne

Re: Newbie struggles!!

Reply #1 –
I believe that there is a User Tool written to do just this, but I don't know what it's called.
Anyways, to use a user tool, you'd need to sign up for the NWC2 beta.
Sorry that I don't know what the name of the user tool is.  Most likely someone else will post it.

Re: Newbie struggles!!

Reply #2 –
Two suggestions,


(removed - Rick's way is better)
 

Re: Newbie struggles!!

Reply #3 –
I've had good luck with this process:
  • mute all, then unmute the staves you want to merge
  • add playing style: Tenuto to each of these staves
  • make the MIDI channel the same for each staff to be merged
  • Save as: Type 0 MIDI file
  • Open the MIDI file created in the last step

See:Merging Staffs for a full discussion.
Registered user since 1996