NoteWorthy Composer Forum

There're still a couple things I long for, though.  The other day I imported a midi file in G minor that had a lot of D7 - Gm cadences.  Needless to say, I had a score full of G-flats followed by notated G-naturals.  Since the key signature contained flats, Audit Enharmonic Spelling had no effect.  And I wasn't terribly interested in manually fixing all the F#s and clearing all the natural signs. 

What would be helpful would be an Enharmonic Spelling toggle that could be applied to a single selected note.  That would make editing the Gbs to F#s easier and then I could use accidental audit to clear the natural signs.  I don't know how much development would be involved, but I bet you could reuse a lot of the code already designed in the staff enharmonic audit module as a starting point.

The other feature I would find useful would be a double whole-note.  An assignable time duration would be nice for free meter notation, but I'd settle for a set 8-quarter-note duration.  I made my own organ arrangement of Barber's Adagio 15 years ago.  Pencil and paper.  The meter is 4/2 with lots of double whole notes.  Went to enter into NWC for clean printout and midi and had to settle for using tied whole notes.

I'll have to think about how badly I want to apply the double whole note solution, though.  It would require quite a bit of effort.  There are four pages of tied double whole notes in chords with meter changes (4/2, 5/2, and 6/2), staff changes and moving slurred quarter note lines on the same staff.

How can one get a tie from a "text" double whole note to a following quarter note, as in measures 1 and 2 of the Violin I part

!NoteWorthyComposerClip(2.0,Single)
|Clef|Type:Treble
|Key|Signature:Bb,Eb,Ab,Db,Gb
|TimeSig|Signature:4/2
|Rest|Dur:Whole
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:-2
|Bar
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:-3^
|Rest|Dur:Whole|Visibility:Never
|Bar
|Note|Dur:Whole|Pos:-3^|Opts:Stem=Up
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-3
|Note|Dur:Half,Slur|Pos:-4
|Note|Dur:4th|Pos:-5
|Bar
|TimeSig|Signature:5/2
!NoteWorthyComposerClip-End

How can one get a tie from a "text" double whole note to a following quarter note, as in measures 1 and 2 of the Violin I part, even if one did want to use layers to split out the audio and visual aspects of the piece?

Specifically, the Barber Adagio.  Lovely, long sustained chords originally the 2nd movement of a string Quartet in B minor.  Written in 4/2 with changes to 5/2 and 6/2 and back along the way.  Not quite sure if the 5-flat key signature is D flat major or B flat minor and how either relates to the B minor key name of the work, but now I digress

I submitted three arrangements of Schubert's Ave Maria to the scriptorium in December.  Only two got posted and I believe that failed to serve all the needs I intended to address for potential downloaders.    ....  

I have rendered with Jeux 1.4 and English Organ sound fonts using SynthFont but am unsure how to enter the bank and preset numbers in NWC file.  Registration suggestions included.

I think I figured out how to use the Jeux ITree.  Here is a file for Jeux 1.4 font, but someone should preview it before posting--someone who has a SB card with the true font loaded.

I just wanted to mention that the general MIDI version was not actually spurious.  It is better for printing because it has a repeat and fits on 3 pages whereas the Jeux version is for listening with the repeated section expanded to accommodate voicing changes.
I have also posted that version on the Werner Icking Archive.  It is up to you whether include on the Scriptorium with the following edited comment section:

Another suggestion for you is to just throw out the double bass line.  It just doubles the cello line.

By the way, I couldn't see your NWC file, as it is in the old 1.75 format, and I only have 2.1 (and 2.0) installed now.  :-)

Randy

That shouldn't make any difference. Version 2.x  will read and play any older version files without problem.

Having solved what I thought was the tougher problem, is there an equally easy solution to when the two tied whole notes are *not*  tied on into a third note?  I see now this is where being able to hide a tie (or having it automatically hide when its receiver is hidden) would be helpful.

set Visibility Never on the note that the tie starts from...  Or both.

Upon further inspection, I see now that instead of using my active 2.1 NWC session, the forum browser spawned a new 1.7 NWC session!  Anyone know what "registry" entry (or similar such nonsense :-) I need to fix (and how) to update this?
I don't even remember installing 1.7 on this computer!

Hey, Richard,
... snip ...
Would it be acceptable if I sent the general midi/nwc set later this week?  And, again, mea culpa.

The plateau of my brain is shrinking and more stuff is falling off the cliff into the abyss.  : )

Perhaps the easiest thing to try at first is to uninstall any version that does NOT say NoteWorthy Composer 2.

  Again, is a NWC file "portable" regardless of user font chosen?  Can someone without the non-standard font installed still view an NWC file created with that font installed, or will they have to install it too?

G'day Jim,
You should explore user tools.  For example, the Global_Mod tool could easily be used to fix them.  The Global_Mod command:
Note,Pos==-2 Pos=#-3
will convert all single notes on the second line to sharp notes on the first space.  On a treble clef this would be G to F# -

By my reckoning, the occurences with the tie character should also have been edited by the same command.  A standard search-and-replace in any text editor would have also affected this string.

  <opt>==<value>, meaning that <opt> is the given value, or value is present if opt is an array.

A good thing. Otherwise, Pos==1 Pos=-1 would change '-1' to '--1'.

I also looked at the vbs code and couldn't make heads or tails out of it.