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Hello Lawrie,

Thanks for your kind response. So this is gonna work. From what I've seen it looks like a fairly complete
package, but, with a steep learning curve.

I'm planning on recording using my hardware midi kb. It already works fine connected to NWS.

Best regards,
DG

G'day mlshatto,
welcome to the forum.  NWC doesn't have this marking natively BUT you can add one using a text entry.

You will need a font that contains the appropriate glyph:
Boxmark2
SwingDings
MusikDindgSans
MusikDingsSerif

all contain the glyph in the same ASCII location as the grave accent: `
This is the key to the left of the "1" on the normal US keyboard - on the same key as the tilde "~"

These fonts are available via the Scripto: http://nwc-scriptorium.org/helpful.html#Fonts
The *Dings suites are also available from the Noteworthy site: http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/uc/pardypack/

I assume you know how to configure user fonts and create text entries - if not, just ask here and someone will respond.

To get the playback right, a hidden breath mark with the appropriate delay will do the job.

Is it possible to insert a caesura ("railroad tracks") using NoteWorthy 2?  I can find a breath mark, but I really need to indicate a longer pause.  Thanks!

Thanks, Rick. Apology accepted. And yes, NWC's unwanted jumps have been reduced (I was particularly grateful when Eric got rid of the jump that used to occur when I checked or unchecked allow layering.)

The jump when barlines are left out isn't the worst one left, either. For my money, the nastiest one is the leap back to the beginning of the score that occurs when you hide or reveal staves. Most of us rely (at least part of the time) on hidden playback staves, and it is really annoying to lose your place when you've made a change in the printout that requires a concurrent change in the playback. My solution to this is to work with the playback staves exclusively until I have the sound the way I want it, and only then create and edit the printout staves. But I would prefer to be able to work with both simultaneously. I've tried color-coding and leaving everything displayed, but that's awkward at best, and it quickly gets unworkable with large ensembles.

Anyway, I don't think we're really very far apart on this. The only thing I was objecting to was the tone of your comments, and I am happy to see the shift you just made away from that.

Cheers and felicitations,

Bill

Sorry, let me restate:

If it is a simple fix, fix it.

If not, a few hidden bar lines supplied by the user will fix it.

If we must use hidden barlines, there are other fixes needed.

Over the years, NoteWorthy has fixed some, but not all, of the situations where an edit caused the cursor to "home" itself. IOW, editor jumping is still annoying, but less so.

Rick, why do you always feel you must disagree? Even with those who defend you?


I certainly agree that there are higher priorities. But I think this would be a pretty easy fix. And it is an annoying behavior when you're dealing with music without barlines.

And, actually, it's part of a larger problem. NWC has always had a tendancy to jump to unwanted places at unwanted times. Remember this topic? Or this one?

None of this affects program output. All it affects is the user's temper. But I do think that's an important thing to take care of. More important than slurs, or proper orchestral brackets? Probably not. But probably not as difficult a programming job, either.

Just my little 2¢ worth....

Bill

G'day Pianoman,
this will work quite nicely for you - I regularly record the keyboard player from my church band when we want to notate new songs that we have written.

First step is to create a "tempo" file.  I normally create a new file, set it to MIDI channel 10 (the percussion channel), set up the "click's" that I want - usually the E below the staff (percussion clef is functionally equivalent to bass clef for this purpose) and then create a pair of local repeats set to a number that exceeds the number of bars I want to record - doesn't really matter by how much as you'll hit stop when you're ready anyhow.  I usually set it to something ridiculous like 250.

Next, play back the click track so you can listen and adjust the tempo.  Once you've got this right you can continue. 

If you go to the |Tools|Options| page and select the "Record" tab you can select your input device and some other parameters.  In addition, if you go to the "Import" tab you can set additional options - some experimentation will be required to get things to suit you.  If your timing is not dead perfect, you will benefit from setting your note resolution to no smaller than 16th note - often eighth note will suffice.  Rest resolution works pretty well at quarter rest.

One thing that's REALLY important here is latency.  If you are using a softsynth be aware that your click track sounds will be behind the actual click timing in NWC.  I ALWAYS switch to a hardware synth (usually one of the synths in my Audigy card) before recording so that this softsynth latency won't be a problem.  Note that this is not an NWC limitation, but a synth limitation.

Now, assuming you've gotten your MIDI input sorted, you click the record button, let the click track play a bar or so to get your rhythm working and commence playing.  When you've recorded the amount you want click the stop button and your score import options will appear.  Things like where you want to split left and right hands and some other options.  Make your choices and continue to see the staves become populated.

It may take a few go's to get the hang of it but then you won't have any trouble.

Hello all,

I've looked up this music writer and it looks promising. Is there an audible metronome for song recording?

I play keyboard in a band and I need to create sheets of music quickly. Although I understand that I will have some editing to do;
I want to write most of the song in real time, via midi, then edit it later. But in order to do this I need an audible metronome for obvious
reason.

Is this the right software?

Any input would be appreciated,

Regards

At what price? I'd hate to see the program go into a long huddle just because I changed a quarter note to an eighth note in bar 1 and NWC2 had to refigure the next 200 bars to reset jumping points and system breaks.

The vast majority of music works fine.

I think this is the price that must be paid for the freedom of not having required automatic bar lines.

I have quite a few songs where I only have barlines at system breaks. Yes, the jumping is erratic, but I have gotten used to it.

I would rather have the time spent fixing the areas of NWC2 that cause me to forgo barlines:

• too much space around barlines, even when hidden.
• lyrics don't cross barlines.