Hi,
Hmmmm..... I just tried the following steps:
- Opened a file in Composer 3.0 by double-clicking a .not file in Windows Explorer.
- Used Ctrl A to select the entire song (I also tried a song where I clicked the top Staff Select button, held Shift, and clicked the last Staff Select button).
- Clicked the "Notes" button on the Notes, Rests tab to select all the notes.
- Pressed the "Delete" key on my computer keyboard to delete all the notes.
- Used the mouse to enter some new notes
- Clicked on the Piano Roll tab. The piano roll blocks correctly showed up on the display. Alternatively/additionally clicked on the Note Velocity tab and correctly see the red vector lines show up for the velocities.
Could you perhaps send me a copy of the parent file that you saw the problem with? There may be something anomalous with the particular file.
Also, just a suggestion. If you have a particular type of file that you use often (eg. a particular ensemble group) for creating new song files, you may want to save a blank one as a template file. That way you don't have to go through the job of deleting everything from a parent file multiple times - just the once to save the template.
To save a Template file, just
- Clear out everything that you don't want in the template (eg. notes, rehearsal marks, annotations, etc).
- You can, however, leave anything that you would want in the song file every time (eg. "Arranged by MyNameHere" or anything like that).
- Use File -> Save as Template, and click "yes".
- Give the file a name. Hint: if you want the file to be at the top of the list when you use Create a New Song, give it a "!" exclamation point at the beginning of the filename.
- Click "Save" to save the file as a template, and exit. Now when you want to create a new song with that type of layout, you can just use Create New, and use your own customized template
You can find out more in Help -> Users Guide, use the Index to look up "template", then select the "creating your own" subtopic.
ttfn,
Sherry