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Old 09-06-2011, 02:08 PM
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Default Additional or specialty Template files for Notation Musician and Notation Composer

Hi friends,

Occasionally I get asked at the helpdesk or privately about doing X, Y or Z type of music with Notation Composer. One such request has been doing "chant" style files, which don't have a meter, and generally don't have barlines within each system. You can generally work within these constraints in Composer, but there's been no template published for it - til now

I'd like to start this thread to post this particular template, but also to make an area available where folks can share templates that you may have come up with that make life a bit easier for you and might help someone else. Or if someone has a question about setting up a template, this would be a good place to post it.

Here is the template for "plainsong" or "chant" type songs. To have a "no rests" version, just click on any rests after you've finished entering the notes, and then click the "Hide rests" button in the Rests tool palette. I could have set this template file to automatically hide rests, but it seemed to me that knowing where the rests are initially would be beneficial in getting the most out of each measure (line) of music

Chant-1 measure per system 16_4 meter.not


Here are the instructions that I typically give anyone who is creating their own plainsong file in Notation Composer.
1. When you set up your song using Create New, set the meter at something high like 16/4, or whatever you think will comfortably fit the number of notes/syllables you'll want per line. This might take a bit of experimentation.

2. After you've set the song up, you can then double-click on the meter, and checkmark the "Hide" box to hide the meter.

3. Use Layout/Page Layout, and then click the "Specify number of bars per line" button (it has numbers on a page). Enter "1" in the box, and click Ok. This will give you only one measure per line, and thus no barlines in a system.

4. If you enter the notes for a particular measure and you have "room left over", you may not want those rests to show. Just click the rest (or click drag across a group to select them), and then click the "Hide rests" button in the Rests tool palette.
If you need to add more measures at any time, you can use the Measures/Add measures command.


Enjoy!
Sherry
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Default 3-staff organ template

Hi friends,

An organist asked about templates at the helpdesk, and we came up with the following 3-staff template for church organ. As with any template, you can customize it to your needs/wants, and then use "File/Save as template" to save your changes to the template.

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Default Re: Additional or specialty Template files for Notation Musician and Notation Compose

Hi friends,

We've found that there is a problem with the Jazz Quartet template. If you're having problems, you can replace the existing template with this one.

Jazz Quartet.not

To replace the old template, just do the following after you've downloaded the .not file:

  1. Open the file in Notation Composer.
  2. Immediately use File/Save as template.
  3. The program will give you a message to the effect that there is already a file with that name, do you want to replace it? Click "Yes".
  4. Enjoy
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Default Re: Additional or specialty Template files for Notation Musician and Notation Compose

Hi friends,

I found that the problem with the Jazz Quartet.not template was that the note duration adjustments were off. The note duration adjustments for the file are such that the notes are so "tight" together in the MIDI performance that there is not enough time between a "note off" event for the one note and the next "note on" event to allow the second note to sound. The Note Duration assignments were not adjusted properly for the template, and the problem only shows up for consecutive notes of the same pitch, not for consecutive notes of different pitches.

If you have files that you've already edited that have this problem and you want to "rescue" them, you can do the following:
1. Open the song file in Notation Composer - you'll need to do this for each song, as you can have different adjustments for each song, but the steps are shorter for subsequent files

2. Click the Piano Roll tab.

3. Use Region/Select a region, and then click OK (this will select the entire song by default).

4. Now use Region/convert region to selection of notes. This will then select all the notes in the song for editing.

5. On the Piano Roll palette tool bar (third "level"), click on the far-left button "Edit note duration adjustment table" (or type "eda" shortcut). You will see a pop-up dialog table similar to this one:
NoteDurationAdjustments-default.jpg


6. Comparing the screen shot above to your Note Duration Adjustment table, enter the proper adjustments in the table for your file.

7. Click "Save as default" and then "Save and apply". This will (a) save the new values as the default and (b) adjust the notes in the open file to proper playability.

8. For further files, after opening the file and following steps 2, 3 & 4 to get in Piano Roll and select all the notes, click the Edit note duration adjustment button (or type "eda").

9. Click "Restore default", then "Save and apply". This will (a) bring up the default table and (b) fix the notes in this second file (or other files that you open.)

10. Lather, rinse, repeat

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