Re: Sibelius can do it!

Hi there,

I'm a great fan of NWC myself. In fact, just
done a "eulogy to NWC" web page.

http://members.tripod.com/~robertinventor/tunes/noteworthy.htm

If one wants to get the music onto paper, and is used
to working visually, rather than using midi sequencing to
make the score, then I think Noteworthy Composr is
hard to beat.

The tempo changes, dynamic variance and flow directions
on the score are respected in the playback.

E.g. when you do special endings for a repeat section,
just click the play button and you hear them all exactly
as written. Ditto for D.C Al Coda, D.C. Al Fine, D.S. Al Coda,
etc.

Same applies if to dynamics, and crescendi, and diminuendi
all respected. Also tempi and accelerandi or decellerandi..

Do any other score editing programs do that I wonder?

You can also save the whole piece immediately as a
midi clip.

Then you can retune the midi clip in Scala, (also play it in
the new FTS retuning midi player too
and try varying the temperament).

Also of course, you can retune the playback
via Midi Yoke and Midi Relay or my FTS,
but that applies to any score editing
program that is able to play the score via midi.

You could also retune notes individually as you can
add pitch bends to the score, but never done that myself
so I don't know how well it works. A glance at the slide
controller for the pitch bend rather suggests that
after clicking it in position with mouse,
single step increments are perhaps 20 or so pitch bend
steps, so could be hard to position it at an exact
pitch bend, but having got that done, one could
copy and paste the pitch bend for all the notes that
require the accidental.

You can put a note or a phrase on a new staff in NWC, and then
layer it with the previous staff to make a single
line of the score, which is useful at times.

The pitch bends would also be respected by FTS, if midi
relaying, and would be interpreted as additional pitch bends
on top of whatever scale one was using. That could be useful on occasion.

You can also add linear controller sweeps of up to four points,
so could do pitch bend glissandi that way.

Robert