Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Editing
- Version 2.75a New Feature Overview
- Getting Started, User's Guide, Keyboard Shortcuts (video available)
- Staff - add, connect, space, # lines, break, print size
- Chords (notes aligned vertically), Staff Layering (2 voices) (video available)
- Clef Change and Key Change
- Preserve Width (Anchor/Custom Pointer)
- Existing notes or symbols - change or delete
- Audit Bar Lines with a pick up note (anacrusis)
- Lyrics
- Force icon to stay on/active
- Templates
- Change Title and Author Information
- Change the size of the notation or text fonts
- Find feature for notes and symbols
- Access more properties for an item
- Using Color
- Piano Keyboard Toolbar (video available)
- Different Number of Staves in a Song
- Shape Notes
- User Tools
- Examples of Insert: Object...
- Bar/Measure Numbers - Display/Print
- Install an Object from the NWC Forum (video available)
- Updating Objects
- Controlling Slurs
- Chant - stemless & shape notes, hidden bar lines, 4 line staff
- Angle Triplet, Move Articulation (ex: Staccato) with Insert: Marker
- Cresc, Decresc, < and > Position
- Make Your Own Command Icon (video available)
Play & Sound
- Play .NWC files without NoteWorthy Composer
- Multi-point Controller (MPC) - volume, pitch bend, sweep
- Play back - specific staves, set start point
- Direct play back to MIDI keyboard
- Playback Instrument Sound Quality
- Sound from laptop computer
- Mute individual notes, individual staves
- MIDI Keyboard Input
- Transposing a staff
- Staff versus MIDI Channel
- Repeated Sections (Special Endings, Flow Direction, Repeats)
Import & Export
- Create a MIDI File (*.mid)
- File formats supported in NWC
- Making an audio CD of *.nwc files
- Copy score to another application, like a word processor
- Splitting multiple voices during import into separate staff parts
- Add lyrics to MIDI files
- What is imported when a MIDI file has lyrics?
- Does NWC support karaoke (*.kar) files?
Printing
- Print 1 staff of a song
- Fit more on printed page
- Print staff labels
- Change size of the printed staff
- Printing to PDF
Troubleshooting
- Windows Defender SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app error
- No sound during play back, error about play device
- Beam and Triplet commands not available
- Note keeps playing through entire song
- System cutting off notation symbols
- Copyright cut off printed page
- Not enough memory to run NWC
- One staff playing back percussion/drum sounds
- Notes highlighting before played
- Improperly treated as an ASCII file
- Disappearing Staff Lines
- Error message at file save
- "Corrupt Installation Detected" message when running setup
- Get 2 notes when only press one on MIDI keyboard
- Song file not print properly or at all
Upgrading
- Update from Version 2.x to Version 2.75
- Upgrade from Version 1 to Version 2.75
- Moving NWC to a new computer
- Where are my *.nwc song files?
- What happens to my song files when I uninstall NoteWorthy Composer?
- How do I change the browser that opens when I check for updates?
- Is there a Mac version of NoteWorthy Composer?
Miscellaneous
- Do you have a YouTube Channel or Video Instructions?
- How to move a tool bar/find a tool bar
- Open a *.bak file created by NWC
- Where can I find more NoteWorthy Composer song files (*.nwc)?
- May I place a link to your site?
- What is MIDI?
- Dictionary for the music terms in NWC
- How do NWC note durations translate to other languages?
- Difference between a Tie and a Slur
- Adding *.nwc files to your web site
- What does it mean to select notes?
- Asking for help - how to write an effective e-mail
- Accessing Help on Windows Vista
- Using NoteWorthy Composer in the Classroom
