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 | What is the best way to learn Notation? |  |
| Different people have different preferences for how to learn to use software, the main distinction being whether they prefer to read documentation or not.
Notation products have been designed so that most of their features can be learned through expl |
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| When I open a MIDI file, the parts for many instruments are shown. I just want to see the part for the instrument I play. How can I do that? |  |
| Notation products automatically produce single-instrument Parts for each staff that contains music notes. To quickly see any of these, use the convenient Part "drop list" in the main menu bar to view and select any single-staff part in the file.
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| How can I reduce the number of pages that Notation uses to print a song? | |
| Notation products offer many ways to reduce the number of pages in a printed score:
If the score shows parts for instruments other than the one you for which you wish to print its part, then use the Part "drop list" to select just your instr |
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| What types of files can Notation products read? | |
| Notation products can convert MIDI files, format 0 or format 1, into notated scores. MIDI files have a Mid file name extension.
Notation can convert Karaoke (.kar) files into notated scores.
Notation can also read a NoteSoft file, which has a .not f |
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| What is the NoteSoft Not file format? | |
| The NoteSoft file format is defined by Notation Software, Inc. A NoteSoft file has a Not file name extension. The contents of a NoteSoft file consist of the details of the notated score, integrated with the original MIDI data. The NoteSoft file also saves |
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| Can Notation products read .MP3 files and .WAV files or read music from a CD? | |
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No, Notation does not offer an option to convert audio (MP3, WAV, or CD) to MIDI. There is one company that seems to have solved the audio-to-MIDI problem. Celemony's Melodyne Editor with Direct Note Access (DNA) technology is a promising new developm |
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| I can play a MIDI file from some web page using my Internet browser, but how can I download the MIDI file instead of hearing it? | |
| The procedure is different, depending on what Internet browser you are using, and whether there is a MIDI player installed on your system.
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer as the browser and no MIDI player is installed on your system: |
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| How can I copy an excerpt of a Notation score into another application's document? | |
| You can copy an excerpt of the music score from a Notation product, and paste it into the document of another program, by following these steps:
In Notation, go to the portion of the score you want to cut and paste. Resize and scroll the win |
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| Why are no lyrics displayed for a MIDI file? | |
| Many MIDI files (with a .mid file name extension) do not have lyrics. If there are not lyrics in the MIDI file, then there are no lyrics for Notation to display. All Karaoke files (with a .kar file name extension) do have lyrics. Notation will always disp |
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| How can I tranpose the song or parts? | |
| Notation products' Staff menu offers two commands: (1) Transpose Actual Pitches and (2) Transpose Instrument Key. The first command transposes all of pitches up or down-- both what you hear and what you see.
The second command (Transpose Instrument Ke |
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| How can I produce a score in Adobe PDF file format? | |
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It is easy to produce an Adobe PDF file version of a score prepared by Notation, but this requires using a third party tool. There are a few tools available to do this. We have no affiliation with these companies, but these PDF tools have been rec |
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| How can I change the pitch of a note? | |
| Notation Composer allows you to change the pitch of notes by selecting them (simply left-clicking on the note(s) you want to change), and then using the up/down arrow keys to move the note(s) to the desired pitch in half-step increments, or use Page Up/Do |
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| How do I add a note in Notation products? | |
| There are many ways to add notes to a song using Notation Composer. You can add notes with the mouse, with your computer keyboard, or with a MIDI instrument connected to your computer. Please see the User's Guide (Help/User's Guide) in the section "Edit |
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| Why will MidiNotate's Harmony font not embed in PDF files? | |
| Please note that this FAQ is for customers of the original MidiNotate product. This issue has since been resolved for Notation products.
MidiNotate's HARMONY_.TTF font file was incorrectly created with a "no embedding" property. For some PDF creation |
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| Why does the Prepare Fake Book command create an empty part? | |
| The Prepare Fake Book Lead Sheet command (in the Part menu) produces a single part with the melody, lyrics, and chord names. This command tries to automatically determine which song track has the melody, and which has the lyrics, before it merges the mel |
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| Using the Garritan Personal Orchestra with MidiNotate and Notation products | |
| Please see the following Notation Users Community Forum discussion:
http://www.notation.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=22053&post=8297#POST8297
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| Why won't my MIDI keyboard read the MIDI on the floppy disk? | |
| All MidiNotate and Notation products save MIDI files in MIDI File Format Type 1. Some MIDI keyboards can read MIDI files saved on a floppy disk from your computer. Some MIDI keyboards expect the MIDI file to use MIDI File Format Type 0, rather than the |
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| What options are there for preparing piano parts? | |
| Notation Musician and Notation Composer offer many options for preparing piano parts from MIDI files:
If the piano part in the MIDI file is all in one staff (track), you can
split that staff into right-hand (treble clef) and left-hand ( |
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| How can I transpose one (a single) staff? | |
| For "transposing a single staff", we'll need to differentiate between 3 different transposing operations that you can do:
1. "Transpose the key" - this is where you transpose the score (in part, by using a "region", or entirely) to a different key, say |
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| Do Notation products work in Windows Vista operating system? | |
| The latest version of our products (version 2.1) supports Windows Vista. All MidiNotate and Notation products prior to Notation 2.1, and their setup programs, were developed before Windows Vista was released, and therefore do not work properly in Vista. |
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| How can I use VST instruments with Notation products? | |
| For a full discussion of how to use VST instruments with Notation products, please see the following in our Users Forum: http://www.notation.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?22053/35119
The main steps are:
1. Go to www.hermannseib.com and download the fr |
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