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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.If you need to add more measures at any time, you can use the Measures/Add measures command. Enjoy! Sherry
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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. Enjoy! Sherry Church Organ with Pedal.not
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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:
Sherry
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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 filesEnjoy, Sherry
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