Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture

Subject: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Aug 01 - 11:16 PM

Today I decided to use Noteworthy to edit some music, and the little picture of a piano keyboard is missing from my toolbars. I tried shutting the computer down, hoping that that would restore it, but it didn't. It doesn't seem to be hiding off the edge of the screen, either.

This picture is important. It tells Noteworthy to notate or not notate the keys I hit when trying to sound a piece out.

Any suggestions?

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Aug 01 - 11:28 PM

Reinstall?

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Aug 01 - 11:34 PM

I thought of that, but there are about 500 pieces of music on my computer, and I'm afraid to lose contact with them somehow. I know it's not SUPPOSED to happen, but...

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Aug 01 - 11:41 PM

I have NWC but don't know too much about it yet-- I will fire it up and look around to see what to do. (You could check with IvanB too, he uses it.)

Meantime you can always move those compositions to a folder elsewhere-- good Lord, you DO have them backed up I hope??

~Susan

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Aug 01 - 11:50 PM

OK, try this-- leave this Mudcat window opoen as you open NWC to see what I am saying.

Go to NWC.

Pull down the VIEW menu.

Click TOOLBARS.

Click EXTRA once to highlight it, then click CUSTOMIZE.

Look in the Available Tools and Active Tools lists for MIDI Input Active button. (And if you use them, also MIDI Record and MIDI Play.)

If they do not appear in the Active list, click them from the Available list and hit the arrow sign on the top, between the lists, to add it to the Active list. I think you can place it just where you want it by highlighting the exisiting toolbar button listing in the Active list where you want it to appear.

Then close that and check your toolbars.

IF you have a score open (new or an old one), it should be there ready to use.

Does this work?

The main question would be, what went wrong that it disappeared on you? Whassup with the system??

~S~

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 12:13 AM

Well, thank you, WYSIWIG. I went to where you said, and mysteriously enough, "Midi Input Active" was right where it was supposed to be, i.e., where you said to move it to. But while there, I noticed the button "Restore defaults," and I clicked it. That brought the picture of a piano back.

As for the question of what went wrong, I suspect the unwitting action of some third party. I had been downloading medieval music from various web sites, and I have noticed before that when I do that, that Noteworthy or my MIDI settings have been tinkered with. For example, my computer starts playing "Rock of Ages" on the hurdy-gurdy rather than the flute stop it had before.

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 12:18 AM

Hmmm.... might ask Jon Freeman about that, maybe he would know.

Have you had good luck pulling MIDI's off online sites into NWC? How is it done? I left my instruction booklet in Chicago!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 12:56 AM

Your sound card will usually play using the last soundpatch it was told to use, unless you're playing a file that has a particular patch specified.  Nobody has interfered with your settings as such; if you've played a "hurdygurdy" midi, that's what you're going to get next time, unless the next midi actually specifies something else.

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 01:18 AM

Oy, I did it-- converted a MIDI from a fiddle site to NWC!

~Susan

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 01:52 PM

Good for you, Susan. Now you can print it, share it, change the key, memorize it, do lots of things. Makes you realize why people invented writing and printing.

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Aug 01 - 02:20 PM

We jam with lots of folks who just come into town periodically-- this and e-mail will make for some wonderful stuff.

Now, about original tunes... long distance partnerships???

~Susan

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From:
Date: 20 Aug 01 - 12:23 PM

I know nothing about Noteworthy, but I will ask the obvious. Is it plugged in? That is, tht fact that you don't see the keyboard might be that the input circuit is interrupted and the program is not "seeing" the physical device.

Murray

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: IvanB
Date: 20 Aug 01 - 03:52 PM

Just for the record, the 'Midi Input Active' icon is controlled by the 'Files' toolbar. And imported NWC files can indeed have imbedded configurations which change your own. One thing I DON'T like about the program, but I've learned to live with it.

Subject: RE: Help: Noteworthy - little piano picture
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Aug 01 - 11:45 PM

Well, Murray, when I followed WYSIWYG's advice and hit the "Restore defaults" button the picture came back to the toolbar. I did check that the plugs were all in, however. In any case, the picture of a piano has always been there whether or not the plugs are in.

This just one of life's little mysteries, but I'm back in business.