Common Questions
All of the most common questions are included below. Simply click on the answer link to find out more about any question listed below.
Getting Started
- How do I start using the most recent new features? Answer
- What is the best way to get started using NWC? Answer
- How do I create a MIDI File (*.mid)? Answer
- How do I enter more than one staff? Answer
- How do I work with chords - notes aligned vertically? Answer
- What is the procedure to change notes to a new clef? Answer
- Is there an easy way to change the key of a song? Answer
- What does Preserve Width mean? Answer
- Why are my Beam and Triplet commands not available? Answer
- Is there a way to quickly edit symbols? Answer
- What is the fastest way to notate with NoteWorthy Composer? Answer
- How do I make more space between staves so the notes do not intersect? Answer
- How do I enter a multi-measure rest? Answer
- How do I Audit Bar Lines with a pick up note (anacrusis)? Answer
- Where do I select how I want the staves to be connected? Answer
- How do I skip notes that I do not want to have lyrics? Answer
- Can you move a note instead of deleting and re-entering it? Answer
- Is there a way to put notes closer together on the staff? Answer
- How can an icon be forced to stay on, or active? Answer
- How do I create my own templates? Answer
- How does the Linear Sweep Contour in the MPC work? Answer
Play and Sound
- How can other people play back my .NWC files if they do not have NoteWorthy Composer? Answer
- Is there a loop play function in NoteWorthy Composer? Answer
- How does the Multi-point Controller work? Answer
- Do I always have to start play back from the beginning? Answer
- Why does a note sometimes keep playing all through an entire song, as if it were stuck on? Answer
- How can I play back only one staff of my song? Answer
Recording
- How do I set up to use a MIDI keyboard with NWC? Answer
- How do I record live play from my MIDI keyboard? Answer
- How do I use my MIDI keyboard to select the pitch for notes I want to enter at my own pace, not live - step time? Answer
Miscellaneous
- Is there a dictionary for the music terms in NWC? Answer
- Can I move the tool bars to be vertical on the side instead of across the top? Answer
- Do you have a chart mapping the American note duration names to the English? Answer
- Can I move my score to another application, like a word processor? Answer
Troubleshooting
- How do I get play back to work? Answer
- My system is cutting off notation symbols, is there a work around? Answer
- Why does the printed copy cut off the bottom copyright? Answer
- I am trying to run NoteWorthy Composer for the first time and it says I do not have enough memory. Why? Answer