Answers to the following questions are based on the latest version of NoteWorthy Composer. In addition to this page, you may find the User Tips & Tricks page and the Forum helpful. The NoteWorthy Composer Help file also includes a list of "Answers to Common Questions."

Editing | Play & Sound | Recording | Misc | Troubleshooting

Editing Application Questions

1. What is the best way to get started using NWC?
2. How do I create a MIDI File (*.mid)?
3. How do I enter more than one staff?
4. How do I work with chords - notes aligned vertically?
5. What is the procedure to change notes to a new clef?
6. Is there an easy way to change the key of a song?
7. What does Preserve Width mean?
8. Why are my Beam and Triplet commands not available?
9. Is there a way to quickly edit symbols?
10. What is the fastest way to notate with NoteWorthy Composer?
11. How do I make more space between staves so the notes do not intersect?
12. How do I enter a multi-measure rest?
13. How do I Audit Bar Lines with a pick up note (anacrusis)?
14. Where do I select how I want the staves to be connected?
15. How do I skip notes that I do not want to have lyrics?
16. Can you move a note instead of deleting and re-entering it?
17. Is there a way to put notes closer together on the staff?
18. How can an icon be forced to stay on, or active?
19. How do I create my own templates?
20. How do I print only 1 staff of a song with several staves?
21. How do I change the title of a song?

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Play and Sound Application Questions

1. How can other people play back my .NWC files if they do not have NoteWorthy Composer?
2. Is there a loop play function in NoteWorthy Composer?
3. How does the Multi-point Controller work (volume example)?
4. Where can I learn more about pitch bend in NoteWorthy Composer? *new*
5. How does the Linear Sweep Contour in the MPC work?
6. Do I always have to start play back from the beginning?
7. Why does a note sometimes keep playing all through an entire song, as if it were stuck on?
8. How can I play back only one staff of my song?
9. After transposing, how do I get the correct play back?
10. How do I direct play back to my MIDI keyboard?
11. Why are my notes highlighting before they are played?
12. How can I  get my instruments to sound more realistic?
13. Why is one staff playing back percussion/drum sounds?
14. How do I set NoteWorthy Player to play *.mid files that I double click in an Explorer Window?
15. How can I get sound from a laptop computer?
16. How can I use NoteWorthy Composer to create audio tracks on CDs to play on an audio CD player?
17. How do you set NoteWorthy Player to play a list of songs? *new*

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Recording

1. How do I set up to use a MIDI keyboard with NWC?
2. How do I record live play from my MIDI keyboard?
3. 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?

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Misc Application Questions

1. Is there a dictionary for the music terms in NWC?
2. Can I move the tool bars to be vertical on the side instead of across the top?
3. Do you have a chart mapping the American note duration names to the English?
4. Can I copy my score to another application, like a word processor?
5. How can I broaden my practical knowledge of NWC and related topics?
6. How do I open a *.bak file created by NoteWorthy Composer?

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Troubleshooting

1. How do I get play back to work?
2. My system is cutting off notation symbols, is there a work around?
3. Why does the printed copy cut off the bottom copyright?
4. I am trying to run NoteWorthy Composer for the first time and it says I do not have enough memory. Why?
5. NoteWorthy Composer crashes when I open it. What is the problem?
6. I got an error message that NWCV15.ttf is missing. What do I do?
7. I got an error message that I have too many fonts. What do I do?
8. What happens to my song files when I uninstall NoteWorthy Composer?
9. What if I already uninstalled NWC and I cannot find my song files?

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