NoteWorthy Composer Wishes Do Come True

The following wishes submitted to the NoteWorthy Composer Wish List have been granted:

Wishes granted in NoteWorthy Composer Version 2:

• Support for user selectable notation font
• Hear notes as you add them to the staff
• Hairpin/graphic crescendo/diminuendo note properties
• X noteheads for percussion notes
• Diamond noteheads for other non-pitched and harmonic notes
• A blank notehead for unusual circumstances
• Percussion Clef
• Lyricist field (in addition to the existing Author/Composer field)
• User control over note stems
• Staff labels, which are separate from the staff name
• Inverted fermata is now automatic when placed below the center of the staff
• Automatic handling of accidentals for tied notes across bar lines
• New top and bottom margins in the score editor
• Wheel mouse can now be used for vertical scrolling
• More highlight colors (7 highlight colors, double the version 1 highlights)

Wishes granted in NoteWorthy Composer Version 1.75:

• Layering menu item (View: Allow Layering)
• Insertion point stays at place on staff after layer/unlayer
• Print Preview shows area where the insertion point is on staff in editor
• Max songs on startup
• Draw a staff with 6 lines, 4 lines, or any number of lines
• Search
• Ability to toggle mute on/off for an entire section, in addition to individually by staff
• Every note in NWC to have two properties: Sound/Mute.
• Select whole staff without having to highlight it
• Ability to make staff invisible, so text can be added without having to belong to a visible stave (can use a 0 line staff with mark whole rests/notes and bar lines not to print)
• Hide the entire staff (with staff lines set to 0)
• Hide ledger lines of note
• GOTO NEXT [Controller | Tempo mark |Dynamic mark | etc...] (with Find and Find Next command)
• Export/Import lyrics to/from MIDI files (web update)
• Beam over rests (web update)

Wishes granted in NoteWorthy Composer Version 1.70 (plus web updates):

• Create a browser plug-in (discontinued)
• 2 voice chord combos (with staff layering)
• More control over page format
• Beaming across symbols
• Double Bar with repeats on both sides :||:
• Grace notes in a beam or triplet
• More control over slurs/ties whether up or down
• Reverb, chorus
• Preserve Width for all symbols
• Allow "items", such as rests, barlines, etc. to be marked as non-printing, hidden
• Print blank staves separate and in a score with notes (with hidden items possible)
• Hide cresc/decresc when printing like ff, pp
• No bar line mode for early music (with hidden items possible)
• In the tempo/tempo variance dialog box make the text expression list box writable
• Support for color printer
• More access to midi controllers
• Assign lyrics to slured notes
• Move performance style text etc with ctrl+shift+arrow
• More space for Insert: Text
• Mark measures and notes in a different color to earmark for later
• Keep experimental features
• Preserve Width for sustained pedal
• Option to not print performance style   
• Ctrl-Shift Up/Down arrows should shift other markings as well as notes
• Move rests with Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down
• Every object in NWC to have two properties: Display/Hide
• Indicate measures per line for printing (with line break)
• Note spacing per note
• Line Break for Coda (with line break)
• Make Legato non-printing
• Have Special Ending in the middle of a measure
• Print Preview pre-zoom cursor location always ended up in view
• Preview window width increases along with the zooming factor
• Fit to screen for Print Preview
• In print preview copy, do not cut off lyrics that extend to the right of the right line
• Double Bar for sections: thin/thick/thin
• Tool bars for all symbols
• Notes without staves (with color printing)
• Move active staff with quick keys (web update)
• Slanted beams (web update)
• Lyrics in the middle of the note (web update)
• Vertically scroll staves when playing (web update)
• Edit a song while it plays (web update)
• Time remaining counter when playing a song (web update)
• Increase size of lyrics in lyric editor (web update)

Wishes granted in NoteWorthy Composer Version 1.55:

• End a staff with a master repeat close :||
• Add staff layering in a final version (though still experimental)
• Zoom out more
• Combine 2 staves in a score (with staff layering)
• Play a single part of a 4-part harmony (with staff layering)
• More control over where a rest is placed (with experimental feature)
• Easy removal of all note beams in a selected range (1.55b)

Wishes granted in NoteWorthy Composer Version 1.52a:

• Make triplet beam wider so it does not get lost in the staff (1.52)
• Whole note chords at same pitch need to be drawn as 2 notes one (1.52)
• Have ESC mean Stop Play (1.52)
• Tie across time signature change (1.52a)
• Print Preview max at start (1.52a)

Wishes granted in NoteWorthy Composer Version 1.51:

• Flat buttons
• Be able to put fermata right over note when it has accidentals
• Do not show opening bar when printing one part
• B stem down for beaming

Wishes granted in NoteWorthy Composer Version 1.50:

• Grace notes
• Change lyric size independent of staff size
• Title sizable/font
• Other fonts for lyrics
• Other fonts for text entry
• 1 note with 2 stems
• Print more than 1 copy at a time
• Put margins close to print preview
• Zoom in on print preview
• Save default directory
• Display partitions together or separately
• Notes of differing length on the same point
• Customizable toolbars
• Print Preview icon
• Quick key for grace notes
• Option to disable . key for double dot

Wishes granted in NoteWorthy Composer Version 1.31:

• MIDI keyboard input
• Enhanced MIDI import
• 1 stroke quick key for Slur
• Mute control by staff or all
• Play only 1 staff command
• Add quick keys to tool tips
• Separate tracks for MIDI import
• Leave dotted icon on after clicking once
• .RMI file import/export