Category Archives: Announcements

Forum and Ordering System Problems/Outage

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We are currently experiencing a significant server outage. Our service provider has indicated that it is working on the problem. Our main web site, forum, and order system are currently unavailable. We hope to have our systems back up soon.

Update on Sun, 03 Jan 2016 16:18:57 GMT: For now, at least, full operation has been restored.

Update on Sat, 02 Jan 2016 15:31:00 GMT: We are still experiencing server issues. For those that want to know more, this is a part of the ongoing Linode Atlanta service outage.

Version 2.75 Released

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Version 2.75 CDAfter over 15 months of development, NoteWorthy Composer Version 2.75 has been released. A summary of the additions in this release can be seen on NoteWorthy Composer’s history page.

Current users of any licensed, older NoteWorthy Composer 2.* edition can update to version 2.75 by completing these three steps:

  1. From inside the program, select the Access NoteworthySoftware.com command in the Help menu.  You will automatically be directed to the 2.75 upgrade page.
  2. Download and install the latest NWC User Tool Starter Kit.
  3. Download and install the NWC 2.75 Viewer.

After these steps are completed, your NoteWorthy Composer 2 system environment will now be running with the newest release. There are several sources for additional documentation on this release:

  1. NoteWorthy Composer User Guides
  2. NoteWorthy Composer Help

If you are new to NoteWorthy Composer, you can try out a demo of the program, as well as utilize our free Viewer to open files created by other users.

Create Rhythm Tracks for NWC

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Rhythm Tracks for NWCWe have created a new web application that can be used to create rhythm tracks for use in NoteWorthy Composer. This application utilizes the features introduced by the working draft of the Web MIDI API. At the time of this writing (May 2014), the MIDI features are only available in the latest version of the Google Chrome browser, and require some manual tweaking to get things fully enabled in the browser. Once your browser MIDI setup is working, you can use the new app to create new rhythm patterns, export them to NoteWorthy Composer, and share them with others via a simple web link.

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Version 2.51a Released

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Access UpgradeAn update to NoteWorthy Composer Version 2.51 has been released as version 2.51a. You can upgrade your currently installed copy of NoteWorthy Composer 2 by opening it, then select the Access NoteworthySoftware.com command in the Help menu. You will automatically be directed to the page where you can download and install the NoteWorthy Composer 2.51a upgrade.

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New Lua Scripting Engine

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Lua BookAnyone using NWC version 2.51 or later now has a built-in user tool scripting engine, with no extra download/install sequence required. Version 2.51 introduces a built-in Lua scripting engine that integrates a basic API for handling user tool input and output processing. Every copy of NoteWorthy Composer 2.51 includes two new user tools, found in the new .Automatic section of the User Tools command::

  1. Show Note Names.lua
    This returns a list of note names for the current selection. This is primarily intended as a demonstration of the Lua scripting engine.
  2. Retrograde.lua
    Like the PHP based user tool kit before it, this was the first Lua based user tool while version 2.51 was in development. It will reverse the notes in a selection, which can sometimes be inspiring when working with a composition.

There are several online resources that can help with getting started with your own Lua scripts:

  • The new API available from within a Lua based user tool is currently documented online at: lua.noteworthycomposer.com.
  • Much of the NWC Lua API is actually written in Lua. It can be explored from our gist on github.

Version 2.51 Released

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NWC 2.51 CDNoteWorthy Composer Version 2.51 has been released. After nearly a full year of development, we started delivering this new release to customers about a week ago. We will be describing some of the new capabilities in version 2.51 in later posts. In the mean time, a summary of the additions in this release can be seen on NoteWorthy Composer’s history page.

Current users of NoteWorthy Composer 2.5 can update all of the relevant programs to version 2.51 by completing these three steps:

  1. You can upgrade your currently installed copy of NoteWorthy Composer 2.5 by opening it, then from within NoteWorthy Composer 2.5, select the Access NoteworthySoftware.com command in the Help menu.  You will automatically be directed to the page where you can download and install the NoteWorthy Composer 2.51 upgrade.
  2. Download and install the latest NWC User Tool Starter Kit.
  3. Download and install the NWC 2.51 Viewer.

After these steps are completed, your NoteWorthy Composer 2 system environment will now be running with the newest release. There are several sources for additional documentation on this release. Two places to start are:

  1. NoteWorthy Composer User Guides
  2. NoteWorthy Composer Help

If you are new to NoteWorthy Composer, you can try out a demo of the program, as well as utilize our free Viewer to open files created by other users.