Longer score

[pblais]

I am new to the Notion, though I have been picking it up really well. I have a question about score size. How can I make a score longer. I created a piano score and it was 2 pages long. I was adding music to it and got to the end of page two.. How can I add more pages... I tried force new page but that doesn't seem to do the job.

Thanks in advance
Pierre

[Surfwhammy]

I am new to the Notion, though I have been picking it up really well. I have a question about score size. How can I make a score longer. I created a piano score and it was 2 pages long. I was adding music to it and got to the end of page two.. How can I add more pages... I tried force new page but that doesn't seem to do the job.

Thanks in advance
Pierre

The way I insert new measures is to use the Barline tool on the NOTION 4 Palette, as shown in the following screen capture . . .



Once you have selected the Barline tool, you can click at some point in a measure and this inserts one measure, so to insert 50 measures you need to click 50 times . . .

There might be an easier way to do it, but I practice playing drums with my fingers, hence tend to be tapping on something nearly all the time, so clicking the mouse 50 times does not take me very long, plus it is a good finger exercise for electric guitar, electric bass, and piano . . .

Lots of FUN!

P. S. If you compose DISCO and Pop songs, then if you know the structure, for example ACACBACACBAC or whatever, then you can copy and paste as you go, once you have one of each, where this way you just need to insert one new measure at the end, followed by pasting a copy of a verse, chorus, or bridge into the at the first beat of the empty measure, and the other measures are created automagically, which will make sense after you do a few experiments and see how it works . . .

If you want to delete measures, you need to select each barline and then press the delete key once you have deleted all the notes and the measures to be deleted are empty . . .

Another thing you can do is make a song twice as long, which is the way I made the following song twice as long, where everything was done with music notation in NOTION 3 last year (2012) using NOTION 3 virtual instruments, IK Multimedia virtual instruments, and MackFive 3 (MOTU), where the NOTION 3 generated audio was recorded in Digital Performer 7 (MOTU) as soundbites via ReWIre, which is fabulous . . .

[NOTE: The MachFIve 3 virtual instruments are very heavy in terms of resource usage, so I did this with several NOTION 3 scores, which I created by cloning the first score and then replacing existing instruments with new instruments, which is the only way to do it without exceeding the 32-bit application workspace memory allocation, which also happens with NOTION 4 even when it is running in 64-bit mode, but I can get more stuff in a single NOTION 4 score in 64-bit mode. The key to this technique is that it makes it possible to have as many instruments as you desire, which certainly can be 500 to 1,000 instruments, which maps approximately to 50 NOTION 4 scores, allowing 5 staves for common instruments that are used to provide reference points, but sometimes with a particularly heavy MachFive 3 virtual instrument, I limit it to 10 staves per NOTION 4 score, which is fine with me, because I build songs in layers and like to have a lot of instruments, even though many of them are the same instruments, where the primary reason is that I like to "sparkle" instruments, which is a technique I developed to put the individual notes into motion and takes as many as eight staves, where each staff is panned to a specific location and only the notes that are heard at that location appear on that staff. It takes a while to "sparkle" an instrument, but I like the way it sounds. And for reference it is easier to hear the "sparkled" instruments when you listen with headphones, although it also is heard when you listen with studio monitors . . . ]

"I Want To Dance With You" (The Surf Whammys) -- Basic Rhythm Section -- YouTube music video

Fabulous!

[SouLcRusaDer_kA]

yea the barline tool

maybe you can open a new file
select a few empty bars > copy & paste
after getting sufficient amount of bars
save it in: Notion4/Support/New
replace the original NewFile.notion

then you wont have to add bars everytime when you start a new score