Piano Roll and Note Velocity won't select

[Sherry C]

Hi,

Thanks for the screenshot and the further description.

Did you perchance try clearing the Undo history after you took the screenshot? If so, did it clear the problem?

ttfn,
Sherry

[blane245]

Originally Posted by Sherry C

Did you perchance try clearing the Undo history after you took the screenshot? If so, did it clear the problem?

No, but I just did it, and the problem was still there.

[Sherry C]

Hi,

In spite of the great documentation, I am still not able to make this happen on my set up. It may be due to my methods of doing things (eg. changing the tempo, slowing down the tempo at the end, Step time recording of the notes, etc.) that is working around the issue.

Here are the steps that I have taken, in full. The first time I went through this, I stopped every three steps in order to take a look at the Piano Roll and/or the Note Velocity to see if the problem was showing up. The next time I just went straight through all the steps and only checked at the end.

1. Open file 10 Exercitum.not
2. Use Ctrl+A to select entire song.
3. Click Notes , Rests tab, then the Notes button to select all the notes in the file.
4. Use the "Delete" key on my keyboard to delete all the notes.
5. Click the Tempo button in the menu bar to open the Tempo dialog.
6. Use the slider for the Constant Tempo parameter to set the tempo to 53. Click Ok to close, and note the tempo changed correctly on the menu bar.
7. Click Graph Over Notes tab, and then the Tempo button.
8. Use the Draw a Curve button to draw a lower tempo curve over the last 3 measures.
9. Click on Notes, Rests tab
10. Click the Step Time Record button to enter Step Time Recording mode.
11. Position the mouse cursor at beat 1 of the top staff
12. With the quarter note on, press C6 (C above middle C) key
13. Press G6 key to record next note.
14. Repeat steps 12 and 13 for 6 measures.
15. Use File/Save as, and save the file as "Test.not"
16. Use File/Song title and authors, and edit all fields to "test".
17. Click the Piano Roll tab - rectangles show up correctly
18. Click the Note Velocity tab - vectors show up correctly.

Perhaps it has to do with the note sequence that is entered, unless there is something else different in the way that I've tested this than the way you do things. Since there are often multiple ways to perform some tasks, the problem may be that I am doing the same task but differently than you do it.



If everything else looks the same as the way you do things, please post a copy of the file you were working on when the problem occurs. I'll then try to replicate the exact note entry and see if the problem lies there.


ttfn,
Sherry

ttfn,
Sherry

[blane245]

How about we go at this from a different angle? Maybe it is my computer environment. I am running Windows 8.1 on a 64-bit 4GB RAM desktop. I have Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86 Redistributable - 10.0.40219 installed. Notation is installed in the Program Files (x86)/Notation_3/Composer_3 folder. Everything else in Composer is working fine. It is just those two tabs. Is there something different about how those two tabs work from all of the other tabs? They do have graphic overlays, but so does GraphOverNotes and it work just fine.

I will repeat the sequence that you did and tell you when the tabs stop working.

[blane245]

I did you sequence and had no problems. Darn!

[Sherry C]

Hi,

Originally Posted by blane245

I did you sequence and had no problems. Darn!

Which (probably) means it is something in how one (or more) of the steps is performed.

Is there anything at all in the steps I gave that you would have done differently?

ttfn,
Sherry

[blane245]

I don't usually use the tempo slider. I just enter the tempo number.
Steps 10-14. I don't usually record notes that way. I just ads the notes by clicking on the staff.

I really don't think it is this sequence that causes a problem since this happens on all files that I edit eventually.