Notation Composer and Musician 233 maintenance release

Hi Sherry, Mark,

1. Open a .not file. The meter is 4/4. Write eight times a note. Each note is followed by a rest. Notes and rests are 1/16 in value.

2. Save as .mid file.

3. Open the new mid file

The rests have disappeared and the notes are now 1/8 in value. If shorter notes are used, the rests vanish similarly.

There are two problems:

1. .mid files can not be used in many instances, though often necessary for further processing.

2. “Save as” is usually used for renaming a file, by not having the original file overwritten, when saving the file under a new name. “Save as” .mid or any other format in Composer is a file conversion. It should be done separately from “Save as”, to prevent accidental changes of the .not file. Alternatively, the newly converted file could be opened, with the original file closed.

It would be helpful to always have the file extension displayed.

Best wishes,

Herbert