ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) (01/13/91)
I can load xxx.son (226K file) .. select a track... (60 measures).. play it back.. display the entire notation from beginning to end. I CAN print up to 4-6 measures.. BUT if i request to print entire track -60 measures.. the machine locks up. I have removed MULTIDESK and NEODESK *.ACC's ... makes no difference. I copied the files to a backup, zeroed the partition.. recopied them etc.. NO difference... Strange that i can load, play, and read (notation) the entire file, but can't print it in its entirety. Using and LQ800 Epson. Ran NOTATOR from TOS 1.4 GEM desktop .. strangely, when i hit the "e" key to go into the notation edit mode, the machine draws a gray streak and locks up. Retry from NEODESK.. no problems.. WOuld like to know that my last 3.5 months of work isn't but corrupted NOTATOR files.. :-( -kpc
walkerd@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (David Walker) (01/14/91)
Has anyone else noticed a problem with the display of Notator 3.0? I have what looks like a line of bad pixels running vertically from the top of the main screen through the STOP button. It seems to work OK, though. The problem I am having is with the buffer record - when I use Shift-Return to recall the buffer into an empty track all of the notes that I have played are crammed into a short chord on the first beat! My dealer will only say it "should work". Anyone else run into this? Dave
mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) (01/18/91)
> Has anyone else noticed a problem with the display of Notator 3.0? > I have what looks like a line of bad pixels running vertically > from the top of the main screen through the STOP button. It seems > to work OK, though. I've never noticed this, using a Stacy with the built-in LCD display. > The problem I am having is with the buffer record - when I use > Shift-Return to recall the buffer into an empty track all of the > notes that I have played are crammed into a short chord on the first > beat! My dealer will only say it "should work". Anyone else run into > this? I get exactly the same results :-( Who is your dealer? When I called Digidesign with another problem, the guy pulled it up on screen to verify it. For the record, the problem was setting the number of bars on the first line with the mouse in Page Preview mode - it seems not to work if the line starts on an upbeat (ie, you can't get anything but the "Bars Per Line" setting, with the upbeat counted as one of the bars). BTW, Kevin says Digidesign is no longer the official distributor for C-Labs - Alexander Publishing is instead. I haven't experienced any of the problems Kevin has been having with Softlink or TOS 1.4, although I do have one toy sequence that I suspect Softlink corrupted last time I saved it. I have a ghost of an empty track for MIDI through, but it won't sound after hitting STOP or HELP twice. I have to restart the sequence to get the ghost to sound. Recreating the sequence track by track (saving off the old tracks) seems to have fixed it, and I deleted the suspect song. On the whole, though, none of the bugs I've run into seem life-threating; I'm still generally happy with Notator 3.0. Particularly "Adaptive Groove"! Marc
walkerd@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (David Walker) (01/18/91)
I now have an answer to the buffer record problem, thanks to ian@unipalm! The clock has to be running for Notator to calculate timing values, and YOU have to set it running (simply hitting the START button works fine). While checking this out, I also realized that the weird vertical line is just a poor screen redraw after getting rid of the initial notepad screen. Using the STOP button causes it to redraw correctly. Only the CONT button seems to be permanently damaged (the N is not drawn correctly, but it works OK). Dave
mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella) (01/19/91)
> I found that putting SOFTLINK in my auto folder before most of > my auto programs did the trick... things are smooth sailing, now.. > When you put softlink in your auto folder, NOTATOR is NOT autorun.. > therefore the partition 1 is available for other programs.. > I was able to run mac GCR in partition 3... in other words.. > SOFTLINK runs without the dongle.. hopefully, C-LAB will > continue developement of SOFTLINK and make it available as a > stand alone. Great! It hadn't occurred to me to try that! The documentation for Notator 3.0 implies that SOFTLINK is available separately under the name DIRECTOR. At least that is how I interpreted it. Marc