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From: mjs@hpfcso.HP.COM (Marc Sabatella)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: NOTATOR strange printing problem
Message-ID: <7180010@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:33:36 GMT
References: <14302@milton.u.washington.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>    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