Help for Tune Smithy 
Window 4
From Tune Smithy
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Tune
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Tune
Shows the notes as you play them...
Tip: You can configure it to show note names, sol fa names, ratios, etc from the Tune Display Options (Ctrl + 19) window
It's meant just to give some feedback about note positions as you play. It can't be edited or saved, and you can only show your current playing, you can't move it back and forth to see earlier notes. To do all that properly would require a new program probably.
Intro
Shows the notes as they are played...
If you click on this window you can also play the notes directly into it, using the mouse or keyboard
Options...
How to show the notes, and various other options for the tune window
Options...
Choose between Intervals, Score, or Graph type displays...
Intervals - the spacing of the score depends on the interval sizes, and you can customise the number of dotted lines and gaps used to break it up to make it easier to read
Score - conventional five line score, or the microposition by pitch variation on it which is similar in appearance but with variable spacing so the notes can be positioned vertically according to the exact pitch played.
Graph - shows the pitches played as a line graph
Height
Height of the score in octaves
Height - SPIN
Increase or decrease height of score in octaves
Width
width in seeds or seconds
Width - SPIN
Increase or decrease width in seeds or seconds
Seeds
Width is measured in fractal tune seeds
Secs
Width is measured in seconds
Echo
Echoes the score in a separate window without the buttons etc
Copy Pic.
Copies an image of the tune score to the clipboard...
You can then paste it into another program like Word or an image editing program
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Shows this window with either less space, less options, or alternative layout
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Shows this window with either less space, less options, or alternative layout
Help = F1
Click for help for this window. Or F1. Other opts: Shift , Alt, Ctrl + click...
F1 or click shows the help for the current window in your web browser.
Some windows may have no help yet in which case the help icon is shown crossed out with a red line.
Shift + F1 or Shift + Click brings up the tool tips extra help window (this window) to show any extra help for a tool tip.
You can tell if a tool tip has extra help if it ends ... like this one.
Ctrl + F1 or Ctrl + click takes you to the list of keyboard shortcuts for Tune Smithy.
Alt + F1 or Alt + click (alternatively Caps lock physically held down + F1 or Click) takes you to the on-line page at the robertinventor.com web site about the current main window task - which gives a short introduction to it for newbies to the program. If there is no on-line page specific to a task, takes you to the main tune smithy page on the web site.
Since the help for Tune Smithy is currently a bit out of date and needs to be redone completely for the new 3.0 release, then you may find the on-line page for some of the newer tasks particularly useful.
Organise Windows = F2
Reset, or Save settings for this window. RIGHT CLICK for all windows menu...
Shows the Organise windows window - which you can use to reset all the parameters for the current window.
You can also use it to save the settings for just this window, or open previously saved parameters for just this window.
Also has a drop list of all the windows and their shortcuts, and related options - some to do with the menu listing, and some to do with window resizing and minimising.
Fractal Tunes Dialog Star
Tip of the day - Fractal Tunes category - right click for neighbouring windows...
Left click for a tip of the day in this category.
Right click to see a menu of neighbouring windows.
The neighbours are the ones you most often move to after this one or within a minute of this one, arranged by popularity.
So as you continue to use FTS, it will learn your habits, and the neighbouring windows listed here, should be the ones you most often visit after this one.
Other Dialog Star
Tip of the day - For All category - right click for neighbouring windows...
Left click for a tip of the day in this category.
Right click to see a menu of neighbouring windows.
The neighbours are the ones you most often move to after this one or within a minute of this one, arranged by popularity.
So as you continue to use FTS, it will learn your habits, and the neighbouring windows listed here, should be the ones you most often visit after this one.
Neighbours, and Previous - Up - Next
Help For Tool Tip - Shift + F1 (Ctrl + 141)
Tune Display Options (Ctrl + 19)
Seed & Tune Transformations & Tune Options (Ctrl + 33)
Instruments (Ctrl + 8 or Ctrl + N)
N.B. This list of neighbours may change when these pages are updated.
