Window 89

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Play rhythm or polyrhythm
Switch on the polyrhythm method of making tunes

Intro
Play rhythms or polyrhythms - for fractal tunes, changes tune construction

How many rhythms to play at once (should equal parts to play)
Number of simultaneous beats per bar including bar beat

How many rhythms to play at once (should equal parts to play) - SPIN
Adjust the number of simultaneous beats per bar

Parts to play
How many parts to set or number of parts to play in fractal tune

Parts to play - SPIN
Adjust the the number of parts up / down

Play Script
Play the tune script

Script
You can use this to vary tempo, volume, etc at any desired time in the tune

Beats per "bar"
Number of beats per bar in first beat pattern

Beats per "bar" - SPIN
Adjust first number of beats

Beats per "bar"
Number of beats per bar in second beat pattern

Beats per "bar" - SPIN
Adjust second number of beats

Beats per "bar"
Number of beats per bar in third beat pattern

Beats per "bar" - SPIN
Adjust third number of beats

Beats per "bar"
Number of beats per bar in fourth beat pattern

Beats per "bar" - SPIN
Adjust fourth number of beats

Beats per "bar"
Number of beats per bar in fifth beat pattern

Beats per "bar" - SPIN
Adjust fifth number of beats

Beats per "bar"
Number of beats per bar in sixth beat pattern...

If you need more beat patterns, enter the numbers into the Rhythms field separated by commas. This just shows the first six patterns for convenience of adjusting htem

Beats per "bar" - SPIN
Adjust sixth number of beats

Rhythms
Enter all the beats per bar for your rhythm or polyrhythm...

These beats get played from Parts 1 onwards in the Parts window. So you can adjust the instruments for each beat pattern there, the volume for each beat pattern, and so on.

If you want to hear a beat for the bar itself, make sure one of the patterns is set to 1 to beat just once per bar.

Tempo and Volume Variation
Vary tempo and volume - includes option to vary them as melody rises or falls

Less <<
Shows this window with either less space, less options, or alternative layout

Ed Polyrhythms drop list
Edit the drop list of polyrhythms and rhythms to choose from...

It is just a plain text file, one rhythm to a line. To edit, enter new rhythms on a new line in the same format. When you close the text editor, the list here will automatically update to show your changes.

# (number) Play Arpeggio
Play midi clip, chord progression, fractal tune or metronome..

What this plays depends on the task selected from the Tasks menu.

SHORTCUT FOR FRACTAL TUNES OR METRONOME

You can use Shift + click to fast forward...

Also Ctrl to fast forward even more. Shift multiplies the tempo by 10 and Ctrl multiplies it by 100, so the two together would play a fractal tune at for instance, 60,000 instead of 60 as the tempo. This is useful sometimes for fast forwarding through fractal tunes.

Pause
Pause playback, or continue play

Volume
Set overall volume. Check also Bs | Play control - Volume, && Parts window...

The volume is also affected by the volume for individual parts in the Parts window. Also in the case of midi instruments you can configure the volume for windows as a whole using Bs | Play Control - Volume.

For the Waveform player (triangle wave etc), go to the Waveform Player Audio Properties window (Ctrl + 188)

For CSound instruments, you can set the overall volume in the CSound Options window (Ctrl + 168)

You can also vary the volume in Out | Options | More | Volume Remapping (Ctrl + 158) and if playing from Midi In there's another setting at In | Options | Keyboard Options | Touch (Ctrl + 91)

See also Help | FAQ - trouble shooting | Why is everything so quiet

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
Or F2 - Reset / save / open for individual windows, right click for cat. list...

Shows the Organise windows window - which you can use to reset all the parameters for the current window - or save them all, or open previously saved parameters for just this window. Also has a drop list of all the windows and their shortcuts.

You can also right click on this icon as a quick way to get the floating drop menu of all the Tune Smithy windows organised by category

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.