Tutorials: How to set FTS up to compose music for the Lambdoma

Go to the tasks folder, and start up the Lambdoma task.

Switch off the drone.

Make sure you have a software loopback cable installed to relay the notes from your notation software to FTS.

Select the software loopback from the In menu in FTS, e.g. Midi Yoke or Maple Sound. Set your notation software to use the same device for Midi output.

In the In As menu in FTS - select whether you want to compose for the single quadrant or 4 quadrant Lambdoma. If you do the 16 by 16 you need one staff for each quadrant.

Then choose how you want to interpret the staff notes. The option to play Lambdoma notes from consecutive white keys may be the easiest - then you can compose using just notes corresponding to the white keys - the score may be easier to read without all the accidentals you'd need to use to get some of the pitches if you use All keys.

Remember the score is what I call scordatura keyboard - there is no connection between the displayed notes and the actual notes you hear. Instead, the line which is usually interpreted as middle C will play the first note in the fourth row of the Lambdoma (assuming you have everything set at its preset settings in FTS).

Every four lines of the score will correspond to one row of the Lambdoma.