Window 105

=  Scale and Arpeggio as text =

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Enter Scale and arpeggio as text - with plenty of space for large scales

' (apostrophe) Play scale
Play the scale - for options control + click, or click on quavers button

Scales List ...
Choose from the list of scales - and add new ones, reorder, etc

Scales List ...
You can edit these values directly - you may want to switch off Auto remake...

Tip for the LAMBDOMA task: you can save the scale you make here from the menu using Lambdoma Kbd | Save Scale As... and get back to it from Open Scale in the same drop menu.

1/1
Select this to show the 1/1 at the start of the scale...

The SCALA convention is to leave out the 1/1. It will get played automatically and any scale is assumed to start at the 1/1. If you want a scale that starts at another pitch rather than the 1/1, for instance for the Thai seven tone modes, do it as an arpeggio and miss out degree 0.

Occasionally one may want to start the scale with repeating 1/1s. Since that is unusual, normally any repeats of the 1/1 at the start of the scale get ignored when you choose to hide the 1/1.

To make sure that they repeat with the 1/1 hidden, put an at sign (@) before the first one that repeats.

Steps
Shows the scale intervals as steps from each note to the next...

When unselected, shows the intervals from the 1/1

Save As...
Save as Scale (SCALA format)

Open Scale...
Open Scale (SCALA format)

>> History
Click here to show recently visited files of this type...

Alternatively, Ctrl + right click on button, text field or drop list

Keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F10

# (number) Play Arpeggio
Plays the arpeggio - for options control + click, or click on quavers button

Arp. List...
choose from the list of arpeggios - and add new ones, reorder, etc

Show 0
Show the 0 of the arpeggio

If you choose to hide the 0, and then want an arpeggio that starts on some scale degree other than 0, then put the nubmer in square brackets - see the pelog arpeggios lists for examples.

Steps
Select this to show the arpeggio as steps from each note to the next...

When unselected, you show scale degrees, with 0 for the 1/1 of the scale.

So for instance in twelve tone scales with the initial 0 shown, the pentatonic arpeggio is

0 2 4 7 9 12

as scale degrees, or

0 2 2 3 2 3

as steps.

You can show / hide the initial 0 there from the More version of the main window.

Match Arpeggios drop list to current scale
Select to synchronise arpeggio lists with scales - for scales marked (Arp...)

If a scale doesn't end with (arp...) then it has no arpeggios list associated and uses the short list with Follow scale and a few figuration like arpeggios of interest in fracta ltunes.

More >>
Shows this window with either more space, more options, or alternative layout

Scale Only as Text...
Main window scale - with large text field to enter the values

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

Scales Dialog Star
Tip of the day - Scales 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.