How to set FTS up to compose music for the Lambdoma

Go to the Lambdoma task in FTS. Make sure it is all set up properly for the Lambdoma (i.e. standard settings if necessary, or start it from the Tasks folder).

Switch off the drone.

Select the software loopback from the In menu, e.g. Midi Yoke or Maple Sound.

In the In As menu - 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.