Window 144

=  Lattice Scale =

Select from drop list of lattice intervals or enter your own. then use Make Lattice Now
Some often used interval steps for this type of lattice arrangement keyboard

3/2 horizontally and 6/5 diagonally to right - this is a pattern of major and minor chords, with the major chord triangle pointing upwards and the minor ones pointing downwards.

The others with pure ratios also make various pure triads for upward and downing pointing triangles.

The 2//17 and 3//17 etc use an equal temperament notation where 2//17 is two steps of seventeen equal. These are usually arrangements with a whole tone one way and a semitone the other way. This means you can play a major scale using a staggered type pattern, for instance one may play three notes along any row then down to the appropriate note on the next row to continue, then finally down to the last note for the octave. The interesting thing about these patterns is that you can transpose very easily to any of the keys of e.g. 17 equal while still using the same fingering, and just shift your fingers to right or left or up / down as desired.

So you only need to learn the one fingering for any scale pattern to play it in any key.

Rows
How far to go with the upper number

Rows - SPIN
Adjust the limit for the upper number

Cols
How far to go with the lower number

Cols - SPIN
Adjust the limit for the lower number

Keyboard Picture...
Show Lambdoma notes as you play, & play them using mouse or PC Keyboard...

Tips:

You can use the arrow keys to move a sustained chord around after you have played it.

Show the Bs | Notes Played window to see your notes in a score like form as dots on staffs.

Click on the music keyboard icons - to show the notes on a music keyboard as you play. You can also play the notes by clicking on the music keyboard picture.

The menu under the Tune Smithy icon at top left of the Lambdoma Keyboard picture has a quick link to the options for this keyboard.

Opts...
Change layout, what to show, set moveable keyboard regions, shortcuts etc...

Opts...
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.

Rect scale...
Make a custom size lambdoma or edit the scale directly

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.