Window 33

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Seeds for layers...
Set a different seed for each layer of construction of the melody

Intro
Transform the seeds, also polyrhythms, drones, DNA music, ...

Select
Switch on seeds depending on layers

Scale Arp. for layers...
Set a scale and arpeggio for each layer of construction of the melody

Select
Switch on scale and arpeggio depending on the layer of construction of the tune

Reflect, or invert Seed
Reflects or inverts the seed notes, times or volumes from time to time

Permute etc. seed notes
Permutes seed, rotates it, or changes the timing from time to time.

Seed Skips
Skips forward to next seed note in middle of seed at slower moving layer

Drone
Add a drone and set how long it continues after the note you play stops

Select
Adds a drone to accompany any notes played in Tune Smithy

Rhythms Polyrhythms...
Play rhythms or polyrhythms - for fractal tunes, changes tune construction

Select
Switch on the polyrhythm method of making tunes

Fibonacci rhythm...
Constructs the tune from long middle and short beats in a Fibonacci pattern...

If the seed is too long for the pattern it gets truncated.

Select
Switch on the fibonacci rhythms for the notes

Fibonacci tone scapes...
Tune goes up and down depending on Fibonacci beat length...

For instance up by 5/4 on long beats and down by 6/5 on short beats or whatever, some such arrangement.

Result is that the tune may not fit into an particular single scale, but drifts up and down by intervals instead.

Select
Switch on the Fibonacci tone scape type melody

Text as seeds...
You can enter an alphanumeric seed or DNA / protein sequence etc.

Select
Note - you can enter words as alphabetic seeds even when unselected...

Select to show the seeds as words, and to make sure that data you enter is treated as an alphabetic seed even if it is valid for a number input.

To show how it works when unselected - for instance 0120 as all one word isn't a valid number input because numbers don't start with 0 so that will get treated as an alphabet seed for the characters 0 1 2 0.

But 120 would be treated as the number 120 when this is unselected. Usually best to select it if you are using alphabet seeds.

Scale Arp.for Parts...
Set the scale and arpeggio individually for each part

Select
Switch on scales and arpeggios set individually for each part

Scales for Parts Presets...
Useful or interesting presets - tonality shifts, diesis shifts, CPS sets,...

Chord progr. for Arps...
Set a chord progression

You can also set the volume, e.g.V 100, V 50 etc.

Example:

v 100 O _ v 50 O _ O _ o _ o

The O is a quarter note, the o is an eighth note, and the _ before a note sets it to strum the same chord as the one before. So this rhythm is played all on the same chord.

If you wanted to change chords in the middle for instance, you would leave out an _ as in:

v 100 O _ v 50 O  O _ o _ o

Or if you want a 6/8 type pattern you could do e.g.

v 100 Oo _ v 50 o. . o

where the Oo and o. are dotted notes - you can combine beats together by just placing the characters next to each other so that they touch.

Play List (tempo map)...
Set a play list of fractal tunes, or set tempo changes...

Unlike a normal play list, these fractal tunes become part of the tune you are working on. You can open the original files into this tune, but once you do so, they then become part of this tune, and if you change the original it will have no more effect.

tempo map
Switch on the play list or tempo map

Seed Layers
The number of layers used to build up the tune...

You need many layers to make sure the tune continues for a long time without repeating - maximum of 50.

If you have a fractal tune in several parts and have Parts | Order of Play | By Layer or By Layer with Simultaneous notes selected, make sure you have at least as many layers as you have parts you want to hear.

Seeds that have first numbers anything other than 0 can go very high or low, depending on the number of layers you have. See 1.08a\Virtuoso violin with flute for an example of this.

Seed Layers - SPIN
Adjust the number of layers of tune construction

Rhythm fractal in all layers up to
How many layers the rhythm should be fractal for...

The idea of a fractal rhythm is that when a seed plays a single note in a slower moving layer, it should play it faster, or more slowly, depending on how long the note is in the seed at the slower moving layer. This ensures that each seed in every layer has the same internal rhythm - but means that seeds in the faster layers are continually changing speed to remain within single notes of the slower seeds. So if the seed in layer 3 for instance is playing a short note, layer 2 will be playing a fast seed, and layer 1 will play a whole succession of fast seeds so that they can all fit within that single short note in layer 3.

If you set the number of layers of fractal rhythm variation high here, then the rhythm of the fastest seed is likely to vary considerably as the tune progresses from very slow to extremely fast.

Rhythm fractal in all layers up to - SPIN
Adjust the number of fractal layers of rhythm

Ground 1st tune note
When first seed number is non zero - prevents tune starting very high or low

Auto ground seed at layer
Helps prevent the tune going very high or low later on...

When you build the tune up fractal fashion, the seed numbers add up which can make the tune go very high eventually.

This option helps reduce that tendency. The lower the layer that you ground the tune at, the less the tune numbers will vary as the tune goes on.

It does it by reducing the notes for seeds in that layer down into the first octave (or repeat) of the arpeggio. So for instance if set to play the pentatonic arpeggio in a twelve tone scale, then if the seed would normally play a 16 say, it will play a 4 instead, reducing it down into the first repeat - it is for an octave repeating arpeggio repeating at scale degree 12 here.

Auto ground seed at layer
The layer at which to ground the tune seeds

Auto ground seed at layer - SPIN
Adjust the layer for grounding the seeds of the tune

Make drop lists from folders....
Makes a drop list of all your tune smithy files in a particular folder...

You can also add your list to the main window drop lists.

Randomise...
Good way to get started - randomise the current tune && configure randomisations

Pause
Pause playback, or continue play

Play
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.

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

Play
Volume for notes when they are in the middle of a rest at slower moving layer...

This is used to multiply the volumes. For instance if set to 1/2 then the faster moving layers play at half volume when the slower moving layer is silent.

Select
Play the tune script

Emulate 2002
Emulates the 2002 version of FTS...

This is meant to deal with compatibility issues with some earlier saved tunes. However those should be sorted out now.

If you find it is still necessary, let me know with an example tune so that I can fix it. It's only for backwards compatibility to play old saved tunes. If you switch this on then many later features won't function properly should you want to add them to your old tune. So if you find any remaining compatibility issues it is best if I can sort them out.

It only emulates a particular central section of the 2002 version of FTS.

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

Undo backups
Lets one undo effect of changes, or schedule backup history trails

Select
Switch on multiple undo

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.=Neighbours, and  Previous -  Up -  Next= New Scale (Ctrl +  5) == Ctrl + Shift + SCALE

Help For Tool Tip - Shift + F1 (Ctrl + 141) == Ctrl + Shift + HELP == HelpDEBUG

Rhythms and Polyrhythms (Ctrl + 89) == Ctrl + Shift + POLYRHYTHMS == PolyRhythms

ain Window == Ctrl + Shift + MAINWINDOW

Seed Skips (Ctrl + 79) == Ctrl + Shift + SEEDSKIPS == SeedPosIncrement

New Seed, Scale and Arpeggio Options (Ctrl + 75) == Ctrl + Shift + NEWSCALESEEDANDARPEGGIOOPTIONS == NewSSAOptions

Midi out options (Ctrl + 48) == Ctrl + Shift + MIDIOUTOPTIONS == MidiOutOptions

What to show on PC Keyboard pics, sustain and controller (Ctrl + 123 or Ctrl + K1) == Ctrl + Shift + KEYBOARDPICMOUSEACCID == PCKEYBOARD_WHAT_TOSHOW

Muscial E-card Picture and Tune (Ctrl + 122) == Ctrl + Shift + MUSICALECARDPICTUNE == MUSICAL_ECARD_PIC_TUNE

N.B. This list of neighbours may change each time this help is updated - it is based on the windows I use myself most often after this one.