Window 19

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Intro
Choose between Intervals, Score, or Graph type displays...

Intervals - the spacing of the score depends on the interval sizes, and you can customise the number of dotted lines and gaps used to break it up to make it easier to read

Score - conventional five line score, or the microposition by pitch variation on it which is similar in appearance but with variable spacing so the notes can be positioned vertically according to the exact pitch played.

Graph - shows the pitches played as a line graph

Intro
How to show the notes, and various other options for the tune window

Octaves
Height of the score in octaves

Octaves - SPIN
Increase or decrease height of score in octaves

Width
width in seeds or seconds

Width - SPIN
Increase or decrease width in seeds or seconds

Seeds
Width is measured in fractal tune seeds

Secs
Width is measured in seconds

PC kbd opts...
Various options that affect the pitches and so on as played from the PC keyboard.

Micro-position by pitch
Position of note shows the exact pitch played - variable spacing...

Since the pitch difference between the lines in the score varies in a conventional score (e.g. F to G in the treble space is a smaller step than G to A at 3 semitones instead of 4) this score has to be shown with variable spacing between the lines.

This has a tendency to confuse the eye a bit, so to make it clearer, dotted lines are shown for the D in treble and bass - because it has the smaller pitch step above and below it.

The sharps and flats will be shown a bit above or below the line - so e.g. D# will be posiitoned a bit above the D line and Db a bit below it, also a pure 5/4 E very slightly below it - with the position depending on the exact pitch played.

To see the subtle distinctions such as the 5/4 E only 14 cents flat, you need to make them as easy to see as possible.

Some tips: try showing the notes as diamonds (easier to see exact position on the staff), set the height in octaves low, e.g. 2, show just one of the clefs, and show the tune echo (so you don't need the extra screen space for buttons etc) and maximise it.

Colour code by note
Show the Tune or Notes played as score notes in colour

See Colour code options to set up the colours to your liking and try out other colour schemes. The standard setting here is Barbara Hero's Pythagorean based colour scheme.

Colour Code Opts...
Options for the colour coding of notes played and the keyboard note colours

Scale Notation Number Opts...
Set the notation such as cents, ratios etc used for display of all scale values...

Also has various options to configure how other numbers (volumes etc) are displayed in Tune Smithy.

Accidentals...
Accidental symbols, && choose how keys play notes in between notes of arpeggio

Copy Score...
Copies an image of the tune score to the clipboard...

You can then paste it into another program like Word or an image editing program

Set up Score for Lambdoma
Sets up a special score for the Lambdoma...

This shows the notes played according to the row of the Lambdoma rather than according to pitch height, with a separate three line "staff" for each row of the eight by eight Lambdoma.

The gaps between the staffs are shown alternately as dashed lines and ledger lines.

It also works for the sixteeen by sixteen Lambdoma, this time you have two three line staffs for each row.

Tip: you can use the >> button in the Notes played as score window to show a larger version of this window.You can resize it and maximise it too of course, like the other FTS windows, but the larger version has smaller buttons in proportion so gives more space for the score.

Less <<
Shows this window with either less space, less options, or alternative layout

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

Other Dialog Star
Tip of the day - For All 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

Frequency Spectrum Options (Ctrl + 67) == Ctrl + Shift + FREQUENCYSPECTRUMOPTIONS == FREQUENCY_SPECTRUM_OPTIONS

Oscilloscope Options (Ctrl + 66) == Ctrl + Shift + OSCILLOSCOPEOPTIONS == OSCILLOSCOPE_OPTIONS

Tuner Options (Ctrl + 65) == Ctrl + Shift + TUNEROPTIONS == TunerConfig

Frequency Spectrum (Ctrl + 64) == Ctrl + Shift + FFT == FREQUENCY_SPECTRUM

Oscilloscope (Ctrl + 63) == Ctrl + Shift + OSCILLOSCOPE == Oscilloscope

Tuner - Count Waves or Freq. Spectrum Pitch Detection (Ctrl + 62) == Ctrl + Shift + TUNER == Tuner

Accidentals symbols and special opts (Ctrl + 61) == Ctrl + Shift + ACCIDENTALS == NotationForAccidentals

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.