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Intro
What to show on the music keyboard pictures - intervals, chord intervals etc

Scale Notation....
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 Symbols...
Accidental symbols, && choose how keys play notes in between notes of arpeggio

Colour code notes by pitch
Show the Music keyboard pictures 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 options...
Options for the colour coding of notes played and the keyboard note colours

Midi relay tasks
What to show on the music keyboard pictures - intervals, chord intervals, beating partials etc

Show - for PC Kbd - etc...
Sustain pedal, modulation wheel, what to show on the keyboard, more options

Notes for PC Kbd...
Various options that affect the pitches and so on as played from the PC keyboard.

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

Kbd Multiline
Shows them on a multiline keyboard - lets you show a wider span in octaves...

You see them here as you play from your midi keyboard. You can also play the notes here using the PC keyboard or mouse. Click on the keyboard first to get started playing.

Show music keyboard layout
This shows the notes on a picture of a music keyboard...

You see them here as you play from your midi keyboard. You can also play the notes here using the PC keyboard or mouse. Click on the keyboard first to get started playing.

Tip: you can use the page up and page down keys as a quick way to change the width in octaves.

Also if you go to the Tune Smithy icon at top left of the keyboard, you can quickly get from there to the options for this window.

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

PC Keyboard Dialog Star
Tip of the day - PC Keyboard 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.= Previous -  Up -  Next=