Window 111

=  Scales Drop List =

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Choose from the list of scales - and add new ones, reorder, etc

Show
Choose how you want the scales list displayed

lsc File format
The file format uses intervals from the 1/1 and shows the 1/1

>> History
Click here to show recently visited files of this type...

Alternatively, Ctrl + right click on button, text field or drop list

Keyboard shortcut Ctrl + F10

Main Window format
The main window notation can be configured to show steps, and omit 1/1

Open ...
Open drop list of scales

Save As ...
Save As drop list of scales

Sync. Arpeggios list with current scale
Select to synchronise arpeggio lists with scales - for scales marked (Arp...)

If a scale doesn't end with (arp...) then it has no arpeggios list associated and uses the short list with Follow scale and a few figuration like arpeggios of interest in fracta ltunes.

Scale...
Make a new scale - with graphics for mouse or keyboard work

Scale as Text
Main window scale - with large text field to enter the values

Op ...
Open Scale (SCALA format)

SA ...
Save as Scale (SCALA format)

Add
Adds the new scale to the main window list below the highlight

Replace
Replaces the highlighted scale in main window drop list

Remove
Remove the highlighted scale in main window drop list

Set as Preset
Set the highlight as the one to select when this drop list is first shown

Follow...
Or ALT + select - follow the highlighted link to another drop list of scales...

Or CAPS LOCK physically held down + select

You may want to select the entry in order to edit it, so that's why selection on its own doesn't take you to the new drop list.

Add as Link
Make a link to a new drop list of scales...

You enter the name for the new drop list in the description field. Then place the desired fiile name to use for the new list in the place where the numbers normally go. Then click this button to start your new droplist of scales

Add as Link
Select the scale you want to change - or use

Add as Link
Name for your new scale to add

Add as Link
The scale you want to add

' (apostrophe) Play scale
Play the scale - for options control + click, or click on quavers button

\ (back slash) Options for play scale / arpeggio / seed
Arpeggio and scale playback options - ascending, descending, both and more

>>
Shows this window with more space or more options or alt. layout (2)

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

Steps
Shows the scale intervals as steps from each note to the next...

When unselected, shows the intervals from the 1/1

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.

Organise Windows = F2
The scale pitches (alternatively steps) as ratios, cents etc