Window 35

=  Custom 2 or 3 Beat Fractal Rhythm =

Play Fibonacci rhythm
Switch on the fibonacci rhythms for the notes

Show all layers played
Shows all the layers here in the Custom beat window...

When switched on, you can still see just the first layer in the Fibonacci rhythm window

replace L by
Enter Ls, Ms or Ss in any order for the beats to replace L by...

The Ms are only needed for the three beat rhythms

replace S by
Enter Ls, Ms or Ss in any order for the beats to replace S by...

The Ms are only needed for the three beat rhythms

replace M by
Enter Ls, Ms or Ss in any order for the beats to replace M by

Ratio of long to short beat
Auto set to make all layers have same ratio if possible, so same rhythm...

The slower moving layers of construction of the tune have larger beats, which then are subdivided into smaller beats for the faster layers. This works out the rhythm so that all layers have the same ratio of long to short beat.

To hear this, make sure that Parts | Choose Parts by is set to By Layer so that each part plays a separate layer. Then all the parts will play the same rhythm, at varying speeds.

Whenever you change the beat patterns, this gets updated - however after you have entered the substitutions for the L, M and S, you can then go to this field and change the numbers if you don't care about making the rhythms the same in all the layers.

Show beat length analysis...
Shows how the ratios were worked out..

It may be done analytically by solving an equation, or it may be done by recursively repeating the substitution many times to see what ratios turn out if you do that, then feeding that ratio back into the substitutions to check to see if it works.

Note that it doesn't try to be particularly elegantly presented, just to get the job done. Sometimes you may see the same equation appear up to six times for instance, then each root tested anew each time, as it was easiest to program it that way. One would never do it like that by hand but this was easier to program than the way one might set about it by hand.

For details of how it works, see the help.

Ratio of middle to short beat
Auto set to make all layers have same ratio if possible, so same rhythm...

The slower moving layers of construction of the tune have larger beats, which then are subdivided into smaller beats for the faster layers. This works out the rhythm so that all layers have the same ratio of long to short beat.

To hear this, make sure that Parts | Choose Parts by is set to By Layer so that each part plays a separate layer. Then all the parts will play the same rhythm, at varying speeds.

Whenever you change the beat patterns, this gets updated - however after you have entered the substitutions for the L, M and S, you can then go to this field and change the numbers if you don't care about making the rhythms the same in all the layers.

Ratio of middle to short beat
Shows the beats for first layer as they are played, long, middle or short...

See the Custom Rhythm window for an option to look at the beats in all the layers

Ratio of middle to short beat
Shows the beats in all the layers as they are played

Play Fibonacci tone scape
Switch on the Fibonacci tone scape type melody

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

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.

Custom two beat
Make your own two beat rhythm...

Enter the beat pattern you want to use to replace each L, and S by. The rhythm is then made by starting with a single L beat, dividing it up as you have desired into L and S beats, then divide each of those into smaller beats again, and so on, repeating your substitutions many times.

Custom three beat
Make your three two beat rhythm...

Enter the beat pattern you want to use to replace each L, M and S by. The rhythm is then made by starting with a single L beat, dividing it up as you have desired into L, M and S beats, then divide each of those into smaller beats again, and so on, repeating your substitutions many times.

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.