Window 75

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Show the seed as bar charts to click to change the seed notes

Find Seed notes from recording...
Find notes in clean recording - use other programs to clean them first...

The dection of notes is easily confused by background noise or low or high frequency sound.

So to improve the accuracy of the results, first use a sound editor to do a band pass or high pass to remove all frequencies outside the range of interest. Also do a noise reduction.

You could for example use Goldwave.

http://www.goldwave.com/

The count waves method is easily confused by low background noise such as traffic hum, and also by high fequency noise adding extra wave crossings. It can also be confused by any background noise as it can find regular patterns in noise not corresponding to any heard pitch.

The frequency spectrum method is less easily confused but background noise can add extra partials or lead it to detecting a pitch in the noise as the fundamental of the note to detect.

Both methods are programmed for solo recordings, withthe emphasis on high resolution pitch detection of the notes.

Any polyphony is just treated as noise and confuses the method.

Sometimes you can remove other instruments from a polyphonic recording to some degree using bandpass, most likely to be successful with instruments with few higher partials such as bird song and whistle, flute, recorder etc. If successful there, one might then in some cases be able to transcribe each part individually in Tune Smithy and then combine the result.

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

; (semicolon) Play Seed
Play the musical seed - Shift, Alt or both + play to play lower freq. and slower...

The Shift + play simulates playing a recording at half speed, so reduces the freq by an octave, and plays each note for twice as long as normal. Similarly Alt + play reduces the frequency by two octaves, at quarter speed, and the two together reduce it by three octaves, and plays it at eighth speed.

This is particularly useful for the Count Waves task - you can use the same combination of Shift and alt with the Play button for the recording, and so use it to compare the trnascribed seed with the original at a lower pitch and slower speed. Especially useful for high pitched quickly changing sounds like bird song.

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

M.W. Seed...
Edit the seed numbers times, and volumes by hand

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.