Window 75

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What to show on picture of keyboard...
What to show on the music keyboard pictures - intervals, chord intervals etc

Intro
Options for the New Seed, Scale and Arpeggio windows

PC keyboard notes to play...
Various options that affect the pitches and so on as played from the PC keyboard.

Mouse and PC kbd play options...
Sustain pedal, modulation wheel, what to show on the keyboard, more options

Volume to play for Seed for fast layers of tune when slower layers play rests
Volume for notes when they are in the middle of a rest at slower moving layer...

This is used to multiply the volumes. For instance if set to 1/2 then the faster moving layers play at half volume when the slower moving layer is silent.

New Scale...
Easy way to make a new scale by selecting notes from other scales...

Enter the scale you want to select notes from at the top of the window - or select it from the drop list. You can use the Get button to get the current main window scale.

The window with the dots will then show all the notes of the original scale as dots, and it shows the notes of the new edited scale as downward pointing triangles. To add notes left click on any blue dot. To remove notes use right click.

When the scale is ready you can use the Apply button to copy the result back into the main window.

You can mix and match, select notes from one of the scales, then select another scale from the drop list and add in more notes from that one. You can also edit the new scale directly in the New Scale text field.

If you want to select notes from an equal temperament with a certain number of notes per octave use the Make ET field, and the blue dots will update accordingly. In that field you can also set the blue dots to show divisions of some other interval instead of the octave using e.g. 20%3/2 to get 20 divisions of 3/2.

If you need to zoom in or out, use the width in octave fields. Use the Expand button if necessary to repeat the blue dots to fill the visible region.

You can also just play the scale you have made so far and switch off the editing features. To do that select the Play radio button, click on the picture of the music keyboard, and then play the notes using the top row of your PC keyboard. You can also play the notes from MIidi In if you select Relay from Midi In - this will override the main window scale whenever this window is active.

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

Look for Moment of Symmetry scale (Ctrl + 128) == Ctrl + Shift + MOS == MOSDAN

Similar Waves For Pitch Detection (Ctrl + 127) == Ctrl + Shift + WAVECOUNTSIMILARWAVES == WaveCountSimilarWaves

Tip of the Day (Ctrl + 125) == Ctrl + Shift + TIPOFTHEDAY == TipOfTheDay

Musical e-card To and Subject (Ctrl + 124) == Ctrl + Shift + MUSICALECARDTO == MUSICAL_ECARD_TO

What to show on PC Keyboard pics, sustain and controller (Ctrl + 123 or Ctrl + K1) == Ctrl + Shift + KEYBOARDPICMOUSEACCID == PCKEYBOARD_WHAT_TOSHOW

Muscial E-card Picture and Tune (Ctrl + 122) == Ctrl + Shift + MUSICALECARDPICTUNE == MUSICAL_ECARD_PIC_TUNE

Make Muscial E-card (Ctrl + 121) == Ctrl + Shift + MUSICALECARD == MUSICAL_ECARD

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.