Window 110

=  Arpeggios Drop List =

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choose from the list of arpeggios - and add new ones, reorder, etc

Show
Choose how you want the arpeggios list displayed

Show
Select the arpeggio you want to change - or use

Show
Name for your new arpeggio to add

Show
The arpeggio numbers - these are scale degrees

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

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.

Follow...
Arpeggio numbers for the one you want to add - these are scale degrees

# (number) Play Arpeggio
Plays the arpeggio - 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

lmd File format
The file format uses steps always and shows the 0

Main Window format
The main window notation can be configured to show degrees, and omit 0

Scale Arpeggio As text
Enter Scale and arpeggio as text - with plenty of space for large scales

>> 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

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

Steps
Select this to show the arpeggio as steps from each note to the next...

When unselected, you show scale degrees, with 0 for the 1/1 of the scale.

So for instance in twelve tone scales with the initial 0 shown, the pentatonic arpeggio is

0 2 4 7 9 12

as scale degrees, or

0 2 2 3 2 3

as steps.

You can show / hide the initial 0 there from the More version of the main 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

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.