Window 11

=  Pitch of 1o1 of Scale =

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Click to set the pitch for the 1/1 of the scale

Pitch of 1/1
Click to set the pitch for the 1/1 of the scale

Set to middle C
Set the 1/1 to concert pitch C

To A
Set the 1/1 to concert pitch A

Play on ed.
Play a note at the 1/1 pitch whenever it is changed

Track Tune
Show the most recent note here as the tune plays

Track Tune
Shows most recent note in the tune - choose what information to show

Use Concert Pitch
Select this to move the 1/1 to the nearest concert pitch note

Use Concert Pitch - SPIN
Change 1/1 to next or previous white note

Use Concert Pitch - SPIN
Change pitch of 1/1 by semitones

Note
Shows the 1/1 note name - you can choose how the notes are displayed

Auto select sharps or flats
Choose the octave for the 1/1

Auto select sharps or flats - SPIN
Change pitch of 1/1 by octaves

Fine tune from Concert pitch
How far the 1/1 is above or below concert pitch in cents

Fine tune from Concert pitch - SPIN
Increase or decrease the fine tune adjustment from concert pitch

Freq.
The frequency for the 1/1 in Hertz

Freq. - SPIN
Increase or decrease the frequency in Hertz

F.T. step
Size of the step for the spin control to fine tune from concert pitch

F.T. step - SPIN
Increase or decrease the fine tune step

cents
Enter midi note number for the 1/1

cents - SPIN
Increase or decrease the midi note (same effect as semitone shift)

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

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.

Play 1/1 or arp 0 from Midi In note
Shows the note to play 1/1 from - choose how it is displayed from droplist

Auto select note for 1/1
Automatically set 1/1 played from keyboard key for closest concert pitch...

So for instance, if the 1/1 is closest to concert pitch A = 440 Hz, then the keyboard map will be set up so that this note is played from the key on your keyboard which would normally play this pitch in twelve equal music, i.e. midi key 69. Generally it is set to the key on your keyboard which in twelve equal concert pitch plays closest to the currently selected 1/1.

This is perhaps most useful when you are using a scale to play twelve tone music in various keys.

An example may help by way of illustration to explain how this works.

For instance if you want I, IV and V pure in just intonation in any key, just choose the relevant just intonation scale in the main window, select this option, and then if you want to play in some distant key say C# major in just intonation, just change the pitch of the 1/1 to C#.

Normally this would shift everything up by a semitone so that the C on your keyboard plays C#, so you could then play in C major and hear it in C# major.

But if when you adjust the pitch of the 1/1 you choose to play the new C# 1/1 using the C# key on your keyboard, then you can play in C# from your keyboard and will hear the notes as desired in the key of C#. But since you also are using the scale with the 1/1 starting at C# too, that make it with the I, IV and V pure in C# as desired

This can easily be done by hand, the check box just automates it and makes it easier. You can achieve the same effect by adjusting the tonic in the main window, but again, doing it here may make it simpler to do as you have only one thing to change and the rest is automatic.

There is nothing else to do if you have Play in Scale selected, but if you have play in arpeggio selected, then the arpeggio should be rotated around depending on the new 1/1 position. This can be done automatically so long as the arpeggio mathes the midi map, e..g. that you have the diatonic arpeggio played from white keys, generally the arpeggio has to have the same number of notes as the midi map (in this case seven) and have steps in the right places.

So - to help with this, you probably will want to have Rotate Arpeggio selected, which adjusts the arpeggio automatically if necessary

Rotate Arp.
Automatically rotate arpeggio when midi note for 1/1 is auto selected...

This can usually be done if the arpeggio has the same number of steps as the midi keyboard map (see Play from Custom Midi Map (Ctrl + 160), or is a multiple of the number of notes in the map (e.g. single arpeggio spanning two octaves of white notes, or any arpeggio played from all keys).

The arpeggio is automatically rotated around.

This is easiest to see when you play the arpeggio from All keys, as a first example.

So e.g. if you change the  1/1 from C to C#, with the 1/1 also played from C# instead of C, the arpeggio needs to be rotated around so that the step of the arpeggio from C# to D which used to be the second step of the arpeggio is now the first step.

It gets more complicated if you have play from white keys say. Then the arpeggio may be has say 5 scale degrees for the first step, which in the keyboard map occurs between C and D with C# as an accidental. So if the 1/1 moves from C to D that's straightforward, just rotate the arpeggio around by one step, 5 scale degrees. But if it moves from C to C#, it is not so easy to see what to do as you have choices, 2 and 3 equally valid with 1 and 4 also outside runners.

In that situation, this option will take your current tuning of the sharps and flats as a guide. So if for instance the C# plays scale degree 3 of the arpeggio then the arpeggio will be rotated around by 3 scale degrees.

You may want to edit the arpeggio after such a rotation if you want one of the other alternatives. Just edit the first number in the arpeggio, in square brackets (if you have show 0 unselected) - in this case to any of 1, 2, 3, or 4.

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Shows this window with more space or more options or alt. layout (3)

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

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Or F2 - Reset / save / open for individual windows, right click for cat. list...

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