Making bulk changes to Musical Discovery tunes.

This screen permits you to alter the currently loaded tune, by extracting tracks or bar ranges, by shifting notes horizontally or vertically, by transposing into another key, or by making bulk changes to volume, instrument, channel, duration, or track parameters. 

Specify track and range of bars.    Before performing any operation, you must define the track, and the bars on which you wish to operate. At the top of the screen you may tick the box for All Tracks, or else select a single track from the drop-down list of tracks. Then specify the From Bar No, and the To Bar No.  When this form is first opened, the defaults for these values are from first to last bar, for the first track of the tune. If you wish to hear a single track on its own, you may use the orange Track Filter button (at top right of screen) to mute the tracks you wish to silence.  

The top section of this screen permits you to extract a specified part of the currently loaded tune, and place it into a new tune, by clicking the lavender button  Extract track and/or range of bars. You can then listen to this extract by clicking the Play button in the Playbar.    If you wish to make this extract available as the current loaded tune for all other screens, click the beige button entitled Apply all changes to currently loaded tune, at top right of the screen. If you wish to save to disk, you can now do so with MENU File -> Save.  After making any changes, click the Play button on the PlayBar to hear the result.

There are 4 further sections  in this screen as follows:  (all operate only on the track and bars selected as above).

After making changes, and listening to the result, don't forget to save the tune to disk. This can be done from the menu, File - Save Musical Discovery File to Disk.  Or else, you may wish to save this as a fragment, which will appear as an icon on the Composing Board. Do this by clicking the purple button Store as fragment for use in composing board, which is at the top right corner of the screen.   (Fragments are accumulated into a special collection in memory, so that they may be used on the Composing Board,  which allows you to assemble a complete piece of music from many fragments, arranged in a suitable pattern. The composing Board is available from the menu Create - Compositions - Fragment Extraction from a Melody.)


ComposeBulkChanges.htm    Thursday, 16 November 2006 10:35