tutorial part 2: ARRANGER TUTORIAL + some tips on RECORDING. 0/ memorize or print this tutorial. 1/ boot the program, this text file is meant to be checked out with the program running. click on the word ARRANGER at the bottom of the screen. the top window, called "t and v parameters" window has now been switched with the arranger window! to get back to the 't and v parameters' window, click on that word at the bottom of the screen. (where it previously said 'arranger') 2/ the arranger is divided (secretly) in two parts. a left part (1/3rd) and a right part (2/3rds). i'll call the right part EVENT EDITOR throughout this tutorial. 3/ the other, left part contains the words PLAY EDIT RECORD. click on *record*. a 'submenu' appears. select ALL to record all. perform. how. press spacebar to start music. do stuff. change accompaniment presets, themes/variations, modes, scales, octaves, keys. important note: only the above mentioned changes are recorded, NOT individual changes made to presets. repeat: if you unmute, transpose, do whatever something in an accompaniment preset, it is NOT recorded! 4/ press backspace to stop the music. PUT THE ARRANGER OUT OF RECORD MODE BEFORE PLAYING MORE MUSIC, or else you will overwrite what you've recorded! put it out of record mode by clicking on the word PLAY, located next to the words EDIT and RECORD. NOW press the spacebar and listen to what you have recorded. press backspace. 5/ click on the word EDIT. submenu appears. select *delete* and click in the EVENT EDITOR at the hight, yet to the right, of the word "step 1". if performed correctly, this action deletes your recording. if not, you should try again. now notice that one event can not be deleted. strange uh. therefore, 6/ select *replace* in the EDIT submenu. and click on that particular event. it is replaced with the currently selected theme/variation, accompaniment preset, mode, scale, octave, key. To 'currently select' let's say, a mode, press one of the F-keys on the atari keyboard. to currently select a theme or variation, select it by clicking on it with the mouse. 7/ select *insert* in the submenu. then currently select an accompaniment preset in the accompaniment window. click at -step 1 hight- in the EVENT EDITOR. the previous step 1 now becomes step 2 = what you wanted to insert is now located at step 1. 8/ select *select* and click on the first event (step 1 in the EVENT EDITOR). you have now selected the mode, scale, key, accompaniment preset, etc (will call it stuff from now on) used in step 1. look at screen and notice that the -currently selected stuff- is displayed in the most middle window of the tunesmith screen! 9/ *copy* is used for copying ranges of steps (step 1, step 2). the program will tell you what do when. 10/ select *move* to move. IMPORTANT tip: TIME. the last column of the event editor is the TIME column. it contains the little buggers: < and >. look at step number one's TIME thingie and bothclick on the < bugger. this sets the number between the <> to zero. meaning this step will play for zero clocksteps. NOW shift + rightclick on the > bugger. this will set the time value for this step to *one theme lenght*. the theme will now play once before the next step is played. shift rightclick on > again to set the time value to *two theme lenghts*. shift rightclick on < to set the time value back to one theme lenght. ----------------------------------------- for ADVANCED gringos: >>as using the method above, you do not need to know this: -'TIME' is in clocksteps. -the theme lenght: equals microbeat (or minimum note lenght) times the -theme lenght parameter-; as set in -the t&v parameters window- when you first created the theme. (these values could have been changed in the meanwhile). -typically, TIME would be 96, 192, 384, 768 clocksteps. (= multiples of 96 and/or 192). -96 clocksteps is one measure, because it is set like that on the set options screen. (= "steps/measure = 96") it is possible to change this. this will not affect the music as you hear it, only the way it is displayed by the computer. (perhaps don' t change this setting if you don't really understand it.) -so: if theme lenght is 192 steps, it equals two measures. (at 92 steps/measure). this is good to know for later editing in a sequencer. --------------------------------------------- additional notes: ----------------- *scrolling in the event editor is done with the two scroll arrows. (right clicking scrolls faster, both clicking goes immediately to limits.) *you can set 4 'RANGEs' (cue points), A, B, C, D. how: select a range (=click on A, B, C, D), then enter "start" and "end" point using the arithmetic symbols. now, when you are in PLAY mode, the currently selected range will be played. *arranger loop: toggling "arranger loop" on, on the menu's set options screen, will loop the arranger. looping seems to happen no matter what, if you are playing a range with steps before and after it. *it is possible to only record modes for example, by only selecting MODE in the RECORD submenu. or to only record combinations, like modes+scales+accomp presets. *it 's possible, during PLAY, to have the program only control modes for example, while you perform scales, etc. do this by deselecting ALL in the PLAY submenu, and selecting the individual aspects (scales and/or modes and/or etc) you want the program to control. * it should be possible to record different performances without erasing the previous ones, by using the RANGE + start/end thingies, haven't tested it yet though. * there are TWO ways of recording stuff in tunesmith. => 1/as described above. *!!only accompaniment presets, themes, variations, keys, scales, octaves and modes are recorded!!*. 2/if RECORD is toggled on on the menu>set options screen, *!!everything that happens inbetween hitting play and stop will be recorded!!* labeled with a seq number of it's own. you can not see this recording in any way (as opposed to arranger recordings). it is in rammemory. you can see which seq number is currently being recorded: in the most middle window of the tunesmith main screen. (for example you will see: seq 1, seq a). how to save these particular recordings: A => if tunesmith is run as standalone program (= not within the kcs) then save these recordings by going to menu > save seq as. then follow the program's instuctions. -saving ALL will save all the performances in a kcs *.all file. -individual sequences are saved with a *.seq extension, these can be converted to *.mid files with the convert.prg which is in the tunesmith zip file. (note: for some reason, it is not possible to import these particular *.seq files into the particular shareware kcs 4.0 (level 1), on my particular atari st.) B => if tunesmith is run within the kcs mpe, then the performances will be recorded into kcs open mode directly. SO: ---- to save "something" built in the arranger to disk: 1) make sure RECORD on the set options screen is toggled on. 2) then go to the arranger window, select PLAY and hit spacebar to start the music. 3) this gets recorded into memory 4/ and straight into kcs open mode if tunesmith is run in mpe. if not: go to menu > 'save seq as' ). end of file.