Creating Custom Scales in Tunesmith


1.Once you open the program, select the Q key on the computer keyboard.The Tunesmith display should read "SCALE: Q A3."
2.Select MENU at the bottom.Now select EDIT SCALES.
3.The EDIT SCALES dialog appears.
4. You will see the SCALE KEY which refers to the qwerty key assignment. In this case, since we had selected Q previously, you see KEY SCALE Q in the dialog. The Name is A3.
5.Go to your midi keyboard and play a scale.You will see the notes in the dialog change to the notes you are "writting in" on your midi keyboard. 
6.Select A3, and now you can rename the scale to your own imagination.
7.Down at the bottom of the dialog is OK, CANCEL,LOAD and SAVE. You can save this scale indevidually and use it latter. OR select OK, and the scale is writtrn to the letter Q. Then when you save the TUN, the custon scale is saved with it.
8.Click on SELECT SCALE. A dialog asks you to "select the scale key". Select another letter on the qwerty keyboard. Without leaving this dialog, you can reprogram all the scales used on the qwerty keyboard.

9.APPLICATIONS: You can either program some unusual scales and create a library of scales structures in which to choose from.Or you can actually create a "pattern" which is not a scale, but say a BASS LINE or melody. If you program different patterns for each key on the qwerty keyboard, you can easily build many compositions based on this library of patterns. If you 'randomize" the patterns using the Theme generator, it even gives you more possabilities.


Tim