| Assign Voices to Notes |
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When you select a chord, this command will assign voices to the notes, depending on the number of voices. Example: Insert four notes in the Key Editor. Select them. Give the command. Notice how each note has been assigned a voice when you select them: Bass, Tenor, Alto, Soprano. Note: This command will also work for arpeggios. (This means that if you insert four notes, C3 at 1.1,E3 at 1.2, G3 at 1.3, and C4 at 1.4, and then select them and give the command, they will still get Bass, Tenor, Alto, Soprano.) Note 2: You need at least 3 notes for a chord. If you try with one note, it will be assigned the voice Bass 2. A second note will get Bass. With 3 notes, the chord is assigned as Soprano, Alto, Tenor starting from top to bottom.
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Assigning Voices to Notes |
| Chord Editing - Add to Chord Track |
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When you select a chord, this command will create a Chord Track (if it doesn’t exist yet) and add the chord to the Chord Track. Note: Any selection of notes with work with the command, and the resulting voicing will be the sum of this selection. Example: Insert two chords. At 1.1 have C3, E3, G3, B3. At 1.3 have D3, F3, A3. Then select the first chord and give the command. The Chord Track shows Cmaj7. Select the second chord and give the command. The Chord Track shows Dmin. Now select both chords at once and give the command. The Chord Track shows Cmaj7/9/11/13.
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Chord Editing Section |
| Chord Editing - Drop 2 |
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When you select a chord and give this command, the note second from the top will be transposed one octave down. |
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Chord Editing Section |
| Chord Editing - Drop 2 and 4 |
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When you select a chord and give this command, the note second from the top, and the note fourth from the top, will be transposed one octave down. |
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Chord Editing Section |
| Chord Editing - Drop 3 |
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When you select a chord and give this command, the note third from the top will be transposed one octave down. |
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Chord Editing Section |
| Chord Editing - Inversions: Move Down |
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When you select a chord and give this command, the top note will be transposed one octave down. Note: A bit misleading the name of this key command. I thought move down would take me from a 2nd inversion to 1st inversion, automatically bringing the 3rd of the chord to the bass (and sending up the 5th from the bass to the inner voices). The correct description is in the tooltip of the command, at Inspector’s Chord Editing > Inversions. “Move highest note to bottom”. Note: This command will avoid creating unisons. So, if you have a chord C3, E3, G3, C4 and give the command, the C4 will be taken two octaves down, to C2, in order to avoid C3. Of course, if you then gave the command again, the G3 would end up at G1, under the new C2.
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Chord Editing Section |
| Chord Editing - Inversions: Move Up |
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When you select a chord and give this command, the bottom note will be transposed one octave up. Note: A bit misleading the name of this key command. I thought move up would take me from a 1st inversion to 2nd inversion, automatically bringing the 5th of the chord to the bass (and sending up the 3rd from the bass to the inner voices). The correct description is in the tooltip of the command, at Inspector’s Chord Editing > Inversions. “Move lowest note to top”. Note: This command will avoid creating unisons. So, if you have a chord C3, E3, G3, C4 and give the command, the C3 will be taken two octaves up, to C5, in order to avoid C4. Of course, if you then gave the command again, the E3 would end up at E5, over the new C5.
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Chord Editing Section |
| Chord Editing - Match with Chord Track |
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When you select a chord and give this command, it will be transformed to match the voicing shown at the Chord Track Note: This command doesn’t seem to work with multiple chords. Example: We have a chord track with one chord per bar. The chords are: Cmaj7, Fmaj7, Dmin7, G7. If we draw one four note chord (or any four notes) in bar one, and then copy over to the next three, select them all and give the command, nothing happens. But, if we select each chord on its own, it works.
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Chord Editing Section |
| Chord Pads Setup… |
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Brings up the Chord Pads setup window. |
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Chord Pads Setup Dialog |
| Chords to MIDI |
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When you have a track selected (Instrument, MIDI), giving this command will realize the chord track. Plainly said, it will create a midi part, and fill it with the right notes, as defined in the Chord Track. Chord Track says Cmaj7, midi track will have C, E, G, B. Note: Works from project window, when a track (MIDI, Instrument) is selected. When used, the track will have its ““Follow Chord Track”” enabled and switched to Voicings.
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Converting Chord Events to MIDI |
| Create Chord Symbols |
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This command will detect the chords of the selected tracks, and insert them to the Chord Track. Note: This command works according to selection. If you have a track with Am, G, select it and give the command, the Chord Track will then have exactly Am, G. But, if you add another track and proceed to have a note F for the duration of Am, G, and then select both tracks and give the command, you’ll see the Chord Track change to Fmaj7, G7.
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Extracting Chord Events from MIDI |
| Map to Chord Track |
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This command will match a selection of parts or events to the Chord Track. |
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Using Map to Chord Track |
| Set up Musical scales… |
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Brings up the Musical Scale Setup window, in which we can set up new scales and modify existing ones. |
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Musical Scale Setup Dialog |
| Show/Hide Chord Pads |
Ctrl Shift C |
This command will show/hide the Chord Pads section in the Lower Zone |
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Chord Pads Zone |