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- *+1
- Enter a channel number from 1 to 16. Since you are creating a MIDI
- format one file, each voice must be on its own channel.
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- *+2
- Enter one of these strings exactly:
- treble
- bass
- soprano
- alto
- tenor
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- *+3
- CWB found a VOICE.DB file, and now expects an instrument type from it,
- for example, "violin"
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- *+4
- Use voice style (m)arcato for most instruments. It means there is a
- small amount of silence between consecutive notes, called the overlap,
- which you will enter soon. A decent overlap for marcato style is 6.
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- Use voice style (l)egato for bagpipe type instruments. It means that
- for two consecutive notes, the second turns on before the first turns
- off, and the first stays on for the overlap value. A good overlap value
- for legato style is 0 or 1.
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- Use voice style (s)taccato for drum machines. The note goes on and
- stays on for the overlap value, then remains off for the note time
- value. Use an overlap of 1 for staccato style.
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- An acoustic bagpipe has three drones, starting on middle D and going
- down by octaves. CWB assigns drones from the bottom up; 1 drone will
- be two octaves below the middle octave.
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- For a marcato style instrument, use a value of 1 to 16.
- For legato style, use a value of 0 to 2.
- For staccato style, use a value of 1.
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- You can add voices by typing 'y'. You will be asked for the characteristics
- of the new voices soon.
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- A musical form is a time signature, a key signature, and instruments.
- For example, a jig in G for fiddle and pipes could be named
- jigGfp. DOS limits the name to 8 characters; CWB appends a .frm
- extension.
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- Since this is MIDI format one, one voice per track, you can enter
- a maximum of 16 voices.
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- The time signature is in the form T/B, where T is in the range
- 2 thru 16, and B is 2, 4, or 8. Valid responses are, for example,
- 2/2, or 6/8.
- If the bottom, B, is 8 and the top is 3, 6, 9, or 12, the
- note value that gets one beat is a dotted quarter, and you count
- 1, 2, 3, or 4 beats per measure.
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- root maj min on 2nd on 4th on 5th
- C 0 -3(Eb) -2(Bb) +1(G) -1(F)
- C# +7 +4(E) +5(B) na +6(F#)
- Db -5 na
- D +2 -1(F) 0(C) +3(A) +1(G)
- Eb -3 -6(Gb) -5(Db) -2(Bb) -4(Ab)
- E +4 +1(G) +2(D) +5(B) +3(A)
- F -1 -4(Ab) -3(Eb) 0(C) -2(Bb)
- F# +6 +3(A) +4(E) +7(C#) +5(B)
- Gb -6 na na -5(Db) -7(Cb)
- G +1 -2(Bb) -1(F) +2(D) 0(C)
- Ab -4 -7(Cb) -6(Gb) -3(Eb) -5(Db)
- A +3 0(C) +1(G) +4(E) +2(D)
- Bb -2 -5(Db) -4(Ab) -1(F) -2(Eb)
- B +5 +2(D) +3(A) +6(F#) +4(E)
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- That is, voice one is treble, voice two is bass, voice three treble,
- voice four bass, etc.
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- SATB is Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, or vocal chorus format. Voices
- one and two are treble clef, voices three and four are bass.
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- Enter the metronome value. Note that if the time signature is 3/8, 6/8,
- 9/8, or 12/8, and you want 120 eighth notes per minute, enter a metronome
- value of 40, since three eighth notes equals the dotted quarter that
- defines onebeat.
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- Answer yes unless your synthesizer requires a specific channel for a
- function, for example the drum machine on channel 16.
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- *+16
- Enter a channel number from 1 to 16. Since you are creating a MIDI
- format one file, each voice must be on its own channel.
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- A musical form is the time signature, the key signature, and instruments.
- You can save the form you have defined if you will use it often.
- For example, a jig in G for fiddle and pipes could be named
- jigGfp. DOS limits the name to 8 characters; CWB appends a .frm
- extension.
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- Choose "MOVE-CURSOR" to create new or modify existing music...press space
- Choose "DO-DYNAMICS" to change volume level for a voice ...press space
- Choose "SAVE-MUSIC" to save your work and return here ...press space
- Choose "EXIT" for panic exit without saving ...press space
- Choose "PLAY-PART" to play part of the music and return here..press space
- Choose "PLAY-ALL" to play everything and return to main menu..press space
- choose any item by using space bar to move cursor to right ...press space
- or backspace key <- to move cursor to left, then <Ent> ...press space
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- <ctl x> return to menu, <-> cursor up, <enter> cursor down ...press space
- <w>place a whole note at cursor, <h>alf note, <q>arter note...press space
- <e>ighth note, <s>ixteenth note, <g>race note ...press space
- <t>riplet entered before <h>, <q>, <e>, <s> ...press space
- <^> tie next note to previous note across bar line ...press space
- <rn> rest n bars, <rw> rest whole, <rh> rest half, etc. ...press space
- <h.> dotted half, <q.> dotted quarter, etc. ...press space
- <n>ext note, <p>revious note, <ctl f> forward a page ...press space
- <ctl b> back a page, <u>ndo, <ctl u> undo all ...press space
- <+n> transpose up n scale notes: 0 through 15 for 2 octaves...press space
- <_n> transpose down n notes. <+0> undoes any transposition ...press space
- <f>ind a bar, <N>ext page, <P>revious page <o>verlap modify...press space
- </><\>gliss up down, <a>ttack-delta, <s>wing, ...press space
- <ctl p>print this page on dot matrix, <v>oice change ...press space
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- Enter a number, nn, to go to that bar number from the start ..press space
- for example, enter 32 to go to bar 32. ...press space
- Enter +nn to go nn bars from here; ...press space
- +32 to go to the 32nd bar after this. ...press space
- Enter -nn to go nn bars before this bar ...press space
- Enter $ to go to the end of the composition for this voice ...press space
- Then press <Enter> ...press space
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- In order to print your music on a dot matrix printer, ...press space
- there must be 3 entries in the MIDI.DB database: ...press space
- grlfs (GRaphics Line Feed String) followed by the escape ...press space
- sequence for your printer to put it into 7/72 inch line feed..press space
- grhdr (GRaphics HeaDeR) to plot at 120 dots per inch; ...press space
- and grrst (GRaphics ReSTore), put back into text mode. ...press space
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