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Subject: Re: Bars&Pipes2.5 Guitar Tool
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 96 22:40:17 -0500
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you can use the guitar several ways, so first try putting one at the start of a
track.
click on it, and there are some windows available, edit, and play.  Go to edit.
click on the edit button.

then load, and load the preset file.

click on the auto chord button, and make sure you do not have the tabulature
button set.
Now play some notes into that track, and you should hear guitar chords out.

Now you have in the edit window, at the top, 6 strings  e a d g b e.

click on one with the left mouse button and drag up or down, you can retune
your guitar that way to non-standard tunings.

Ok, reset it to e a d g b e

then click on the lowest e.

You will see a small box someplace on the string, indicating what note in the c
c# d d# e f f# g g# a a# b menu which is just below the e a d g b e menus.

Now you can click erase, and then click on one of these notes in the lower menu
to select your melody note.

click on the box so it turns red, to make sure you can play that note.

Now if you want your chord to beneath that note, then build a chord on the
other strings by just moving the mouse cursor to the pipoint in the string you
want and click.
ATS0=0
atdt 1

You have a menu at the bottom of the play window, that you can click on and
slide to another set of chords if present.
So what this lets you do, is create melody chords in one bank, rock in another,
octaves in another, and then use insert to load all of these seperate banks
into one.
then use save all to save it.

Now another way to use it, is to click on a track, so that it expands, and then
put the guitar tool on the tracks tool palette.
then click on the tool, and click on the box that lets you draw a box around a
chord.

Then go draw a box around a chord, and it will change to one according to your
guitar tool.

There is an edit tool menu, that can let you reset the tool to other type
chords.
NOw there is also strum directions and other sliders that I think you will
figure out.
Put offset to zero to start playing at changing chords, otherwise with small
chord rythems, you might get overlaps.
You can use the rythem menu on the track to set what rythem value the chord
will use.