User Guide

Chapter 4: The Main Screen
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The Folder button allows you to change song and style folders or directories from within the program.
Use the Favorite Folders button to select a folder from previously used folders. Shift-click on this button to
choose any folder.
The guitar button launches a guitar fretboard window that displays guitar notes as music is playing.
This button allows you to enter repeats, 1
st
and 2
nd
endings, DS al coda, DC al coda and more. The Auto-
Find feature enters them automatically.
The [Intro] allows you to generate and insert an intro into a song with a “press of the button.”
The Big Piano button launches a Big Piano window. It will display the notes to any track (except drums) as
the music is playing.
This launches the Windows Mixer applet. Use the Windows Mixer to make global settings to your sound
card's input and output options.
Press the Guitar Chord button to launch the “Generate Guitar Chord Solo” dialog.
The Ear Training button opens the Ear Training Window that plays chord types and intervals for you to
improve your playing-by-ear.
Launches the Pitch Invasion game that helps to develop perfect pitch as you shoot down “alien” notes
invading from above.
Launches the Music Replay game that develops pitch, rhythm, and melody recognition by replaying what
the program plays.
The Vocal Wizard selects and transposes the song to the best key for a singer’s vocal range.
This button launches the Chord Options dialog box, which allows you to add chord pushes, rests, shots, and
held chords for any given bar.
The grace note button opens the Melody Embellisher dialog for customizing the Melody Embellisher.
You can convert your composition to an audio CD. Press the CD button to burn a CD with the built-in CD
burner program.
This button connects to the www.pgmusic.com
web site.
If you have a Sound Blaster card, this button runs the Creative Mixer.
Open an audio file (WAV, WMA, MP3) and the Audio Chord Wizard will automatically figure out the
chords.
The Practice Window is where many of the features and add-on programs useful for learning can be
launched.
This controls the RealDrums, which are audio drums that can replace the MIDI drums with a real drummer.
The SoundTrack feature allows you to generate music of fixed length for backgrounds in videos, corporate
presentations, jingles, etc.