User Guide

Chapter 14: Reference
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Adjust Level of Melody…
Allows you to increase or decrease the volume (velocity) of the Melody track without affecting the other tracks.
TimeShift Melody (ticks)…
Allows you to move the Melody forwards or backwards in small increments relative to the rest of the song tracks.
(Measured in ticks or parts per quarter, PPQ.)
Insert Beats In Melody
Allows you to insert a blank beat or beats into the song relative to the current time signature.
Delete Beats in Melody
Allows you to delete a beat or beats from the song relative to the current time signature.
Copy to Soloist Track
Copies the entire contents of the Melody track to the Soloist Track. Useful for a temporary holding area for your
Melody or bouncing tracks.
Move to Soloist Track
Copies the entire contents of the Melody track and erases the original data from the Melody track, preparing it for a
new track or data.
Swap Melody and Soloist Track
This performs a “double copy/move” so that the data that was in the Melody track is transferred to the Soloist track
and visa versa. This is also known as track bouncing.
Melodist – Generate Chords and Mel launches the Melodist feature.
Melody Maker
These sub-menu items allow you to edit Melodist files using the Melody Maker.
Track Type
Normally you'd leave the track type set to Single. But you can set it to:
- Guitar – Channels 11 to 16 will display on the guitar as strings 11 to 16, TAB will show, the notation will be up
an octave, and the MIDI file will contain the channels preserved.
- Multi – All channels are preserved and output on the channels. This would be useful for importing an entire
MIDI file, and playing it from the Melody channel (using a silent style).
- Piano – In this mode, channels 8 and 9 are treated as the left and right hand of a piano part.
Note: When saving a MIDI file and the track type is Guitar, any notes on the guitar channels (11 to 16) are preserved, so that any
fret positions are preserved. (Channels 11 to 16 correspond to strings 1 to 6, so that a G5 note on Channel 11 would be shown on
the high E string at the third fret.)
Embellish Melody during playback
This toggles the Melody Embellisher feature on or off.
Embellish Melody Dialog…
The Melody Embellisher dialog opens, allowing you to customize the settings of the Embellisher, choose an
embellisher type from presets, and make a particular Embellishment permanent.