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Posted: **Sun Aug 04, 2019 12:53 pm**

I'm slowly figuring out the ins and outs of this program, but I haven't figured out what the scale and chord menus in the piano roll window are for. What's their purpose, and how do I use them?

Posted: **Sun Aug 04, 2019 3:57 pm**

Mr. Engino wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 04, 2019 12:53 pm
what are the scale and chord menus in the piano roll window are for.

Chord menus are mostly meant as a 'reminder' of how the chords of different kind, looks in various position in piano-roll. simultaneously you get a chord of that type, directly inserted as a stack of notes, in your piano-roll.

So say you select 'Major' in the drop-down, and then left-press mouse in the C-pos on your piano-roll, 3 notes will be inserted: CEG -Also known as a cMajor-chord, instead of only a single c-note, if you choose the default option: No-chords
In theory, you could use the chord tables to insert a whole arrangement, but the constant selecting of different chords in the drop-down, would be tedious.
Great as demos, not so much as practical tool

But that is the absolute opposite in regards to Scales !
Read about this powerful tool here:
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Pi ... Piano_Keys

You can also learn more in these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... cH1Rs56V8c

Posted: **Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:27 pm**

musikbear wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 04, 2019 3:57 pm

Mr. Engino wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 04, 2019 12:53 pm
what are the scale and chord menus in the piano roll window are for.
Chord menus are mostly meant as a 'reminder' of how the chords of different kind, looks in various position in piano-roll. simultaneously you get a chord of that type, directly inserted as a stack of notes, in your piano-roll.

So say you select 'Major' in the drop-down, and then left-press mouse in the C-pos on your piano-roll, 3 notes will be inserted: CEG -Also known as a cMajor-chord, instead of only a single c-note, if you choose the default option: No-chords
In theory, you could use the chord tables to insert a whole arrangement, but the constant selecting of different chords in the drop-down, would be tedious.
Great as demos, not so much as practical tool

But that is the absolute opposite in regards to Scales !
Read about this powerful tool here:
https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=Pi ... Piano_Keys

You can also learn more in these videos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... cH1Rs56V8c

Much obliged! That chord menu is definitely going to help me get my music to life much better/faster!

Posted: **Mon Aug 05, 2019 2:04 pm**

Life would be hard (for me, a music newbie) without the Scale feature. I just wish it would remember the scale chosen between one session and the next. Sometimes I forget, and just have to try several and see where my notes fit... Luckily, so far, I only use a few: C major to sound important/jubilant, or D or G minor to sound spooky/melancholy. There's websites that (attempt) to describe a mood for each key... but it's really kind of relative to the listener/composer's ear, I think. Apparently people have been trying to catalog and describe the effects of keys since forever...

http://biteyourownelbow.com/keychar.htm

"C. Good country key." - The Blues Brothers

Posted: **Mon Aug 05, 2019 2:52 pm**

Failte200 wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 05, 2019 2:04 pm
I just wish it would remember the scale chosen between one session and the next.

Easypeasy :p -Yoy have a whole text-editor inside every-project!
Project-notes!
I always write key&scale and design peculiarities and or and... in the notes. Its also a good idea to have a note about every session of work. That should include date of work and what you did in the project.
Also explained in my suggestions for "best-practice"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMPH5prCMv4

afair..

Btw -later made scale and more will be part of the project-file

........later :p

Posted: **Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:57 am**

Project Notes! Of course... what a silly bunt.

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