
7. Transferring a pattern from one songfile to another
• Open the source song file as shown above. Load the selected pattern into the editor.
Then open the destination songfile and transfer the selected pattern as shown in
“Storing a new pattern”.
8. The Note menu
A note menu appears whenever you right click in the Arrange grid. The following
functions are available in addition to those detailed above.
NB: A single note is selected when you right click on it. To select a line of notes
simply left click on the first note and then drag the cursor along the line. The
background to the selected notes will turn white. Right click anywhere over the note
selection to open the note menu.
• Undo: Undoes the last command.
• Cut: Deletes the selected note(s) to the clipboard.
• Copy: Copies the selected note(s) to the clipboard.
• Paste: Right click over the desired grid square, then select “Paste” to paste the
contents of the clipboard to that line starting from that square.
• Clear: Right click on an instrument line (in the grid) and select “clear”. All notes from
the cursor to the end of the line are deleted.
• Repeat: Right click at a blank grid square and select “repeat” ( For details see
section 5 "Copying whole sections of the displayed pattern").
• Level (single): See section 5, "to change the level of a single note".
• Relative level: Right click on an instrument line (in the grid) and select “relative
level”. Set between -5 and +5. This will change the level of every note on the line by
the set amount.
• Natural level: Right click on an instrument line, select “natural level” then “low”
“medium” or “high”. This function changes the level of all notes on a line in a
somewhat random way to give a more natural feel. The degree of level variation
increases from low to high.
• Transpose (single/all): see section 5 (Applies to bass notes only).
9. Importing Midifiles into the Pattern Editor
The Pattern Editor imports single-track (Type 0) midifiles. If the midifile has more than
one track, then you will need to convert it to single-track with the appropriate software. A
good midi-converter is Gnmidfmt which interconverts files of midi formats 0,1 and 2
(available from Gunter Nagler’s Midi utilities at http://www2.iicm.edu/Cpub ).
The midi import function works by breaking up the selected midi file into sections equal to
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