The Palette - Melody Composing Tool 4.4.3 - User Guide and FAQ

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1. This area separates the measures of the Motive.
2. The current notes of the Motive are shown as the stroked rectangles.
3. The digits on the left-hand-side of the editor show the correspondence between pitch of a note and a scale degree.
4. This area displays the note being edited on the Piano keyboard.
5. This area of the editor allows you to listen to a composed Motive in the 'step-by-step' mode.
6. The lines in the header of the editor mark each sixteenth beat.
7. The auxiliary grid of the editor. The horizontal lines denote the pitch. The vertical lines denote the each sixteenth beat. A pitch that belongs to the non-chord tones has the red background. A pitch that belongs to the chord tones has the blue background. A pitch that does not belong to the melody tonality has the white background.
8. The name and the octave of the current note.
9. Press this button to invoke the help window.
10. This button switches on the 'edit' mode. The 'edit' mode allows you to insert notes, move notes and change note duration.
11. This button switches on the 'delete' mode. This mode allows you to delete notes.
12. The buttons of the 'undo/redo' mechanism. The editor remembers the last twenty states of a Motive. The 'Piano Roll undo/redo' mechanism does not relate to the 'undo/redo' mechanism of the Motive being edited.
13. Press this button to listen to the Motive.
14. Press this button to listen to the previous Motive and the current Motive.
15. This button closes the window of the editor.
16. This mask prompts that some non-chord tones should be resolved to a chord tone. The editor uses the following rules to compute the mask: The Motive can begin with either a chord or non-chord note. If the non-chord note is located in the up-beat or in the Motive start, on the next step it should smoothly resolve into the chord note. If the non-chord note is taken by a leap, on the next step it should smoothly resolve into the chord note. The non-chord note may follow another non-chord note if the interval between the first non-chord note and a previous chord note is second. The second non-chord note should smoothly resolve into the chord note. Those pitches, which obey to the above mentioned rules, have the blue background. In that way, the editor recommends to choose only these pitches on the current step. Also a small arrow points to the pitch that is recommended for the choice. The background colour of the other pitches is a light tint of the red and blue colours. Thereby the editor does not recommend to choose these pitches on the current step.
17. This button switches on the 'chromatic edition' mode. The mode allows to enter any note, even if the note does not belong to the tonality of the melody.
18. Use this ScrollBar control to have the access to the all four octaves of the editor pitch diapason.
19. Use this button to move the editor to the next Motive.
20. Press this button to move the editor to the previous Motive.

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