Tutorial - View: use Tinker to view a song's tracks' notes/drums/controls
Clicking on the eye button in Ditty will load the current song into Tinker
and sync the current bar in Tinker's display to the bar Ditty is playing.
To toggle syncing off, click on Ditty's eye button again.
(Or you can quit Ditty or change it's song.)
Tinker gives you a GOOD view of a song's tracks' events.
Granted, this screen shot is showing a TON of stuff.
But you'll probably grow to like it.
Notes are displayed in piano roll style.
- Durations are shown horizontally in time.
See the bar lines and beat lines? This song has a time sig of 2/4
- Notes are shown vertically in black and white (like piano keys).
See the black keys and white keys?
C notes are a little whiter, and middle C is the whitest.
- Note velocities shown in color.
There's a thin rainbow-y color scale at the top of the note area.
showing the colors that map to velocities 1..127
So green..blue means -barely- touched and
red..yellow means BANGED on, etc.
- You can also color notes by track or by sound. (via the Col: droplist)
You can click on the Track droplist to pick which tracks to look at.
The default is "all of em at once" - kinda gory sometimes.
Drums are displayed just below notes.
I give the drums short 4 character labels. Kinda cryptic, but oh well.
The ones above stand for TomFloorLow, CrashCymbal2, CrashCymbal, RideCymbal2,
RideCymbal, SnareDrum2, SnareDrum. (No KickDrum in this song)
Controllers are displayed below the drums.
Click in the Ctrl: droplist to pick the ones you want to see.
Some are shown as text,
Some with a teeny square around each individual event with lines between
Play around with the fields at the top of the window to scroll and zoom, etc.
gory details.
Next up, making a metronome track.
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