Speed controls the resolution of the Pattern box. Sustain: notes played in an earlier beat keep sounding.Ī drum track's Pattern box works differently: there are three instruments and you can hit them or not.Play Accent: new notes are played, a bit louder.The Pattern box defines the rhythm pattern. Unrecognized chords will be underlined in red.Ī chord track's Properties window (click the file name box) offers some options to control the generated parts. Any key can be used (Bbm, D7, C#maj7 etc.). The following chords can be used: C, Cm, C6, Cm6, C7, Cm7, Cmaj7, Cmmaj7, Cadd9, Cmadd9, C9, Cm9, C11, Cm11, C13, Cm13, Csus2, Csus4 (or Csus), Cdim, Caug, Cdim7, Cm7b5. You can rename a track to keep it from being updated (remove the '(Chord)' part). Bass, Piano, Organ, Strings, Guitar, Banjo and Drums tracks can be created.Ĭhord tracks are updated automatically if you edit the chords or change the time signature etc. Chord tracks can be used to make sure the chords are OK, or to quickly create backing tracks for practicing a guitar solo etc. Using the Add Track menu's Chord Track option you can create MIDI tracks from the chords. Any bass notes (separated from the chord by a slash, eg. The chords editor's b and # buttons can be used to transpose the selected chords. You can paste the lyrics in a text editor and print them. The lyrics editors Copy button copies the lyrics to the clipboard without any bar and beat separators. See Extracting tempo from track if your song is audio only. Since MultitrackStudio stores the tempo in MIDI files, there must be at least one MIDI track in a Song in order to be able to align the chords and lyrics with the tracks. you must type 'Gsus4' instead of 'G sus 4'). However, spaces aren't allowed in chord names (ie. Note that any text which is not in a bar is ignored, and thus can be used to add comments. | It's true | it's true | it's true | it's true| | The sky | is blue | and - I | love - you | You can, for example, use '|C F|' instead of '|C - C - F - F|'. The chords editor understands multiple chords without '-' separators if the number of beats in the bar can be divided by the number of chords. Inside a bar, beats are separated by '-' characters. You can type '\' instead for convenience. It's recommended to type the lyrics first, and then add the bar separators (and optionally the beat separators).īars are separated by '|' characters. Entering Lyrics is a bit more work because it's not so easy to decide where the bars and beats are. The lyrics and/or chords can be displayed in the Lyrics Prompter too.Įntering Chords is pretty easy, since you probably have them on paper or in your head anyway. The Chords appear at the top of the editor, the Lyrics appear at the bottom. They can be made visible using small buttons labeled C and L which appear on the left hand side of the editors. These Chords and Lyrics can be displayed in almost any editor, which makes it much easier to see "where you are". Chords and Lyrics can be entered in the Chords Editor and Lyrics Editor respectively, which are available from the Editing Options menu.