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RAPIDCOMPOSER DRUMS FOR MAC OS X
For Mac OS X a standalone version is available at the moment.
RAPIDCOMPOSER DRUMS WINDOWS
We would like to keep the version numbers the same for Windows and OS X as much as possible.
RAPIDCOMPOSER DRUMS CODE
Technically speaking the source code is the same for the Windows and Mac OS X version, so any new feature implemented will automatically go into both versions in the future. A lot of people demanded an OS X version, and while porting took longer than expected, we deliver it today. (You can turn off pop-up help in the settings when not needed anymore.) At the left bottom corner of the window you will find two small buttons that provide information about mouse operations and keyboard shortcuts.MusicDevelopments has announced that RapidComposer – a parametric phrase-based music composition application – is now available for Mac OS X: If you leave the mouse over a UI element, a help window will pop up. At the top of the window you can choose whether to display the properties, operations or help for the clicked object. Generally if you right-click on a track, phrase, master track, transport buttons, etc, an inspector window will open. Step 8: Done! You can move on to the 'Working With Phrases' tutorialThis tutorial ends here, but there is still a lot to discover. In this case the track will look up the master track chords from a guitar chord database and use the guitar chord notes instead of the keyboard chord notes. Use the 'Acoustic Guitar' voicing if you want to use acoustic guitar chords. You can make percussion tracks, which are optimized for percussions, but are still phrase-based. Right click on a track header to open the track inspector, where you can set the name, colour, instrument, voicing, articulation and other properties for tracks. Right-clicking on a chord section which opens the Master Track Inspector You can set the individual chords in many different ways: clicking on the chord offers chord suggestions, opening the chord selector, typing the chord name, or entering a chord from your MIDI keyboard. Move chord section boundaries by horizontal dragging: You can divide or join the chord sections by double-clicking. If you press 'H' the track will be filled with phrases that are suitable to preview master track chords. Select the track (click in the track header, e.g. Select a progression, and drop it on the Master Track as shown here: Click on the 'eye' button for Progressions:Ĭlick on to open the chord progression browser. Here you can open/close browsers, and decide which browser icons to display in the top bar. Hint: if you double-click inside the track header, the track is automatically zoomed to fill the workspace.Ĭlick on the small button at the top left corner to open the browser menu. You can make the line shorter or longer by dragging the right edge of the timeline: Zoom the timeline using Ctrl-drag on the timeline. Resize the track vertically by dragging the bottom of the track header. If you double-clicked on 'Line1', you can close the Structure Inspector. Double-clicking on 'Line1' will display only 'Line1' in the composition workspace. By default the whole composition ('Untitled' on the screenshot) is displayed. The active view (that you edit on the composition workspace) is displayed with blue text in the list. Click on the lower green '+' icon to add a new line below the existing line: You can choose whether to use absolute chords, or chords with scale degrees.Ĭlick on 'Line1' in the Structure Inspector. You can set the composition global scale, tempo and signature in this window, as well as composition title and composer name. Now right click on 'Untitled' which is the highest level in the list. In the Structure Inspector you can add or remove lines and verses, and set scale, tempo and signature if you right click on any units. Click on the 'Structure' icon to open the Structure Inspector. The composition structure is presented as a collapsable list in RapidComposer. On the following image 'C Major' scale is specified at the composition level, but it is overridden by 'Verse2': Lower levels inherit these properties by default, but they can also override them. You can set properties (scale, chord, tempo, signature) on any level. In RapidComposer the composition is a hierarchical structure as shown on this image: Step 1: Start a new compositionPress the 'Files' button.