Acoustica Mixcraft 7 - Manual (Page 111)

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 Select Mode
This limits note selections to a specific key signature, scale, or mode. If notes
outside of the chosen key or scale are clicked, they won’t be added to the Voice
List. Scale and mode choices include:
 Chromatic
 Major
 Minor
 Pentatonic Major
 Pentatonic Minor
 Clear
This deletes all unused voices from the current Voice List. If there are notes
“played” on the grid (i.e. MIDI events played or drawn in), the “used” voices
cannot be deleted from the Voice List.
PREVIEWING NOTES IN THE VOICE LIST
Clicking the note name in the Voice List will sound the note.
CHANGING A NOTE IN THE VOICE LIST
To change an existing note in the Voice List, click the down arrow next to the note
name. A MIDI keyboard will open on-screen; simply click a new note. All notes in this
row of the grid now play the newly selected note.
VOICE LIST RIGHT-CLICK MENU
Extra functions are available by right-clicking a note in the Voice List, or in the gray
area beneath it.
 Dorian
 Mixolydian
 Harmonic Minor
 Blues
Super Quick Music
Creation with
Step Edit
Here’s one way to
rapidly created
semi-random musical
phrases with the Step
Editor: Click the Add/
Edit button, choose a
scale with the Select
Mode controls, then
click-drag the mouse
across an octave or
two of notes on the
Step Editor Notes
Chooser keyboard.
Click OK in the Step
Editor Notes Chooser
keyboard window. Set
the Steps drop-down
to sixteenth-notes
and select the Pencil
tool from the toolbar.
Now click random grid
positions, making sure
not to click two notes
vertically. This creates
semi-random melodies
within the note limits of
the selected scale.