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Deleting notes
Notes may be deleted forwards or backwards from the cursor position.
DEL
deletes the current note and the notes to the left are pulled in by one space.
If
DEL
is kept depressed the effect is to ‘suck in’ the notes from the left
eventually arriving at the start of the voice.
–
deletes in the other direction
and if kept depressed will delete all notes to the end of the voice. The delete
operation removes any barline symbol which is to the right of the current
note.
You cannot delete ONE part of a triplet… all three notes will be erased. A
blue note at the end of a voice cannot, of course, be deleted since it is not
yet stored. To delete large sections of a voice access Commands:
Block
delete
. Use Commands:
Clear music
to delete all voices.
Volume
Due to the nature of the CBM64 hardware it is only possible to sound all
notes at one particular volume at any time. This means that you cannot set
different voices at different volumes directly. However, TMS does allow you
to change the volume of a tune in a number of different ways.
Firstly there is an overall volume control in Values. This is called the global
volume since it affects all notes alike. Secondly you can give each note in
VOICE 1 an additional volume called the voice 1 increment. When voices
are played back together the actual volume is equal to the global volume
(from Values) PLUS the voice 1 increment (for the note playing in voice 1
at that time). If there is not a note playing in voice 1 then there will be no
increment. However, it doesn’t matter if voice 1 is turned on or off - the
increment is still added. When voices 2 and 3 are played and scrolled, TMS
Delete left
DEL
Delete right
–
A
Voice 1 volume
S
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