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Frequency Asked Questions
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This chapter will serve as a container for questions asked by
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some enthusiastic
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> users. It may make some sense in the future to
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distribute this information as a separate file.
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<H1><A NAME="SECTION002810000000000000000">
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Chord Octaves</A>
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<SPAN CLASS="textit">I've keyed in a song but some of the chords sound way too high
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(or low).</SPAN>
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When a real player plays chords he or she adjusts the position of the
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chords so that they don't ``bounce'' around between octaves. One way
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> tries to do the same is with the ``Voicing Mode=Optimal''
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setting. However, sometimes the chord range of a piece is too large
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for this to work properly. In this case you'll have to use the octave
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adjustments in chords. For more details <A HREF="node13.html#sec-chordadjust">go here</A>.
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AABA Song Forms</A>
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<SPAN CLASS="textit">How can one define parts as part "A", part "B" ...and
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arrange them at the end of the file? An option to repeat a ``solo''
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section a number of times would be nice as well.</SPAN>
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Using
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> variables and some simple looping, one might try something like:
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>Groove Swing
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<BR> // Set the music into a
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<BR> // series of macros
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mset A
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<BR> Print Section A
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<BR> C
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mset B
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<BR> print Section B
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<BR> Dm
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endmset
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mset Solo
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<BR> Print Solo Section $Count
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<BR> Am / B7 Cdim
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endmset
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<BR> // Use the macros for an
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<BR> // "A, A, B, Solo * 8, A"
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<BR> // form
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<BR> $A
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<BR> $A
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set Count 1
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label a
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<BR> inc COUNT
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<BR> if le $count 8
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Note that the ``Print'' lines are used for debugging purposes. The case
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of the variable names has been mixed to illustrate the fact that
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``Solo'' is the same as ``SOLO'' which is the same as ``solo''.
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Now, if you don't like things that look like old BASIC program code,
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you could just as easily duplicate the above with:
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<Table Hspace="40%" CellSpacing=0 CellPadding=10 BGColor="OldLace" Border=3>
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<B>Groove Swing
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repeat
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<BR> repeat
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<BR> C
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<BR> G
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<BR> Endrepeat
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<BR> Print Section B
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<BR> Dm
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<BR> Em
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<BR> Set Count 1
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<BR> Repeat
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<BR> Print Solo $Count
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<BR> Am
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<BR> Inc Count
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<BR> Repeatending 7
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<BR> Repeatend
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Repeatend </B>
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The choice is up to you.
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Where's the GUI?</A>
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> is a cool program. But, it needs a
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<SPAN CLASS="textit">GUI</SPAN>. Are you planning on writing one? Will you help me if I
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start to write one?</SPAN>
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Thanks for the kind comments! The author likes
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> too. A lot!
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Some attempts have been made to write a number of <SPAN CLASS="textit">GUI</SPAN>s for
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> . But, nothing seemed to be much more useful than the existing
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text interface. So, why waste too much time? There is nothing wrong with
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graphical programming interfaces, but perhaps not in this case.
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But, I may well be wrong. If you think it'd be better with a
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<SPAN CLASS="textit">GUI</SPAN> ...well, this is open source and you are more than
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welcome to write one. If you do, I'd suggest that you make your
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program a front-end which lets a user compile standard
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<FONT Face="Serif" Color="Navy"><I>MMA</I></FONT> files. If
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you find that more error reporting, etc. is required to interact
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properly with your code, let me know and I'll probably be quite
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willing to make those kind of changes.
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Yes,this manual needs an index. I just don't have the time
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to go though and do all the necessary work. Is there a volunteer?
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