Re: Making Music with MIDI
You can save your own files up to ten times, which has been more than enough for me for the majority of songs. (*Cough*There might be a way to copy and paste whole staves from one unregistered file into a new one to get around that, but I only ever kept multiples once when I was trying to transcribe a song by ear.)
I've written a guide for it somewhere, but I remember people having trouble with it. It also matters whether you're using Jaws or NVDA, since Jaws will read letters and things you can quickly learn to recognize when you're navigating and selecting things, while NVDA is much less cooperative (but lets you read the clipboard, which helps since all notation gets converted into a text description when copied to anything else, including going through NVDA).
I'll see if I can find what I wrote up previously, or come up with something more thorough and comprehensible (there's a reason QWS is more popular, after all), but for now, here'
s a brief list of basic keystrokes (note that a file must be opened for this to work):
left/right: move backward or forward along the current staff
up/down: adjust the pitch of the next note to be added. It defaults to the middle for the cleff of whatever staff you're on when you move between staves, or b5 if there is no cleff.
ctrl+shift+up or ctrl+shift+down: Adjusts the pitch of selected notes. I don't think up/down by themselves will adjust the pitch of a note that has already been created.
1-6: set duration, where 1=whole, 2=half, 3=quarter, and so on down to 32nd. Applies to selected notes/rests or any created afterward.
7: set natural (selected or next notes, applies to most toggles from here on)
8: set flat
9: set sharp
0: this seems to be an extra delete command, for the developer only knows what reason, since delete and backspace work exactly as expected.
shift+left and shift+right select the previous/next notation, re
spectively; selecting, navigating, etc works as closely to like a word processor as makes sense.
home/end: move to start/end of staff.
ctrl+home / ctrl+end: move to the first or last staff in the score.
enter: add note
spacebar: add rest
page up / page down: move to previous / next staff.
ctrl+A: add new staff
ctrl+D: delete staff
tab: add bar line (edit the properties afterward to use these for repeats)
ctrl+g: go to measure (you can move to the start of the measure you're in by just pressing ctrl+g and enter, since the current measure is the default).
alt+enter or f2: properties on whatever is selected, or staff properties if nothing is selected. You can adjust instrements and channel properties, from staff properties, among other things.
, (comma): toggle staccato
. (period): toggle dot
/ (slash): toggle note tie
ctrl+t: toggle tripplets (only works if selected notes/rests fit into a tripplet. So it would
work on three notes of the same duration, or an eighth and a quarter, but not on two eighths and a half).
; (semicolon): toggle note slur
_ (underscore): According to the menus, this toggles tunuto
c: add cleff
d: add dynamic
e: add tempo variance
f: add flow control
g: add time signature
i: add instrument patch
k: add key signature
l: add multi point controller
s: add special ending (I think... I could never get these to work)
t: add tempo. Note that setting the tempo on one staff affects all of them.
u: sustain peddle (conveniently, Jaws reads this symbol as a u (down) or v (up)).
x: add comment
y: dynamic variance
ctrl+f: find. A useful place to paste if you're using jaws and reading descriptions; I would generally use the "by category" option when searching for something, but "by _expression_" should work if you need something specific.
When navigating the staff and
selecting notation, Jaws will read letters, symbols, and sometimes actual words/numbers from the notation in question. Some of this makes sense (dynamics will be read with an "l" followed by things like p, f, fff, etc), and sometimes it's kinda arbitrary but fairly soncistent (half notes are j, whole notes are i, quarter notes are k... I could write a guide on how jaws reads these for me, and I'd assume it works for most versions of Jaws and the program since it's worked for me on multiple computers with multiple versions).
NVDA only reads a few specific types of notation this way, but you can enter its properties (select and press alt enter), or copy it to the clipboard and press NVDA+c to hear what it is. (Properties doesn't work so well on notes and rests, since it won't tell you the duration or pitch; you can copy notes or rests with Jaws and get text descriptions as well, but with Jaws you'd need to paste them somewhere, while NVDA
can just read off the clipboard).
So, yeah, I still recommend learning with Jaws if possible, but it's usable with NVDA if you have the patience. You can always find other ways of figuring out where you are--make liberal use of bar lines, for example.
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