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SongFrame Users Guide - Build 9.0

1. 7 Tempo 110 G F G G7 i 7 Cc F G G7 5 No questions Just answers A library for everyone Such brilliance Such insight Gleaned from everything that you ve done Tempo 110 D Dmin G E i 7 7 Dmin G E 5 7 2 4 136 Appendix Known Issues List We maintain a list of all known bugs for our products on our website As we learn of new ones we add them to our engineering to do list We actively update this list as new builds releases of our products are available Please download the document here http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets Known_ Issues _List pdf SongFrame Architecture For the more technically inquisitive SongFrame is actually a large database application connected to a DAW like interface It s underlying architecture is a classic model view controller structure It shares very little in common with the manner in which most recording or sequencing applications work particularly the tools aspects of our product Your typical DAW application writes audio and MIDI data directly to disk based audio or MIDI data files and reads these data files back directly from the disk Editing your MIDI tracks changes the actually MIDI data and editing your audio tracks may or may not change the actual recorded audio data on disk depending on what program feature you are using The bottom line the progra
2. 1 b3 2 1 2 1 k 3 1 3 1 k 4 1 4 1 k 5 1 5 1 k 6 1 6 1 k b7 1 b7 1 7 1 7 1 149 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 MIDI Note Values for Drum Sounds General MIDI Standard Group Program Sound Patch Pianos 1 Acoustic Grand Piano 2 Bright Acoustic Piano 3 Electric Grand Piano 4 Honky Tonk Piano 5 Electric Piano 1 6 Electric Piano 2 7 Harpsicord 8 Clavinet Chromatic 9 Celesta Percussion 10 Glockenspiel 11 Music Box 12 Vibraphone 13 Marimba 14 Xylophone 15 Tubular Bells 16 Dulcimer Organs 17 Drawbar Organ 18 Percussive Organ 19 Rock Organ 20 Church Organ 21 Reed Organ 22 Accordian 23 Harmonica 24 Tango Accordian Guitars 25 Acoustic Guitar Nylon Strings 26 Acoustic Guitar Steel Strings 27 Electric Guitar Jazz 28 Electric Guitar Clean 29 Electric Guitar Muted 30 Overdriven Guitar 31 Distortion Guitar 32 Guitar Harmonics Basses 33 Acoustic Bass 34 Electric Bass Finger 150 Appendix 35 Electric Bass Picked 36 Fretless Bass 37 Slap Bass 1 38 Slap Bass 2 39 Synth Bass 1 40 Synth Bass 2 Strings 41 Violin 42 Viola 43 Cello 44 Contrabass 45 Tremelo Strings 46 Pizzicato Strings 47 Orchestral Harp 48 Timpani Ensemble 49 String Ensemble 1 50 String Ensemble 2 51 Synth Strings 1 52 Synth Strings 2 53 Choir Aahs 54 Voice Oohs 55 Synth Voice 56 Orchestra Hit Brass 57 Trumpet 58 Trombone 59 Tuba 60 Muted Trumpet 61 French Horn
3. Verse 002 Chorus 002 8 Bridge 001 8 Chorus 003 8 Ending 001 8 You can write your whole song or any SongBit in several different time signatures Refer to the Working with Non 4 4 Time Signatures section for more information Choosing Chords and Building Progressions Chords and chord progressions are a major part of SongFrame s utility SongFrame provides a unique drag and drop environment for this task complete with thousands of chords and progressions in a library that is not only searchable but connected to a set of unparalleled tools to find chord substitutes choose chords based on where they occur and even what mood they convey SongFrame devotes a track called the Chord 22 Writing Songs with SongFrame Track to store and display the chords used in your song Like all Tracks in SongFrame you can store countless versions in different Takes which can be instantly recalled and utilized or edited Chords can be placed on any beat in your song SongFrame Build 9 0 adds eighth note resolution to 4 4 meter SongBits Make sure to read the next section called Hearing All the Chords in Your Progression Simply grab a chord from the Chord Library or any other chord tool and drag it down to the chord track the start of the chord sound on your track is indicated by a thin blue line on the left edge of the chord symbol or fretboard diagram You actually grab the chord name from the grid or grab the Fretboard Diagram from
4. 62 Brass Section 63 Synth Brass 1 64 Synth Brass 2 Reed 65 Sprano Sax 66 Alto Sax 67 Tenor Sax 68 Baritone Sax 69 Oboe 70 English Horn 71 Bassoon Pipe 72 Clarinet 73 Piccolo 74 Flute 75 Recorder 151 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 76 Pan Flute 77 Blown Bottle 78 Skakuhachi 79 Whistle 80 Ocarina Group Program Sound Patch Synth 81 Lead 1 Square Leads 82 Lead 2 Sawtooth 83 Lead 3 Calliope 84 Lead 4 Chiff 85 Lead 5 Charang 86 Lead 6 Voice 87 Lead 7 Fifths 88 Lead 8 Bass Lead Synth 89 Pad 1 New Age Pads 90 Pad 2 Warm 91 Pad 3 Polysynth 92 Pad 4 Choir 93 Pad 5 Bowed 94 Pad 6 Metallic 95 Pad 7 Halo 96 Pad 8 Sweep Synth 97 FX 1 Rain Effects 98 FX 2 Soundtrack 99 FX 3 Crystal 100 FX 4 Atmosphere 101 FX 5 Brightness 102 FX 6 Goblins 103 FX 7 Echoes 104 FX 8 Sci Fi Ethnic 105 Sitar 106 Banjo 107 Shamisen 108 Koto 109 Kalimba 110 Bagpipe 111 Fiddle 112 Shanai Percussive 113 Tinkle Bell 152 Appendix 114 Agogo 115 Steel Drums 116 Woodblock 117 Taiko Drum 118 Melodic Drum 119 Synth Drum 120 Reverse Cymbal Sound 121 Guitar Fret Noise Effects 122 Breath Noise 123 Seashore 124 Bird Tweet 125 Telephone Ring 126 Helicopter 127 Applause 128 Gunshot MIDI Note Values for Drum Sounds General MIDI Standard Midi Note Note Name GM Drum Sound 4 5
5. You can find this on the expanded SongBit hear all of icon it s the second drop down from the left them play The timing of my various 138 Use the Track Delay Compensation feature in the Setup gt Global Settings menu tracks seems off how do adjust it After loading SongFrame the Audio and or MIDI drop down menus do not show my available interfaces or ports SongFrame quit unexpectedly and now can t re launch it try double clicking the application icon but nothing happens My favorite VST Instrument crashes SongFrame choose EZ Drummer Lite as my Drum Track Appendix The Settings file is likely corrupt SongFrame saves its settings when it shuts down and we ve seen cases where for whatever reason this file becomes damaged The solution is simple Quit SongFrame In Windows Explorer find the SongFrameSettings XML file under the C Program Files SongFrame Settings directory and delete it When you restart SongFrame you ll need to set up the audio MIDI VST folders etc but you should see all your choices When SongFrame runs it loads three exe files SongFrameServer exe SongFrameVSTHost exe and SongFrameul exe in that order If one of those processes crashed then the other two are likely still running and preventing you fron re launching SongFrame The solution right click on the Windows Task Bar at the bottom of the screen and lo Task Manager You co
6. and computer support issues In SongFrame get a sound for each track that is acceptable and turn your attention to the writing part of the process Leave the final sound selection to later steps in the production process SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 There s plenty to understand about SongFrame you will not figure it all out unless you consult the manual and other available documentation Please make sure you have the latest manual and videos at your fingertips The most up to date versions can always be found on our website Support page at www tanageraudioworks com Support Tip for Windows users install SongFrame on your C root drive it will operate best there We ve had reports of issues when users install the product on other drives We re working to understand why but for best results keep it on the root drive SongFrame is NOT a DAW Perhaps the most common frustrations of new users who are experienced DAW users is that SongFrame is not as responsive as their DAW and that they can t seem to use all their VST Plug in s with the product SongFrame is not your DAW it is a song development environment sort of a pick and place CAD tool for songwriting We assume you already own a DAW and will use it as the next step in your production process VST Plug in support is provided for inspiration not for production purposes Not all VST s will work with SongFrame and frankly we have no plans of ensuring
7. gt Delete Rename Clear Change Type Transpose After this occurs a Transpose Tool will appear Simply choose the desired key from the drop down menu and click OK the SongBit will be transposed into the new key The key indicator in the expanded SongBit icon will show the new key The chord track will show new chord symbols or fretboard diagrams with the proper enharmonic root names for the new key and the MIDI track s notes will be transposed as well Note Audio is not affected by Transpose we do not act on this track in any way Transpose To transpose the entire song simply choose Transpose Song from the Edit menu SongFrame will ask for the target key and then after saving process every SongBit in your song accordingly Multiple Select and Cut Copy Paste SongFrame provides the ability to select multiple events chords MIDI drum tracks audio etc and cut copy paste or delete them In addition you can copy Takes and paste them into a new Take perfect if you are trying to build slight variations on a chord progression or melody line and wish to retain them all To select multiple events hold the CTRL key down CMD on the Mac and click on the desired events Right click on any event or multiple event selection and you ll see a menu which allows you to cut copy Paste Delete just the selection the current take or all takes 61 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Amin6 e028 34 4 S D se
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9. so you can hum or sing that melody in a variety of ways and keep all those versions as you develop your song If you decide to slide your song structure around all the audio and Take info travels with it and will play in the new location in your song We do not envision you needing to apply effects or carefully tweaking the waveform to create the perfect vocal in SongFrame That s the realm of the work you ll do later in your DAW recording application we assume the audio and MIDI in SongFrame only serve as guide tracks which will ultimately be deleted or hidden made inactive once you record the real parts in your DAW As we ve said to the point of nausea write with SongFrame Produce with your DAW To record Audio make sure you have an audio input device mic guitar kazoo whatever all set up and ready to go Click on ARM to arm the track a safety step to ensure you don t inadvertently record when you didn t want to and press Record on the Transport After recording if you want to keep what you have and give it another shot click on the Take box and select New Take The Audio Track will clear and the previous recording will be saved in a Take that you can recall at any time Mute turns the sound off for the Audio Track and Solo causes only the audio track to be heard and silences all others Volume well we don t have to explain everything Recording MIDI The MIDI Melody Track is the track where you can record or draw M
10. universal VST or AU operation We provide support primarily as a means of replacement sounds for the less than stellar built in GM GS synth provided as standard on most computers Actually for you Mac users the built in Quicktime MIDI synth sounds pretty darn good Kudo s to Apple again SongFrame is not a production environment your use of plug in instruments should be a choice made during production and arrangement in your DAW application of choice Tip do not point SongFrame s plug in instrument path selection tools to your main VST directories Every time SongFrame loads it takes attendance of all the plug in s in the path and this takes time Pick a small set of plug in s that represent a good set of sounds you can write with and stick to that Among our favorites besides the Front Pianos and EZ Drummer Lite product from Toontrack we supply with the purchased versions of SongFrame are the Dimension Pro or LE products from Cakewalk Check them out Getting Started Minimum Computer Requirements SongFrame utilizes the Adobe AIR Framework as an integral part of the architecture Similar to JAVA it provides support for both PC and Mac platforms In addition it provides the rich user interface experience of Adobe Flash combined with the potential for stand alone web desktop applications AIR really drives the minimum requirements for SongFrame Windows e 2 33GHz or faster x86 compatible processor or Intel Ato
11. which means that the Tool Pane is capable of displaying anything you might find on a web page including video audio and any type of data AIR is a platform for RIA s Rich Internet Applications which is sort of a marriage between desktop and web based applications We certainly make good use of that now but buckle in for the longer ride we have many cool things planned for SongFrame that we think you ll really like Song Settings The Song Settings button is located on top of the Track Controls to the right of the Song Structure Pane Click once on the Song Settings button and get the Song Settings Dialog box as shown below Song Settings 110 It Is What It Is Tempo Song Title Song Key E v Music By Scott Bausback Time Signature 4 4 v Dyrics By Scott Bausback OK Close This dialog box allows you to define the tempo key and time signature for the overall song after the song document has been created The Global Settings gt Default Song Settings determines the settings for a new song document but after that this button allows you to change things for the remaining SongBits you add The Song Settings dialog also is the place where you ll capture the title of your song along with the name of the music composer and lyricist These items will appear in your Notebook so you can find songs and SongBits easily later with this information A note we purposefully did not use the Song Title as the title of
12. AABABCBB may show the literal structure of a song with a verse A chorus B and Bridge C SongFrame uses the popular names of song form sections to describe the song and provides 9 colored icons called SongBits to represent each Intro Verse PreChorus Chorus Bridge Solo Breakdown Ending Custom There are other names given to song structure elements such as Interludes Middle 8 s etc We think the list we ve provided gets the job done and you can name the SongBit whatever you like if the names we ve used don t do it for you So if your AABABCB song utilizes middle 8 s interludes build ups or whatever you like to call these various sections have at it we won t stand in your way Writing song sections in SongFrame is easy just grab a SongBit icon drag it up and drop it on the Song Structure Pane Don t fear if you drag a Verse SongBit icon onto the Song Structure pane and decide later it s really a Bridge you can change it easily 20 Writing Songs with SongFrame SongBits provide a natural workflow to songwriting and an easy way to structure the entire song at the end You ll likely start off dragging a SongBit icon to the Song Structure pane developing it then duplicating it for the times it repeats and dragging the whole song into place at the end of the process 21 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Intro 001 2 Verse 001 8 Chorus 001 Notes Use Take 4 of Lyrics Take 2 of chords is OK too
13. Files GarageBand Load GarageBand and create a new project Be sure to set the Cubase Project file to the same Tempo as your SongFrame song as well to ensure the audio imported lines up Open the Finder window and point to the SongFrame Audio and MIDI exported files Grab the MIDI file and drag it onto the area below the default Grand Piano track in GarageBand the MIDI tracks will appear already set with instrument sounds Very simple Do the same for the Audio Track be sure and drop these at the first measure 133 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 so the MIDI and Audio are time aligned Hit PLAY and you re ready to start dragging in Apple Loops or recording other tracks for your song Note Unfortunately GarageBand uses markers for Regions and does not import conventional MIDI markers from SongFrame like other DAW products GarageBand Regions are utilized for song arrangement or with Podcast and Movie Tracks They mark zones instead of points on the timeline GarageBand File Edit Track Control Share Window Help Home 100 Tracki KI Mixer AE en ol anti At Special Effects Stadium Rock Tempo ps io bom DAW Import of SongFrame Files Logic Pro Load Logic Pro The trick in Logic is to open the MIDI file from SongFrame s export as a Project as opposed to importing it as a MIDI File Once this is done you can import the Audio File using the Audio
14. Instrument These are selected in the SetUp MIDI and VST Instrument MIDI Out dialog for this track Lyrics Text Lyrics are stored in this track each track and SongBit section is like a multi take Word Processor MIDI Playback of Drum data is constructed by dragging drum Drum Data only loop icons on top of this track or by using the Drum Automatic mode in SongFrame Any data stored in any track is stored in a specific Take at the SongBit level See the chart here When you save a song file everything except any work you did in the LyricPad is saved along with it All your SongBits Takes etc are part of the Song File The more takes you record particularly of Audio the bigger the Song file will be If you send a collaborator a Song file they can simply drop it in their default song storage directory My SongFrame Songs in most cases and they can see it in their Notebook and open the whole thing including all your takes or just a particular SongBit you want help on How cool is that When they finish adding whatever magic it is they are adding they can save that section as a SONG file and send it back to you as long as you keep it in your default directory it ll show up in your notebook and you can just grab it and drag it in place The Chord Track The Chord Track is the hub of all Chord activity in your SongFrame world The track either displays chord symbols names or diagrams Today we offer standard g
15. Patterns Jingle Bells on Quarter Notes Jingle Bells on every beat EC Intro Patterns Low Tom on Eighths Low tom beats on eighth notes EZ There are over 500 patterns of all types of musical genres meters and drum patterns Each pattern was constructed by modelling it after a real song and the category and name of the pattern should give you a hint of what song that was We re pretty sure we couldn t use the exact song names but this is a thinly veiled attempted to let you know what they are so frequently used by makers of VST Instruments these days After all know drum patterns by the songs they come from not so much the kick snare pattern they follow You never hear anyone say Hey play that 1 9 kick 5 13 snare thing again You hear them say play the All Right Now beat k At least that s how we communicated in MY garage We ve populated the tool with patterns from songs of all eras too so am positive somewhere in the collection you ll find a drum pattern that is the musical equivalent of comfort foods To use a pattern you can click the Play button to the left of any pattern When you find the one you like grab the name of the pattern and drag it on top of your Drum Track It will automatically play for the duration of the SongBit you dropped it to Note all patterns are one measure long so we didn t focus on fills just good old rhythmic back beat We did include some fill patterns if you HAD to have a fil
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17. SongFrame song is called a SongBit SongBits are icons which are dragged into the SongBit Structure Pane part of the Document Pane just above the SongBit Type icons to the left of the screen SongBits represent the various sections of your song the intro verse chorus etc know what you are thinking do need an entirely NEW vocabulary just to write a song with this program Nope only that Hopefully it is intuitive anyway I ve heard countless interviews with songwriters talking about how they came up with this bit and that bit see not so clever after all SongBits are represented by icons with distinct colors for each of the 9 song form types provided in SongFrame With any luck over time songwriters will have mental images of the perfect Bridge to their masterpiece and it will begin as a disembodied floating red block We ll take full credit for that mental image we can t help but see it too now The basic SongFrame workflow is 1 Click on Global Settings gt Default Song Settings menu and set the key of the overall song the tempo of the song and the time signature Any SongBit can hold its own key tempo or time signature as well You can change them at any time This menu affects any new song document Once you ve started writing the Song Settings button can be used to change the defaults for the rest of the SongBits added 2 Drag a SongBit up to the SongBit Structure Pane 3 Use the Tools menus to pick and d
18. Suggest sub menu icon and then the Context tab at the top left of the tool Select the chord you want to change in the chord track and the 3 chord slots in the tool will fill in automatically with the previous chord in the left slot the next chord in the right slot and the 1st suggestion in the center The Carousel shows you the potential chord replacements with the most common replacement choice in the front As you move around to the right you ll see the replacements in terms of descending popularity at least in terms of the large database of songs the progressions are sourced from Clicking the diagram lets you hear the chord as well as placing it s diagram in the center Suggested Chord slot in the tool Clicking the audition icon lets you hear your carousel choice in sequence with the original surrounding chords When you find what you want drag the chord from the carousel right on top of the chord you are replacing in the chord track be sure to align the blue placement indicator line in the beat location you want to drop the chord in Some notes the tool uses the preceding and subsequent chord in combination with the key of the SongBit you working on to search the database for suggestions You will find that the middle chord doesn t matter what matters is the chord before and after It looks for the exact chords shown and may not return any results The more common the chords being searched are the more likely it will find hits Don
19. Track material 16 bit 44 1KHz and a MIDI File Type 1 which includes the Chord Track MIDI Melody Track and Drum Track data It also includes the markers we discussed earlier In your DAW follow the procedure for importing Audio and MIDI data if you are at the beginning of a session file on the timeline everything should import time aligned We ve supplied some Import instructions and tips for the popular PC and Mac DAW applications in the Exporting Audio and MIDI section of the manual Note SongFrame s EXPORT feature will only work with songs that adhere to 4 4 time signatures 44 SongFrame Reference SongFrame Interface and Basic Operations Interface Basics The basic layout of the SongFrame interface consists of 3 main sections a Document Pane a Tools Pane and a Transport The Document Pane holds the song specific information and consists of a Tracks area a Song Structure Pane to the left and a SongBit Type Pane in the lower left The Transport controls playback and recording of your song ideas Transport Tools Pane Song Structure Bocument Pane Pane Writing a song involves grabbing a SongBit Type icons from the pane on the lower left dragging it up to the Song Structure Pane and utilizing the Tools and Tracks to develop record your ideas We ll cover this in gory detail in the following pages The Tools Pane 45 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Kianacer gt Notebook Setup The Tools Pane is
20. Troubleshooting Common Issues with SongFrame 138 LoopBe30 MIDI Loopback Driver i 141 Using SongFrame on a Mac with Boot Camp VMWare Fusion or Parallels 142 Chord Library Listing sala lanlilo sleale 146 MIDI Note Values for Drum Sounds General MIDI Standard 150 MIDI Note Values for Drum Sounds General MIDI Standard 153 MIDI Note Values for Continuous Controllers General MIDI Standard 154 End User License Agreement suerte Eton i ent ion etnice iacentes eerie 159 Information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Tanager AudioWorks Inc The software described in this document is furnished under a license agreement The software may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of the agreement It is against the law to copy this software on any medium except as specifically allowed in the agreement No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying and recording for any purpose without the express permission of Tanager AudioWorks Inc Trademarks and Notices SongFrame Chirp and Chorducopia are trademarks or registered trademarks of Tanager Audioworks Inc Adobe and Adobe AIR are either the registered trademark or trademark of Adobe Systems Incorpora
21. We warrant that for a period of 90 of days after delivery of this copy of the Software to you a the physical media on which this copy of the Software is distributed will be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and b the Software will perform in substantial accordance with the Documentation To the extent permitted by applicable law THE FOREGOING LIMITED WARRANTY IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS EXPRESS OR IMPLIED AND WE DISCLAIM ANY AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF TITLE NONINFRINGEMENT MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE regardless of whether we know or had reason to know of your particular needs No employee agent dealer or distributor of ours is authorized to modify this limited warranty nor to make any additional warranties SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH VARY FROM STATE TO STATE Limited Remedy Our entire liability and your exclusive remedy shall be a the replacement of any diskette s or other media not meeting our Limited Warranty which is returned to us or to an authorized Dealer or Distributor with a copy of your receipt or b if we or an authorized Dealer or Distributor are unable to deliver a replacement diskette s or other media that is free of defects in m
22. and where to send it The MIDI Melody Track The MIDI Melody Track looks and operates like a conventional digital audio workstation MIDI Piano Roll track For those of you unfamiliar with this tool the layout places all possible MIDI note values on the Y axis and time on the X axis Note values are represented by the keys of a piano and the black stripes default position is on the black keys making it easy to find the exact notes you are looking for You can record your performance with any MIDI keyboard controller or simply draw the notes on the 115 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 track using your mouse A good travel alternative between the two is to use the Tanager AudioWorks Chirp Virtual MIDI Keyboard Controller product This software product installs on your computer and allows you to play the piano using your laptop keyboard keys perfect for writing when you are unable to lug your MIDI piano keyboard with you Click here to learn more about Chirp The black stripes on the MIDI Melody Track actually move to highlight the various scales and modes in the Scales Library inside SongFrame Also SongFrame can highlight note ranges that correspond to almost 60 different instruments or vocalist ranges making it easy for you to place notes inside that particular range More on that in the Melody Tool section Sa _ MIDI Note Editing The MIDI Track in SongFrame contains all the familiar note editing tools you mig
23. at the bottom where you specify the MIDI Input port T ra df hey Q Chords Lyrics Notebook Setup pco Settings Chord Track Drum Click Track Melody Midi Track VST SetUp a Use VST instrument audio Setup MIDI Out Microsoft GS Wavetable Synt v e and MIDI Bank 0 ay VST SetUp MIDI Channel 1 Chord Playback e Settings Patch Number m MIDI In 1 Internal MIDI All installed MIDI ports should be listed simply choose the one you ll be using The MIDI In listens on all channels whether you are using an external device like a MIDI keyboard or a tool like the Chirp either way once you set the port you are done If you want to record a MIDI performance be sure to remember to click the ARM in the MIDI Track Controls to the left of the MIDI Track before pressing Record MIDI Input and Output Ports in SongFrame 99 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 You may have noticed a few other choices in the MIDI Output and Input drop down menus as you were madly clicking What the heck are all the Internal MIDI choices Glad you asked For the majority of users forget about it For the power MIDI wonks out there SongFrame utilizes a powerful multi port MIDI Loopback driver called LoopBe30 One of the ports is used for our Chirp Virtual MIDI Keyboard if you happen to own it 3 ports are used internally for the application and all the other ports are available to power users
24. by dragging edited or copied individually from your own personal notebook In addition to the eight standard song structural elements SongFrame provides a Custom SongBit serves as a container for any snippet of a song idea an inspiring melody idea a nice chord progression or a great lyric that might not be immediately categorized You ve decided that this Chorus is really better as an Ending Right click and its changed Chords and Chord Progressions SongFrame provides a rich set of tools to help choose chords and develop interesting chord progressions The Chords Tool contains a audible chord library of 70 chord types in every key Easily find substitutes for any chord based on a given number of shared notes Innovative chord suggest tools allow filtering by musical genre harmonic context what chord came before it and which will come after it and even chord color a 2D graphical map allowing the user to select chords based on a happy sad axis as well as a stable tense axis The perfect tools to get that chord out of your head and into your song SongFrame contains chord progression snippets from real songs literally thousands of them The user can start with these chords and drag them verbatim or find substitutes that make musical sense and drag them into place to ensure originality Choose how many chords in the progression you d like for the song section you are working on every progression will appear in the k
25. chords go 24 Writing Songs with SongFrame Common mode limits the library to those 21 chord types that make up most of the popular music and thus chord books out there It is useful if you are writing rock or pop tunes and don t need to see some of the fancier jazz or other chords in the tool See the Chord Library section for more detail Key mode is an extremely powerful writing tool It limits the library to a collection of chords representing the chords in the selected Major key as well as some important additional related chords These 32 chords per key represent the bulk of chords used in progressions for rock pop and country songs written in that given key More details are in the Chord Library section of this guide The Chord Library allows the user to find substitutes based on shared notes for any chord selected The Carousel Mode is used to show potential chord substitutions get to it by clicking on the Show Substitutions button under the grid It shows chords related to the Chord currently displayed in Grid Mode Simple choose how many notes the potential substitute chord must share in common with the selected chord via the drop down menu and the carousel will show you the 1st 10 matches found Click on any chord in the carousel to hear it even ones that are on the sides or back of the carousel As you click on a chord it will spin around to be front and center Click on the original selected chord on the right at any time a
26. ee ce EE gt Selection Current Take Delete All Takes u arco Nn Working With Non 4 4 Time Signatures So many songs are written in 4 4 time these days that it is easy to overlook using meter as a creative tool in your songwriting The time signatures supported by SongFrame include 4 4 Common Time 3 4 sometimes referred to as Waltz 2 4 sometimes called March or Train 5 4 6 8 9 8 12 8 7 8 You can set your entire song to use these time signatures or change any SongBit in your Song to use one separately Since am the world s biggest Beatle Freak I ll use Beatles examples which everybody should know As if you couldn t already tell by the lefty Beatle bass on the easel as the application s icon and the plethora of RingoRock drum patterns So think of the Bridge on We Can Work It Out moving to 3 4 time in the last 4 measures of each part very cool To do this in SongFrame you d split your Bridges into two separate SongBits with the first being in 4 4 the life is very short part and a second one in 3 4 time fighting my friend part OK really 4 SongBits since that repeats twice When you select the SongBit s Meter drop down 4th drop down from the left on the bottom of an expanded SongBit icon and choose your desired time signature you ll see the timeline on that SongBit change accordingly with new beat marks corresponding to that time signature selection There are two important steps in
27. from scratch A note SongFrame only works with VST Instruments not VST Effects Keep clicking Add if you have more than one path where VST instruments are stored on your hard drive When you are done click away from this tab and you ll see a Loading VST Instruments message Once these paths are provided SongFrame normally does this when it first loads up Ahh but you re not done yet all you ve done so far is tell SongFrame you have VSTi s To use VST s to hear your tracks play go to the Setup gt MIDI and Plug In Setup menu choose the track you d like to use a VST instrument on Chords Drums Click or MIDI Melody and click the Use Plug In Instrument checkbox SongFrame collects 101 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 information about each VST instrument and after a short pause you ll see all the VSTi s listed in the drop down menu Once you select the one you want to use click on the Virtual Instrument V icon in the Track Controls area to the left of the track to see the VST s user interface The good news if your setup doesn t change you only need to do this once SongFrame remembers all these setup steps so you can fire it up and indulge in blissful songwriting without having to repeat this stuff each time Note If you are trying to use the EZ Drummer Lite Version included with SongFrame each time you try and use it will require you to click the V icon on the Drum track and click the Close Window message th
28. have used with a few major differences dei While audio data recorded in SongFrame appears just like what you see in your DAW it is actually managed as clips associated with Takes all living inside of SongBits When you look at the Track view in SongFrame you might think you are looking at a continuous audio track across you whole song What you are actually seeing is the top most Take of the audio inside each SongBit arranged in time sequence When you re arrange your SongBit order maybe moving a Verse before a Solo for instance the audio travels with that SongBit so without any intervention on your part the audio stored there will now play in the new order Any time you create a new Take all the previous 113 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 audio Takes are stored behind the new one you can recall them to the top of the stack any time a F You can make the Audio Track or any track or window in SongFrame grow in size vertically by grabbing the bottom separator line of the track until the cursor turns into a track sizing tool and then click drag to the appropriate size Audio Track Controls Recording Audio is simple make sure to create a new Take by clicking on the Takes Control and shown below and clicking on New Take Recall past takes by clicking on the Take number you wish to bring to the top of the stack 114 SongFrame Reference You ll need to ARM the audio track by clicking on the
29. it really belongs to the copyists using notation programs to accurately commit the finished lyric for publishing Instead we opted for a tool that allows writers a bit more flexibility in seeing their lyrics by song section rather than note timing As you develop the lyrical meter rhythm rhyme structure and overall message you will inevitably thinking about verses choruses and bridges instead of notes and chords This is the spirit behind the Lyrics Track Like other tracks the Lyrics Track contains endless takes per SongBit This is particularly useful when crafting potential lyrics for each song section and returning to previous ideas as your song evolves There are 4 main Lyric Tools in SongFrame The Lyric Pad is a mini word processor complete with text formatting capability Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Lyrics Pa Bg Lyrics Pad This is the place where you might capture all of your lyric ideas and brainstorming You can open or save anything you put in Eqenmes here as a separate file using the icons to the right of this window SongFrame saves these as htm HTML formatted text which just about anything out there can import and use so you are not locked to a particular word processor or computer platform pf vionary You can use all the formatting features you d expect from a word processor as well This window can be resized and moved anywhere you want nooo Zi Wikipedia When you are ready to commit some lyri
30. just click on the icon in the upper right hand corner of the Tools Pane This is handy when you find what you are looking for and wish to drag it to the chord track The Chord Library Grid contains a Chord Name or Chord Symbol a Chord Description a Chord Formula and the number of Notes that make up the Chord Formula The Search box acts on every field so if you re not sure of the Chord Symbol for Major 7th chords type maj and your results will narrow getting you to the desired chords Alternatively say you are looking for all chords which have a b7 in the formula type that and you ll see the list The Chord Formula shows the note makeup of the chord in terms of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale Root or 1 b2 2 b3 e o o Ao eR ea Ft 1 3 A bo a a NRO NO O N Each note in the formula is separated by a comma and we used square brackets x to denote a note in the formula that is optional So the Notes field just counts up the number of notes in the chord the higher the number of notes used the more complex a sound the chord will have 64 SongFrame Reference The root names in SongFrame for chords arranged by roots with the identical chromatic scale sounds include AH Cb B C D Fb E F G There are 70 chord modifier types for each chord root available While there are any number of note combinations yielding more chord types as well as lots of different ways to voice them on your instrum
31. look up rhymes by number of syllables or similar sounding consonants but also look up phrases similar sounding words synonyms definitions and related words And if that isn t enough a web linked Wikipedia and Wiktionary can be accessed as well Need a worksheet to work out your lyrics Lyric ideas can be refined using the LyricPad a word processor like tool and then one you are satisfied with your work pasted into the appropriate SongBit Lyrics Track as the song message evolves Save SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 and load your lyrics as separate files as well SongFrame is designed to fit your workflow Don t need the scratch pad Just type your lyrics right into the lyric track Like audio MIDI or chords Takes of different lyrics can be saved in each SongBit allowing the songwriter to try out different lyrics without losing versions Drums Rhythm Very often a song idea begins with a drumbeat or an interesting rhythm SongFrame includes hundreds of beats that can serve as a foundation of your musical idea Even better our pattern names are inspired by the real songs they emulate like RingoRock Jude Verse 1 as opposed to the cryptic BLU138 or BA F 133 so often found in drum loop libraries Audition patterns search by genre meter SongBit type key words or even enter an actual kick snare or hi hat hit pattern and find those that match Listen and drag the one you like on top of the SongBit s Drum Track The se
32. meter etc and click Generate SongFrame will automatically fill in every SongBit in your song with an appropriate pattern for that song section This mode is great when you just want a drum track and don t want to think about elaborate drum track construction The Lyrics Tools and Lyrics Track provide a place where you can both write and organize your lyrics but also look up word meanings and rhymes We make use of the very up to date and powerful Wiki features on the web and package them up in a way that you ll never have to leave SongFrame to use them Cut and paste from other programs like your word processor write your lyrics in the Lyrics Pad Tool or place them directly in the SongBits where they belong your choice Another powerful and important feature of SongFrame is the Notebook Tool Any songs you ve worked on that are stored in the default folder usually My Documents My Songs will appear in the SongBit Browser This means that if you kept all your songs there you can easily shop that browser for bits and pieces of work you did previously and drag it into your current song Had an idea in the past for a great intro or bridge and set it aside Find that SongBit in the browser and drag it onto the Song Structure Pane of the song you re currently working on Since SongBits can store any combination of chords melodies drum tracks lyrics or audio clips these can be re used freely in any new song you re writing When you ve develo
33. mode V mode VI mode VII mode VIII mode Il mode Ill mode IV mode V mode VI mode VII mode VIII mode Il mode Ill mode IV mode V mode VI mode VII mode VIII mode IX mode II mode III mode IV mode V mode VI mode VII mode VIII mode IX Alternate Symbols PP IP IP P IP IP IP IP IP IPI PIP IP IP IP Ka IPI PIP JP IP IP IP IPP IP lp IP IP IR b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 Chord F Voicing 1 Voicing 2 min min Voicing 1 min Voicing 2 sus4 sus2 5 aug dim add9 b5 6 9 min6 9 mine 7sus4 min7 min7b5 7 5 7b5 Major Triad Major Alternate Voicing 1 Major Alternate Voicing 2 Minor Triad Minor Alternate Voicing 1 Minor Alternate Voicing 2 Suspended Fourth Suspended Second Fifth or Perfect Fifth or Power Chord Augmented Triad Diminished Triad Major Added Ninth Flat Fifth or Diminished Fifth Major Sixth Major Sixth Added Ninth Minor Sixth Added Ninth Minor Sixth Dominant Seventh Seventh Suspended Fourth Minor Seventh Minor Seventh Flat Fifth or Half Diminished Seventh Dominant Seventh Augmented Fifth or Augmented Seventh Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Dominant Seventh Flat Fifth or Seventh Yes Diminished Fifth Yes wo WwW WwW Ww Appendix M Maj
34. name to the chord Every DAW and most notation programs only allow transposing by shifting tracks up and down by a specified number of semitones we haven t found any that present to new results in terms of correctly selected chord diagrams Troubleshooting Common Issues with SongFrame The most up to date information is available as a download from the Tanager AudioWorks website in documents called SongFrame Troubleshooting Guides We encourage you to get the appropriate document at http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets SongFrame Windows Troubleshooting Guide pdf http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets SongFrame Mac Troubleshooting Gui de pdf Also many of our users have elaborate recording computer setups with several MIDI Interfaces attached Please review this application note if you are having difficulty with SongFrame s Internal MIDI Settings or not hearing sound from one or more tracks http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets Windows MIDI Port Limits SongFrame_and_ Chirp pdf Here are some common user issues that may crop up with SongFrame and some solutions Solution drag chords This is probably because you are using the default Chord Playback pattern of Whole down to the hear the chords play and whole which sounds chords on whole notes or one per Chord Track measure will not sound chords spaced closer than one measure apart Try changing but can t the Chord Playback Setting to Quarter
35. or ANTONI oi Range 24 Notes G3 MIDI Note 55 195 998 Hz to GS MIDI Note 79 783 991 Hz J Show Seale Major mode VI Aeolian Pure Minor J ooo oo Frege noe wo So e fui RoboHelp HTML S SongFrame provides a graphic in the Tool window of the selected vocal or instrument including useful information about that range including frequencies MIDI Note number range musical note range etc This information can be useful in the recording and mixing process in your DAW later on as a guide to the frequency range a particular track may occupy particularly for EQ purposes Building A Drum Track There are several tools that SongFrame provides to assemble drum tracks First some background SongFrame s drum capabilities are all about speed and inspiration for the rest of the writing process There are tremendously capable programs for developing beats and rhythms on the market SongFrame is not attempting to emulate these at all we imagine that when you actually record arrange and produce your songs you ll employ these tools in some capacity later on Many songwriting sessions begin with the writer turning on a drum machine for inspiration With SongFrame we speak in terms of drum patterns from actual songs which as you may notice are not so cleverly disguised We provide 3 basic drum track functions Click a basic click track or metronome sound where you define the note sound that plays on the beat as we
36. playing non 4 4 meter SongBits properly First you ll have to find appropriate drum patterns for these time signatures so in the Drum Build tool select the Meter drop down and choose the time signature matching your SongBit As time goes on we ll be adding patterns to this library regularly Second you need to choose a Chord Playback Pattern that matches the time signature as well if you want to hear the chords correctly played In the SongBit s 62 SongFrame Reference Chord Playback Pattern drop down second one from the left on an expanded SongBit icon choose the pattern that begins with the Time Signature you re using When you press PLAY or your timeline cursor reaches that part of your song everything should play perfectly in the different time signature Note the Export Audio and MIDI function currently does not support mixed time signature songs Undo Redo SongFrame provides the ability to undo the last action taken and then redo it if necessary Click on the EDIT menu to access this selection We provide one level of Undo Redo MIDI Panic Button SongFrame has a MIDI All Notes Off Panic button always present in the upper right of the Tools window Should your MIDI sound source get stuck with notes playing after you stop playback or recording click this button to stop the sound Tools Overview Chord Tools Chord Library At the heart of SongFrame is a chord library containing 70 chord types in each of 21
37. previous SongBit and positions the timeline at the start of it Similar to clicking the REW button on the Transport Transport FWD Selects the next SongBit and positions the timeline at the start of it Button Transport REW Selects the previous SongBit and positions the timeline at the r start of it Button Single mouse click Selects and event and auditions it chords MIDI notes drum patterns Double mouse click Opens or closes a SongBit s Expanded state selects chords for the Context tool etc 19 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 CTRL S Saves your song CTRL O CTRL N Creates a new song You can have several songs open at once and hop between them CTRL D Duplicate the SongBit you are on CTRL V Song Structures Popular Western music the focus of SongFrame typically employs a song section format to songwriting Song Structures are basically the framework of the song with discrete repeating parts such as verses and choruses making up the song Terminology has evolved over the years which is used to describe these separate sections with the insightful labels of A B and C A B and C can be anything really the terms are used to indicate that there are 3 musically distinct sections woven together to construct the song You may hear a songwriter describe a song as AABA which may mean Verse Verse Chorus Verse or Verse Verse Bridge Verse or anything else that employs 2 parts ordered in that manner
38. root names a total of 1470 chords Although the sounds are the same with many of the enharmonic root names we wanted SongFrame to be musically correct so the chord names used in the Progressions should conform to the proper root names in context with the key you are writing in For those of you that don t care if you call it an F maj7 or a Gbmaj7 you can skip this discussion For you music majors out there fear not we tried to keep SongFrame musically accurate There are several ways to hear a chord Click once on the Audition icon to the left of the chord name or the Big Chord fretboard diagram to the far right You can also 63 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 double click on the grid entry itself Useful but doing it this way guarantees Carpal Tunnel syndrome in under 5 minutes if you are auditioning lots of chord sounds Chord sounds in SongFrame are constructed of the actual notes that make up the Chord Formula field so they are a more theoretical voicing over a 2 octave range of each chord The only exceptions to this are 2 additional voicings for both major and minor triads and while the fretboard diagrams show alternate guitar voicings the sounds themselves are inversion voicings of these chords Like all tools windows in SongFrame the Chords tool window is re sizable so depending on your screen resolution you may wish to make this as large as possible for chord browsing To restore it to its original size
39. shop ifiehspish shia Click Track Setup Listen Name Description RapPatterns M amp M Lose Yo self Verse Triple kick with snare on 2 4 RapPatterns M amp M Lose Yo self Chorus Triple kick with snare on 2 4 with shaker patterr RapPatterns In The Club Groove Triple kick with snare and handclaps on 2 4 witl Club amp Disco Gangster P dise Verse Kick on 1 double on 3 and snare on 2 4 with sh Club amp Disco Gangster P dise Chorus Kick on 1 3 and snare on 2 4 with shaker patter OK for those of you that have never used drum machine here s a quick explanation Look at the diagram below Snare 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 shofafehsfahishe This graphic represent 1 measure of a song It is divided into 4 beats and each beat has 4 sub beats associated with it Many straight ahead rock beats have the kick sounding on beats 1 and 3 and the snare on the back beats 2 4 That s all the tool does indicates which exact beats the pattern should have drum hits on If you look at the diagram you can see that we are looking for patterns that meet this 2 4 criteria at least for the snare shown This search criteria should return lots of patterns But let s 88 SongFrame Reference say you were looking for a more intricate pattern than could be identified by any other method give this tool a try And then you can program any drum machine too You can also use the Genre and Meter filters here too to further narrow your search Aga
40. specific SongBit The Document Pane The Document Pane is the place where you build your song each Song file creates its own Document Pane You can open as many Song files at one time as you want and hop back and forth between them at any time New Song2 Song Settings Song Settings Button EZ MS Take 1 Chord Track Display Song Structure Audio Track Pane MIDI Melody Track Lyrics Track Ya Type Pane esi Drums Track CH so wi O Track Zoom Controls _ A The layout of the document pane might remind you of a digital audio workstation DAW or sequencing application with some major differences There are only 5 tracks associated with each Song a Chord Track an Audio Track a MIDI Melody Track a Lyrics Track and a Drums Track The only two tracks that operate somewhat like your favorite DAW are the Audio and MIDI Melody track but unlike those tools the data stored in these tracks is associated with the SongBit or song section not the entire Song file You can have as many Takes as you d like per Track in each SongBit When you start to populate the Document Pane with information it might look like the example below 56 SongFrame Reference New Song2 tes Chord Data Ssus4 Bi Timeline Cursor 1 p r r Take mE Samma m fTTTs summa Hit O CIO CO Cap oo Het tee fa f Hee HPPH Hess BETTA e ad Ot teem MIDI Data as g This is a te
41. stay with the patterns with that designation you can easily find them by typing EZ into the Search field Notebook Notebook SongBit Browser The Notebook s SongBit Browser is a powerful tool enabling you to keep track of any song ideas you have ever had and instantly re use them in the song you are currently writing When SongFrame saves a Song file it places it in the directory that you told it to store all your songs in usually My Documents My SongFrame Songs Once a song file is stored there the Notebook registers it and displays every SongBit inside the song including the Song file name original key date saved song title name music composer lyricist SongBit name SongBit type and any notes you entered in the SongBit notes field This data appears in the Notebook grid and you can search for keywords across any of those columns as well as sort by any column Any song file your collaborator sends you will also appear in the Notebook if it is saved in your songs directory This makes it particularly easy to collaborate on entire songs or just sections of songs with anyone anywhere When you find the SongBit that represents the best 91 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Bridge you ever wrote just waiting for a song to use it in simply grab the grid entry and drag it on to your Song Structure Pane it is now part of your song pon J my Bq A ay Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Browse for Keyword Search D SongB
42. the MIDI track so you know where you are in terms of what is likely to sound good Need inspiration for your melody Get out of the rut by experimenting with scales and modes With one click any one of over 150 scales and modes can be superimposed on your MIDI track showing you scale tones that just might inspire your melodic and harmonic direction We don t do the writing for you but we can show you what directions are possible Need to edit SongFrame utilizes a Piano Roll style track view allowing the user to edit pitch and note timing on the MIDI track by drawing dragging and dropping Easy The optional Tanager Chirp Virtual MIDI Keyboard Controller can be used for input right from your computer keyboard or use any external MIDI keyboard or controller available for the task And like the chord progression tool any MIDI synth or available VST compatible virtual instrument plug in can be utilized to audition the melody lines created Take information is stored with each successive melody line created allowing the songwriter to go back and hear something already auditioned or worked So no excuses for the one that got away Lyrics SongFrame integrates a rich set of lyric development tools as well Once entered lyrics appear in their own track for each SongBit in the song Several web based powerful tools are available to the songwriter during lyric development including a built in dictionary of rhymes where you can not only
43. the hub of SongFrame s expert songwriting help Tools exist for Chords Melody Lyrics and Drums Setup can be accessed through the Tool Pane as well as the important Notebook capability of SongFrame As you click on a Tool icon on the main Toolbar the sub menus to the left will change as will the contents of the Tools Pane Pretty simple Tools Basics All of SongFrame s Expert help and other user interactions occur in the Tools Pane This window normally sits above the Document Pane but can be repositioned and moved anywhere you like Hovering your mouse over the bottom or right edge of the tool allows you to click hold and change the size of the window Clicking on the Window Label at the top and dragging allows you to reposition it anywhere Clicking on the sl icon in the upper right restores the Tools Pane to its original size and location 7 I SS Main Toolbar Noteboo Setup Chord Library mN Suggest H Chords fa Tools Window Contents Appear Here Sub Menu Icons 46 SongFrame Reference The operation is simple and intuitive click a Main Toolbar icon on top and the Sub Menu icons on the left change relative to the tool chosen Clicking on the Tanager AudioWorks logo in the upper left takes you directly to the Tanager website where you can find product support and other technical and training information For the techno geeks out there SongFrame utilizes the Adobe AIR framework for the graphical user interface
44. the list and choose one that fits Developing Melodies SongFrame provides several tools to help you develop melodies The audio track is always available to help you capture that melodic idea you woke up humming The Quick Capture recording mode was designed for those times you have a melody idea in your head and you just have to hum it into something before it disappears forever This mode allows you to click once and start humming immediately without any other setup steps The MIDI Melody Track allows you to capture melody ideas from your keyboard or simply draw notes in and drag them into position similar to a Piano Roll MIDI track in any popular recording or sequencing application Musical scales and modes of scales are important tools in melody development While it is certainly possible to just capture your melody without understanding anything about 31 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 music theory SongFrame provides some useful tools to allow you to learn about and experiment with various scales and modes when developing your melodies using the MIDI Track SongFrame can highlight the notes in any mode of 24 different scales in any key you are writing in SongFrame is a tool for Western music and the chromatic scale tuning system and scales that are associated with it there are numerous other tuning systems and cultural frameworks and thus scales and modes in music which are not supported by SongFrame For the non musical m
45. there Some writers are looking for the sound that moves them others are purposely trying to avoid cliche progressions This tool should help everyone in a pinch A note since most songs analyzed do not use such complex chords you may very well see no results if your are searching for example for what could come between an Amin7b5 and a Gmin7 Try simpler chords for more suggestions Also the key of your SongBit makes a difference Make sure you have the right key set on the Expanded SongBit icon Again not every situation delivers a suggestion Chord Progressions There are so many ways to approach songwriting many of you have a chord progression you ve been playing around with and like and begin building your song around it Sometimes you may have a melody idea as the basis for your song Most of us have been in the situation where you have one section you like and are now looking for ideas for the other parts which work well The Chord Progression tools are extremely useful for situations where you want to get started and need some help or you want to finish off a song and need some assistance coming up with an interesting progression for a bridge chorus or whatever As mentioned chord progressions in SongFrame all come from real songs We ve removed timing information key rhythm etc from the song so you ll be hard pressed to tell where they are from Also we de dupe them so there is only one version of any progression
46. was easy to sit an overdub pour yourself a tall drink and strap in for an hour long marker creation fest SongFrame changes that Click on File and Export Audio and MIDI SongFrame will create a folder with the same name as your song and deposit two files there an audio file and a MIDI file SongFrame will first open a dialog asking what directory you d like this folder to reside in The audio file is a WAV format audio file with the Audio Track material 16 bit 44 1KHz The MIDI File is a Type 1 which includes the Chord Track MIDI Melody Track and Drum Track data It also includes the all the markers we discussed earlier assuming the DAW you use supports them Note Export uses the top most take for each SongBit Track as the material that gets exported so be sure to have the Takes you like selected Also lyrics data is not currently exported Also the Export Audio and MIDI function currently does not support non 4 4 time signature songs In your DAW follow the procedure for importing Audio and MIDI data if you are at the beginning of a session file on the timeline everything should import time aligned Be sure and set the tempo of your project file to match that of your SongFrame song if it 125 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 doesn t handle that for you When you re all done you have a great session file template to begin recording your song SongFrame Content SongFrame SongFrame File Edit View Tools Wi
47. 3 b9 b5 13 5 9 13 1 3 5 7 1 3 1 3 k 1 b3 1 3 5 1 3 5 1 3 5 1 b3 5 1 3 5 1 3 1 3 b 1 3 5 1 3 5 b 1 3 1 3 5 b 1 b3 5 k 1 3 5 b7 1 b3 b 1 2 1 3 4 1 3 5 1 3 5 b7 1 3 b5 b7 7add11 maj11 maj13 maj7add11 maj7add13 min13 min7add11 min7add13 min9 maj7 minadd9 2 min 2 3 min 3 4 min 4 5 min 5 6 min 6 b7 min b7 7 min 7 Dominant Seventh Added Eleventh Major Eleventh Major Thirteenth Major Seventh Added Eleventh Major Seventh Added Thirteenth Minor Thirteenth Minor Seventh Added Eleventh Minor Seventh Added Thirteenth Minor Ninth Major Seventh Minor Added Ninth Major Triad Slash Chord Added 2 Bass Note Minor Triad Slash Chord Added 2 Bass Note Major Triad Slash Chord Added 3 Bass Note Minor Triad Slash Chord Added 3 Bass Note Major Triad Slash Chord Added 4 Bass Note Minor Triad Slash Chord Added 4 Bass Note Major Triad Slash Chord Added 5 Bass Note Minor Triad Slash Chord Added 5 Bass Note Major Triad Slash Chord Added 6 Bass Note Minor Triad Slash Chord Added 6 Bass Note Major Triad Slash Chord Added b7 Bass Note Minor Triad Slash Chord Added b7 Bass Note Major Triad Slash Chord Added 7 Bass Note Minor Triad Slash Chord Added 7 Bass Note uauwuuwn u wan oa wu Appendix 9 5 1 3 5 1 1 3 5 7 1 3 5 7 1 3 5 1 3 5 1 b3 5 b7 1 b3 5 1 b3 5 min maj7 9 1 b3
48. ARM button Rewind the Timeline Cursor to the beginning of the SongBit and click the Record button on the Transport Recording will begin You can stop recording at any time using the space bar or the Stop button on the Transport Recording will continue for the entire song or just one SongBit depending on the Recording Mode setting you ve applied in the Global Settings menu A few notes about audio recording SongFrame has no audio editing capabilities like you might find ina DAW The primary use of audio is capturing vocal performance or melody ideas we assume you ll do most of your advanced audio editing when you produce your song in your DAW If you want to delete an audio recording select it a red outline will appear around it and click Delete Right clicking on the audio clip will allow you to cut copy paste similar to other events in SongFrame Mute allows you to silence the audio track at any time and Solo allows you to silence everything except the audio track Note some external audio interfaces may not support the scheme SongFrame uses to control track volume so this control may not operate depending on your setup See the Audio Setup section for more information on setting up the audio in SongFrame All your audio interfaces capable of being driven at 44 1Khz sampling rate and 16 bit resolution will show up in the Audio Set Up tool window in the Set Up menu All you need to do is tell SongFrame where to get the audio input from
49. Bmin7 E7 A7 D7 5 gf Progressions 5 Bmin7 Ebmin7 Ab7 Dbmaj7 A Length P 4 c Dbdim G7 G7 E i c Ebdim Dmin7 G7 MOVING c Gaug Cmin7 F9 J 5 Eb5 Ab5 FS 29 Progressions Found The X axis left to right dimension where colors get darker to the right is all about how complex the chords used in the progression are If you are writing rock or pop you may not want to be utilizing progressions that make use of 13b5b9 or 7add11 chords Or maybe you do who are we to tell you The farther right you move in the grid the more complex the chord sounds used in chord progressions will start to sound The Y axis or top to bottom dimension is about the movement of the progression from the root note of the key you are writing in The Red color near the top of the grid provides low movement progressions and the green colors as you move South are providing progressions with higher movement from the root OK some explanation required A low movement progression hovers close to the root note if you are writing in the key of 29 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 E for example you may find progressions like E E6 Emaj7 E here Or those great jangle rock D Dsus4 Dsus2 D riffs would also be shown with the setting towards the red colors High root movement progressions move in either direction from the root the highest movement would be where the progressions travels to the 7 chord in the scale somewhere I am hummi
50. C Major Seventh Flat Fifth 1 3 b5 7 Pag Chord s d aa Progressions Cmaj7 5 N C Major Seventh Augmented Fift_1 3 5 7 Cmaj7add11 C Major Seventh Added Eleventl 1 3 5 7 11 Cmaj7add1 3 C Major Seventh Added Thirteer 1 3 5 7 13 Show Substitutes 5 Chords Found To search for any term in the Chord Library just type it in the Search field This field can be used to look for anything in the entire library including formulas and descriptions To get back to showing all chords empty the Search field and hit enter all 1470 chords should show up again in the grid Click on any column heading to sort it To get the whole library back clear the search box and hit Enter you ll get back to your 1470 chords You will always see the number of chords just under the results grid on the right returned by any search you do in SongFrame Genre allows you to filter the library to show only those chord types commonly associated with a particular musical genre These were arrived at by analyzing the thousands of songs in the progression library inside SongFrame 3 Modes are available for the Chord Library All Common and Key Modes are controlled with the Mode drop down menu box to the right of the Search tool All mode does what it says it shows you every chord in the library Common mode limits the library to those 21 chord types that make up most of the popular music and thus chord books out there It is useful if you are writing r
51. Cc vj All y All v Don t Care v Don t Care Search JI J A grid full of progressions already in the key you are writing in taken from the SongBit you are on will appear The default length is 8 chords and on the bottom of the tool you can see a number of filter tools to narrow your search if so desired Each progression grid entry has an Play button to the left to hear the progress click it once or double click the progression grid entry itself To stop playing the progression press the Space Bar or click the Stop button on the Transport Like the Chord Library grid the user needs to grab each chord from the grid individually and drag it and drop it on the Chord Track where they want it to occur Why don t we offer a select all and drag tool Because we have no idea of where you want them to land on the Chord Track We ll leave that to you the songwriter Luckily it is fast and easy to do The filter menus include settings for e SongBit Type the original song section this progression was taken from e Length the number of chords in the original progression This can be a specific number or set to Any which will return far more progressions to sift through e Key the key you are writing in which is the key of the SongBit you are on or the default key of your song set in Song Settings e Genre the musical style of the music the progression was taken from e Era the decade when the so
52. Dmin Dmin maj7 Dmin7 A7addl1 Dmin7 Bb13 Ab7 G7 Dmin7 LI SongBit Type Length Key Genre Starts On Ends On All v 8 vil Cc vii All v Don t Care v Don t Care v Search IO 412 Progressions Found The filter tools does what it says it presents you with either every single chord progression SongFrame has thousands all transposed to the key you are writing in or it lets you filter down that set to a more reasonable set of choices based on conditions you set Using it is simple you can audition each progression by clicking on the Play icon to the left of each SongFrame will play each chord in succession When you decide what you like grab each chord in the progression grid and drag it to the Chord track in the beat location you decide We don t tell you what measures or beats to put the chords we just tell you that these chords make musical sense together You decide where to drop them The Filter selections under the grid let you narrow down the progressions Genre is self explanatory those progressions came from those musical genres Era refers to when 28 Writing Songs with SongFrame the song the progression came from was written Starts On and Ends On offer 3 choices each Don t Care the default Tonic a chord with the root of the key you are writing in like C in the key of C or Dominant 5th the V chord in the key with an incredible need to pull the listener ba
53. F 2 Tambourine 153 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 69 A3 A4 81 Open Triangle MIDI Note Values for Continuous Controllers General MIDI Standard Controller Controller Name High Resolution Bank Select Coarse MSB Switches between groups of Continuous sound banks in a synth or Controllers module MSB and LSB 1 Modulation Wheel Coarse MSB Usually adds some sort of Pairs vibrato effect to the note being played 2 Breath Control 3 Undefined 4 Foot Controller Can be used to control a variety of effects such as an 154 7 11 12 13 17 18 19 Portamento Time Data Entry Channel Volume Balance Undefined Pan Expression Effect Control 1 Effect Control 2 Undefined Undefined General Purpose Controller 1 General Purpose Controller 2 General Purpose Controller 3 General Purpose Controller 4 Undefined Undefined Undefined Undefined Appendix organ s swell pedal Portamento is defined as the time it takes for the pitch of a note to slide up or down to the pitch of another note Provides the ability to send a RPN or NRPN data value toa synth or sound module Controls the main volume of a MIDI channel Adjusts the volume of stereo elements of a sound without affecting the Pan position Pans a mono sound between left 0 and right 127 64 is the Center position Acts as a percentage of the volume controller 7 controls Operation depends on
54. IDI data 36 Writing Songs with SongFrame This track looks and acts very much like the familiar Piano Roll views for MIDI tracks in your favorite DAW or sequencer application The purpose of the track is working out melodies so the editing tools have been tailored for that application as opposed to detailed production work where control of note velocities and other MIDI Controller data is crucial We know you ll use your DAW for that stuff In SongFrame you are always in MIDI Editing mode there are no special tool icons to find and click on Clicking on any note selects it and allows you to hear it Holding the mouse down on the center of a note and dragging it moves it anywhere on the timeline if you move it up you ll hear the notes play Hover your cursor over the left or right edge of the note and it will change into a horizontal re sizing tool handy for changing the duration or start end point of a note SHIFT Click or CMD Click on the Mac selects a group of notes which then can be deleted or dragged The MIDI track is always in Piano Roll view and always fixed below the audio track where we assume you ve hummed or sang the melody that was in your head when you woke up this morning This makes it easy to locate the timing of the notes on the audio track and replicate them with MIDI notes To record with a MIDI keyboard the most common user method make sure your MIDI Keyboard or Chirp software is installed and configur
55. IV Dorian 4 Lydian Diminished b7 mode V Spanish Phrygian 3 Mixolydian b2 b6 mode VI Lydian 2 mode VII Super Locrian bb7 1 em Blues Blues mode II Blues mode III Blues mode IV Blues mode V Blues mode VI Blues mode VII Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic mode Il Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic mode III 143 3 b3 b3 3 3 b3 b3 b3 b3 3 3 3 b3 b3 b3 b3 3 b3 3 3 2 2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b3 b2 b3 b2 b2 b2 b2 b3 b2 b3 b2 b3 WiW BIB W NIN IN W b3 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 Arabian Arabian Arabian Arabian Arabian Arabian Arabian Persian Persian Persian Persian Persian Persian Persian Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Enigmatic Enigmatic Enigmatic Enigmatic Enigmati
56. Print Ctrl P The File menu offers the following choices with keyboard shortcuts as shown above as well New Song create a new Song file Open Song opens a previously saved Song file Close closes the Song file currently open and in focus New From Template opens a Song File template to speed the songwriting process Templates can store anything normally found in a Song file such as a starting song structure or any other aspect of the song SongFrame comes with some standard templates of popular song structures Save Song saves the current song file being worked on Export Audio and MIDI exports time aligned audio and MIDI files containing all track data as well as markers showing every chord change and song section for easy import into any digital audio workstation with the ability to import audio and MIDI See the Exporting Audio and MIDI section for more information Print prints lead sheets of the Song file in focus See Printing Lead Sheets for more information The File menu also shows the 4 most recent songs that were opened allowing you to quickly get back to where you left off Edit Menu 122 SongFrame Reference Edit View Tools Window Undo Ctrl Z Redo Ctrl Y The Edit menu offers the following choices with keyboard shortcuts as shown above as well Undo Undoes the last action taken One level is provided at this time Redo Redoes the last action taken One level is provided at thi
57. SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Table of Contents Trademarks and Notices 1 GEtingrhelp sss zz godo catena lo pub ius Dio pus in o luo lo bus in i Los io bus ino bus ilo turi e lsl a 3 IMTOGUGION cerro liana 5 What Is SongFramet sccc elle ea ea Le aes 5 W hatsengrrame lsifo lele lele lella lele lello 9 Geling otaledi editi iaia alia dii andina 11 Minimum Computer Requirement rt rrttrrnnnrn rrtt rrr eenn 11 S tting UpP S ngF rame S es eee otteseen epen p ESERE nepen rene ESERE TERESE ENEE ESEESE ES RENEE ESEE E 12 Using Your 4Front Piano VSTs WindoWS 12 Writing Songs with SongFrame 22 cis tc nce der RAR pena 15 Quick Tour Creating a New SONG 20 2 002 died nh nd lad nd ad nd Lo pe ees 15 QuickStart Guide tO EGG laden 17 SOMO WING ei Cane exe cash cint donk cust deepen l dest cust cestorntdesteisiceetessecesteiseceeteenecestcisecesteet 18 Navigation in SONG rales 24 8 PI 19 DONG SMUG LUNGS ia erariali rallo 20 Choosing Chords and Building Progressions ccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 22 Hearing All the Chords in Your Progression 30 Developing Melodies eee 31 Building A Druin Track lt 2 22 28 520 20 528 alma och aut oe et ack et aaa EEE ani E 34 Recording Audio c 4 6c pene nee nee nee Ree Ree R 35 REGording MIDI Gerrea e pea eA Te TAA TEA TEA TAEA Aea TAEA eA TAEA TAA TEA TEA TAEA TAA TEA ERa 36 WAINI LYTS PERE RE RE T OTE a Dd ET AT md be hs 37
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59. Track Plug In SetUp Plug In Folder Paths audio C Program Files VSTplugins Dimension Pro AR MIDI and C Program Files VSTplugins WB Plug In Setup e Chord Playback Settings M List Plug Ins applied in next launch ia Remove SongFrame for Windows must be setup to see the VST Instruments you ll want to use When the program loads up we bypass loading any VSTi s since placing non compatible ones in the VST Path settings will surely crash SongFrame To use VST s click on the Setup gt MIDI and Plug In Setup menu and click on the Plug In SetUp tab In the lower left of this window check the List Plug In s box Quit SongFrame and re launch SongFrame is now prepared to look at the paths you tell it to search in for your compatible VSTi s On the Plug In Setup tab in the MIDI and Plug In Setup menu of the Setup menu click on Add and enter the path of all your compatible VST Instruments There is no standard for where to find VSTi s unlike a Mac VST makers install them anywhere and everywhere We supply some instruments in the C Program Files SongFrame VST directory so add that path Also many manufacturers install their VSTi s in the C Program Files VSTplugins folder Again adding a non compatible VSTi to the path list can crash SongFrame If this occurs you ll need to delete the C Program Files SongFrame settings SongFrameSettings XML file and re launch SongFrame and set everything up again
60. Verse 001 4 A C Voicing 2 C Voicing 2 PRA RE ER Bi 2 3 84 Again aim for just to the right of the beat you want the chord to occur on Grab a symbol at any time and drag it anywhere if you want to change it later Chord Operations To select a chord just click on it A red outline will surround it telling you it has been selected Verse 001 ttings Select multiple chords by holding the CTRL key down and clicking the ones you d like to include in your selection Right clicking on a chord or group of chords allows you to copy cut or paste it Transposing Your Chord Track You can transpose any SongBit or an entire Song See the section on Transposing for more information Chord Track Display and Zoom Interaction 111 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 In order for most humans to actually see and read the fretboard diagrams we maintain a fixed size for maximum clarity Diagrams span more than one beat but the sound doesn t If you zoom out on the horizontal zoom control the track display will show more measures and less room will be available for fretboard diagrams or chord symbols SongFrame automatically shrinks the fretboard diagram to a yellow diamond and places it on the beat on which the chord occurs as in the image below Song Settings 1 Chord Diamonds Displayed in the Chord Track If you hover your mouse over the chord diamond you will see the name of the chord that is there As yo
61. ajors a scale is a set of notes culled from the Chromatic Scale the 12 tone tuning system used in Western music A scale has a root a particular starting point and a formula showing which of these 12 tones should be used Scales can have any number of notes but most scales contain anywhere from 6 to 9 tones with 7 being the most common Melodies certainly don t have to adhere to any particular scale but sometimes limiting your melody to a particular scale is a great way of spicing up your writing and arriving at more interesting results than you might have otherwise When you choose Melody from the main toolbar and the Highlight Notes tool you will see several tools aimed at melody development Show Range and Show Scale Both can be used together if you want Show Scale is a tool that takes the gray stripes on the MIDI Track normally associated with the black keys on the piano and places them on the notes of the scale or mode you select from the menu Choose a scale click the Audition button to hear it To write melodies in any particular scale or mode limit your note placement to just these strike zones on the MIDI track We highlight every note in the scale up and down the entire piano keyboard range You can impress your friends and neighbors by telling them the melody in the Bridge you wrote was based on the C Lydian mode They will see the prodigy in you and seriously consider pushing you to pursue a Julliard education An
62. ake SongFrame work without any attached hardware at all since so many users will have nothing but a laptop with them when they write SongFrame should work with most external audio interfaces but we do not support all drivers for all sound cards Be sure to grab the SongFrame demo first and make sure it supports your setup 98 SongFrame Reference If you are a Windows user using the Microsoft GS Wavetable synth you won t find too much in the way of documentation on it but no worries it follows the General MIDI standard and we have provided and table of patch numbers and sounds in the Appendix you can use to dial up a different sound than just the Piano on Patch 1 While this is far from the world s best sounding synth every Windows user has it already installed on their system Choose your MIDI Port Device the Bank and Patch number if required consult your synthesizer manual as these numbers are all manufacturer specific and the MIDI Channel you ll be sending info on Remember Drums usually talk on Channel 10 so be sure to set the drum track to that The Appendix includes a General MIDI Patch number table if your device is a GM compliant synth SongFrame defaults to Channel 1 Bank 0 and Patch 1 so if anything you ll get piano sounds without much adjustment MIDI Input Device Setup The MIDI Melody Track is the only track that allows you to record MIDI from an external keyboard so it s setup tab contains an extra drop down menu
63. and 5 5 S Plug in Setup Chord Playback Settings 30 Writing Songs with SongFrame Once you work on your SongBit a little you ll probably want to experiment with different Chord Playback settings You can have different playback patterns for each SongBit in your song these are found by clicking on the desired SongBit icon to expand it and clicking on the second drop down menu from the left to choose a different pattern Verse 001 8 GD amp ceso CED m Quarter Half Whole Eighth Stand Here s the answer to that common question posed above if you have chords spaced closer than one measure you won t hear them all if you have the playback pattern set to Whole Choose Quarter and you ll hear a chord sound at the maximum resolution SongFrame offers one chord change per beat Ahhh you say can hear all my chords now Yup Most of these pattern names are fairly self explanatory and relate to the musical timing of actual chord sounds Some are named after a song that inspired the pattern Stand is a popular choice and refers to the chord pattern found in the great Ben E King song Stand by Me We add to these patterns occasionally with new releases Note If your SongBit utilizes a time signature other than 4 4 time then you MUST choose a playback pattern designed for that time signature or you won t hear the chords play properly These patterns begin with the time signature name scroll through
64. and not a Gb chord because that s what they know it as we provided all the proper chord names for those of you teaching music theory or songwriting and needed to communicate in the correct note names depending on the key scale mode employed Both user groups should be happy and also sleep well at night as a result It s all good The Chord Library appears first as a grid showing all chords and useful information including the proper name of the chord the chord formula and how many notes define the chord A Search box enables the user to quickly find a specific chord Clicking on the large chord symbol to the right or the Play icon to the left of the grid auditions the chord double clicking on any grid entry also auditions the chord You can grab the chord from the grid or the large chord symbol to drag and drop it into place on your chord track 3 Modes are available for the Chord Library All Common and Key Modes are controlled with the Mode drop down menu box All mode does what it says it shows you every chord in the library 66 chords per key is a bit over the top in terms of chord variety most chord books at the music store show you around 25 to 30 chord types at most We provided 66 for two reasons we are compulsive and detailed engineers and more importantly those chords represent every chord type we could find in the thousands of songs we analyzed in building SongFrame We re fairly convinced you have everything you need as far as
65. anings Antonym Word pairs that are opposite in meaning such as hot and cold fat and skinny and up and down Rhyme A repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Wiktionary 83 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 The Wiktionary Tool Window takes the user directly to the Wiktionary website and presents the specially formatted information directly inside the Tool Pane Pic da Word Search fat _Stop_ Home sack Forward A tana Pronunciation a enPR flat IPA fl tt SAMPA 1 t sa W Audio us help file Re wissionary Rhymes t Adjective SP Wikipedia flat comparative flatter superlative flattest 1 Having no variations in altitude The land around here is flat 2 ofa tire or other inflated object Deflated especially because of a puncture What is a Wikitionary you ask Well here is a definition of Wiktionary taken directly from Wiktionary Wiktionary a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary is a multilingual Web based project to create a free content dictionary available in over 151 languages Unlike standard dictionaries it is written collaboratively by volunteers using wiki software allowing articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the Web site Like its sister project Wikipedia Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation Because Wiktionary is not limited by print space considerations most of Wiktionary s language edition
66. arameters can be set specific to just one SongBit as well Getting into the habit of starting here before you do anything else will ensure that every SongBit you drag to the Song Structure Pane will be set to the tempo and Key of your overall song as a starting point Track Compensation Delay There is such a wide variety of computers and laptop configurations processing power available memory and VST AU Instruments that SongFrame might run with While we don t pretend to provide the timing accuracy of your DAW recording application for track playback we still want to have the program sound good as you develop your song This tool allows you to adjust the playback timing of each track plus the click track for your particular setup Windows 94 SongFrame Reference i x 2 pa ba I ay it PA lt Notebook Setup ega Settings Track Delay Compensation Internal MIDI Baio PER Chord track delay gan Audio track delay R MIDI and aS Plug In Setup MIDI track delay Chord Playback Drum track delay Settings Click track delay The Windows version of SongFrame utilizes an external MIDI Loopback Driver LoopBe30 to drive the track playback This system allows each track to be adjusted in time Audio almost always needs to be tweaked depending on the system In addition some VST instruments are processor intensive and their sounds may lag the other tracks to move it up in time relative to the other tracks dra
67. as the tonic exhibits a very strong pull on all the other tones in the scale when you return to the tonic tone you feel a sense of complete relaxation and tranquility at peace with the world OK that s a bit over the top but suffice it to say the tonic tone is where things want to resolve Here s an important tidbit the tonic is not always the 1 tone It can be any tone in the scale This brings us to scale degrees and modes Modes are scales too that is they are a pattern of tones as well Modes just mean that you begin counting the scale tones using a different tone than the 1 tone as the tonic So what s the point Melodies can either adhere to a specific scale or mode or venture in other places But having a command of the scales and knowing what is available in each palatte of scale notes is an incredibly powerful weapon in your melody development arsenal SongFrame allows you to highlight those scales and modes directly on the MIDI Track so you can try to focus your tone selection on only those tones that comprise the scale or mode Again there are no rules here you can do anything you like but this is a terrific educational tool as well as method to spice up your melody writing There are 147 scales and modes available in SongFrame we ve included a reference table in the Appendix with each scale and the note formula that each one is comprised of As mentioned above experiment with different musical scales in ea
68. at the VST displays Using AU s in the Mac E x eas iF DI Ye j y Atanacer EE DE Gai Notebook Setup eg Settings Chord Track Drum Click Track Melody Midi Track Plug In SetUp AS Audio Setup o D Y List Plug Ins applied in next launch MIDI and 288 Plug In Setup e Chord Playback Settings SongFrame for Mac must be setup to see the AU Instruments you ll want to use When the program loads up we bypass loading any AU s unless you specifically tell us you want to use them To use AU s click on the Setup gt MIDI and Plug In Setup menu and click on the Plug In SetUp tab Check the List Plug In s box Quit SongFrame and re launch SongFrame will now be prepared to show you all your installed AU s A note SongFrame only works with AU Instruments not AU Effects 102 SongFrame Reference Ahh but you re not done yet all you ve done so far is tell SongFrame you have AU s To use AU s to hear your tracks play go to the Setup gt MIDI and Plug In Setup menu choose the track you d like to use an AU instrument on Chords Drums Click or MIDI Melody and click the Use Plug In Instrument checkbox SongFrame collects information about each AUT instrument and after a short pause you ll see all the AU s listed in the drop down menu Once you select the one you want to use click on the Virtual Instrument V icon in the Track Controls area to the left of the track to see the AU s user interface The good
69. aterials or workmanship you may terminate this Agreement by returning the Software and Documentation and your money will be refunded LIMITATION OF LIABILITY INNO EVENT WILL WE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE EVEN IF WE OR AN AUTHORIZED DEALER OR DISTRIBUTOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF THESE DAMAGES OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU Tanager AudioWorks shall in no event claim ownership rights to new and original music made by using the Software This software can be used to develop songs and share song ideas and in no event will Tanager AudioWorks be liable if the works created infringe on the copyrights of others Reasonable Use You may use the software solely for reasonable purposes You agree to indemnify and hold TANAGER AUDIOWORKS and its affiliates officers agents co branders or other partners and employees harmless from Appendix any claim or demand including reasonable attorneys fees made by any third party due to or arising out of non compliance with this reasonable use statement 9 Technical Support TANAGER AUDIOWORKS wants you to be happy with your purchase TANAGER AUDIOWORKS will make its best e
70. awaiian Kumoi Major Pentatonic b3 Japanese B Whole Tone Six note Symmetrical i Prometheus Prometheus Neopolitan 1 2 Step 1 Step Diminished 1 Step 1 2 Step Diminished Diminished 1 Diminished 2 9 Note Blues 9 Note Scale 2 i Vv Vv Vv v vY vr vv v vv vv vv v vv vv v vw vw v v vw vw vw vv Show Range is an extremely useful tool to help you understand the range of notes possible with certain types of vocalists or a wide variety of instruments There are elaborate charts which we really love that show an 88 key piano keyboard and a series of range markers showing the notes capable from various orchestral instruments such as cellos violins flutes clarinets etc These charts are useful when composing parts intended to be played on these instruments and just as useful if you are writing parts for a MIDI synth to play using a specific instrument patch The point don t write a part outside the note range capable of being produced by a specific instrument or vocalist SongFrame highlights in a pale yellow the note range of any instrument of vocalist you select Writing a melody for a Alto singer Click on Alto in the Show Range tool and you ll see that range highlighted on the MIDI track Writing a melody using Mode IV of the Hungarian Minor scale for a Baritone vocalist or a clarinet solo Use both Show Range and Show Scale together Simple 33 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 SongFrame File Edit View Tools Window Hel
71. c Enigmatic Enigmatic Lydian Diminished Lydian Diminished 144 mode IV Hungarian Minor mode V Orient B mode VI mode VII mode Il mode III Locrian 2 7 mode IV mode V Ascending Melodic Minor 5 mode VI mode VII mode Il mode III mode IV Ascending Melodic Minor b2 Neopolitan Major mode V mode VI Lydian Augmented b7 mode VII Lydian Minor mode Il mode III mode IV mode V mode VI mode VII mode Il mode III Mixolydian Augmented mode IV mode V Orient A mode VI mode VII mode Il mode Ill mode IV mode V mode VI mode VII mode II Mixolydian b2 ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee b2 b3 b2 b3 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b2 b3 b2 b2 b3 b2 b2 b2 b3 b2 b2 b3 b2 b2 b2 b3 b3 b3 b3 b3 b3 Lydian Diminished Lydian Diminished Lydian Diminished Lydian Diminished Lydian Diminished Major Pentatonic Chinese Mongolian Major Pentatonic Chinese Mongolian Major Pentatonic Chinese Mongolian Major Pentatonic Chinese Mongolian Major Pentatonic Chinese Mongolian Balinese Pelog Balinese Pelog Balinese Pelog Balinese Pelog Balinese Pelog Hawaiian Kumoi Major Pentatonic b3 Hawaiian Kumoi Major Pentatonic b3 Hawaiian Kumoi Major Pentatonic b3 Hawaiian Kumoi Major Pentatonic b3 Hawaiian Kumoi Major Pentatonic b3 Japanese B Japanese B Japanese B Japanese B Japanese B Whole Tone Six note Symmetrical Prometheus Prometheus Prometheus Prometheus P
72. c type perfect the various musical aspects in that SongBit chords progressions melodies drums etc then duplicate it and build the overall song structure for your song like to use the Takes capability in the Lyrics tracks to store all my lyrics for that particular type for instance my Verses and after duplicating the final Verse SongBit 48 SongFrame Reference call up the different Verse lyrics from the various Takes and place them in the right order Hierarchy of SongBits Tracks and Takes It is important to understand some concepts of how the various information containers SongBits Tracks and Takes are organized in SongFrame The diagram below shows the basic organization each SongBit holds 5 Tracks of information and each of those tracks can have an unlimited number of Takes associated with it 49 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Any SongBit Audio Track Audio Lyrics Take 1 Take 1 Audio Lyrics Take 2 Take 2 amp nee D A Audio Lyrics Take 3 Take 3 Audio Lyrics Take 4 Take 4 As you collect develop and organize your song ideas SongFrame will store them behind the scenes with this hierarchy Tracks appear on the interface as continuous similar to the way a digital audio workstation DAW or sequencer application would show them but it is important to realize that every time the cursor moves to a different SongBit on the timeline the Takes information displayed is related t
73. ce you start playing with this tool in combination with the various chord substitution tools you ll soon figure out why we tell people that SongFrame will guarantee some very original songwriting possibilities Most people find a piece of a progression they love drag it down to the Chord Track and then make it completely their own by changing certain chords or the timing of the chords One more note about the Length filter we kept the original progressions musically intact That is if there were 8 chords in the progression no matter which beats the chords occurred on we kept all 8 there We did not create more 4 chord progressions by splitting the 8 s up that would destroy the original progression If you filter on 4 chord progressions you ll get progressions that were originally 4 chords in length period Progression Color Tool The second tool in the Progressions collection is a Color tool Bjo Library Filter Color P M Suggest do veme Key Play Chord1 Chord2 Chord3 Chord4 Eiz NA Bmin7 E7 A7 D7 5 Progressions c Bmin7 Ebmin7 Ab7 Dbmai7 8 Length gt min7 min 7 maj 4 G Dbdim G7 G7 g ec Ebdim Dmin7 G7 rA ec Gaug Cmin7 F9 Cc Eb5 Ab5 FS 29 Progressions Found Like the Chord Suggest Color tool this tool makes use of a 2D color grid to allow the user to find a progression which meets their needs The left to right dimension is all about the level of chord complexity i
74. ch SongBit Use the Scale drop down on the SongBit icon to access the menu of Scales 79 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Verse 003 Lyric Tools LyricPad The LyricPad is a built in word processor window complete with formatting capabilities Content typed inside the Lyrics Track does not become part of the SONG file instead the purpose of the Lyrics Track is to provide a place where written brainstorming and lyrics development can take place all with standard file creation saving and printing functionality provided For those of you who are fans of the Pat Pattison s Writing Better Lyrics book and you all should be think of this as the place to do your Object Writing create your worksheets and all other development task prior to arriving at a potential lyric candidate for a verse or chorus You can just as easily use your favorite word processor of course but we provide the LyricPad as a handy help You can cut copy and paste text into and from the LyricPad by either right clicking on the text you select or using the Edit menu or using conventional shortcuts like CTRL C and CTRL V 80 SongFrame Reference is ae DI Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Lyrics Pad O y This is the place where you might capture all of your lyric ideas and brainstorming You can open or save anything you put in rvmes here as a separate file using the icons to the right of this window SongFrame saves these as htm HTML
75. ck to the Tonic chord Sort of like my kids gravitating back to the Refrigerator Starting or ending a progression on the Dominant 5th chord sets the songwriter up nicely to take the listener on a journey and keep the music interesting Chords is the number of chords in the progression we kept progressions musically intact from their sources so the 4 chord progressions are not merely subsets of 8 chord progressions they were 4 chord progressions period Since you are grabbing the chords you like all or some and dragging them to your chord track experiment with the progressions of various lengths provided Finally Key is the key you are writing in its should default to the key of the SongBit you are writing for as we mentioned before SongFrame takes every single progression of the thousands in the library and transposes it to the key you choose with this drop down menu Try that with your music store chord progression book Progression Color Mode There are times where you re looking for progressions that fit the song section or lyrical message better than others the Color tool helps you find what you are looking for Like the 2 dimensional color grid in the Chord Suggest tool the Progression Color tool also utilizes this approach This time we are sorting progressions by different dimensions though g l Notebook Setup Key Play Chord Chord2 Chord3 Chord4 Chord Library m Suggest Chords Bac sA
76. collections of words and not audio or MIDI data Each Lyrics Track cell is associated with a SongBit and these cells act as mini word processors capable of holding the same formatted data that can be held in the LyricPad As you zoom the track in time or in vertical height the cell re sizes along with it and your text flows in the new space provided This is where you write or paste you lyrics for each SongBit The Font and Size of the text is controlled in the Track Controls area to the left The volume control adjusts text size If you shrink the track height scroll bars appear allowing you to access the text out of view Notice in the figure below that each cell s scroll position is independent like having several little word processors open simultaneously Any text you copy will come into the cell complete with the source formatting You can use the Font Size control in the Lyrics Track to adjust this after it is copied or entered These controls affect every SongBit the volume control slider adjusts Text size and the Font control allows changing to font of all the lyrics in the Lyrics Track Its so great tears Must agree With the expert on everything You re an expert on everything Why do you argue with all of your might Click on any track cell click the Takes Control and create a new take of lyrics perhaps an alternate you want to try out All Lyric Takes are saved along with the Song file s
77. con on the main toolbar and you ll be taken to the SongFrame Notebook A grid which shows song title original key SongBit name any notes you put in the SongBit notes section the Music Composer Lyricist and SongBit Type appears for every SongBit you have stored in your default folder on your computer If you keep all your song files there every SongBit you ever worked on will appear in the list Simply find the one you want to re visit and drag it into your song that s it And once dragged in transpose it into Introduction the key you are currently writing in This is ideal for utilizing bits of lyrics chord progressions or melody ideas you came up with and set aside Lead Sheets As mentioned earlier we fully expect the next step in the songwriting process to be recording a demo of the song in your favorite DAW recording or sequencing application SongFrame helps you do this in two ways first by printing lead sheets for musicians containing all chord symbols and lyrics and second by exporting all the guide tracks and markers for every song section and chord change to audio and MIDI files easily imported by any DAW application on the market The Lead Sheets provided are perfect for handing to your session players or using yourself in the recording process Exporting for DAW Recording When the song is completely developed simply choose Export from the File menu An Audio Track in WAV format as well as a set of time al
78. country songs written in that given key The chords provided are as follows Scale Voicings Example in C Major Chords Provided me wos Amin i Vildim Additional Voicings Example in C Major Chords Provided 67 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 The Chord Library allows the user to find substitutes based on shared notes for any chord selected The Carousel Mode is used to show potential chord substitutions get to it by clicking on the Show Substitutions button under the grid It shows chords related to the Chord currently displayed in Grid Mode Simple choose how many notes the potential substitute chord must share in common with the selected chord via the drop down menu and the carousel will show you the 1st 10 matches found Click on any chord in the carousel to hear it even ones that are on the sides or back of the carousel As you click on a chord it will spin around to be front and center Click on the original selected chord on the right at any time also and it will sound Click between both to hear subtle differences in chord sounds this is ideal for finding that interesting substitute to keep your progressions interesting The bottom of the display will show you how many matches were found that met the conditions Simply click the right or left arrows at the bottom right of the display to see the next set of 10 matching chords When you find the chord you are looking for just grab it from the carousel and drag and drop
79. cs to the Lyric Track just copy and paste Lyric Track lyrics are saved with the song file LyricPad information is saved as a separate file Arial u B Ekke The LyricPad is the scratch pad to collect and craft your ideas You can use this tool as a lyrics worksheet to develop lyrical meter rhyming schemes overall lyrical structure etc Once you get lyrics you like for each song section simply cut and past them into the Lyrics Track into the SongBit Take you want The multiple Takes per SongBit Lyric Track are very useful in arranging your lyrics and playing with alternate ways of delivering your message Anything done in the Lyrics Pad is not saved with your song you ll need to save that separately and SongFrame will make sure you don t exit without doing just that Once you copy paste info to the Lyrics Track that stuff gets saved with the song There are so many great tools available free on the Internet today including fantastic constantly updated reference materials with Wikipedia and Wiktionary While it would be simple to add a commercially available dictionary thesaurus and rhyme tool to SongFrame we opted instead to provide an easy way to access the free web material through the SongFrame interface instead saving you money in the process and frankly providing more up to date information than any canned reference tool is capable of providing We just pass the Wiki content through to you via a browser you did
80. d all you did was click and drag notes on little gray stripes Awesome A great many pop rock and country melodies gravitate to utilizing the tones of major scale probably a culturally influenced sub conscious choice by the songwriter Think of SongFrame s Show Scale tool as a set of bumpers in the melody development bowling alley to show you where different scales place their notes Again SongFrame won t generate a melody for you you decide where to put the notes yourself We ll only help you decide where to put them and hopefully teach you a bit about modes and scales in the process The interplay between the meter rhyme scheme and message of your lyric the feel of the rhythm and song time signature and potentially the chord progression if you started there are too important in good song development for you to turn that step over to a magic 8 ball style computer melody generator 32 Writing Songs with SongFrame low Scale Major mode IV Lydian P ale Formula Black Keys Ascending Melodic Minor RS mode m 3 Harmonic Minor mode Il Dorian b2 Javanese l Blues mode Ill Lydian Augmented pm Gmin Arabian mode IV Lydian b7 mode V Mixolydian b13 x x 1 1 Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 mode VI Locrian 2 Persian mode VII Super Locrian nhun Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Enigmatic Lydian Diminished Major Pentatonic Chinese Mongolian Balinese Pelog H
81. d this warning any track that does not have its own internal MIDI port assigned will have its drop down menu selectable Simply choose another Internal MIDI port from the list of available ones there You may have to try it a few times to get a port that is truly 96 SongFrame Reference open and available Once you select a port that works the box will gray out again similar to the image above indicating that you are done SongFrame should now operate fine Using Audio Hardware Click on the Setup icon and then Audio Setup menu All your installed Audio interfaces should appear in the drop down menus select an audio input and output To ensure that SongFrame is receiving signal from your selected audio input source connect a mic or instrument to the desired audio input and click on Check Levels The signal level meter should move use the Gain control to adjust the gain so that the signal level peaks stay below the red bars Click on Finish to exit the level check mode Mac Users if you plan on using the built in microphone on a MacBook Pro you ll need to click Check Levels slide the gain slider up then click Finish to get sound output from that mic Aianacer Fa Fog ES ei A DI w Aanaser Ne r A Chords Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Po Settings Audio Setup Audio Input Microphone SoundMAX Inte v EA audio Setup Audio Output Speakers SoundMAX Integr v SI MIDI and A ta Setup Check Levels Cho
82. d in alphabetical order which follow a specific formula Western musical scales are always made up of 12 notes which repeat up and down the audible frequency range Lil The number of tones in each scale and which specific tones they are make up the scale formula For example the major scale for example is made up of 8 tones of which the 1st and last tone are always the tonic or tonal center of the scale Scale formulas may not show the last tone The tones in the major scale will always be the 1 usually the tonic the 2 two semi tones up from the tonic the 3 two semi tones up from the 2 the 4 one semi tone up from the 3 the 5 two semi tones up from the 4 the 6 two semi tones up from the 5 the 7 two semi tones up from the 6 and the 8 78 SongFrame Reference one semi tone up from the 7 and equal to the tonic tone one octave or 12 semi tones higher in pitch We can write this scale formula as 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lets look at another example The minor scale is made up of 8 tones the tonic or 1 the 2 two semi tones up from the tonic the b3 one semi tone up from the 2 the 4 two semi tones up from the b3 the 5 two semi tones up from the 4 the 6 two semi tones up from the 5 the b7 one semi tone up from the 6 and the 8 2 semi tones up from the b7 and equal to the tonic tone one octave or 12 semi tones higher in pitch We can write this scale formula as 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 8 The note which serves
83. dds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Appendix 46 Undefined 47 Undefined 48 General Purpose Controller 1 Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter 49 General Purpose Controller 2 Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter 50 General Purpose Controller 3 Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter 51 General Purpose Controller 4 Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Low Resolution 52 Undefined Continuous 53 Undefined Controllers 54 Undefined 55 Undefined 56 Undefined 57 Undefined 58 Undefined 59 Undefined 60 Undefined 61 Undefined 62 Undefined 63 Undefined 64 Damper Pedal On Off Sustain 65 Portamento On Off 66 Sustenuto On Off 67 Soft Pedal On Off 68 Legato Footswitch On Off 69 Hold 2 70 Sound Controller 1 71 Sound Controller 2 72 Sound Controller 3 73 Sound Controller 4 74 Sound Controller 5 75 Sound Controller 6 76 Sound Controller 7 157 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Low Resolution 77 Sound Controller 8 Continuous 78 Sound Controller 9 Controllers 79 Sound Controller 10 80 General Purpose Controller 5 81 General Purpose Controller 6 82 General Purpose Controller 7 83 Genera
84. ds while composing 4Front s Piano VST s are included with the Windows application version if the user does not have any VST instruments to use SongFrame can Export songs for use in the studio Exported DAW Audio MIDI files contain all song structure and chord markers Audio and MIDI data tempo map and key information providing a head start to the production process In addition SongFrame prints lead sheets for musicians to use in studio production and recording The tool is 100 focused on the songwriting process and the elements that make up a song the chord progressions the melody and the rhythm the overall structure and the lyrics It is the perfect companion product to a DAW recording application for songwriters and recording musicians SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Writing Songs with SongFrame The SongFrame songwriting process can begin in any one of several places chord progressions melody development song title lyric development or beat rhythm development The songwriting process is about inspiration and development of ideas SongFrame provides a one click menu bar enabling the user to work rapidly and naturally Songwriters can hop back and forth between all aspects of the song development freely Structural elements of a song such as Verse Chorus or Intro are represented in SongFrame by SongBits A SongBit contains all audio MIDI chord changes lyrics and rhythm for that section SongBits may be freely rearranged
85. e Tanager AudioWorks website Quick Start Setup Guides can be accessed here for each version Mac http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets SongFrame Mac Quick Setup Guide pdf Windows http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets SongFrame Windows Quick Setup Guide pdf Please follow these guides to install the specific version you have Once SongFrame has been installed and the application started the setup steps are to setup Audio and MIDI and your VST AU instruments if you plan on using these Once those are setup and unless they are changed SongFrame will remember them for now on so you won t have to worry about them again After the hardware and sounds are configured the next step will be to assign some Song Settings song key tempo time signature etc Finally drag an empty SongBit into the Song Structure pane to begin If you skip this step SongFrame will yell at you and tell you that its a requirement to begin writing your masterpiece Using Your 4Front Piano VSTs Windows 4Front VST Instruments VSTi s SongFrame installs 4 free VST Instruments during the installation of the Windows version the 4Front Piano EPiano Rhodes Piano and Bass Some of you may want to use the MIDI Track as a Bass Composer so this is why we supply that last one To 12 Getting Started use them go to the Setup gt MIDI and Plug In Setup gt Chord Track tab or Melody MIDI Track tab and checking the Use Plug In Inst
86. e all your choices If you use Internet Explorer unless you have previously disabled it every time you try and load SongFrame s Help you ll get this incredibly annoying message To help protect your security Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer Click here for options You can either click and say Allow blocked content or you ll need to fool with your browser security settings to get rid of this permanently Click the Tools button and then click Internet Options Click the Security tab and then click Custom level To turn off the Information bar for ActiveX controls scroll to the ActiveX controls and plug ins section of the list and then under Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls click Enable Whew SongFrame uses Adobe Flash to present its Help information This allows us to incluc all those cool animations and multimedia videos You ll need to be sure you visit the Adobe Flash download site and get the latest version of Flash here Next you might get a security warning Flash Player 8 and higher introduced new security rules that may cause a security error when you try to view SongFrame s Help system Macromedia Flash Player Security CI di Macromedia Flash Player has stopped a potentialiy unsafe operation The following local application on your computer or network C Documents and Settings Administrator My Documents assessment swf is t
87. e of software called a MIDI Loopback driver This is software that routes incoming and outgoing MIDI messages to different destinations on your machine either software ports or external hardware devices We include with SongFrame perhaps the best one available today the LoopBe30 from Nerds de This driver has other uses outside SongFrame so we re providing some more details on what it is capable of LoopBe30 Highlights From the www nerds de website e LoopBe30 provides 30 independent invisible cables to connect MIDI out ports of applications to any other application s MIDI in port e You may connect up to 8 applications to every single in port and up to 8 application to every single out port all sending and receiving at the same time Every port provides the full 16 MIDI channels e Near Zero Latency e LoopBe30 is a native Windows 2k XP Vista WDM kernel mode driver Expect the lowest possible latency 141 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 e Adjustable Number of ports 1 to 30 in Windows XP Vista 1 to 9 in Windows 2000 e You can mute each MIDI port individually A muted port behaves similarly to an audio device All data sent to the port is simply discarded but the sending application will not realize anything e Enable or disable powerful MIDI Shortcut Feedback Detection e LoopBe30 comes with powerful shortcut detection It mutes its ports if the data rate is higher than the MIDI specification of 31 25 kbps Someti
88. ed press the ARM button and click the Record button on the Transport The track will enter record mode and the play head cursor will begin moving You should be able to both see and hear the notes as they record If you want to create another Take of your work without overwriting what you just recorded click the Take box and select New Take The display will clear fear not the last performance is still there it was just sent to the bench to wait nervously while a potentially nicer melody takes over its place in the starting lineup Get back to it anytime by clicking the Take box again and choosing that Take number Writing Lyrics The LyricPad and Lyrics Track are SongFrame s hub for lyrics development The point of the LyricPad is to provide a conventional word processor within SongFrame to capture lyric ideas or for brainstorming and topic development Once you craft the actual lyrics to your song you ll likely copy and paste them into the Lyrics Track Think of the Lyrics Track as per SongBit mini word processor windows Depending on the height you make the lyrics track any text not visible will be accessible via a mini scroll bar to the right of each SongBit s Lyrics track 37 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 SongFrame currently does not support note based lyrics that is the term used when the words or syllables of the lyric line up directly underneath the melody notes that accompany them While this is certainly important
89. either the far right side or the carousel depending on what tool you are using Click here for a demo of how to use the Progression Grid to build a chord track Dropping the left chord edge anywhere to the right of a beat marker snaps it into place on that specific beat I L D FEER 4 lt lt Chords Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup D All X Chord Library Search Qt Mode All v Genre Play Chord Name Description Formula mS Suggest Chords A Voicing 1 A Major Alternate Voicing 1 Pate Chord i Jae Progressions A Voicing 2 A Major Alternate Voicing 2 Amin A Minor Triad Amin Voicing 1 A Minor Alternate Voicing 1 Amin Voicing 2 A Minor Alternate Voicing 2 3 ps PEET PE rar I ra Show Substitutes 70 Chords Found It Is What It Is X Song Settings If your horizontal zoom setting is such that seeing the full names of chords or their fretboard diagrams would crowd the track display SongFrame indicates the existence of the chord by turning into a thick black vertical line a sort of visual placeholder that something is in that beat position Hovering your cursor over that line shows you the 23 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 name of the chord there When you zoom in on the chord track those chord symbols or fretboard diagrams will open up again once there is enough space for them Clicking on a Chord diagram in either the Chord Tools or in the track display plays that cho
90. ent of choice we feel that the library represented in SongFrame is pretty darn complete ion terms of important chord sounds and colors SongFrame is about songwriting not performance so your favorite guitar chord voicing is something you can apply during the performance and recording phase If there is an important chord sound we missed let us know via an EMAIL to wishlist tanageraudioworks com and we ll put it on the improvements list for future revisions or versions If you are typing a chord name into the Chord Track directly you ll need to learn the chord symbol name we use because the text entry requires you to type it exactly as shown in the left column of the table below for example C Minor in SongFrame is Cmin and not Cm There is no standard for chord symbol naming in fact there are many different ways of depicting the same chord We thought long and hard about what conventions we would use so we hope you can use them effectively The table in the Appendix lists all chord types in SongFrame and as many alternate symbols for each chord as we could find for your reference Common shows which chords will be listed in the Common Mode of the Chord Library 65 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 EA Jr x 2 2 Chords Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Bjo Library Search Mode All x Genre All ni Chord Name Formula Play Description a mM Suggest Cmaj7 5 Hi Chords Cmaj7 C Major Seventh 1 3 5 7 XxX 3 2100 Cmaj7b5
91. erface before it actually starts loading the drum sounds This message reminds you that you can purchase the full version you ll need to click on the icon on SongFrame s drum track and then click Close Window on EZ Lite s front panel in order to use it to hear your drum sounds 120 SongFrame Reference EZdrummer SongFrame Drum Track gt VST Instrument ACUUT OL LITE EDITION This Lite version of EZdrummer has a number of limited and or disabled features To upgrade to the full version of EZdrummer please go to http upgrade toontrack com and follow the instructions Close window A Wi mwa O Hy TEMPO W 2X o E Menus SongFrame Menu Song File Edit View About SongFrame Quit Ctrl Shift Q The SongFrame menu offers the following choices with keyboard shortcuts as shown above as well e About SongFrame Shows an information graphic with version information as well as credits for the people that helped make the program possible e License Key Click to enter your license key if you were using SongFrame in Trial Mode and have purchased a key from the Tanager AudioWorks Store at www tanageraudioworks com e Quit quits the SongFrame application File Menu 121 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 File Edit View Tools Windov New Song Ctrl N Open Song Ctrl O Close Ctrl Q New from Template Ctrl Shift N Save Song Ctrl S Save As Ctrl Shift A Export Audio and MIDI Ctrl E
92. ey of the SongBit you are working on Filter by musical genre era or the progressions color tool a 2D map of chord progressions with simple versus more complex chords as well as relative movement from the root note Audition chords and progressions choose what inspires you and simply drag them down to the chord track All previous work can be saved and recalled as takes just in case the perfect progression was one you created 5 versions back Like the melody or drum track chord progressions are auditioned using qualified VST PC or AU Mac software instrument plug in s available Once chords are selected they are dragged to the Chord Track Chords can be dragged and dropped anywhere on the timeline or changed at any time And if dragging isn t your thing just type Introduction chords into the track Chords can be displayed as chord symbols or guitar fretboard diagrams Melody Development SongFrame s melody development tool provides unique tools for composition providing a framework in which the user can develop their own musical idea without being limited by the framework itself SongFrame does no composition of its own that s left to the songwriter SongFrame does display melodic and harmonic ranges right on the MIDI track that can be adhered to or not We don t keep you from coloring outside the box in fact we encourage it Ranges may be selected for vocal ranges or any one of over 60 instruments Right on
93. fforts to provide unlimited web based technical support beginning on the acceptance date of this Agreement From time to time we may provide fixes patches or Software upgrades but we make no warranty that they will be provided in any given time frame or indeed at all 10 Termination This Agreement is effective until terminated You may terminate this Agreement at any time by destroying all copies of the Software TANAGER AUDIOWORKS may terminate the Agreement at any time without notice Upon such termination you must destroy all copies of the Software 11 Refund Policy Refunds for the license fees paid for the right to use the Software will be made at the sole discretion of TANAGER AUDIOWORKS 12 Amendments To This Agreement This Agreement may only be amended by a written agreement duly executed by the parties 13 Miscellaneous If any part of these terms is unlawful void or unenforceable that part will be deemed severable and will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions This Agreement constitutes the parties entire Agreement The division of the Agreement into different sections and the labeling of the captions shall not affect the interpretation of the Agreement 161
94. find what floats you boat and try it out Melody Tools Note Highlight The Note Highlight tool is the primary tool in SongFrame for providing advice on melody development There are two tools inside Note Highlight these are Show Range and Show Scale Show Range Show Range is a powerful tool allowing you to highlight directly on the MIDI Track the note range associated with a wide variety of vocalist ranges and instruments Selecting for example Alto from the Show Range drop down would place a highlight over the MIDI Track notes associated with that range in this case G3 to G5 74 SongFrame Reference E Highlight Range 24 Notes G3 MIDI Note 55 195 998 Hz to G5 MIDI Note 79 783 991 Hz Show Range Alto v Show Scale Major mode IV Lydian 09 Scale Formula 123 4567 Song Settings eni This tool can be used in combination with the Show Scale capability discussed in the next section When you select a particular range you also see other useful information displayed such as the range of notes on the piano keyboard depicted by the location and width of the label as well as the note range in both musical terms and NIDI Note numbers We have also provided the frequency range in Hertz Hz for those of you interested in using that to assist you with EQ settings later in the DAW recording stage of production Middle C C4 or MIDI Note 60 is always depicted as a black dot on the keyboard grap
95. formatted text which just about anything out there can import and use so you are not locked to a particular word processor or computer platform n pe Qg ionar You can use all the formatting features you d expect from a word processor as well This window can be resized and moved anywhere you want BBB witivecia When you are ready to commit some lyrics to the Lyric Track just copy and paste Lyric Track lyrics are saved with the Print song file LyricPad information is saved as a separate file Arial Sal 14 v Ee mt Eklkl 6 Formatting options are located at the bottom of the LyricPad Window You will re size the LyricPad often to make it easier to work on your lyrics to restore the window to its original size click on the small icon in the upper right corner The LyricPad or any other expanded Tool Pane will revert back to its original size Here s a cool thing too See that little grayed out box at the bottom right of the formatting section This is a tool you can use to build custom links to whatever you want Lets say you d like to build a Lyrics Worksheet template that you load up every time you start writing Lyrics This worksheet may contain a set of links to your favorite sites for lyrics writing perhaps you pay for a subscription to some premium reference content and want a quick way to get to it You can create a set of web links by typing a word highlighting that word then clicking in the gray link box It will turn
96. g the ARM button and then pressing Record on the Transport Rewind the Timeline Cursor to the beginning of the SongBit and click the Record button on the Transport Recording will begin You can stop recording at any time using the space bar or the Stop button on the Transport Recording will continue for the entire song or just one SongBit depending on the Recording Mode setting you ve applied in the Global Settings menu Make sure to create a new Take by clicking on the Takes Control and shown below and clicking on New Take Recall past takes by clicking on the Take number you wish to bring to the top of the stack Mute allows you to silence the MIDI Melody track at any time and Solo allows you to silence everything except the MIDI Melody track If you have assigned a Plug In Instrument to the MIDI Melody Track clicking on the Virtual Instrument D icon brings up the front panel user interface of that plug in Adjust it for the sound you want and X out of it when you are finished Note If you are using the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth as your sound source for all tracks the Volume controls will not independently control the instrument sounds The Lyrics Track 118 SongFrame Reference The Lyrics Track is unique tool allowing you to organize and re arrange your song lyrics in relation to the sections they occur in Like the other Tracks in SongFrame the Lyrics Track enables you to retain multiple Takes of lyrics in this case
97. g the color of the SongBit plus it appears in your Notebook and is also exported as a marker for you to use in your DAW e Notes this is a mini word processor complete with scroll bar to capture notes specific to this SongBit Individual SongBits appear in your Notebook for any song stored in your default SongFrame song directly so it is important to make sure you use this to help you remember aspects of SongBits you may want to store away and re use later on There is no limit on how much text can be placed in here but the display cannot grow past 2 lines you can scroll through it e Measure Length this control is used to change the length of the SongBit in measures e Key sets the key of the SongBit and affects the Progressions that are displayed in the various Chord Progressions tools e Chord Track Playback Pattern allows you to set a different pattern for playing back your chords for a particular SongBit e Scale sets the SongBit scale to any one of the almost 150 scales and modes included in SongFrame This means that the scales shown are specific to the SongBit itself 55 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 e Meter allows the user to set a different time signature for the SongBit Playback and the timeline will change for this SongBit to reflect the chosen meter e Tempo allows the user to set a tempo for this SongBit SongFrame does not support tempo maps tempos are set discretely for the overall song and any
98. g the slider to the left Ifa track is sounding ahead of the other tracks drag the slider to the right to delay it The initial O position of the slider indicates the measure beat 1 location for reference Timing is calibrated in Ticks where 960 ticks 1 beat Remember once you export your tracks to your DAW they will play just as if you created them there Mac aay Eq cia Settings Default Song Settings SongFrame Settings Track Delay Compensation m Chord Drum and Click track delay pac Audio Setup Audio track delay Sy ior and F A Plug in Setup MIDI track delay e Chord Playback Settings SongFrame Mac uses the internal OS X Core Audio and Core MIDI support to drive the audio and MIDI aspects of the product Audio can be adjusted relative to the 95 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Chords Drums Click and the Melody MIDltracks and the picture above shows a typical setting appropriate for most Mac systems To move a track up in time relative to the other tracks drag the slider to the left If a track is sounding ahead of the other tracks drag the slider to the right to delay it The initial 0 position of the slider indicates the measure beat 1 location for reference Timing is calibrated in Ticks where 960 ticks 1 beat Remember once you export your tracks to your DAW they will play just as if you created them there Internal MIDI Settings Window
99. gBit and drops it right after the SongBit you were working on e ARMs both the Audio and MIDI Tracks for recording e Turns on the Click Track e Enters the RECORD mode if Count In is on you ll hear the user defined number of count in clicks before it actually starts recording Now assuming you have you laptop set up which somehow goes against the no fumbling rule when you get that idea you can start grabbing it instantly As you develop that idea you can change the SongBit Type by right clicking it and turn it into any type Verse Chorus whatever Printing Lead Sheets SongFrame assumes that everything created will be exported to a DAW recording application for recording arrangement and production A large part of that process is the ability to hand performers lead sheets SongFrame s printed sheets display all measures song section chord symbol names and lyrics SongBits act as section 41 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 headers and there are 4 measures per line printed with the chord symbols on the appropriate beats Lyrics for each SongBit appear in a box scaled to fit under each SongBit Example of Lead Sheet Printout 42 Writing Songs with SongFrame Expert on Everything Tempo 110 F C F Cc F 7 Tempo 110 G F G G7 i Cc F G G7 5 No questions Just answers A library for everyone Such brilliance Such insight G
100. gt Import Audio File menu selection All your tracks should be there along with the markers Be sure to set the Project file to the same Tempo as your SongFrame song as well to ensure the audio imported is time aligned with the MIDI data 134 SongFrame Reference MIVI TESt DUNY MILI IMIU ATangement i En vE DX i ES i a oe dis i di mag ey Ue a i Zoom automatique Automation Placer les locators R p terla section Couperlasection Ins rerla section i Scinder aux locators Scinder la t te de lecture Fusionner Bounce Listes M dia tlle 4 H Edition v piste v R gion v MIDI y Audio v Afficher Magn tisme Intelligent Glissement Superposition JRO Hu Mn MN MHN NHN HN HN HN MN HN HNF HN HN HN MN MM Printing Lead Sheets Printing Lead Sheets SongFrame assumes that everything created will be exported to a DAW recording application for recording arrangement and production A large part of that process is the ability to hand performers lead sheets SongFrame s printed sheets display all measures song section chord symbol names and lyrics SongBits act as section headers and there are 4 measures per line printed with the chord symbols on the appropriate beats Lyrics for each SongBit appear in a box scaled to fit under each SongBit Example of Lead Sheet Printout 135 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Expert on Everything Tempo 110 F C F Cc F
101. he Context tool The same ground rules apply you have clicked on a chord in the Chord Track that isn t doing it for you and you want to look for a completely different chord And its not necessarily a matter of a darker or more stable chord you just want to see what chord works best when surrounded with the chords you already have there Click on the Context tab and strap in songwriters this should also make you yelp 26 Writing Songs with SongFrame Bios Library per suggest i Chords AB 1111 n vg Chord S 3 eH Audition gt The Context display will show the chord you selected in the center with the previous next chords from the chord track filled in as well The carousel to the right shows you every single chord that has been used in that situation relative to the SongBit Key and previous and next chords culled from the thousands of actual songs that were analyzed to build SongFrame The most popular choice will be front and center in the carousel display and moving to the right shows the other choices in descending order The carousel is limited to 10 chords at a time so every time you click on the little right arrow you ll see another 10 lesser common choices Thousands of progressions across every genre from the early 1900 s on were analyzed to build this tool so you should find some great choices in
102. hear Chirp playing as you type Chord Playback Settings 104 SongFrame Reference Chord Playback Settings is where you set the default playback pattern that your song will use to play the chord sounds There are two main things to set here the pattern itself as well as the spread between the notes in the chord Ate 0 D lt lt oa Lyrics Notebook Setup ES Settings Chord Track Playback Setu Chord Audition Pattern Quarter ac Audio Setup ae MIDI and 5 Plug In Setup Chord Playback Settings Notes Spread By Chord Audition Patterns SongFrame can play the chords in the chord track a variety of ways depending on your needs The pattern represents how often the notes of the chord will be heard from Whole one chord per measure to a variety of other choices related to which beats are used to sound chord notes You can specify the pattern for any SongBit in your song separately When you create a new SongBit it will be setup per the Chord Playback Settings but you can double click on the SongBit icon to expand it and get to the controls SongBit Chord Play Pattern is the second control from the left You can also change the Playback Pattern by going directly to the SongBit itself and choosing the pattern directly from that menu as shown 105 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Verse 001 8 r ____x Gp ceo ceo Ceo m Half Whole Eighth CI Bossa SongFrame has a
103. hic Show Range is a handy tool and can keep your performances in MIDI sounding much more realistic Vocalist Ranges Instrument Ranges Soprano Celesta Harpsichord Tenor Harmonium Baritone Organ Bass Violin 15 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Colortura Soprano Viola Pita Bao _ enor Banjo CC 0 Piccolo Ft te with ew ito Fute CC oe ngs Hom SSCS English Hom with Low Bblarint Carin Clarinet YE Carine Bas Clarinet Bassoon fC onitrabassoon SSCS FB Soprano Saxophone EB Ato Saxophone BB Tenor Saxophone FE Baritone Saxophone BB Bass Saxophone om Tp Trumpet SS Trumpet EB Trumpeh Comet oF e SSS YC Bass Trumpet YB Bass trumpet PE Bass Trumpet oo Fenor Trombone Bass Trombone tba E Tuba 76 SongFrame Reference Euphonium TT impari o Marimba SSCS pO Glockenspiel S ooo Vibraphone Chimes Pian ______ Show Scale SongFrame allows you to focus you melody writing on the tones that make up a particular musical scale You can see them as well as hear them Normally the MIDI Track shows gray stripes shown below to indicate the black keys on the piano keyboard If you stop and think about it the black keys comprise a music scale the 5 Note pentatonic scale This is the default view in SongFrame and you can return to it any time by selecting Black Keys in the Show Scale drop down menu When you use the Show Scale feature these stripes move t
104. ht expect including the ability to reposition and re size any note or group of notes Note SongFrame s MIDI editor does not offer the capability to edit MIDI Controller values Note 58 Time 6992 Duration 1200 Velocity 100 Select any MIDI note by clicking on it you should also hear it play for it s exact duration when you do that hovering your mouse over any MIDI note shows you detailed information about it including the MIDI note number the time it occurs the duration it occurs and the note velocity 116 SongFrame Reference To move a MIDI note anywhere in pitch or time click on it hold the mouse button down and drag it anywhere you d like you should hear it play as it moves making it easier to know where you need to drop it ci e Note 58 I Time 6992 Note 58 Duration 1200 Time 6992 Velocity 100 Duration 1200 Velocity 100 To re size the duration of a MIDI Note hover your mouse over the left or right side of the note the mouse will turn into a re sizing tool Simply click and drag the note to the desired size and let go To grab multiple notes hold the SHIFT key down and lasso notes or hold CTRL down and click on the notes you d like to select Once selected drag them or re size them as you would a single note MIDI Track Controls 117 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 d a ki Recording a MIDI performance requires you first to ARM the MIDI Track by clickin
105. ical scenery a Flats USPS an oversized letter Meee Lit Hola abs Lo n O DI cs er prc Here is a definition of Wikipedia directly from Wikipedia Wikipedia pronounced Wiki pi dia or wiki pi did is a multilingual Web based free content encyclopedia project The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau combination of words and their meanings of the words wiki a type of collaborative Web site and encyclopedia Wikipedia s articles provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world Since its creation in 2001 Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites attracting at least 684 million visitors yearly by 2008 There are more than 75 000 active contributors working on more than 10 000 000 articles in more than 250 languages As of today there are 2 479 574 articles in English every day hundreds of thousands of visitors from around the world make tens of thousands of edits and create thousands of new articles to enhance the knowledge held by the Wikipedia encyclopedia 85 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Note you didn t pay anything for the ability to use this tool We put it in here strictly as a browser for Wikipedia without having to leave the application Some people will inevitably scream that we are charging for a free tool relax folks Online Tools for Lyricists Here is collectio
106. igned MIDI tracks are created The MIDI file contains the chord MIDI melody and drums on separate tracks and the audio track is in WAV file format And along with tempo key and time signature information timeline markers showing every SongBit name as well as every chord used in the song are created and imported to the DAW timeline perfect for starting the arrangement and production process and speeding the recording and overdubbing workflow What SongFrame Isn t SongFrame is a fairly unique application focused on providing a variety of songwriting tools and presenting them in a manner which appeals to today s modern Digital Audio Workstation DAW software user It features a advanced Adobe AIR based graphical user interface on top of a SQLite based database architecture The primary focus of SongFrame is to separate the songwriting process from production and arrangement We find all too often that today s excellent array of computer based production tools can lead to a subconscious blending of the writing arrangement and production steps We are certainly not preaching a right and wrong way to go about creating art but we are suggesting that isolating your songwriting process from tinkering in your studio with all the great toys you own may be a method of arriving at different or better results Our best songwriting intentions when performed in the studio can get derailed with endless fiddling with plug in s sound selection
107. in when you find the one that fits drag it down and drop it on the drum track It will already know how many measures to play for Automatic Drum Track The Automatic Mode allows you to create a drum performance across your entire song with one click Two clicks really you have to select the pattern you like first im PS i D lt lt Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup ag Keyword Search C Cene AIl v Generate F Listen Name Description Bomac amp JerseyRock Streets of Philly Rock rhythm almost drum machine like j H Track b AltRock BensBro Stutterin Straight rock EZ Setup La 60 s Rock That Thing U Do 60 s Rock feel EZ gt RingoRock Long Winding Road allad rock feel JerseyRock Ties Bind Straight rock with percussion gt AltRock Click Just Girl Alternative rock feel EZ gt Alt Rock Broken W Build An Island Alternative rock with percussion b Country Stand By Man Simple country rhythm z There are over 100 automatic patterns to choose from again modeled after real songs The patterns that work best with intros verses chorus bridges etc have all been preselected and all you need to do is choose the one you like you can audition it too first and click the Generate button or just double click in the grid You ll be warned that SongFrame plans on overwriting your old Drum patterns in each SongBit Once you click Generate you can hit Play and hear how your song sou
108. in the project Make sure the Now Cursor is on 1 1 1 Be sure to set the SONAR Project file to the same Tempo as your SongFrame song as well to ensure the audio imported lines up Here s the tricky past you can t just say File gt Import MIDI because for some reason the markers don t import into SONAR The process to follow is to copy the SongFrame MIDI file in Windows Explorer and click on the EDIT gt Paste choice in SONAR There is an Advanced button in the dialog box that appears as shown below 128 Starting at Time 13 01 000 Repetitions 1 i Destination Starting Track Align to Measures What to do with existing material Bus Blend Old and New Replace Old with New Slide Over Old to Make Room Paste to One Track Linked Repetitions Link to Original Clip s SongFrame Reference What to paste OK Events Clips Cancel Paste as New Clips O Paste into Existing Clips Clip Automatior Track Bus Automatior Tempo Changes Markers N V Meter Key Changes Make sure the Markers box is checked When you Click OK you ll see all 3 MIDI Tracks from SongFrame Chords MIDI Melody and Drums appear in your Project Put your cursor on the blank Audio Track click File Import Audio and bring SONAR s audio file into your project S SongFrame Import Test cwp SONAR 7 Producer Edition File Edit Process Views Insert Transport Go Tracks Tools Options Windows He
109. int yourself at http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets SongFrame Users Guide pdf This manual covers all aspects of SongFrame both for the Windows and Mac versions Keep it handy SongFrame is a fairly deep program that requires you to read the manual at least the important parts of it to use the program Also we maintain troubleshooting documents on our website where we try and capture any and all of the potential issues that can arise purchasing installing or using our products Please consult these first Tanager AudioWorks Inc support tanageraudioworks com Introduction What Is SongFrame SongFrame is the song development toolkit designed to provide songwriters and recording musicians an integrated and comprehensive set of tools for writing and refining songs In addition to serving as an overall notebook for a songwriter s ideas SongFrame allows the user to construct songs using drag amp drop icons representing song structure elements and then fully develop every aspect of the song within these SongFrame is used before the songwriter ever fires up his or her Digital Audio Workstation DAW recording or sequencing software As the name implies SongFrame creates the framework foundation and superstructure of a song prior to the recording arrangement and production process Think of SongFrame as a pre DAW or a songwriting front end to your existing recording or sequencing setup SongFrame is NOT a replacement fo
110. it on the chord track BS Suggest Ul Chords Fea chord Chor Ugg Progressions Hide Substitutes Shared Notes v 46 Chords Found Chord Suggest While one could argue that the Substitutions capability on the Chord Library tool is a suggestion function the Chord Suggest tools are all about finding a different chord to use in the context of the SongBit you are currently writing Chord Suggest has 2 primary tools a Context and a Color tool Both tools are triggered from the currently selected chord on the Chord Track How many times have you been working on a chord progression and you decide that a specific chord just isn t working for you These tools help you find a suitable replacement that hopefully will 68 SongFrame Reference move your listeners to tears Or move you to work on another part of the song that s a little less pompous in a user manual Context Tool Bios Library BA suggest Previous Chord Suggested Chord Next Chord J Chords A6 G T yaaa MU 121241 TA chord a es Audition p The Context tool is all about harmonic content which for any selected chord looks at the chords that occur directly before and after it and consults a database of thousands of progressions from real songs and presents a carousel of possible replacement choices to the user To use it click on the Chord
111. its Song Title SongBit Name Type Music By Lyrics By File Name Date Y Pop IDea 7 22 2008A Pre Chorus 001 Pre Choru Pop IDea 7 Tuesday Jul 22 2008 at 7 5 Pop IDea 7 22 2008A Verse 001 Verse Pop IDea7 Tuesday Jul 22 2008 at 7 5 Expert on Everything Chorus 2 in C Chorus Scott Bausback Scott Bausback Expert on Tuesday Aug 5 2008 at 2 0 Expert on Everything Verse Modulates to D Verse Scott Bausback Scott Bausback Expert on Tuesday Aug 5 2008 at 2 0 Expert on Everything Solo Chorus Chords Use a melodica here Solo Scott Bausback Scott Bausback Expert on Tuesday Aug 5 2008 at 2 0 Expert on Everything Ending Measure Ends onakick cras Ending Scott Bausback Scott Bausback Expert on Tuesday Aug 5 2008 at 2 0 Expert on Everything Ending 1st 3 Measures Ending Scott Bausback Scott Bausback Expert on Tuesday Aug 5 2008 at 2 0 Cunostcativontbizazi Chosertiah Chase centi Ee a pa checi lc set cei pece ie ETN er The Notebook refreshes when you click on the icon so anything you are working on that has been saved will appear there If you have multiple song documents open this is an easy way to move a SongBit from one song to another or save a song file with just the part you ve just worked on for your friend into its own document Setup Tools Global Settings The Global Settings Tool is used to establish the default song and program parameters for your song There are three tabs associated with it one focused
112. l Purpose Controller 8 84 Portamento Control 85 Undefined 86 Undefined 87 Undefined 88 Undefined 89 Undefined 90 Undefined 91 Reverb Send Level 92 Effects 2 Depth 93 Chorus Send Level 94 Effects 4 Depth 95 Effects 5 Depth 96 Data Entry 1 97 Data Entry 1 98 NRPN Non Registered Parameter Number LSB 99 NRPN Non Registered Parameter Number MSB 100 RPN Registered Parameter Number LSB 101 RPN Registered Parameter Number MSB 102 Undefined 103 Undefined 104 Undefined 105 Undefined 106 Undefined 107 Undefined 108 Undefined 109 Undefined 110 Undefined 111 Undefined 158 Appendix 112 Undefined 113 Undefined 114 Undefined 115 Undefined 116 Undefined 117 Undefined 118 Undefined 119 Undefined 120 All Sound Off 121 Reset All Controllers 122 Local Control On Off 123 All Notes Off 124 Omni Mode Off All Notes Off 125 Omni Mode On All Notes Off 126 Poly Mode On Off All Notes Off Poly Mode Off All Notes Off End User License Agreement TANAGER AUDIOWORKS IN RETURN FOR THE LICENSE FEE HEREBY GRANTS YOU THE FOLLOWING LICENSE TO INSTALL AND RUN SongFrame HEREIN AFTER REFERRED TO AS THE SOFTWARE ONLY UPON THE CONDITION THAT YOU ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED HEREIN SongFrame LICENSE 1 The Software The Software is defined as the accompanying software and documentation and any patches or bug fixes provided at TANAGER AUDIOWORKS sole discretio
113. l you could create a Custom SongBit one measure in length and shorten your Verse or Chorus or whatever by a SongBit but frankly drum fills are a performance attribute you can worry about later when you are arranging and recording the song You are writing songs now remember Searching for Drum Patterns SongFrame s Build tool has filter menus for Meter Genre and Keyword Search as well as SongBit Type The Filter buttons shaped colored and labeled similar to SongBits allow you to find patterns that might work well for that particular SongBit Just click on 87 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 one and you ll see patterns which might fit the bill Note the same patterns may work well for different SongBits like Intros or Breakdowns so don t be surprised to see the same patterns repeated in different lists Searching by Drum Hit Patterns OK for those of you that said yes when mentioned the drum pattern stuff above or if you use step sequencers or drum machines a lot this one is for you Click on Pattern Search Mode and you ll be presented with the Pattern Search tool This tool allows you to find drum patterns by specifying the hits for the kick snare and hi hats based on a 16 step drum machine like interface Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Pattern Search Mode v Genre All v Meter 4 4 z i Automatic pE a Re VE elia S E sud Ly2fsfafsfe z sshopihehshshishs if2 sfalsfe 7 s ohofapehshsishs ass sfe z s
114. le a passing chord to serve as a better transition chord that pulls the listener to the next SongBit Oh this is when you shout out loud I am SO glad bought this program At least we can hope 25 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Make sure you have selected the chord of interest on the Chord Track a little red box will surround it if you have and click on the Color tab You ll see a simple 2 dimensional color grid and the Root box should already be filled in with the root of that chord A bit about what you are looking at here The X axis or the left right dimension for the Cartesian Coordinate haters represents the happiness of the chord with yellow on the left being full out Happy and blue on the right being total Sadness The Y axis or up down dimension represent the Chord Stability or Tension Axis the lighter the color is the more stable the chord is So If am looking for a stable but sadder sound stay near the top of the chart lighter colors and move towards the blues every time click on a bluer color will hear a sadder chord sound and the Big Chord display on the right will change to that chord Drag it down on top of the original and presto your progression is now measurably more morose r Atanager BEE 7 Chords Notebook Setup Efo Library Context Color Suggest 3 Chords e gia Chord P d SS Yaa Progressions m Lets look at another extremely cool tool t
115. leaned from everything that you ve done Tempo 110 D Dmin G E i 7 7 Dmin G E Cc 5 7 2 Getting Ready to Record In Your DAW 43 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 One of the most important capabilities of SongFrame lies in its ability to send the audio and MIDI guide tracks to your digital audio workstation DAW recording or sequencing software Most importantly it sends markers for every chord and song section critical information to have in the DAW session file when you start recording and overdubbing Anybody who records regularly knows that this awful DAW session setup step takes forever and we know they ll appreciate this feature We know you have a DAW and the one you have you really love and defend like a child What is the best DAW is one of the most heated discussions musicians have these days We designed SongFrame to play into your existing world we don t want to BE your DAW ever We want you to use what you have all the great stuff you bought for it and be happy We just want to be there for you at the start of the session with two things a song worth recording AND a head start to setting up that session file All you need to do in SongFrame once your song is done is to make sure you have your song loaded and the Takes you deem are the final takes are the ones displayed Click on File and Export Audio and MIDI SongFrame saves two files a WAV audio file with the Audio
116. lected pattern appears below the lyrics in the Document pane The songwriter can now quickly build a rhythm track for the song under development This function does not replace full featured loop pattern composition tools but aims to provide basic drum track creation capability during songwriting and can serve as a much more inspirational click track during DAW recording If the songwriter doesn t want to be bothered building a drum track they can choose to let SongFrame automatically generate a complete drum track for their song SongFrame contains a library of drum patterns that have been chosen to go well together one click and you have a supporting drum track Also since the drum track uses fully GM mapped MIDI drum patterns any software based drum sample player using GM note mapping can be utilized for hearing the Drum Track Upon completion of the song a MIDI track representing the complete drum performance from Song Frame is can be exported for easy inclusion in the production DAW Project file Notebook Perhaps the most powerful feature of SongFrame lies in its ability to allow you to recall any SongBit of any song you have stored on your hard drive or ones your songwriting collaborators have sent you quickly and easily Want to use that Intro you worked on three weeks ago Just drag it into your song and all tracks from that SongBit are instantly copied To browse your previous musical ideas click on the Notebook i
117. ll as the sound signifying the start of a measure A typical starting place for most of us 34 Writing Songs with SongFrame Build a SongBit specific drag and drop tool where you can audition or search a library of over 500 drum patterns for the one you are looking for then simply drag this down and drop it on the drum track for the specific SongBit you are writing RS r 4 2 lt S Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup La Pattern Search Mode ai f PJ Automatic Click Track Setup Listen Name Description Intro Patterns Cowbell on Quarter Notes Cowbell on quarter notes EZ Intro Patterns Handclaps on Quarter Notes Handclaps on each beat Intro Patterns HiHat on Quarter Notes Hi hat on every beat EZ Intro Patterns Jingle Bells on Quarter Notes Jingle Bells on every beat amp amp Intro Patterns Low Tom on Eighths Low tom beats on eighth notes EZ Automatic a very cool one click method to build a drum track for all the SongBits in your song at once We provide a library of over 100 styles to choose from all modeled after real songs The drum patterns that play have been pre defined for each SongBit type to make rhythmic sense A Verse SongBit may get a drum pattern with a closed hi hat where the Chorus may move that hi hat pattern to a ride cymbal There were records you could buy in the 70 s when was a kid that contained complete drum performances to a canned song struct
118. lows you to automatically save your song at preset intervals Default Song Settings When you create a new song document the Global Settings gt Default Song Settings menu is consulted by SongFrame to determine the starting values for Tempo Song Key and Time Signature As you drag a new SongBit onto the Structure Pane that SongBit will hold these values You can change the settings on the expanded SongBit icon itself at any time Once your song document exists the Song Settings button above the Track Controls area can be used to determine the settings for any additional SongBits that are added to your song If you employ modulation a key change in the middle of your song this tool allows you to tell SongFrame that all new SongBits get different settings 93 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 i ps Ji Chords Melody Lyrics qg Notebook Setup Pfc Settings Default Song Settings SongFrame Settings Track Delay Compensation Internal MIDI audio Setup Tempo 100 Song Key c Di and g Key lc ir oe Time Signature EY Chord Playback Settings e Tempo sets the default tempo for your song As you drag in new SongBits to the Song Structure Pane these settings will be reflected by default You can change them at any time e Song Key sets the default key of your song Works with the various Progressions tools e Time Signature sets the default meter for your song Again any of these p
119. lp Hee i MARKER PUNCH IN OUT Custom TRANSPORT LOOP TEMPO SYSTEM cam 129 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 DAW Import of SongFrame Files Cubase When you import SongFrame audio and MIDI files it is always a good idea to import the MIDI file first This contains a Marker Track as well as separate tracks for the Chord MIDI Melody and Drums Tracks from SongFrame Load a new project file Be sure to set the Cubase Project file to the same Tempo as your SongFrame song as well to ensure the audio imported lines up Click on File gt Import gt MIDI File You should see all of these tracks appear Next import the SongFrame exported Audio file make sure your timeline marker in Cubase is on the first measure to be sure your Audio aligns with your MIDI SongFrame uses 44 1KHz 16 bit audio so make sure your project is set to accommodate this If you don t see the markers you may need to be sure to turn them on in the Cubase gt Preferences gt Event Display gt Markers menu and check the Show Marker Names checkbox You can see the way it should look in the picture below notice the start of every SongBit includes the name of the SongBit and the 1st chord associated with that time position And remember the drums are always mapped as General MIDI so be sure the VST you use follows this mapping in order to hear the sounds properly The Halion GM Drum sets do a fine job of reproducing SongFrame dr
120. lso and it will sound Click between both to hear subtle differences in chord sounds this is ideal for finding that interesting substitute to keep your progressions interesting The bottom of the display will show you how many matches were found that met the conditions Simply click the right or left arrows at the bottom right of the display to see the next set of 10 matching chords When you find the chord you are looking for just grab it from the carousel and drag and drop it on the chord track Suggest Chords SongFrame excels at providing expert coaching in the area of chord selection and replacement The Suggest Chords menu provides 2 main tools tom use when you need help deciding what chord to use in place of another you already dragged to the Chord Track We ve all been in that situation you like the progression except that one lousy chord doesn t light you up If you are a typical songwriter you start flailing you grab your guitar or sit at the piano and go through the ritual of running through your chord vocabulary for the right sound OK here s a way better way Let s say you like the root of the chord you are on but are looking for something a bit sadder maybe because your lyric just delved into some murkier topic area and you want to make sure you are not discussing death and destruction with super upbeat major triads Or you are at the end of a verse and about to move to a Chorus and you want the chord to be a bit more unstab
121. ly thousands of them The original key timing tempo length or anything other than the chords used itis up to you to take these chords find substitutes that make musical sense and drag them into place for your song to ensure originality There has been research that showed that most popular music over the last several decades relies on the same 50 200 standard chord progressions These general principles are put to use in SongFrame The Chords Tool contains a audible chord library of 70 chord types in every key Easily find substitutes for any chord based on a given number of shared notes Innovative chord suggest tools allow filtering by musical genre location context what chord came before it and which will come after it and even chord color a 2D graphical map allowing the user to select chords based on a happy sad axis as well as a stable tense axis This latter axis is designed to help the user select the perfect passing chord for a given progression The Chord Progression tool contains actual chord progressions from literally thousands of real songs across a variety of genres and eras Choose how many chords in the progression you d like for the song section you are working on every progression will appear in the key of the SongBit you are working on Filter by musical genre era and another color tool a 2D map of progressions with simple versus more complex chords as well as a movement from the root dimension Audition chord
122. m 1 6GHz or faster processor for netbooks e Microsoft Windows XP Home Professional or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 3 Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows Vista Home Premium Business Ultimate or Enterprise including 64 bit editions with Service Pack 2 or Windows 7 e 512MB of RAM 1GB recommended e 1024 by 768 resolution display actually the bigger the display the better experience you ll have with SongFrame e Audio input output device SongFrame will work with an internal sound card or external audio interface e LoopBe30 MIDI Loopback Driver included e MIDI Input and Output device OR VST Plug in Instruments Mac OS X e PowerPC G4 1 8GHz or faster processor or Intel Core Duo 1 33GHz or faster processor e Intel Core Duo or faster processor e Mac OS X v10 6 or later e 512MB of RAM 1GB recommended e 1024 by 768 resolution display actually the bigger the display the better experience you ll have with SongFrame e Audio input output device SongFrame will work with an internal sound card or external audio interface e MIDI Input and Output device OR AU Plug in Instruments 11 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Disk Space Requirements SongFrame will take up approximately 250M of space on your hard drive which includes a folder for the free 4Front VST plug in s we supply Setting Up SongFrame Detailed installation instructions for SongFrame Windows and Mac can be found on th
123. m is reading a disk file which was written during the recording process SongFrame uses a database structure to store all of its audio and MIDI data A song file is actually an open un encypted SQLite database document As you add SongBits Tracks and Takes to your song they are all stored in a single SQLite database associated with your song file SongBits inside your Song document are presented to the user in the NoteBook allowing you access to this level of detail and extracting SongBits from other songs into your current Song file You are actually copying a database record when you drag and drop this SongBit from your notebook into your new Song file We chose this architecture for specific reasons related to internet based drag and drop songwriting collaboration later in SongFrame s life Stay tuned Every time you get ready to press the Play button on the Transport SongFrame takes a look at the latest version of the various tracks and takes you have at the top of your tracks and creates audio and MIDI files data on the fly It constructs a new temporary MIDI file from the top most takes of your Chord Drum and MIDI Melody tracks and concatenates an new temporary audio file from the top most takes in each SongBit of the audio tack These files are then read from disk during playback The C Program Files SongFrame Null folder is the location where these temp tracks are stored and read When you use the various chord dru
124. m or melody tools in the Tools Pane in SongFrame you are in effect doing a database search through the hundreds of thousands of records in the main database in SongFrame This database is a SQLite 137 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 database as well but it is not written to like the Song file database instead it is the musical knowledge repository that forms the foundation of SongFrame The more difficult the operation being performed the longer the operation will take The Chord Suggest carousel feature is perhaps the most difficult search operation being performed and thus has the longest latency to provide results When you click on a chord in the chord track SongFrame searches hundreds of thousands of records for those exact preceding and following chord combinations from its database of historical song chord progressions and presents the results in a graphical carousel We try and make this operation happen as fast as possible but there s a lot to it so there will always be some GUI latency while it searches The advantages of these tools will become apparent as you get familiar with the program For instance SongFrame may be the only tool on the market capable of transposing songs and song sections with the actual correct enharmonic root names assigned to the transposed chords This is an extensive database routine which considers every chord and its location relative to the root note and attempts to assign the proper musical root
125. mer On Off Comp On Off Bypass Sr MIDICHI Run Pattern Devices ea Bypass All FX PITCH WHEEL 92 n oi a qu Rif PE Bar 7 Po Automation mv mf 21 25 29 33 37 4 45 49 53 57 el a Device M S Lanes 4 4 f Transport Automation AUTOMATION OVERRIDE siasi ps 35 3 4 18 GO le Loor onor PRE TEMPO BARS BEATS 1 16 TICKS ceas aaa bel EZE Gellet CEN PERE NEW NEW REGROOVE Messer E CLICK LEVEL TIME SIGNATURE HOURS MIN SEC MS AS PERF CTRL DURING REC A oue ar MINE 132 SongFrame Reference DAW Import of SongFrame Files Ableton Live Ableton Live makes it simple to import SongFrame Audio and MIDI files In the browser find the exported SongFrame files and simply drag them onto new tracks Markers will not appear but all the guide track data is there to begin using Untitled gt 44 4 4 mo ove ai ter EESE OEO gt e A Return B Return Master Da EA Analog Factory iZotope Ozone 3 ERA Play EI iZotope Spectron EA iZotope Trash TI gpgpgoggogogrc i TT DDA DDD DDD SERE E UTI ajamaa E Piano MK1 Draft Color Color e WahWah ADIR o 127 H tack Release Width 55 Drop Audio Effects Here G 0 DAW Import of SongFrame
126. mes it might be necessary or desirable to send more data for example by sending excessive MIDI polyphonic aftertouch messages A hardware legacy device would fail here but not LoopBe30 If you want to send more data than allowed by the spec and you are sure your setup is shortcut free simply disable the shortcut detection e Faster than a legacy Hardware Interface e With the shortcut detection switched off you can send more MIDI data than would ever be possible with a hardware interface and a real MIDI cable LoopBe30 places an icon sh in your System Tray that allows you to access its front panel You can modify the settings with this panel shown below loopBe30 Internal MIDI Ports lt Sr Internal MIDI Mute 1 92 Da A Cs ties C11 C12 C13 O14 Dis 21 02 Oz D24 O25 6 7 5 9 10 Mute None 16 17 19 19 20 26 27 28 29 Enable Shortcut Detection Ports after Reboot 4 Change Help Using SongFrame on a Mac with Boot Camp VMWare Fusion or Parallels Many people have begun to install a Windows XP or Vista OS on a separate partition on their Intel based Macs SongFrame runs fine on these virtual Windows machines either in a separate Boot Camp partition which is not a virtual machine it IS the real thing or on programs such as Fusion or Parallels A few tips since you ll be using a Mac Keyboard e The Mac s DELETE key under Fusion or Parallels is what Windows folks would call BACKSPACE SongFrame uses the Wind
127. n The Software is deemed to be licensed to you by TANAGER AUDIOWORKS 2 Ownership of the Software This license grants you a non exclusive right to use the Software Expressly as provided herein you may not duplicate the Software or allow the Software to be duplicated except for the purposes of installing the software on permitted computers and making a single backup copy Permitted computers means the set of computers within your home or organization the number of which shall not exceed the installation count as specified by TANAGER AUDIOWORKS and advised to you upon the purchase of this license The Software may be installed and run only on permitted computers Unless otherwise specified the number of permitted computers for this software is two You may not resell sub license or distribute the Software or allow the Software to be distributed You may not decompile reverse engineer disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive the source code of the Software The title and 159 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 160 intellectual property rights for the Software remain with TANAGER AUDIOWORKS Transfers You may transfer all your rights to use the Software and Documentation to another person or legal entity provided you transfer this Agreement the Software and Documentation including all copies update and prior versions to such person or entity and that you retain no copies including copies stored on computer Warranty
128. n of web sites that provide great reference content for writing lyrics If you have a favorite that is not listed here please EMAIL us at info tanageraudioworks com and we ll get it in here Dictionary _ Thesaurus Rhymes Other Reference Rhymezone Poetry With Meaning Digiionany Wiktionary i With Wikipedia Wiktionary Merriam nen Poetry Webster Merriam Artel Project e Glossary of Rhymes Webster MSN Synonym Poetry Bartleby Quotations Encarta Bartleby WordSmyth WriteExpress Getty Thesaurus of Geographical Names The Free MSN American Society for Indexing Dictionary Encarta Online Thesauri Listing Your Bartleb Pop Culture References from AOL AOL Dictionary Thesaurus WE M a a U___ Drum Tools Build Drum Track 86 SongFrame Reference The Drum Build tool allows fast and easy drum track creation in all kinds of styles for the SongBit you are working on When you click on the Build tool you see a grid of drum patterns below a set of search and filter controls sN Atanaser N J 4 ta lt S l Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Keyword search C Gene A v Meteri a a v Pattern Search Mode Automatic Soo Click Track Setup Listen Name Description Ld Intro Patterns Cowbell on Quarter Notes Cowbell on quarter notes EZ Intro Patterns Handclaps on Quarter Notes Handclaps on each beat Intro Patterns HiHat on Quarter Notes Hi hat on every beat EZ Intro
129. n t 38 Writing Songs with SongFrame pay anything extra when you bought SongFrame for the ability to do that The Wiki Freight Train is here to stay so might as well get aboard We have provided a list in the Appendix of other web sites you should frequent for lyrics reference Those of you who insist on the store bought reference material can purchase that and ALT TAB over to it any time of course These are nice to have if you don t have an internet connection which is required to access SongFrame s Lyrics Tools but even airplanes are being hooked up now so those unconnected days will soon end The Rhymes tool deserves special mention We allow our users to choose to use their favorite rhyming dictionary sites our favorite is RnymeZone com to supply the content for the Rhymes window In Rhymezone besides finding rhymes in one or more syllables the Rhymezone site can provide rhymed phrases synonyms definitions homophones related and similar sounding words and a whole host of other songwriting resources RhymeZone s sister site OneLook com is also linked via the tools to provide words that share similar endings or matching similar patterns Find what fits the bill and copy paste it into your LyricPad or right into the Lyrics Track When you put this all together you have a set of powerful tools at your fingertips You can arrange SongFrame s windows and tracks for a unique Lyrics development view that makes it simple to
130. n the progression and the top to bottom dimension 73 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 focuses on root motion Chords are categorized as to their level of complexity based on number of notes in the formula and usage Simple chords are chords like 3 note major and minor triads and complex chords are chords with many more notes such as a 13b5b9 chord The closer to the left edge you are in the color picker the simpler the progressions will be in terms of the chords that comprise them There are no rules of course but many rock pop and country tunes do not make frequent use of 9 11 and 13 chords for instance progressions containing those chord types would be found closer to the right side As we said earlier shake it up Try out some of these jazzy progressions in your pop power ballad you might discover it is the perfect secret ingredient The closer you are to the top of the grid the more still the progression will be in terms of its deviation from the tonic note There are some great progressions that never leave the tonic note such as the tried and true E Esus4 Esus2 E progression in our E example from before OR a longer E E6 Emaj7 E that uses chord color changes rather than root motion to give the progression its character As you move closer to the bottom of the grid you ll see progressions that deviate significantly from the tonic note such as the classic I IV V I or I VI IV V I progressions Again there are no rules so
131. ndow Help Transport cla BO Beian set Gta DI Play Chord Name Description Notes mM Suggest Chords A A Major Triad A Voicing 1 A Major Alternate Voicing 1 Chord Progressions A Voicing 2 A Major Alternate Voicing 2 Amin A Minor Triad Amin Voicing 1 A Minor Alternate Voicing 1 Amin Voicing 2 A Minor Alternate Voicing 2 A 70 Chords Found Show Substitutes It Is What It Is Alt Version Intro 001 Verse 007 intro 001 gt orario JN is Verse 001 Notes Ge ma fe a ffoo SU 115 ust notwhat you pictured And it doesn tft your plan Don t matter now just roll with it Exported to Pro Tools 7 4 HD Notice the markers A life saver Overdub away 126 SongFrame Reference 0 01 0 02 0 03 0 04 0 05 20 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 J100 Jino Overse A Ocdim Yeminz Ve ga Ora Qemin It Is What It Is Alt Version Audio 0 06 0 07 00 00 06 00 0 08 0 09 00 00 08 00 0 10 0 11 00 00 10 00 0 12 0 13 00 00 12 00 0 14 0 15 00 00 14 00 0 16 0 17 00 00 16 00 0 18 0 19 00 00 18 00 0 TE EE DAW Import of SongFrame Files ProTools When you import SongFrame audio and MIDI files it is always a good idea to import the MIDI file first This contains all the song section and chord markers as well as separate tracks for the Chord MIDI Melody and Drums Track
132. nds with that drum performance Try THAT with your drum machine Click Track 89 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 SongFrame provides a conventional Click Track as well as the Drum Build and Automatic modes This is extremely handy when you have a quick idea you want to capture and you d like it recorded with reference to a set song tempo The QuickCapture mode invokes this tool z EN a Chords Notebook Ef Click Setup Setup Click Track Sound Source in Tools gt MIDI and VST Setup Menu ES Automatic Use Click _ o Track MIDI Note 1st Beat 76 z Setup MIDI Note other Beat 77 v Audition Click gt Click on Drums gt Click Track Setup to define what MIDI notes you ll set as the 1st beat and other beat sounds To enable the Click Track just check the Use Click box You can Audition the click sound by pressing the Audition Click button As noted in the menu dialog the Click will utilize whatever instrument sound you have set up for the Drum Track VST or MIDI hardware Using SongFrame with Popular 3rd Party Drum Packages There are many fine drum synth plug in packages on the market our favorite is the ToonTrack EZ Drummer product We don t know of an easier way to build high quality drum tracks in your DAW during the recording stage and the sound of the samples is fantastic We include EZ Drummer Lite as part of SongFrame so you can get a feel for the product and hopefully purchase the full product from T
133. news if your setup doesn t change you only need to do this once SongFrame remembers all these setup steps so you can fire it up and indulge in blissful songwriting without having to repeat this stuff each time Note If you are trying to use the EZ Drummer Lite Version included with SongFrame each time you try and use it will require you to click the V icon on the Drum track and click the Close Window message that the AU displays Using Chirp The Tanager AudioWorks Chirp Virtual MIDI Keyboard controller software is an ideal alternative to using a hardware MIDI keyboard in situations where it may be difficult or impossible to do so such as airplane travel Chirp is available for purchase as a packaged product from music retailers as well as a download from the Tanager AudioWorks Web store If you plan on taking a trip where you d like to do some songwriting but don t want to drag along a bulky MIDI keyboard consider purchasing Chirp Using Chirp on Windows Refer to the Chirp manual for setup information Once you have Chirp installed load it and click on File MIDI Setup and select 1 Internal MIDI in the Output Device menu This tells Chirp to send MIDI messages to a virtual output port installed on your system In SongFrame go to Setup gt MIDI and Plug In Setup and select 1 Internal MIDI for the MIDI Melody Track s MIDI In menu SongFrame will now look to Chirp for MIDI Data If you don t want to have to click on Chirp to get it t
134. ng The Wanderer as write this for some reason So class in summary hovering the mouse in the lower left hand corner the greenest pasture will cause the results grid to show you high movement simpler chord progressions like G D C G Moving the mouse towards the upper right will show lower movement progressions using more complex chords like A9 A7 9 A7b9 A7 A7b9 And remember once you drag your progressions to the chord track you can create several versions of each song section by making new Takes that way you can play around with different progression ideas without erasing older ones Hearing All the Chords in Your Progression Perhaps the most common tech support question we get from new users is I built a chord progression but don t hear all the chords playing Ah HA we say you didn t read up on Chord Playback Patterns have to read the manual the user says Yes we say The way you hear the chord in the chord track play is controlled by the Chord Playback Settings selected for the SongBit you are working on When you fist set up SongFrame you can define the default playback pattern in the Setup gt Chord Playback Settings menu We usually default to the whole setting which means SongFrame will play one chord per measure FS jj m Lone FS a T o o Lyrics Notebook Setup ES Settings Chord Track Playback Setu Chord Audition Pattern Quarter 580 Audio Setup Notes Spread By BW DI
135. ng containing the original progression was written not performed e Starts On allows you to designate if the progression must start on the Tonic the 5th Dominant or Don t Care the default choice e Ends On allows you to designate if the progression must end on the Tonic the 5th Dominant or Don t Care the default choice For the non music majors a few glossary terms first The Tonic is the root or 1 tone of the key you are writing in so if your song is in E the Tonic is E The 5th Dominant is 72 SongFrame Reference the fifth degree of that particular key so again if you are writing in E the 5th of that key is B Why is this important and or useful The 5th is a fairly magical interval it has a strong magnetic pull back to the Tonic When you hear that B chord in the example above it somehow magically wants to yank the listener back to the E chord where all is good and fair in the world again Many progressions in song sections end up on a 5th and return to the Tonic to start the next part So we give you the ability to just look at progressions in any key that start or end on these chords Era and Genre can either be used to find a chord progression that either conforms or doesn t conform to the musical style of the song you are writing You can get some pretty original results if you are writing a rock tune using a progression originally from a 40 s era Standards tune for a bridge for example On
136. ng session is complete you can bring to the top the melody idea you liked the best Of course Loop Record works the same with the Audio Track so if your instrument of choice is your mic then hum and jam away Note if Count In is on then you will get a count in for the specified number of measures prior to playing or recording the SongBit over again Transpose Songs and SongBits One of SongFrame s most powerful features lies in its ability to transpose your SongBit s chord and MIDI tracks to any selected key Unlike most DAW or even notation programs where you enter a specific number of semi tones and the notes are shifted SongFrame allows you to specify a target Key and every chord in the chord track will be re cast in this new key including the proper enharmonic root names for the chords To transpose a SongBit either click on the EDIT menu and click the Transpose gt Transpose SongBit choice at the bottom or right click on an expanded SongBit when the cursor is a hand icon and select Transpose as shown below If you have not saved your song since any changes were made SongFrame requires you to do that before transposing Be careful of the mouse icon here when the mouse turns into a hand you can operate via right clicking on the entire SongBit When the mouse is a vertical line right click operations affects the Notes or SongBit name itself 60 SongFrame Reference Verse 001 L Duplicate Cut gt Copy
137. notes on Takes To create a new Take for any Track just click on the Takes control and select New Take Note you ll need some data in the existing track before you can create a new Take The track will be empty and a new Take ready for work To return to a Previous Take click the Take control and choose that Take number As SongFrame plays your song you will notice that every time it reaches a different SongBit the Takes control automatically changes to show the chosen Take for that Track and SongBit Takes are of obvious importance in developing chord progressions and refining melodies but even Lyrics can be stored in their own Takes Use this as a way to quickly try out different lyrics for the various song sections 40 Writing Songs with SongFrame To cut copy paste or delete Takes see the section here QuickCapture Mode QuickCapture is SongFrame s Ahhh have a great idea and just wanna grab it before forget it mode have read repeatedly that if a song idea is good it will be memorable have to admit am one of these people that needs to have a recorder ready for me to hum or speak into or else poof idea gone If have to fumble with the recorder in anyway for more than 5 seconds poof idea gone Coulda been a big hit too am positive of that Transport QuickCapture attempts to short cut any setup whatsoever When you click it SongFrame e Creates a brand new 16 measure Custom Son
138. o any collaborator can see your lyrics or notes Some users even put recording or production notes inside these cells either exclusively or in their own Takes Take 1 always being used for production or arrangement notes for example The Drum Track 119 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 New Song Verse 001 The drum track holds the drum patterns dragged down from the Drum Build tool All you need to do to add a drum pattern to any SongBit is to grab the one you want from the grid and drag it on top of the Drum Track It will fill up all the available measures in that SongBit removing from your songwriting to do list the need to grabs and drag pattern lengths Like all other tracks you can have multiple Takes of drum patterns in any SongBit as you craft your song Create a new Take by clicking on the Takes Control and shown below and clicking on New Take Recall past takes by clicking on the Take number you wish to bring to the top of the stack Mute allows you to silence the MIDI Melody track at any time and Solo allows you to silence everything except the MIDI Melody track Volume controls well the track volume If you have assigned a VST AU Instrument to the MIDI Melody Track clicking on the icon brings up the front panel user interface of that plug in Adjust it for the sound you want and X out of it when you are finished Note for EZ Lite users The Toontrack EZ Lite VST AU puts a small button up in its user int
139. o correspond with the specific notes of a given scale or mode up and down the entire keyboard note range This happens per SongBit which means you can change the scale stripes in every single SongBit in the song The stripes will move when you change the key of the SongBit as well so you can experiment with all kinds of scales in a very simple way In addition you can audition the tones in the various scales easily using the audition button to the right of the Show Scale menu box TI SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 low Scale Major mode IV Lydian v ale Formula Black Keys Major Ascending Melodic Minor Harmonic Minor mode mode Il Dorian b2 Javanese af ve TF FF Pv vv vv FV FF o vv vv SSS TV 3 b Blues mode Ill Lydian Augmented x amn Arabian mode IV Lydian b7 Gypsy Minor Byzantine Double Harmonic Hungarian Lydian 2 b7 Persian mode V Mixolydian b13 mode VI Locrian 2 mode VII Super Locrian neun Neopolitan Minor Phrygian 7 Enigmatic Lydian Diminished Major Pentatonic Chinese Mongolian Balinese Pelog Hawaiian Kumoi Major Pentatonic b3 Japanese B Whole Tone Six note Symmetrical Prometheus Prometheus Neopolitan 1 2 Step 1 Step Diminished 1 Step 1 2 Step Diminished Diminished 1 Diminished 2 9 Note Blues 9 Note Scale 2 a oost OK quick lesson for the non music majors Scales are a series or pattern of tones arrange
140. o just that SongBit not the entire Track as is the case in most DAW applications This allows you to develop audition and perfect each aspect of the song in relation to the section it SongFrame Reference belongs to This is a major behind the scenes difference between SongFrame and the average recording application The Song Structure Pane The Song Structure Pane is the song form development tool in SongFrame and the container for all SongBits When a full song s worth of SongBits have been dragged there it may look like Song Structure Pane Rearranging The Order of SongBits 51 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 intro 001 Chorus 002 8 Bridge 001 8 Solo 001 8 Chorus 003 52 SongFrame Reference Intro 001 Verse 001 Pre Chorus 001 Chorus 001 8 Pre Chorus 002 Each SongBit type is identifiable with a unique color SongBits can be renamed as anything you d like The name and color icon for the SongBit you are currently working on will be duplicated at the top of the timeline in the Document Pane Choose the SongBit you d like to work on by clicking on it in the Song Structure Pane or clicking on the corresponding icon on the timeline A selected SongBit has a red outline around it and that portion of your song is automatically put into view in the Track display area 53 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Clicking the green ball icon in the upper left of a SongBit in the Song Structure Pane opens u
141. o sound notes as the active application then in Chirp select File gt Preferences and check the Send Notes Always box Chirp will allow you to send notes from the keyboard even when another application such as SongFrame is the focused application Be careful with this mode if you are in a program that utilizes any of the keyboard keys without a CTRL ALT SHIFT or other combination keystroke you will hear Chirp playing as you type 103 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 w Chirp Keyboard File Assignment Help OCTAVE ay oy ey wy 2 quem Using Chirp on the Mac Refer to the Chirp manual for setup information Once you have Chirp installed load it and click on File MIDI Setup and select Bus 1 in the Output Device menu This tells Chirp to send MIDI messages to a virtual output port installed on your system In SongFrame go to Setup gt MIDI and Plug In Setup and select Bus 1 for the MIDI Melody Track s MIDI In menu SongFrame will now look to Chirp for MIDI Data If you don t want to have to click on Chirp to get it to sound notes as the active application then in Chirp select File gt Preferences and check the Send Notes Always box Chirp will allow you to send notes from the keyboard even when another application such as SongFrame is the focused application Be careful with this mode if you are in a program that utilizes any of the keyboard keys without a CTRL ALT SHIFT or other combination keystroke you will
142. ock or pop tunes and don t need to see some of the fancier jazz or other chords in the tool From an education standpoint this is a great arsenal of chords to make sure you know in every key on your instrument of choice If you are a guitar student Tanager s Chorducopia product is an ideal learning tool it contains audio of the actual Fretboard Diagram voicings of every chord in this list plus some so you can hear the way they are supposed to sound if played correctly You can buy Chorducopia directly from the Tanager AudioWorks website or ask your favorite music retailer Major Chords 3 common voicings for guitar are provided Minor Chords 3 common voicings for guitar are provided 5 Chords a rock amp roll staple chord 7 Dominant 7th s 66 SongFrame Reference Augmented Diminished Sus2 Sus 4 more rock amp roll and jangle rock staples major 7th minor 7th 6 Major Sixth min6 Minor Sixth 6 9 Major sixth Added Ninth min 6 9 Minor Sixth Added Ninth b5 Diminished Fifth 7 5 Augmented Seventh 7b5 Seventh Flat Fifth min7b5 Minor Seventh Flat Fifth Add9 major Added Ninth 9 11 Major 9 Sharp Eleventh Key mode is an extremely powerful writing tool It limits the library to a collection of chords representing the chords in the selected Major key as well as some important additional related chords These 32 chords per key represent the bulk of chords used in progressions for rock pop and
143. on License Tanager SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 AudioWorks merely provides a browser to get to this content we are explicitly not charging the customer for anything related to this content e RhymezZone is a trademark or registered trademark of DataMuse Corporation All other product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders Books titles cited in this manual Webb Jimmy Tunesmith New York Hyperion 1998 Pattison Pat Writing Better Lyrics Cincinnati Writer s Digest Books 1995 Josefs Jai Writing Music for Hit Songs New York Schirmer Books 1989 1996 Copyright 2012 Tanager AudioWorks Inc All rights reserved Program Copyright 2012 Tanager AudioWorks Inc All rights reserved Visit Tanager AudioWorks on the web at www tanageraudioworks com Getting Help We encourage you to EMAIL us with any question you might have related to using SongFrame or any Tanager AudioWorks product for that matter EMAIL us at support tanageraudioworks com we will reply in a timely manner We keep up to date Troubleshooting Guides on our website reflecting important fixes to known issues Access these at http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets SongFrame Windows Troubleshooting Guide pdf http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets SongFrame Mac Troubleshooting Guide pdf We do not print the user manual but you can access the latest PDF formatted version that you can pr
144. on the Song Parameters themselves one focused on SongFrame default settings for various aspects and one dedicated to track playback timing adjustments SongFrame Application Default Settings 92 SongFrame Reference n rs J ta Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup as Settings Default Song Settings SongFrame Settings Track Delay Compensation Internal MIDI Ed audio Setup SongBit Measure 8 v I Di and Recording Mode Record One SongBit At A Time w Bro Setup Take Management Create New Takes Always tia Count In Measures 2 v le Default Path C Users Scott Documents My So Browse Auto Save O Every e SongBit Measure sets the default number of measures that every new SongBit will contain e Recording Mode chooses between recording One SongBit at a time default mode and recording all SongBits in your song straight through Refer to the Recording Modes section for more e Take Management chooses between requiring SongFrame to always create new Takes every time an Armed track is recorded the default or overwriting the previous Take in that SongBit and all subsequent ones if the Recording Mode is set to Record All SongBits at Once e Count In Measures sets the default number of measures for count in clicks The checkbox to the right toggles count in on or off e Default Path sets the location where SongFrame will store its Song and LyricPad files e Auto Save al
145. oonTrack SongFrame s drum patterns are mapped to the complete General MIDI Drum standard map found in the appendix The GM standard defines 127 note values and attaches 90 SongFrame Reference them to specific drum sounds You only get 2 snare sounds 2 kick sounds but you get all kinds of other percussion instruments in this mapping The good aspect is that there are many different instrument sounds to create percussion parts including cowbells triangles shakers bongos tambourines etc The bad news most good drum AU s and VST s use the notes assigned to those percussion sounds outside of cowbell for other voicings of cymbals crashes chokes bell hits etc and other drums in place of the percussion sounds We make use of those GM sounds in many patterns so if you are using EZ Drummer Lite you will inevitably come across patterns that sound just plain wrong and you ll know it when you do Some of the Latin patterns that make use of heavy percussion are good examples picture a crash cymbal in place of the triangle or tambourine and you got the idea In order to help you choose drum patterns appropriate for the sound source you are using on the drum track we ve marked any drum pattern that will be compatible with EZ Drummer with an EZ at the end of the description field We also use this same convention for the Drum Automatic patterns If you are using EZ Drummer Lite or hopefully the full version of EZ Drummer then
146. ophones This function will return words that have exactly the same pronunciation as what you typed in but are spelled differently e Find similar sounding words This function will return words that have a pronunciation that s similar but not necessarily the same as what you typed in e Match consonants only This option will return words that have the same pattern of consonant sounds Phonetic for example will return fanatic e Find related words This option will return words that are related in some important way to what you typed in e Find phrases This option finds phrases containing the word you type in the Search field e Check spelling of word This option checks the spelling of the word typed in the Search field e Match these letters Once you have searched for a word you can find alliterations simply by typing the 1st letter or letters into the Search field and clicking this choice This selection only appears after there are results shown from a previous search Here are some useful definitions taken from and linked to Wikipedia Wiktionary Term Definition The repetition of the first consonant sound in a phrase Example peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers within phrases or sentences Consonance The repetition of two or more consonants using different vowels for example the i and a followed by the tter sound in pitter patter ynonym Different words with identical or at least similar me
147. ou are working on and have the Transport stop recording after this finshes This is the default setting of SongFrame Alternatively if you are using the Audio track to record an entire vocal or instrument performance or the MIDI track as accompaniment then you may elect to set SongFrame to record all SongBits at once Take Management there are two ways SongFrame can record information on the Audio or MIDI Tracks It can over write the existing Take when you press Record or it can create a new Take automatically and record your information there The default program behavior is to create new Takes for each Audio or MIDI track recording Loop Record and Playback 59 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Transport Ji MEASURE When you click on the Loop icon SongFrame enters Loop mode Whenever you press PLAY or hit the space bar outside the Lyrics Track or LyricPad tool SongFrame will continuously play back the current SongBit you are working on This is a handy way to focus your attention on one song section so you can perfect it before moving on If you click the RECORD button SongFrame enters Loop Record mode Assuming you have set up SongFrame to record a new take with each new pass Loop Record mode will continuously record a Take rewind to the start of the SongBit and create new Takes in every subsequent pass This mode is extremely handy if you re noodling around with melody ideas on your MIDI keyboard When your brainstormi
148. ow it will look printed out There is just the need to get it down To repeat it To be satisfied that it captures the musical idea Then when creation is complete there is the need to properly perform and record the song This is when a professional will use a studio a digital audio workstation and real musicians to make that great song a hit recording This is where pro audio hardware and software are used this is where pro music notation software is used Those tools are for creating industry standard files used in the professional reproduction of music whether recorded or performed SongFrame is an artist s tool for creating songs For capturing that perfect idea For creation of the musical moment Writing Songs with SongFrame There are countless books on songwriting some of them outstanding such as Tunesmith by Jimmy Webb Writing Music for Hit Songs by Jai Josefs and Writing Better Lyrics by Pat Pattison These titles should be mandatory reading for anyone interesting in pursuing the craft On the other hand some of them are 170 page back patting resume retrospectives with a few handy songwriting suggestions all with the deep insight of don t run with scissors Songwriting books usually have a few major points A There is no one way to write a song B There are no real rules you need to follow C Don t steal somebody else s song D 3 chapters on how to fill out a US Copyright Office Form SR or CO which isn t ver
149. ows DELETE key to delete any event after it is selected such as chords drums audio MIDI etc To duplicate 142 Appendix this on the Mac keyboard you need to use FN DELETE This key combination replicates the Windows DELETE key functionality CTRL ALT DELETE an ever popular key combo in Windows is provided as a menu command in Fusion and Parallels under the Virtual Machine menu SongFrame makes heavy use of right clicking If you have not enabled the Mac s 2 finger right click capability found under System Preferences Keyboard and Mouse you can right click using the CONTROL Click method The CTRL key does not seem to operate for selecting multiple events on the Mac s keyboard similar to a Windows keyboard Major Major Major Major Major Major Major Ascending Melodic Minor Ascending Melodic Minor Ascending Melodic Minor Ascending Melodic Minor Ascending Melodic Minor Ascending Melodic Minor Ascending Melodic Minor Harmonic Minor Harmonic Minor Harmonic Minor Harmonic Minor Harmonic Minor Harmonic Minor Harmonic Minor mode II Dorian mode III Phrygian mode IV Lydian mode V Mixolydian mode VI Aeolian Pure Minor Ethiopian mode VII Locrian mode II Dorian b2 Javanese mode III Lydian Augmented mode IV Lydian b7 mode V Mixolydian b13 mode VI Locrian 2 mode VII Super Locrian mode II Dorian b2 b5 mode III Major 5 mode
150. p the SongBit Expanded view which displays additional controls pertaining to that specific SongBit This interface makes it easy to experiment with changing key also called Modulation changing meter tempo or even scale at a SongBit level In addition the Chord Track Playback Pattern menu allows you to define how the chord progressions you are building for each SongBit will be heard when you press Play on the Transport The Notes section is a useful way to remember your arrangement ideas or notes on Takes for each track or whatever These are particularly useful if you are pulling a SongBit you created ages ago out of the SongBit Browser and dropping it into the song you are currently writing More on all this next To re arrange the order of your SongBits just grab one with your mouse and move it where you d like it as shown in the image above As you click hold on a SongBit and hover it over another SongBit a space will open up showing you where you can drop it Once you do that everything associated with that SongBit any track or Take data automatically is moved to its new location in your song When you click on the PLAY button you ll be able to hear how that new arrangement sounds As you build your song structure up you can gain some vertical space in the Song Structure Pane by clicking on the small triangle icon on the gray bar that separates the Song Structure Pane from the SongBit Type Pane This action will shrink the SongBit T
151. ped the song completely go to File gt Export Audio and MIDI An Audio WAV and MIDI Type 1 MID file are created representing all the content in the various tracks in SongFrame This only works for songs with 4 4 time signature SongBits Load your DAW import these files and use them to begin tracking producing your song The markers in your DAW will already exist with the names of every SongBit as well as every single chord change perfect for beginning the recording overdubbing process QuickStart Guide to Editing How do set up my default The Global Settings gt Default Song Settings is the key tempo and time place to do this These choices are used every time a signature for my song new song is created Once the Song is created you can use the Song Settings button for any new SongBits handy if you ve used a key change modulation in your song and you want all future SongBits to be in a new key 17 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 How do delete something Select it by clicking on it a chord audio recording I ve created drum pattern MIDI note etc and press the DELETE key How do add a new Pick a SongBit from the menu at the lower left click SongBit drag it to the Song Structure Pane jus above it and drop it Now you can add chords drums or anything to it How do record Audio Make sure you have a SongBit in the SongBit type Pane and put the cursor on the beginning just click on the SongBi
152. ped to this grid simply click a color square and you ll hear the chord play as well as see the Big Chord change to that chord Using this tool is intuitive when you find the chord you like simply drag it down on top of the chord you are replacing Again be sure to align the blue placement indicator line in the beat location you want to drop the chord in This tool comes in handy if you are looking for chords that match a lyrical mood or sentiment or if you are searching for a better passing chord to another SongBit A note we used a note interval approach to the placement locations for the chord types in the color grid While we think we ve done a good job at locating chord types this is an area that will always be subjective we know already we ll get cards and letters from users who think one chord type is sadder than another relatively to how we placed them We d like to hear your thoughts so we can adjust the tool over time please use the EMAIL mentioned above wishlist tanageraudioworks com or the Community forum on our website accessible via the Help Menu in SongFrame yo share your thoughts 70 SongFrame Reference Chord Progressions The Progressions tool is SongFrame is one of the most powerful aspects of the product and can really help a songwriter get started or finish up a song So many songwriters particularly guitar players find their inspiration for a song in a great chord progression they have been noodling
153. phones and a variety of other excellent tools for songwriting Results can be organized by letter count or syllables as well EA Jr 2 h ri lt N A TA ey Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup JI Jia PPA Lyrics Pad Rhymes search O Search Home Back ii Forward J Words and phrases that rhyme with flat 253 results 1 syllable Wiktionary at bat batt batte bhatt blatt brat bratt cat catt chat dat fat flatt gat gatt glatt gnat hat hatt hnat jagt kat katt klatt krat kratt lat mat matt matte nat pat patt platt platte pratt pratte rat ratte sat scat schadt shatt slaght slat spat splat spratt stat tat that vat 2 syllables and that arnatt at bat bad hat bath mat bear cat begat Rhymes e Wikipedia To use the default Rhymes tool Rhymezone com type a word into the Search box select a function in the dropdown list next to the box and then hit Search to view the results Here are the different functions that you can select from that dropdown list 82 SongFrame Reference e Find rhymes This function will return words that rhyme with the word you typed in e Find synonyms This function will return words that are the same or similar in meaning to the word you typed in e Find definition This function will search for definitions of the word you typed in It will also allow you to submit your query to other online dictionaries on the Web e Find hom
154. r a DAW application it is a set of tools to help you write songs Unlike a DAW SongFrame contains a huge database of musical tools such as chords progressions melodic scales drum patterns etc It uses a DAW like interface to make this database accessible and useful for the modern recording musician The inspiration for a great song can come from a great idea for a title a catchy chord progression a melody line an interesting rhythmic idea or even some lyric ideas scribbled on a napkin SongFrame allows the songwriting process to begin with any of these starting points and completely integrates all aspects of song development in one powerful and intuitive environment Simply put SongFrame is a professional application that focuses on the complete songwriting process and lets the user utilize their favorite instruments and recording environment to take the framework of the song to completion Like any DAW application SongFrame includes an audio engine recording capability and a transport to control playback and recording Unlike a DAW its focus is on the song itself structure chord progressions melodies lyrics and rhythm SongFrame exports MIDI and Audio files for easy import into any DAW application capable of importing audio and MIDI data In addition SongFrame can work with many VST PC and AU Mac software based synths and instruments available allowing a songwriter to take advantage of more inspirational instrument soun
155. rag drop chords on the Chord Track or drag a drum loop on the Drum Track or ARM the MIDI and or audio tracks and record an idea or start writing your lyrics using the tools provided in that section Alternatively you can merely click on the QC QuickCapture button on the Transport and SongFrame will automatically create a new 16 measure custom SongBit ARM both MIDI and Audio Tracks to record and enter the Record Mode automatically This mode was designed for those times when you get that idea fora GREAT melody and 15 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 you ll forget it if you have to think about setting up a program and don t capture it immediately Click one button and start humming or playing it on your keyboard SongFrame s workflow was designed to allow you to approach your songwriting from whatever direction you need to Start with Drums Lyrics Chords Progressions Melodies Song Title or even structure you can hop back and forth easily with a single click The interface was designed for simplicity lots of drag and drop capability and especially no unnecessary clutter on the screen yes know 140 tiny tool icons look cool but you are writing songs not flying the Space Shuttle The Tools are the heart of the song development process SongFrame provides a rich set of tools to help choose chords and develop interesting chord progressions The product contains the atomic substructure of snippets of real songs literal
156. rd Playback Settings Using MIDI Hardware 97 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 SongFrame can utilize either your hardware MIDI Synthesizer devices or many VST Instruments to play the track information in the Chord Drum Click and MIDI Melody track You can use different instruments on each mix and match VST s and hardware or use the same hardware synth for all 3 with information sent on different channels banks and patches nunan j Aa i i N Chord Track Drum Click Track Melody Midi Track Plug in SetUp Global Settings Use Plug In instrument ac Audio Setup J n MIDI Out Select gt S MIDI and MIDI Bank Select a Plug In Setup i i Bus 1 MIDI Channel s Chord Playback Patch Number 1 v mm Settings Click on the MIDI and Plug In setup icon There are 3 tracks that require setup the Chord Track the Drum Track and the MIDI Melody Track Each track requires you to tell it whether you will be using internal synths connected MIDI hardware or plug in Instruments to hear the sounds If you are using MIDI hardware SongFrame should show you every MIDI port installed on your computer in the MIDI Out drop down menu On Windows PC s the Microsoft GS Wavetable Synthesizer Windows own built in soft synth is also available as a choice On a Mac you don t need to select anything the built in Quicktime synth will be used by default We made sure to m
157. rd sound and right clicking a chord on the chord track allows you to copy cut or paste it Selecting the chord and pressing delete erases that chord from your song The fretboard diagrams used in SongFrame were lovingly created by choosing what we felt was the voicing of the chord that both sounded good as well as was playable by most intermediate level guitar players SongFrame provides one voicing for each chord and 3 voicings fro all major and minor chords We too have those chord books that provide 39 different voicings for the C7b5 chord 35 of which requires finger extension surgery and a year at a Hand Gymnastics training camp Those books are certainly useful in becoming adept at playing chords at different fretboard positions and provide inspiration during the writing process So as time goes on expect SongFrame to grow with more chord voicings per chord maybe not 39 but more than 1 or 3 SongFrame s chord library consists of 70 chord sounds in each of the 21 enharmonic key names making a total of 1470 chords This means that there are 66 unique chord types and 2 additional voicings for major and minor chords Why are there 21 key names Who needs Cb or E Well our lead developer also has his degree in Music Composition from the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston and would not sleep at night if the product was not 100 musically correct He is sleeping just fine Seriously while many of our users call an F an F chord
158. results otherwise you would have pages and pages of the same IV V progressions Every progression you see in the grid made musical sense somewhere somehow it is up to you to see if it makes sense for your song There are two Progressions tools in SongFrame the Filter tool and the Color tool Filter presents progressions in a searchable grid similar to the Chord Library approach Color applies an innovative search method to find progressions that range from the complexity of the chords that comprise them as well as the relative motion or deviation from the Tonic Chord in the key you are writing in More on that below Filter Mode To use the Progressions Filter tool click on the Chord Progressions sub menu icon in the Chord Tool When you first click this tool after starting SongFrame it make take a 71 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 second or two to pop up there is a ton of data in there Click on the Filter tab in the upper left of the tool j K K Melody yrics rums Notebook Setup Bjo Library Filter Color l BS Suggest lay Chord Chord2 Chord3 Chord4 Chord5 Chord6 Chord7 Chord8 Chords A C min F min AVE Dadd4 All E E G 19 Bf eA D C min F min7 C min7 F min7 C min7 G9 Frogressions e 7 A7 Emin7 A7 Dmin Dmin maj7 Dmin7 B7 A7addll Dmin7 Bb13 A7add1 1 Ab7 G7 Dmin7 G7add1 1 LI J ic 412 Progressions Found SongBit Type Length Key Genre Era Starts On Ends On All vii 8 vji
159. rom the Grid If you found the chord in the chord grid you can just click on the name hold the mouse and drag it to the right spot on the chord track Same rules apply place it just to the right of the beat you want it to land on It will snap to the correct beat For grid entries SongFrame uses the mouse itself as the marker for placing it on the track The mouse has a little next to it telling you are about to drop a chord The proper placement is shown in the diagram below New Song Grid chords also show some other information such as the full written name of the chord the chord formula and the number of notes in the chord formula That stuff comes along for the ride in a light gray color as you drag but you won t see it anymore when you let go of the mouse Dragging A Fretboard Diagram As you use the chord suggest tools you ll be looking at lots of Fretboard diagrams for chords You can simply grab these from anywhere in the chord tool window and drag them down to the chord track This will work for the Big Chord to the far right or even the chords in the Carousel which represent alternative choices As you hold the mouse down and drag these to the chord track SongFrame shows the placement marker as a little blue line on the left edge of the diagram as shown below In SongFrame Build 9 we kept the blue line permanently displayed to make it easier to know on which beat the chord is placed 110 SongFrame Reference
160. rometheus Prometheus Prometheus Neopolitan Prometheus Neopolitan Prometheus Neopolitan Prometheus Neopolitan Prometheus Neopolitan Prometheus Neopolitan 1 2 Step 1 Step Diminished 1 Step 1 2 Step Diminished Appendix mode III mode IV mode V Harmonic Major mode VI mode VII mode Il mode Ill mode IV Japanese A mode V minor pentatonic mode Il mode III mode IV Japanese B b5 mode V mode Il mode III mode IV Major Pentatonic mode IV Japanese A mode V minor Pentatonic b5 mode II mode III Major Pentatonic b3 b6 mode IV mode V mode Il mode III mode IV mode V mode VI mode Il mode III mode IV mode V mode VI PiP iP EF E E EF RHR ER EKE E RK R R E KE EK BR EK E BEBE IP IPP IPI RP IP IP JP JPR IP IP JP JP RP iP 145 b3 b2 b2 b3 b3 b2 b2 b2 b3 b2 b2 b2 b3 b2 b2 b3 b3 b2 b2 b3 4 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Chord Library Listing 146 Diminished 1 Diminished 1 Diminished 1 Diminished 1 Diminished 1 Diminished 1 Diminished 1 Diminished 1 Diminished 2 Diminished 2 Diminished 2 Diminished 2 Diminished 2 Diminished 2 Diminished 2 Diminished 2 9 Note Blues 9 Note Blues 9 Note Blues 9 Note Blues 9 Note Blues 9 Note Blues 9 Note Blues 9 Note Blues 9 Note Blues 9 Note Scale 2 9 Note Scale 2 9 Note Scale 2 9 Note Scale 2 9 Note Scale 2 9 Note Scale 2 9 Note Scale 2 9 Note Scale 2 9 Note Scale 2 mode Il mode Ill mode IV
161. rsor back one SongBit at a time e Play enters Play mode The Space Bar can also be used to toggle Play and Stop e Forward moves the Timeline cursor ahead to the beginning of the next SongBit Each additional click on this button moves the cursor ahead one SongBit at a time 58 SongFrame Reference e Loop Mode loops playback on the currently selected SongBit See the section on Loop Playback e QuickCapture enters QuickCapture mode See the section on QuickCapture for more information e Tempo Knob provides a convenient place to adjust the tempo of the entire song To change it click hold the left mouse button and drag down the screen for lower values and drag up the screen for higher values Recording Modes po J 7 i o B Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Eq ca Settings Default Song Settings SongFrame Settings Track Delay Compensation Internal MIDI audio Setup SongBit Measure 8 v E aun Recording Mode Record One SongBit At A Time w i Take Management Create New Takes Always A Perea ga Count In Measures 2 O Default Path C Users Scott Documents My So Browse Auto Save O Every The Global Settings dialog has 2 settings for Recording Modes Recording Mode sets SongFrame to record either one SongBit at a time or to record the entire song at once Since songwriting is such a song section oriented task you may wish to record only the current SongBit y
162. rument checkbox Click the Plug In drop down menu find the 4Front VSTi you want to use We set the chord track to use MIDI Channel 2 and the Melody MIDI track to use Channel 1 by default but you can change channels here if the VSTi you want to use requires a specific setting These plug in s have no settings but if you like what you hear you should consider purchasing the full 4Front TruePianos product at http www truepianos com Note SongFrame provides a tool to spread the sound of the chord notes in time for each chord played This is particularly handy if you are using a Guitar VSTi and want the chords to sound like strums Use the Note Spread By control under Setup gt Chord Playback Settings The numbers you see there are actually Ticks fractions of a beat where one tick in SongFrame is 1 960th of a beat 13 Writing Songs with SongFrame Quick Tour Creating a New Song When you first start SongFrame you ll see an interface that looks somewhat like a digital audio workstation recording sequencing program with some other windows present There are 3 main panes on the screen the Document Pane where you ll build up your song structure and record develop your song the Tools Pane the primary area where you ll look for songwriting help and the Transport The Document Pane contains 5 tracks these are in order from top to bottom the Chord Audio MIDI Melody Lyrics and Drums tracks The basic building block of a
163. rying to communicate with this Internet enabled location C Documents and Settings administrator My Documents quizmaker htn To let this application communicate with the Internet dick Settings You must restart the application after changing your settings To prevent this error message from displaying in the future Click the Settings button to launch the Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager show below Rettings Appendix cant load to Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager get Help ai 3 ji d GBeaQae eir Global Security Settings Some websites may access information from other sites using an older system of security This is usually harmless but it is possible that some sites could obtain unauthorized information using the older system Ahen a website attempts to use the older system to access information Always ask DO Always allow 9S Always deny Always trust files in these locations Edit locations Note The etting Man ager tnat yo See a fe is notan im age itis ine ACT stinn e Mananor iteolt the tahe tn coo difforant nanole and click the antinne ir Il j vanage h al Tt t Select Always allow Close all browser windows re select SongFrame s Help this should do the trick If no you may need to Choose Edit locations in the dialog box and add the C Program Files SongFrame directory LoopBe30 MIDI Loopback Driver In order to operate SongFrame requires a piec
164. s Only This section covers some advanced settings in SongFrame the Internal MIDI settings Most of you can skip to the next section 11 1 71 Melody Lyrics Notebook cna Settings Default Song Settings SongFrame Settings Track Delay Compensation Internal MIDI E Audio Setup Ca Chord MIDI Out MIDI and eae Setup MIDI Out Chord Playback Drum MIDI Out Settings SongFrame s Chord Melody MIDI and Drum tracks are actual MIDI Tracks behinds the scenes We utilize a MIDI Loopback Driver called LoopBe30 to have these tracks communicate with the SongFrame application When SongFrame starts up it by default tries to assign the tracks to these LoopBe30 internal ports e Chord Track 2 Internal MIDI e MIDI Melody Track 3 Internal MIDI e Drum Track 4 Internal MIDI Normally this information is as arcane as knowing what color your fuel injectors are inside your car s engine interesting yet completely useless information If you have lots of other MIDI ports installed on your computer you may get a warning message when SongFrame powers up telling you that some internal MIDI ports are unavailable and for you to go to the Internal MIDI tab to select some other ports Follow the instructions provided there If you do nothing at this point SongFrame will load just fine yet you ll never hear anything being played To remedy the situation go to the Global Settings gt Internal MIDI tab If you receive
165. s and progressions choose what moves you and simple drag them down to the chord track Want to change any chord at any time Use the Suggest tools and craft the perfect sound Like the chord tools SongFrame does not create melodies for you we provide the toolkit for you to focus your work Choose the vocal range of the singer you are writing for and the MIDI Piano roll display will shade that range Choose from almost 150 scales we did our homework and those notes will also highlight on the piano roll Like chords scales play when you click the Audition icon By now you are getting the them no push button karaoke generators instead an incredible array of musical tools placed before you and you decide how you ll use them The Drum Track provides a simple click track capability OR a very quick way to build a complete drum track to use in place of a click while developing your song SongFrame Writing Songs with SongFrame has drum patterns from over 500 actual songs Find your ideal drum track by genre meter keywords song form section verses choruses bridges etc We even include an innovate Pattern Search mode where you tell SongFrame to look for loops with a specific kick snare and or hi hat pattern When you find what you want just drag it onto the drum track SongFrame will play that pattern for the duration of that SongBit If you don t want to bother with that choose from 100 preset Drum Performances choose the genre
166. s from SongFrame Be sure to set the ProTools session file to the same Tempo as your SongFrame song as well to ensure the audio imported lines up correctly or make sure to Check Import Tempo in the Import MIDI dialog Load a new project file and click on File gt Import gt MIDI You should see all of these tracks appear Next import the SongFrame exported Audio file make sure your timeline marker in ProTools is on the first measure to be sure your Audio aligns with your MIDI SongFrame uses 44 1KHz 16 bit audio so make sure your project is set to accommodate this or use the Convert option in the Import Audio dialog And remember the drums are always mapped as General MIDI so be sure the VST or synth you use follows this mapping in order to hear the sounds properly 127 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 File Edit View Track Region Event AudioSuite Options Setup Window Help i 12 B 18 10 14 15 0 19 020 oz1 022 023 024 0o25 026 027 dzs o29 0o30 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 na 900000 1000000 1100000 1200000 1300000 1400000 1500000 1600000 I MIDI Default C major oe ga ge Qvere E QF amin A ce z Esa MIDI YST vst MIDI ST Drum YST i Drum YST s M lt me E play g DAW Import of SongFrame Files SONAR Create a new SONAR Project file and have at least one MIDI and Audio track
167. s is like clicking on each Track s Minimize button again to open them all up for viewing You can gain more room for the Track portion of the Document Pane by shrinking either the Song Structure Pane by clicking on the small triangle indicator on the gray bar that separates these two areas Click it again to restore the size We ll cover the various track functions and capabilities as well as the Tools that work with the Document Pane in the next sections 57 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 The Transport Transport The Transport is the control hub for recording and playback of your song The large time display shows the measure beat and tick 960 ticks per beat of the Timeline Cursor at all times The tempo of the current SongBit is displayed to the right of the Measure Beat Tick M B T counter To the left of the Tempo knob is a Meter Time Signature indicator showing the meter of the currently selected SongBit The Transport consists of the following controls e Record initiates Recording on the audio or MIDI track or both As a safety tracks need to be ARM s before you can record anything e Stop stops the playback or recording If you are auditioning a Progression or Drum Automatic pattern Stop also cuts those off The Space Bar can also be used to toggle Play and Stop e Rewind moves the Timeline cursor back to the beginning of the currently selected SongBit Each additional click on this button moves the cu
168. s provide definitions and translations of words from many languages and some editions offer additional information typically found in Thesauruses and lexicons Additionally the English Wiktionary includes Wikisaurus a category that serves as a thesaurus including lists of slang words 1 and the Simple English Wiktionary compiled using the Basic English subset of the English language Note you didn t pay anything for the ability to use this tool We put it in here strictly as a browser for Wiktionary without having to leave the application Some people will inevitably scream that we are charging for a free tool relax folks 84 SongFrame Reference Wikipedia The Wikipedia Tool takes the user to the Wikipedia site and presents the specially formatted information directly inside the Tool Pane i HER Aa A ey I Notebook Setup Biris word search Home eak _romard EA FI at Make a donation to Wikipedia and give the gift of knowledge Rhymes From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia gt ktionary Flat or flats may refer to Look up flat in Wiktionary Wiktionary the free Flatness wikfnn n dictionary gt Wikipedia a Flat music a symbol which denotes a lower pitch b Cameo Flat an apartment within a residential building Flat geometry the generalization of lines and planes in an n dimensional Euclidean space a a flat two dimensional toy soldier made of tin or plastic a Flats theatre flat pieces of theatr
169. s time Cut cuts the selection from the document Copy copies content from the document Paste pastes content to the document from a previous copy Clear clears the content of the entire SongBit selected it just clears the current take and not old takes Duplicate SongBit Duplicates the SongBit in its entirety to the Song Structure Pane See SongBits and SongBit Operations for more in depth discussion Delete Deletes selection Transpose Offers the user a choice to transpose the entire song or a selected SongBit Alternatively you can right click on any selected SongBit and see a Transpose choice as well there View Menu View X Tools Window Help Tools Ctrl L Transport Ctrl T Hide Tools Ctrl H Hide Song Structure Ctrl U 123 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 The View menu offers the following choices with keyboard shortcuts as shown above as well e Tools puts the focus on the Tools Pane e Transport puts the focus on the Transport e Hide Tools Show Tools allows the user to toggle between showing or not showing the Tools window e Hide Song Structure Show Song Structure allows the user to hide or show the Song Structure Pane useful for maximizing the Tracks area in the Document Pane Tools Window Tools Window Help Notebook Ctrl 1 Chords Ctrl 2 Melody Ctrl 3 Lyrics Ctrl 4 Drums Ctrl 5 Setup Ctrl 6 The Tools menu offers the following choices with keyboard shortcuts as shown abo
170. see how your lyrics flow and you can bring to the front alternate lyrics save in the various Takes to craft the perfect message and flow In addition you can change the font and size of the lyrics once in the lyrics track with the controls provided in the Track Controls area SongFrame Back Forward thorny skate Inresholg gate treasure state underrate water gate welfare state wicket gate 4 syllables absentee rate aloha state atomic weight attrition rate at any rate australian state battle born state cognitive state collection plate combining weight coyote state demodulate ecstatic state empire state evergreen state excursion rate figure of eight frederick the great grand canyon state green mountain state herod the great inflation rate installment rate interrelate irish free state junior lightweight nraan ctrait res ctrait Tanaris actata iaito tha araat Expert on Everything Werse Tine It s so great It s so great nt you get tired of bei TE co Your logic it s so great You re an expert on everything a legal You re an expert on everything ni int you tell that were jusi Opi You re an expert on everything Pon tificate cause Pick atopic and youte the man Ponttificate cause to tears Oryour grasp of the world out Pon tificate Such brill You e an expert on everything Dont bother You re an expert on everything Why do you argue with all ofyour there You re an expert on everything Such insight migh
171. shown Because they come from thousands of real songs we can assign 27 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 them musical genres eras as in when the songs were written what song section they may have been used in verse bridge etc and even whether they started or ended on the tonic or 5th of the key You decide the chord length of the progression and tell SongFrame to show you everything or just Rock progressions from the 70 s that start on the root of the scale it s your call Every progression in the tool has been transposed to the key you are writing in so you literally have thousands to choose from The default Key of these tools will be the key of the SongBit you are currently writing If you set the key at the start in the Global Song Settings and didn t touch it then this will be the key of each SongBit as well as the key that shows up in these tools But remember that modulation changing key at some point during the song is a terrific tool in your arsenal so don t be afraid to change that key setting and listen how progressions sound in context as you audition them Click on the Chord Progressions icon in the Chords menu to get to the chord progressions There are two main tools Filter and Color Progression Filter Mode Melody Chord Library Filter Color e EN Play Chord1 ri Chord3 ri Chord5 Chord6 Chord7 IA Chords eA F min Dadd4 All ES Chord A D C min C min7 F min7 C min7 CES Seas A A7 Emin7 7
172. st of the Emergency Broadcasting Sytem th NLY a test say hey he u Lyrics Data f 60 s Rock That Thing U Do Intro Drum Pattern ur atten OwwGe wwO_ gt AC Navigating the Document Pane Clicking on any SongBit icon on the left automatically repositions the timeline to bring that portion of the song into focus This makes it very simple to hop around and get to different parts of your song quickly There will always be a matching SongBit Timeline icon at the top of the track display which matches both the color and name of the SongBit your are currently focused on The M B T counter in the Transport will also automatically jump to that new location To move the Timeline Cursor just grab it and drag it to where you want it or even easier click on the timeline below the SongBit Timeline icon and the cursor will jump to that position Gain more room for the Track display by clicking on the small triangle on the separator line between the Song Structure Pane and the Track display area Also you can click on the Maximize icon in the upper right corner of the Document Pane and it will fill the screen completely Track height can be changed by clicking the minimize button in the upper right of each Track Control area or just grabbing and dragging the separator line between each track To restore the Tracks to their previous size just click on the Show All Tracks button at the bottom left of the Track display area Thi
173. t Confronted by knowledge Gleaned from everything that o tl Are you worried that we just wont Ora view that you just cant bear youve done As ai can hear 39 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Takes Good songwriting is craftsmanship and a change made to any aspect of your song during the writing process likely requires some adjustments to be made elsewhere such as a new lyric a darker chord progression or a different rhythm SongFrame allows you to keep and store as many versions of your work at the SongBit and Track level and get them back quickly This means for example that you can have say 5 different versions of a chord progression for the 1st Chorus stored away called Takes and quickly bring any one of them back into focus to hear in context with the rest of your song Each SongBit has 5 Tracks worth of information associated with it Chords Audio MIDI Melody Lyrics and Drums and each of these tracks in each different SongBit can have an unlimited number of takes OK there IS a limit the size of your hard drive Also see the section on SongBit Tracks and Takes Hierarchy so you understand how Take data is organized 1 2 I Earls The Take control resides on each Track Control area to the left side of the Track Take 1 is always the 1st Take and Takes are numbered sequentially if there are more than one Takes cannot be renamed but the SongBit s Notes window is a good place to keep track of
174. t be surprised of you get nothing in the carousel when you have say a Cb7add11 followed by a E 13b5b9 you ll just receive confirmation via a blank carousel that you are truly a songwriting pioneer in uncharted waters C and G in the key of C well now you re like the rest of us Also if there are no Chords to the left or right of your selected chord the Context Tool will use the root chord of the Key of the SongBit you are writing for 69 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 The Color tool allows you to find a chord replacement with the same root but a different chord type or modifier ta l Setup i Chord Library me Suggest 3 Chords Pa Chord aus Progressions Click on the Color tab at the upper left of the tool to get to the Color tool The root of the chord you selected on the Chord Track will automatically be present in the drop down menu you can over ride this anytime by choosing another root from the menu The color picker grid has been laid out with happy sounding chords on the left major triads and sad sounding chords minor triads on the right The top most row contains chords that are relatively stable this means that they are not usually pulling the listener to another chord as passing chords normally would The bottom row contains chords with note intervals that demand resolution to another chord sound these are passing or tense chords All 70 chord types are map
175. t icon to do this Click ARM on the Audio Track controls area and press the Record button Audio capture will begin How do record MIDI Make sure you have a SongBit in the SongBit type Pane and put the cursor on the beginning just click on the SongBit icon to do this Click ARM on the MIDI Melody Track controls area and press the Record button MIDI note capture will begin How do add drums Find a pattern in the Drum Build tool you like and click drag the pattern down and drop it on top of the Drum Track The cursor will turn into a icon showing that you re in the right place Songwriting Songwriting is the most fundamental means of musical expression and one of the most powerful It needs nothing more than an idea for some music and lyrics and perhaps a notepad if you don t have a perfect memory It is the act of expressing through words and music the most primal of human emotions When writing songs one is primarily concerned with self expression capturing the idea of the song before it fades from the ear The songwriter becomes focused on capturing the words that perfectly expresses her emotion or the music that breaks the heart or uplifts the spirit At that moment the moment of creation there is only the need to capture the musical idea there is no thought of notating it correctly ever try to read Paul McCartney s hand written notes or Beethoven s or of how it will be played by a symphony orchestra or h
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177. the Song document file Song Titles always evolve and we didn t want a previously discarded title being used as the thing that identifies the Song file 47 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 SongBits and SongBit Operations As mentioned earlier SongBits are the primary building block in SongFrame Each SongBit is a container for chord melody lyric and drum track content SongBits can be cut copied pasted deleted duplicated and you can also change one SongBit type into another There are 9 possible types of SongBits to choose from in the SongBit Type menu the names are abbreviated but here are the SongBit Types available Intro IN Verse VS PreChorus PC Chorus CH Bridge BR Solo SO Breakdown BD Ending EN Custom CU Verse OoucdG Ow The full name of each will appear as you hover your mouse over them Custom SongBits can be used for either capturing ideas quickly when you are unsure what that idea may turn into eventually or song section name not found as SongBit Type icons in SongFrame such as Interludes Spoken Word etc The QuickCapture mode makes use of the Custom SongBit type more on that later Simply select a SongBit type you d like to start working on and drag it up to the Song Structure pane SongBits can be rearranged by clicking dragging in the Song Structure pane Click here for a demo The typical workflow in writing with SongFrame is to create a new SongBit of a specifi
178. the device or soft synth being controlled Operation depends on the device or soft synth being controlled Operation depends on the device or soft synth being controlled Operation depends on the device or soft synth being controlled Operation depends on the device or soft synth being controlled Operation depends on the device or soft synth being controlled 155 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 156 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Undefined Undefined Undefined Undefined Undefined Undefined Undefined Undefined Bank Select Fine LSB Modulation Wheel Fine LSB Breath Control Fine LSB Undefined Foot Controller Fine LSB Portamento Time Fine LSB Data Entry Channel Volume Fine LSB Balance Fine LSB Undefined Pan Fine LSB Expression Effect Control 1 Effect Control 2 Switches between groups of sound banks in a synth or module Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter Adds more definition to the main controller value for this parameter A
179. u zoom in so more space is available between measures these diamonds will return to their original view chord symbols or fretboard diagrams If you want to move a chord that is displayed as a diamond same rules apply Just grab and drag for both chord symbols and fretboard diagrams the blue line appears to the left of the selected chord showing you where to drop it Viewing Chord Symbols If you are not a guitar player and are unmoved by Fretboard Diagrams then you can switch the Chord Track to display Chord Symbols using the Display control in the Track Controls area These appear as boldfaced labels at the top of the Chord Track as shown 112 SongFrame Reference 12 a a as 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 Emin7 G6 9 D6 9 A Emin G A E Chord Symbols Displayed in the Chord Track If you would like to conserve space for other tracks then you can shrink the Chord Track by clicking on the Track Minimize button in the upper right of the Track Controls area The Chord Symbols will still be viewable Bridge 001 Song Settings j 43 44 45 46 47 48 Emin7 G6 9 D6 9 A Emin G dpr n D unirono pr Chord playback patterns are an important capability of SongFrame and will help you be more inspired as you develop your song These are covered in are covered in the Chord Audition Settings section The Audio Track The Audio Track in SongFrame is similar to an audio track found in any recording application you may
180. uitar fretboard diagrams but you can bet this will be an area of expansion for the product in the future Choose what you want to display using the Track Display control on the Chord Track settings are to the left SongFrame currently limits you to one chord per beat 107 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 Global Song Settings c x32010 The chord track like the other tracks has a Track Control area to the left as shown below Click on these links to learn about Takes or VST Instruments Mute silences the Chord Track and Solo silences all tracks except the Chord Track The Track Minimize icon in the upper right is a handy way to gain display space for another track particularly the MIDI Track if you are not working on chords If it is already minimized click it again to restore the Chord Track to its original height Grabbing the separator line bottom of the track allows you to re size it any way you want 108 SongFrame Reference If you have assigned a plug in Instrument to the Chord Track clicking on the Virtual Instrument icon brings up the front panel user interface of that plug in Adjust it for the sound you want and X out of it when you are finished Auditioning Chords On The Chord Track To hear any chord already placed on the chord track just click the Fretboard Diagram or the Chord Symbol label you ll hear that chord play This is extremely useful when designing progressions or looking for substit
181. uld also get at this via CTRL ALT DEL Click on the Processes tab and quit any of the remaining processes that begin with SongFrame You should be able to restart now Not all VSTi s work with SongFrame yet but we are continually qualify these If this happens please let us know immediately so we can solve the issue on our end please EMAIL us at support tanageraudioworks com But you now have an issue t solve If the VST crashes SongFrame you ll get a box telling you SongFrameVSTHost exe h ceased working SongFrame itself will still be on screen but it will be unresponsive you try and exit SongFrame conventionally at this point you will get a Closing SongFrame message on the screen eternally Right click on the Windows Task Bar the bottom of your screen and select Task Manager Go to the Processes tab and e any process beginning with SongFrame there will likely be SongFrameUl exe and SongFrameServer exe left running Alternatively get to Task Manager via CTRL ALT DEL If you try and load SongFrame again at this point the settings file may be set to find and load that VST into the specific track again at launch not a good thing i hoses the application Go to the C Program Files SongFrame Settings folder and delete the SongFrameSettings XML file This way when you re launch SongFrame you ll avoid this situation but you ll have to set up your Audio and MIDI settings again Oh and don t choose that VST in the drop do
182. um patterns Cubase File Edit Project Audio MIDI Scores Media Transport Devices Window 1 Help EI MF 4 100 Mon8 48AM Qu ano Cubase 4 Project It Is What It Is MIDI e tel th ouch Fad Kb 2 0 e BENNSONTMARES E H Ht sa o Em lt lt gt gt gt 0 e DAW Import of SongFrame Files Reason Reason has no audio recording capabilities so only the MIDI Guide tracks from SongFrame can be imported into Reason In addition there is no support for conventional MIDI Markers in the Reason Sequencer so you ll only be able to get the tracks themselves Choose File gt Import MIDI File into a new Reason Project The 3 SongFrame MIDI Tracks will appear in the Reason Sequencer and by default a blank 130 SongFrame Reference Combinator instrument will be assigned to each in the rack Simply click on the Init Patch label on each Combinator and choose the instruments you wish the SongFrame tracks to be assigned to The Reason project tempo will be set for you as will the meter in each SongBit 131 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 we untitled TREBLE TREBLE TREBLE TREBLE TREBLE HH Release Resona Hammer Noise Presence Compression a Ham
183. ure loved them they enabled me to play around with song ideas all with a professional drummer behind me albeit with a frightening robotic voice providing the count in which always somehow made me rush And never had to yell at it to shut up while was trying to tune up too The SongFrame Automatic mode is our way of providing that no fuss functionality but on steroids since it figures out your song structure and applies the right drum style to each automatically Recording Audio SongFrame s Audio Track is just like that in any digital audio workstation recording or sequencing application albeit with no editing capabilities that may be associated with those tools other than Delete Its purpose is capturing ideas and versions of ideas in helping you develop a song It was not designed to replace the audio editing your DAW application provides We envision it mostly used to record vocals as you work out the melody and lyrical cadence but it certainly can be used for an accompaniment track of 35 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 your guitar for example It is aligned directly above the MIDI track and display an audio waveform like your DAW so you can use that display to see the timing of melody notes etc Like other tracks in SongFrame the Audio Track is SongBit specific meaning that audio is stored at the SongBit level and not the full track song as most DAWs are structured Audio tracks also support multiple Takes
184. ute chords when used in conjunction with the various Chord Tools you ll be able to create interesting and original progressions with unprecedented ease Placing Chords on the Chord Track There are several ways of getting chords on the chord track Text Entry Simply click just to the right of the beat that you want the chord to sound on and enter the name of the chord in the text box that appears Don t worry about finding the secret hidden text box SongFrame knows that s what you re thinking of doing and puts the text box where your mouse already is New Song Verse 001 ttings 1 2 3 4 Cmi neun Just be sure to position the mouse to the right of the beat you want but not into the next beat No big deal though if you find you entered it in the wrong place you can just grab it and drag it to where it is supposed to go A note you need to enter chord names as they are in the Chord Library We ve provided a quick table link here The basic structure of our chord names is Root Modifier with no spaces between We spell out minor chords as min for clarity sake and we use no modifier for major 109 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 chords When you hit Enter after typing the name you ll automatically see the chord name appear or the appropriate fretboard diagram If you see nothing it means you ve either entered the chord name wrong OR you ve typed a chord we don t have in the library Drag A Name F
185. variety of playback patterns but we are continually adding new ones to make your chord track playback with a variety of inspirational feels If you have a particular pattern you d like to see us add EMAIL us at wishlist tanageraudioworks com and describe it we ll try and get it in the product in our regular updates Notes Spread By Depending on the instrument sound you are using to hear the chord track you may want the chord notes to be spread out in time a bit with the highest spread setting sounding like the chords are being played as a slow strum on a guitar to a all notes at once piano chord stab sound The slider controls the note spread You can only set the spread globally for SongFrame Track Overview Track Basics SongFrame contains 5 tracks for building your song These are Track Chords MIDI Playback of Chords are entered via clicking and typing the Chord Data only name or dragged as fretboard diagrams or grid entries from a variety of chord selection tools 106 SongFrame Reference Audio Audio WAV format Audio is recorded via the audio interface 16 bits 44 1 KHz specified in the Setup Audio tool IDI Melody MIDI Record and MIDI is either recorded via an external MIDI Playback capable hardware or software tool via the port specified in the SetUp MIDI and VST Instruments MIDI Melody Track MIDI In dialog MIDI is played back via a MIDI hardware device internal Soft Synth or VST
186. ve as well equivalent to clicking on a Main Toolbar icon Notebook Opens the Notebook SongBit Browser tool window Chords opens the Chords Tool window Melody opens the Melody Tool window Lyrics opens the Lyrics Tool window Drums Opens the Drums Tool window Setup Opens the Setup Tools window Window Menu Lilna Hi New Song The Window menu offers the user the ability to move to any open song in SongFrame Users can have multiple songs open at one time Help Menu 124 SongFrame Reference Help Help Ctrl Community The Help menu offers the following choices with keyboard shortcuts as shown above as well e Help opens the online Help which includes this manual content fully hyperlinked and complete with animated demos of various functions e Community opens a web browser and takes the user to the Tanager AudioWorks Community wiki where discussions about SongFrame other Tanager products songwriting the origins of the universe why it is common to drive on a parkway and park on a driveway or any other related topics take place Exporting Audio and MIDI Exporting Audio and MIDI If you are a user of any recording or sequencing software you already know how monotonous it is to build up markers and the rough structure of the song you are recording Knowing how many measures the verse chorus etc is tedious enough and if you have ever tried to add markers for all your chord changes so it
187. white with the http already started simply type the URL of the site you d like to link to when you click that link word Once you do and hit ENTER you ve created a link when you hover the cursor over that word from now on it is a link to your desired site A DoS J hs n 2 DI Atanacer mea tes 1 Chords Melody Lyrics Notebook Setup Lyrics Pad My Lyrics Worksheet My Lyrics Worksheet 4 Line Sections a Rhymes Quick Links Re wiicionary Dictionary com Thesaurus com En edia com gt Rhyming Schemes Arial v 12 e fA Ekk 81 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 So if you were wondering if you could use your own favorite sites as quick links now you know how to do that Check the Appendix for our useful lyrics links section Note the space bar is commonly used across SongFrame as a shortcut to toggle Play and Stop on the Transport When you are in the LyricPad or any tool that is focused on text entry you need to use CTRL SPACE BAR to achieve the same thing After all how annoying would it be while typing your masterpiece lyrics if every time you hit the space bar SongFrame starting playing Very Rhymes The Rhymes tool in SongFrame uses your choice of Internet based rhyming dictionaries You ll always need an internet connection to access the various Lyric tool reference information Besides rhymes of various syllable lengths you also get rhymes phrases synonyms homo
188. who wish to send separate track data from the Chord MIDI Melody or Drum Track to a virtual port outside of SongFrame If you select one of these ports then you will not hear the tracks in SongFrame you will have had to set up another MIDI application such as a standalone software instrument to receive the data on the specific virtual in port and then you d hear the data being played by that instrument Using Plug In Instruments SongFrame can utilize many VST PC or AU Mac instruments to hear your chord melody or drum track sounds Not all VST or AU s will work with SongFrame but we are continually testing and qualifying the vast array of plug in s out there Let us know if your particular VSTi AU isn t working with SongFrame and we ll put it on our list of ones to work on EMAIL it to support tanageraudioworks com For Windows users we keep an up to date VST Plug In Compatibility guide on our website at http www tanageraudioworks com Datasheets Using VST Instruments With SongFra me pdf Please consult this to see which plug in s are qualified to operate with SongFrame Mac Users since AU instruments are always installed in the same Library folder you can skip this next step Your AU Instruments are already listed in the drop down menu when you click the Use Plug In checkbox Using VSTi s in Windows 100 SongFrame Reference q Notebook Setup pfo Settings Chord Track Drum Click Track Melody Midi
189. with A song s harmony the chord progression that rides behind the melody is inherently tied to the melody But there are many instances where the progression came first and the melody fell out of the interplay between the lyrical cadence and the chords being played The Progressions tool places thousands of progressions at your fingertips and allows you to audition them filter them by a variety of methods and ultimately drag them to your chord track for use as is or the inevitable tweaking process using the Library and Suggest tools Case law is fairly consistent on the topic of chord progressions by themselves not qualifying for copyright protection and research has shown that most popular music re use the same few hundred progressions over and over again Books upon books of chord progressions are available in your local music shop covering all sorts of musical styles and genres Many songwriting classes implore the student to start with an existing song and change it around to make it their own SongFrame doesn t tell you the songs the progressions came from the key of that song or even show you in which beats those chords were played on the timeline SongFrame only retains the relative chord types the original length of the progression in number of chords the era in which the song was written the genre of the music that it came from and the song form section in which it occurred In addition duplicates are removed from the search
190. wn again till we fix it You probably didn t click on the SongFrame s Drum Track icon yet to get to the front panel of EZ Drummer Lite when you do that you always have to check the Clo Window button first so the plug in begins loading its drum sounds Wait till all the 139 SongFrame Users Guide Build 9 0 VST but can t hear anything On launch SongFrame never stops searching for VST Instruments the warning message never goes away Every time try and load Help in Internet Explorer get some Active X warning like am some sort of crazed intruder to my own computer can t seem to load the Help or get a funky security warning when do Sheesh hope you are reading the PDF of the manual if this is your issue sort of a circular reference if you are consulting Help that you 140 sounds are loaded before trying to play the drum track in SongFrame The Settings file is likely corrupt and the VST path setting is damaged preventing SongFrame from ever finding anything it is looking for SongFrame saves its settings when it shuts down and we ve seen cases where for whatever reason this file becom damaged The solution is simple Quit SongFrame In Windows Explorer find the SongFrameSettings XML file under the C Program Files SongFrame Settings directory and delete it When you restart SongFrame you ll need to set up the audio MIDI VST folders etc but you should se
191. y complicated E Music Publishers A amp R people and record companies are universally evil beware And finally F Making a demo and recording your song So worth the 22 bought all of these looking for the Answer but what do now know after reading them completely Bupkis Fact you don t need a book or even a piece of software to write a song But tools such as these can be used to improve your songwriting by providing insight on different ways to approach the task or by opening your eyes to important music theory tools or methods by which you can make your songs more interesting Brian Wilson certainly didn t require a laptop and the latest recording technology to create his tremendous body of work and you probably don t either But you just might take your creations to another level using some of the tremendously powerful tools available today and that in itself is probably worth the investment Navigation in SongFrame The table below gives a few handy navigation tips and keyboard shortcuts All keyboard shortcuts are shown in the various menus throughout SongFrame Keystroke Action Home key Selects the first SongBit in your song and positions the mY meine ais reponse End Key Selects the last SongBit in your song and positions the cursor at the end of the last measure Tab key Selects the next SongBit and positions the timeline at the start of it Similar to clicking the FWD button on the Transport ALT TAB Selects the
192. ype Pane so you have more room to arrange your SongBits Click the triangle again to restore your windows Working with SongBits As mentioned before SongBits are the primary container for your song data All track data takes etc are store inside SongBits so you ll spend a significant amount of time manipulating them For starters click on a SongBit to select it a red outline appears around a selected SongBit and click on the green ball in the upper left corder to see an expanded view of the SongBit The red outline is present on a selected expanded SongBit as well You will use the expanded SongBit view to change aspects of your song specific to that song section including setting a different key modulation changing the way the Chord Track plays changing the scale time signature meter and Tempo all pertaining to just that SongBit SongBits can contain notes that you can write to yourself or a collaborator these notes appear in your Notebook so you can remember things about it later on 54 SongFrame Reference When you first drag a SongBit up to the Song Structure Pane the key will be set to whatever you designated as the Global Song Setting in the Song Settings menu e SongBit Name clicking on this allows you to rename your SongBit The default name of the SongBit will always be the Type plus a 3 digit number 001 002 003 etc The name of the SongBit appears at the top of the Track display in icon form matchin

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