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Often I have a melody and want to add pitches in distance of one octave above each existing pitch.
What would be the easiest way to do that ?
Currently it is quite tedious for me, because I cannot just select all notes, copy all, place the cursor to the start of the first note, and paste the notes. When I do that, all notes are placed quite arbitray in the phrase window.
Maybe this is a hidden feature request: It would be highly desireable if you could add an interval to each selected note with one command. Not only octaves, but also thirds,...It could be in the "Edit" menu -> submenu -> "Add intervals" --> one of these values [second, thrid, fourth , fifth,....octave ]
Sun, 2015-03-01 - 13:48 Permalink
Ok, then another idea: After duplicating the instrument you can select the complete figure of that duplicated instrument (with Ctrl A) and then enter "12" at the input field "Chromatic" of the parameter inspector of the parameter Figure. Then select both instruments (with Ctrl key) and merge them (command Phrase >> Merge). After this you have one instrument with the original and the transposed figure.
The command Merge is only available at Synfire Pro, though.
Sun, 2015-03-01 - 20:55 Permalink
You can't reliably add intervals to symbols by transposing them. In many scales 7 steps are an octave, but there are many other scales with less or more steps. The scale can potentially change with every chord.
As juergen said, you can add a chromatic alteration to a symbol by editing its 'Chromatic' portion, though. Each symbol has a diatonic and a chromatic component (see inspector). Setting the chrontaic component to 12 or -12 will transpose by an octave.
Multi-select all desired symbols and enter 12 into their chromatic field on the inspector.
Mon, 2015-03-02 - 18:01 Permalink
Maybe I was mistaken: I don't want to transpose exsisting notes, my goal is to add a *copy* of each note symbol above each source symbol, each copy with the same interval (whatever it is).
Because the problem is as mentioned above: If I multiselct all, copy & paste them, their relative distances (vertical as well as horizontal) are gone. It's like they are shuffled before pasting.
If pasteing would work as expected, it would bean easy task to just transpose the selected notes (the copies) with arrow up / down keys.