Intro

The help system inside the program is comprehensive and can be used to discover features using tooltips.

Fugorama is designed to be used with a mouse.

Keyboard shortcuts can be used to quickly perform wanted action.

Navigation

Use the mouse WHEEL to move in time

Optionally hold

• SHIFT - to scroll pitch

• CTRL -  to zoom time

• CTRL + ALT - to zoom pitch

Notes & atoms

In Fugorama, notes are contained inside atoms.

Atoms can additionally contain other atoms.

An atom's name indicates the relationship in the hierarchy of atoms.

For example: "ABC_XYZ" is the child of "ABC".

By default, new notes are automatically added to cloned atoms as well as child atoms.

If OVERRIDE_MODE is on, they will also be added to the parent atoms.

Voices

Fugorama supports the usage of up to 15 regular + 4 special-purpose voices.

Voice 10 is reserved for drums, voice -1 for tempo, voice 0 for time signature, and voice 17 for scale pattern.

Every regular voice can be linked or layered with other regular voices:

• Linked means that a change in one voice's instrument automatically changes the instrument in the linked voice. The shortcut is MMB (Middle Mouse Button).

• Layered means that one voice instrument is combined with a layered voice instrument to produce a more complex sound. The shortcut is CTRL + MMB.

Voices can be reordered by dragging them with the LMB (Left Mouse Button).

The voice number of a note can be mapped to another voice number by right-clicking a note and selecting MAP_TO -> X.

Effects

Volume

Volume can be changed by:

• drawing on the graph editor available in the note's properties.

• using VOLUME_TOOL (V) and hovering a mouse over a note while holding desired volume key (0..9).

• using PAINT_TOOL

Pitch band

A pitch band can be produced by drawing on the graph editor (located in the note's properties).

Portamento

Portamento can be accomplished by selecting affected notes and pressing the P key (ALT + P to unset).

Tempo acceleration

Tempo can gradually be accelerated by turning ON the "Next is linear" checkbox in the tempo note's properties.

For fugue lovers

• Commands INVERT_MIDI and INVERT_TIME are accessible by atom and note context menu.

• Linked notes are outlined in green color.

• UNLINK-ing a note or an atom from a parent implies breaking the relationship in the name hierarchy.

• FIND_PATTERN searches the composition to find occurrences of the selected melody even if it's inverted or modified by a semitone.

• The scale property of an atom can be changed to make it longer or shorter (default = 1.0)