Composition/Arranging Tools

[Geneticus]

I was playing on my acoustic and wanted to remember what I was playing so i wouldn't forget it later.  Not having much knowledge of Theory, when I would just turn a recorder on I would have trouble reproducing the exact fingering for chord variations to match to the recording later.  I put a sequence together in OS, which was much easier to reconstruct back on an actual guitar, but I noticed a few things that make it hard to use for composition for a longer track. So here are some suggestions grouped into this type of use/task. 

•  Insert/remove steps/measures at clicked location - cut the composition and shift everything to the right by x number of steps. If you start with an outline (intro, verse, chorus, finale), as a composition increases in complexity and length it becomes increasingly more difficult to extend earlier parts. 
  
• Custom note line, text over steps or both - a note at the top line that is a silent instrument and allows text to be added with simple left, right, center alignment. Basically for marking song layouts (Intro, chorus, break, etc.) or indicating a specific instrument (Fender Strat vs. Les Paul) or effect loop for non-midi play.
  

[pseudoname]

get musescore, it has what you want, and your last suggestion isn't appropriate for this site. the first one: try ctrl/alt + home/end

[fox]

I was playing on my acoustic and wanted to remember what I was playing so i wouldn't forget it later.  Not having much knowledge of Theory, when I would just turn a recorder on I would have trouble reproducing the exact fingering for chord variations to match to the recording later.  I put a sequence together in OS, which was much easier to reconstruct back on an actual guitar, but I noticed a few things that make it hard to use for composition for a longer track. So here are some suggestions grouped into this type of use/task. 

•  Insert/remove steps/measures at clicked location - cut the composition and shift everything to the right by x number of steps. If you start with an outline (intro, verse, chorus, finale), as a composition increases in complexity and length it becomes increasingly more difficult to extend earlier parts. 
  
• Custom note line, text over steps or both - a note at the top line that is a silent instrument and allows text to be added with simple left, right, center alignment. Basically for marking song layouts (Intro, chorus, break, etc.) or indicating a specific instrument (Fender Strat vs. Les Paul) or effect loop for non-midi play.
  

There is a keyboard shortcut command to shift around a selection of notes. Hold CTRL and press any of the arrow keys to step by 1 grid space or hold SHIFT+CTRL to step by measures/octaves.

There is a feature planned to allow text to popup at a certain time in a sequence using the marker interface. I don't know when this will be implemented but it is currently in development.

Hope this helps!

[emekat]

Yea, don't listen to pseudo, he thinks he knows everything.

There are TONS of keyboard shortcuts, so many that I can't be bothered to remember/use all of them. Have a look.

https://sites.google.com/view/lucentguid...-shortcuts

There may even be a few more than that, idunno.

[pseudoname]

that hurt lmao