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Left button selects one of the 17 families of musical instruments available:

Right button selects one of the 8 instruments associated with that family of musical instruments.

Random instruments works differently from the other. It has only two options:

• Instrument mode, which selects randomly one of the 128 instruments available
• Crazy mode, where instrument continuously changes with every note.

Some instruments like drums and basses may not sound quite right with the phone small speakers. Listen to with headphones or, even better, connect your phone to your stereo.

The Drum Kit button lets you choose from 8 different drum types grouped by types of music:

With the Styles button you can choose from 8 different rhythms, depending on the selected Drum Kit.

With the Variation button you can set the number of bars for a variation to happen in the chosen rhythm.

Circle On/Off controls enable and disable the sound of the melody, rhythm and overall volume

Click on Volume label opens a pop-up window where you can adjust the volume of the melody or rhythm independently.

When you save the Midi File of the song, the selected volumes for melody and rhythm will be retained.

Presets button lets you select a range of configurations created by Composer as well as the adjustments that you created and saved. When clicked, the list with all the saved presets is displayed.

A preset stores a particular Composer settings, designed to achieve a particular musical style

A long press on a preset and a menu appears that allows you to delete it.

Composer comes with a preconfigured list of 21 presets. Use it as a start point for making your own presets.

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Tempo range spans from 15 bpm (where a 4 parts bar lasts 16 seconds) to 300 bpm (where a 4 parts bar takes less than a second)

Slide your finger on the highlighted area to the right (higher tune) or to the left (lower tune) or click on the ends of the keyboard to raise or to lower the tune.

Some instruments, due to their nature, may stop sounding in the highest or lowest zones.

The usual Play, Pause and Stop controls. Clicking on the progress bar, you go on ahead or rewind the playback of the composition.

The name that appears is the name of your song, depending on whether it has been loaded from a preset or saved with a name chosen by you.

The timer tells you the chosen duration and the playback time.

Settings button opens the Settings screen where you can modify all the parameters used in the composition, which are detailed below, on Settings screen.

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The Recompose button composes a new song using the current settings.

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Pressing the Share button, Composer displays a list of apps installed on your own device (Email, WhatsApp, SMS, etc.) for sharing the music you just composed.

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Save button opens a popup window where you can select the file type you want to save. You can choose between preset or midi file.

The Midi File format saves an exact copy of your melody keeping the tempo, rhythm and instrument information. A Midi File can be played in all kind of digital players and sequencers.

Preset format stores all the configuration you have at that moment, tempo, instrument, rhythm and all the parameters in settings screen, which does not mean that different melodies created with the same preset, will be exactly the same melody. Composer, due to its random character, creates different tunes, although you set the same parameters.

To keep an exact copy of your melody in order to reproduce it later, use the Midi file format. Remember that every time you open a preset or enter the Settings screen, Composer creates a new melody replacing the one you were working with.

Saved midi files can be found in your device memory in the path:

Version Pro: Music/Composer/
Version lite: Music/Composer lite/

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Pressing the Home button opens a browser that takes you to this online tutorial.

The base note, the tune, of the composition. You can use any of the 12 notes of the scale.

An octave consists of 12 consecutive notes (from C to C, for example). Composer uses a maximum of 7 octaves (84 notes). The portion of the keyboard is chosen randomly, but you can raise or lower the general tone of the melody on the Main screen with the keyboard.

The default is 3 octaves.

Some instruments, due to their own nature, may stop sounding in the highest or lowest zones.

Values between 1 and 7 octaves.

In their minimum values long-term have a preference, creating melodies with few notes, which may be more appropriate for intimate, romantic or contemplative music.

At their peak, short-term notes have a preference, resulting in more dynamic and more notes per second, which may be more appropriate for action.

Except at the extreme values, the duration of the notes is not uniform throughout the composition.

Some instruments, such as precussion, pianos and guitars do it right with shorter notes (high density). Other instruments such as violin, flute or organ do it better with long notes (low density).

The random nature of Composer produces more varied and interesting rhythmic figures.

Values between 1 and 100.

In their threshold levels, the melody tends to follow the same direction up or down for as long as possible, depending on the chosen number of octaves.

At their peak, changes direction, up and down constantly.

Values between 1 and 10.

At its minimum, the notes of the melodic line have not big jumps in tone, creating a more simple and predictable melody. For example, a C will be followed by a D or an E.

At their peak the jumps in tone between the notes are more pronounced, producing more complex melodies, but also more interesting effects.

With values close to 1, the notes of the melody tend to be tonally near each other.

With values close to 100 jumps between notes are very marked.

Values between 1 and 100.

The maximum duration is 59 minutes and 59 seconds and the minimum is set to 3 seconds.

You can select minutes or seconds by clicking on it.

Limited to 2 minutes and 59 seconds in the lite version

By clicking on each control, a set of notes appear explaining visually their function. Due to the random character of Composer, these notes do not represent the current composition, but the type of control exercised.

Base Note, Style and Number of Octaves do represent the actual values chosen. You can change the chosen octave by clicking on the top or bottom of the staves.

The Styles button appears with the name of the selected style. The styles change the character of your compositions by applying different scales, each with its own characteristics: joy, mystery, melancholy, etc.

Experience with the 24 styles provided by Composer.

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Clicking on Create button, Composer creates a new melody and opens the Main screen.

Depending on the length chosen, Composer may take a few seconds to compose the melody.