Fragments 

Fragments are short lengths of tune, usually between one and 8 bars long, which can be joined together to create a longer piece of music.  Fragments are accumulated into a special collection in memory, so that they may be used on the Composing Board .  They are represented on the composing board by a series of alphabetic icons in the panels on the bottom of the screen. 

From the main MENU, you can go to  Create -> Compositions -> Composing Tools Flowchart to see 6 possible ways of creating fragments for use on the composing board.. All of these screens have a purple button for saving a fragment into the collection.

These 6 ways of generating a fragment are described below.

  1. Write music on the staff with a mouse, using MENU Edit -> Staff Notation View.
  2. Computer-generate a tune and/or rhythmic patter, and save as a fragment, using  MENU Create -> Compositions  -> Tune and rhythmic pattern generator.
  3. Generate scale and arpeggio passages, and save as a fragment, using MENU Create -> Scales and Passages -> Scales and arpeggios.
  4. Extract a fragment from an existing tune, using  MENU  Create -> Compositions -> Bulk changes to tunes, and extract fragments.
  5. Load a tune from the database, as a fragment, using MENU  File -> Load Musical Discovery File,  then place a tick in the Store as a fragment  checkbox, then select your tune from the drop-down box.
  6. Import a tune from an externally generated MIDI file, and save as a fragment,  using MENU File -> Import a MIDI file.

The composing board can be opened from the menu MENU Create -> Compositions -> Composing board for assembling compositions.