Quick Start - AaronDavidNewman/Smoosic GitHub Wiki

Welcome to Smoosic

Smoosic was designed to allow you to enter music as fast as you can type, once you learn some basic commands and patterns. While music can be entered in multiple ways, the fastest/easiest way to create or edit in Smoosic is to use some basic keyboard shortcuts.

Entering and changing notes

Letter Notes

Chromatics and Octaves

Chords

Rests

Changing note duration

Changing duration is a little different in Smoosic than other programs. Rather than selecting a duration (quarter note, etc.), you change (increase/decrease) the duration of existing notes.

Note Duration - notes and dots

Note Duration - tuplets

Selections

Many operations in Smoosic act on the current selection. Selections can be on music, modifiers (things like slurs that affect the music) or text.

Selections- notes

Selections- modifiers

Selections- non-selectable modifiers

Selections - slash menus

Stems and Beams

Stem direction

Beam Groups

Adding and deleting Music

Add and delete Measures

Add and delete voices