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Canonic Utilities Plug-in

 

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Choose Plug-ins > Scoring and Arranging > Canonic Utilities.

What it does

The Canonic Utilities plug-in transforms the selected region using inversion, retrograde, transposition or a combination of the above.

Select Diatonic Mirror Inversion from the drop-down menu to invert the selected region of music based on a pivot note selected in the Mirror Inversion Options dialog box. When Diatonic Mirror Inversion is selected the notes will change to their diatonic inversion. For example, if you have the note B in the key of C, and pivot around the note C the B will be inverted to D (rather than a Db as in Chromatic Mirror Inversion). Please note that if you select a non-diatonic note as your pivot point with the Diatonic Mirror Inversion selected, the pivot note used will be the nearest diatonic note instead of the selected non-diatonic note. Select the Apply button to apply your inversion settings to the selected region.

Select Chromatic Mirror Inversion from the drop-down menu to invert the selected region of music based on a pivot note selected in the Mirror Inversion Options dialog box. When Chromatic Mirror Inversion is selected you are free to select any note to act as the pivot note. The selected region of music will then be inverted based on the chromatic (major or minor) interval between the pivot note and the note to be inverted. Select the check box the Apply button to apply your inversion settings to the selected region.

Select Chord Inversion Up or Chord Inversion Down to invert chords up or down in the selected region. In selecting Chord Inversion Up, the bottom note of the chord is moved to the top of the chord, creating the next inversion. If you select Chord Inversion Down, the top note of the chord is moved to the bottom of the chord, again creating a new inversion.

Select Transpose Diatonic from the drop-down menu to transpose the selected region up or down the selected number of lines and spaces ignoring whole and half steps in the key signature.

Select Transpose Chromatic from the drop-down menu to transpose the selected region up or down the selected interval taking into account half and whole steps.

Select Transpose Semitones from the drop-down menu to transpose the selected region with the specified numeric interval (0-11) selected in Transposition Options.

Mirror Inversion Options

Transposition Options

Retrograde Options

 

 

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