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Click on the note and drag it up two
semitones to A3. Play the file and listen to
the melodic change.
12. Select the Scissors tool and click on the A3
note at about the 8.3 second point (at the
pronounced pitch peak) to cut it into two
notes.
13. Select the Arrow tool again and drag the
first of these two notes back down to G3.
Play the file and listen to the result.
14. To create a smoother transition between
the G3 and A3 notes, move the Arrow
tool cursor over the left end of the A3 note
so that the cursor turns into the length
adjustment cursor (little horizontal left-
and-right arrows). Drag the left end of the
note about a 1/10 of a second to the right
to open a transition between it and the
previous note. It should look something
like this:
Note the shape of the green output curve and
play the file.
You can continue to adjust the left A3 note’s
end point and/or its Retune Speed until you get
exactly the transition you desire.
NOTE: You can also use the Curve
tool to draw an arbitrary transition
between any two notes.
Finally, we’ll look at why using the chromatic
scale can be a problem for particularly
troublesome performances, along with another
way to deal with the problem.
15. Use the Zoom tool focus on the words
“are blue.”
16. Set the Key and Scale to G Chromatic.
17. Select the I-Beam tool and highlight the
range of the words “are blue” (from about
12.5 seconds to 17 seconds). For maximum
effect, set Number of Note Objects to a
least 50.
18. Click Make Notes:
Yikes! Since much of the word “blue”
is so sharp that it’s closer to D#3 than to
the intended D3, A lot of the Note objects
end up on D#3. Changing the Number of
Note Objects setting to see its effect can
be quite educational here, but no setting
will give us what we really want, which is
“blue” as one note on D3.
19. One way to fix this would be to manually
drag each note segment from D#3 to
D3, but that would be annoyingly fiddly
and time-consuming. Instead, use the
Arrow tool to drag the right end of any of
the note segments already on D3 to the
end of “blue” (just shy of 17 seconds).
Then drag the left end of that same note
to the beginning of “blue” (at about 13.3
seconds). All of the unwanted D#3s are
overwritten and you end up with one
correct note on D3: