ComposerFlex help

ComposerFlex composes new piano music and plays it for you. Choose a preset, such as Power Ballad, Ragtime or Boogie Woogie, and click Start. ComposerFlex writes a new song of that kind and plays it as it goes. Click Start again and you get another new song. When you hear one you like, you can keep it and play it again whenever you want.

A preset works like a recipe: it's a list of ingredients that a song is made from, such as the tempo, the scale, the form of the song, the tunes, the left hand, the chords, and the touches that shape how it's played. You can change any ingredient, add or remove them, or let ComposerFlex put together a new list for you.

ComposerFlex writes the music, and a piano plays it. ComposerFlex comes with PianoFlex Player, a piano that plays its songs, so you don't need anything else. It can also play on PianoFlex, if you have it, or on another instrument through MIDI.

Contents

• Getting started: your first song.
• The window: what each part of the screen does.
• Ingredients: the list a song is made from, and how to change it.
• Presets: choosing a preset, and saving your own.
• Songs and seeds: keeping a song you like and playing it again.
• Where the sound goes: PianoFlex Player, PianoFlex, or another instrument.
• If something doesn't work
• Demo mode and your license
• Keys

Help inside ComposerFlex

• The gray line at the bottom of the window explains the control you're on.
• The yellow line above it tells you what just happened, or why something didn't work.
• Click the Help tab (or press F1) for the list of keys, the About box, and a button that opens this guide.