Classical Editor

PlayerPRO's main editor is a traditional musical score editor. This format is unusual in music editors, even though it is the most logical and the easiest to use. If you are a musician and you don't understand much about computers, you can create the music the way you know best, and if you're a computer guru, it makes a useful additional tool and a way to share your music with others.

The editor shows each track from top to bottom, and the different patterns go from left to right. A pattern is equal to about four measures, and each track is one note being played at a time.

Different instruments can be assigned to each note in each track, or you can use the same instrument many times to make complex chord arrangements.

Digital Editor

The digital editor is a more sophisticated method of editing music files. It will be familiar to users of traditional Amiga tracker programs, as it uses a similar structure.

The digital editor has several lines. Each line represents a certain fraction of a pattern (1/64th, as each pattern has 64 partitions). You can change the note value and different parameters in each of the five subcolumns, and each main column represents a track, much as the different lines in the score in the classical editor did.

The five subcolumns for each track are: Instrument, Musical Note, Effect Setting, Effect Argument, and Volume. Each of these settings can be changed to equal the appropriate settings for a .MOD file or a file with similar options. An advanced user can use this editor to set every detail of their music and achieve fabulous effects.

Box Editor

The box editor resembles another style of music editor, common on the computer, called the "piano roll" format. This editor has small boxes representing the various notes and durations.

In this mode, you can easily see which notes are being played simultaneously and any patterns or trends in the melody. This can also be very convenient for laying out drum sounds, etc, as you can see the instrument number being played in each block.

Wave Preview

The wave preview mode is as its name implies. It shows you a preview of your song in wave format. This means that each track's raw musical sound wave can be viewed. While this doesn't have as much practical value as the other editors, it can be useful for an audio professional, and it can be a fun way to look at your music.

In the waveform preview, each track's wave is shown, with the patterns advancing from left to right and the tracks counting from top to bottom. Therefore, you can see the contribution that each instrument makes to the melody.

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