With the visual score, it’s possible to paint a picture of your ideas about sounds, moods, atmosphere and music. It’s an aid to help you find and record the right sound and music.
You can print the visual score or make a PDF.
Symbols
The horizontal position of the symbols indicates time, vertical pitch, or sound intensity. Each symbol does not correspond to a particular sound. Instead, the score is a sketch, a visual trigger for the sounds you want to create.
Like notes on a sheet of music, each line, dot, shape, and colour has a personal meaning and symbolises what you want to record, and where to place it.
Colour
The colour drop-down menu is used to select a colour for each symbol. The menu can be found by clicking the arrow symbol close to the centre of the green menu bar. Once selected, all the symbols that you draw will be in that colour.
Drawing shapes
All shapes can be drawn using simple mouse movements:
Quick mouse click
This draws a small circle.
Long mouse click
This draws a large circle. The longer you hold the mouse button, the bigger the circle grows. It’s like ink flowing out of a pen.
Short mouse click and drag quickly
This action draws a circle with a tail. Depending which way you drag the mouse, the tail can be drawn to the left, to the right, upwards or downwards.
Long click and drag
As soon as the circle begins to fill with ink, you can create a teardrop shape as you drag the mouse to the left or to the right.
Long click-wait-drag-wait
If you don’t release the mouse, a tail will grow. Depending on how long you keep pressing the mouse, this will create either a thick straight line or a drop with a thick round tail.
The last symbol that you entered can always be removed by pressing the delete key on your keyboard. The other symbols can also be moved or deleted after you select them.
Creating symbols with your mouse is easier in practice than it seems in this text – try to see your mouse as a pen or airbrush.