Menus

Menu Practice

Next lesson the same as next lesson
Choose exercise Choose exercise:

* note in the staff -to- note name, vertical (static)

* note in the staff -to- note name, horizontal (game)new feature

Click here to see comparison between horizontal and vertical exercises

* piano keyboard key -to- note name fixme

This is a not finished feature, enabled only if you complied with --enable-cvsfeatures option. For now, you can practice keys' names and run a rough fixed-length test (without after-test comments etc.).

* note name -to- piano keyboard key fixme

This is a not finished feature, enabled only if you complied with --enable-cvsfeatures option. For now, you can practice keys' names but test doesn't run yet.

In future there should be many new exercises - see TODO section of this manual.
Choose clef the same as choose clef
Start/Stop the same as start/stop
Quit exits program; clicking here saves current program state in ~/.klearnnotes2_d/

Menu Options

Test length factorchoose test length factor - a number of questions in one test as a percent of a default test length (which is bigger for lessons with more testnotes and smaller for fewer testnotes).

  • 100=default length

  • 50= tests 2 times shorter than default

  • 200= tests 2 times longer than default

Choose level the same as choose level
Choose notation

Choose notes naming.

There are two conventions for how to call a note between 'A' and 'C': in England and US this note is called 'B'; in Germany (and most continental Europe) this note is called 'H'; this menuitem allows you to choose your convention. The third option is Solfeggio (Do-Re-Mi) notes naming.

German notationGerman notation

select German notation (GA-H-CD); German notation

English notationEnglish notation

select English notation (GA-B-CD); English notation

Solfeggio notationSolfeggio notationnew feature

select Solfeggio notation (Do-Re-Mi); Solfeggio notation

remark: to make it even more confusing, letter 'B' IS used in German notation :( - it denotes 'H flat'

Voice input / voice input on/off the same as voice is ON sound is OFF
Voice input / microphone setup

This opens a 'Microphone calibration' - a wizard dialog which will guide you step-by-step through the initial microphone setup procedure.

Note, that on some sound cards mic setup does not recognize igain. You can still fine-tune this with some other programs (e.g. kmix). Hint: igain values about 10% are reasonable.

Voice input / Speaker model setup Choose this to record sound samples with which you will 'click' on namebuttons and steer this program.
Sound on/off the same as sound is ON sound is OFF
Sound setup...

opens sound setup window;

sound settings

you can change here MIDI options, sounds' lengths, midi patches ("instruments"), etc.; in particular you can change here MIDI sound system:

  • OSS/Free

  • timiditynew feature

    this one should work on every single system (provided you install timidity)

  • OSS/tse3fixme

    this is for tests of tse3 library only - people with OSS should use native OSS/Free, because it is better tested and more reliable; a bit experimental (see below)

  • ALSA/tse3new featurefixme

    you need tse3 library to use this option; a bit experimental (see below)

  • aRts/tse3new featurefixme

    you need tse3 library to use this option; a bit experimental (see below)

Note: midi output based on tse3 library is reported to work for some people and for others not; apparently we are missing something; the issue will be further investigated. For now, if your system is based on ALSA you may try if ALSA/tse3 works for you and if it doesn't - use timidity (which will work for sure, but it uses a lot of your processor power when it runs).

For details of other options and suggestions see "What Is This?" tags what's that? in this window

Save options

saves program status to ~/.klearnnotes2_d/ ;

remark: options are saved on exit anyway; therefore, probably the only use for this menuitem is to save state before experimenting with sound/lessons etc. ; if you do something you want to reverse, just choose "Restore options" from options menu (BEFORE exiting the program)

Restore options

restore program status from ~/.klearnnotes2_d/ ; use this options if you want to start over from the program state in which it started this time or last saved (for example in case you mixed up some sound settings)

IMPORTANT: program state is saved on exit! if you really mix something up starting over would not help! to restore "factory defaults" ;) delete your ~/.klearnnotes2_d/klearnnotes2_config file