RMCA Pro' s main menu
- FILE Main
- ...
- Practice - Create simple songs of 2 keys - while playing, start the next song with F11
- Create Song ... - Let RMCA create a song with matching chords
- Random autoplay - Randomly create and play songs
- New - Create measures for
chords
- Clear - Clear chords and
melody
- Open - F11 - Load
arrangement
- Save - F12 - Save current
arrangement
- Save as ... - Save current
arrangement as ...
- Import MIDI ... - Load
Standard MIDI file
- Export MIDI ... - Save
current arrangement or midifile as a Standard MIDI file
- Add Melody-Track - Add
recorded track to current midifile
- Shuffle playback - Shuffle playback arrangements within a selected folder
- Play - F10 - Play
arrangement or midifile
- Stop - F10 - Stop playing
...
- Record - F9 - Record new
chords or melody
- Step Record - Enter chords
step by step
- Play & Over&write -
Play and enter chords
- Punch in - Start recording
at a specified start measure
- Exit - Exit program
- STYLE Main
- ...
- Open ... - Load style
- Save - Save current style
- Save as ... - Save current
style as ...
- Record ... - Record via
'MIDI in' from an external sequencer or arranger
- Capture ... - Set loops
and record via 'MIDI in' from an external arranger
- Delete - Clear current
style
- Restore - Restore last
style parts
- Style-Mode - Select song
mode or style mode
- Sync. Start - Slave mode -
delayed play start
- Play Parts - Play style
parts
- Intro
- Basic
- Extended
- Ending
- Fill in Basic
- Fill in Extended
- To Extended
- To Basic
- Style-Manager ... - Load
and organize styles using drag-and-drop
- Style-Playlist ... - Open
Style-Playlist and search within it for styles
- Style-Creator ... - Get
perfect styles of loaded or recorded MIDI songs
- Style-Events ... - Change
notes and style-part settings
- Style-Packages ... - Download and install all styles of packages no. 01 - no. 20
- MELODY Main
- ...
- Record - Record melody
- Play - Play or mute melody
- Delete - Clear current
melody
- Restore - Restore original
melody
- Notes ... - Change notes
and other melody settings
- Quantize - Quantize melody
- 1/32 swing
- 1/32
- 1/16 swing
- 1/16
- 1/8 swing
- 1/8
- None
- Humanize
- Melody Ad Lib - Play your
keys in C-Major and get all chords and chord types
- Key adjustment - C-maj. key adjustment to improvise chord progressions
- Random instruments - Change the instrument at random when playing a song
- COMMANDS Main
- ...
- Tap Tempo - F8 - Enter
tempo by clicking mouse
- All Notes Off - Panic ...
- Reset Controllers - Reset
controllers of all channels
- Send Voice Messages - Send
all voice messages to a selected channel
- Set Startvalues - Set
start values for harmonic pad and keyboard split
- Normalize volume -
Normalize volume
- Restore volume - Sets
original volume values
- Assign functions ... - Assign up to 12 functions for program control (also for use via MIDI in)
- MIDI Reset ... - MIDI Reset
- KEYBOARD Main
- ...
- Accompaniment - Select
accompaniment or normal keyboard
- 2-Finger-Chords - Select
two-finger chords or normal keyboard
- Use all keyboard keys -
Use the whole keyboard as accompaniment section
- Harmonic Pad - Voice in
tune with current chords
- Adjust octave - Transpose
melodynotes of chords higher G one octave down
- Minus One - Play and
communicate with a selected voice
- Replace One - Play and
replace a selected voice
- 12 Instruments - Change
instruments using keyboard
- Keyboardsplit - Split
keyboard into four zones
- Play Chords - Select
accompaniment or triggered chords
- Triad chords -
Change one-finger chords into triad chords
- OPTIONS Main
- ...
- Portable Version - Use
RMCA Pro directly from USB stick!
- Metronome - Metronome on
or off
- Count in - Listening / not
listening to tempo before playing
- Ignore Tempi - Ignore
Leadsheet tempo messages
- Ignore Loops - Ignore
Leadsheet loop messages
- Ignore MIDI Commands - Ignore
MIDI commands within arrangement files
- Ignore Re-channelizing - Ignore Re-channelizing
- Style, Intro & Ending
- Autoload style - Load
song and style together
- Intro Detection - Set
intro measures
- Tempo Detection - Set
tempo
- Adjust Octave -
Transpose chords higher G one octave down
- Normalize Volume -
Normalize volume
- Comp. / Limit. -
Compressor / Limiter
- Solo on channel 1 -
Use channel 1 for soloing
- Bass on channel 11 -
Move bass track to channel 11; useful when mixing
- Mute BASS -
Mute bass for practicing
- Mute GUITARS -
Mute guitars for practicing
- Dampen GUITARS -
Dampen guitars for practicing
- Reverb off - Set
reverb to 0 to use with external effects
- Reverb defined - Set
reverb to a fixed value to use with external effects
- Play Intro - Play intro
- Mute None - Start
with all intro voices
- Mute All - Mute all
intro voices
- Drums - Start only
with drums
- Drums L.M. - Start
only with drums at the last intro measure
- Metronome - Start with
metronome
- Play Ending - Play
Ending instead of fade out
- Mute Harmonic Pad (Intro/Ending) - Mute Harmonic Pad if Intro or Ending is playing.
- Store Chord Codes - Send
controller messages to store current chords in a file
- Receive Chord Codes -
Receive controller messages to get chords from a file
- Master Mode - Send
MIDI-realtime messages - turn on internal clock
- Slave Mode - Receive
MIDI-realtime messages - turn off internal clock
- Session Mode - Specify how often a song should be repeated
- VIEW Main
- ...
- Always stay on top -
Always stay on top
- Panel colors - Change the color of all RMCA Pro panels
- Select color ...
- Set default color
- Random color
- Light grey
- Light blue
- Light green
- Light yellow
- Light orange
- Background - Color
background visible / invisible
- Tabset - Tabset visible /
invisible
- Speedbuttons - Speed
buttons visible / invisible
- Progressbars - Progress
bars visible / invisible
- Chords Window - The chords
window displays the chords and keys in large letters
- Flat <> Sharp - Show
flat or sharp notes
- Suppress sign change - Suppress sign change (flat or sharp) in chordprogressions
- Chordpreview 1/4 - Chord
preview 1/4 measure
- Chordpreview 1/2 - Chord
preview 1/2 measure
- Chordpreview 3/4 - Chord
preview 3/4 measure
- WINDOWS Main
- ...
- Global Settings - Define
keys, instruments, background ...
- Configuration - Select
mode and options
- MIDI Settings - Set MIDI
ports and handle controller messages ...
- MIDI Channels - Select MIDI channels for instrument groups or instruments (re-channelizing)
- MIDI Commands - Send MIDI CC or MIDI note commands via MIDI out port
- MIDI Controls - Displays the operation status of MIDI commends
- Style-Creator - Get
perfect styles of loaded or recorded MIDI songs
- Style-Events - Change
notes and style-part settings
- Style-Manager - Load and
organize styles using drag-and-drop
- Style-Playlist - Open
Style-Playlist and search within it for styles
- Style-Converter - Convert
*.sty styles
- Song-Creator - Let RMCA
Pro randomly choose styles and chord progressions
- Melody-Notes - Change
notes and other melody settings
- Mixer - Select voices and
set volume, pan, reverb, chorus ...
- Solo-Mute - Mute or solo
voices for all functions
- Keyboard - Virtual
keyboard with transpose, Ad Lib and harmony functions
- Chordpads - Enter chords
by clicking pads
- Instruments - Define, load
and save instrument sets
- Editor - Edit and
transpose recorded chords; copy, delete and loop measures ...
- Player - Player for
arranged songs and midifiles
- Songlist - Organize songs
and midifiles; create, open and save playlists
- Memo - Arrangement memo
- Keyboard-Split - Split
keyboard into four zones
- Arrange all - Arrange all
windows
- Close all - Close all
windows
- HELP Main
- ...
- Guide me ! - Activate /
deactivate the guide
- Last tip - Show the last
tip
- Assistant ... - The assistant helps to take the settings you need for various purposes
- Make music ... - Load
styles and make music
- Make styles ... - Create
styles ...
- Generate chords ... -
Generate chords ...
- Practice modes ...
- Practicing solo instrument
- Practicing bass (mute bass tracks)
- Practicing rhythm guitar (mute guitar tracks)
- Practice modes OFF
- Session Mode 1
- Session Mode 2
- Help (*.hlp-file) -
Help.hlp ...
- Help (*.htm-file) -
Help.htm ...
- FAQ (*.htm-file) - FAQ.htm
...
- Tips, Tricks & News -
http://www.xdigits.com/midi/links.html
- Text Editor - for memos,
scripts, and Leadsheets
- Download manager - Start XDigits download manager and download additional software
- Check for an update - Check online for a new program version
- Reset RMCA Pro - Reset RMCA Pro to its default values
- About ... - About ...
- Register ... - The
registration dialog
- MIDI Main
- MIDI Configuration
- CHORDPROGRESSION Main - Generate randomly chord progressions, depending on various options
- Shuffle all sections - use about 100 chordprogressions
- Skip range ...
- Shuffle section 1
- Shuffle section 2
- Shuffle 8/16 bar Blues
- Shuffle 12 bar Blues
- Show all ...
- Chordprogressions list - Export the list of common chord progressions as csv-file