Automatic part
MusiCAD has a number of automatic parts available that you can use as accompaniment part
- Auto bass and chord accompaniment parts based on chord symbols; as soon as chord symbols are available in the main part, they are added and kept up-to-date.
- chord sheet with or without beat lines.
- Parallel parts (at a 'constant' musical distance from the original part, such as upper third, lower third, upper sixth, lower sixth, upper octave, lower octave)
- accompaniment arrangementen
All automatic parts are recreated from another part if necessary. Usually the originating part will be the main part (recognizable in the score overview with underlining). If that part changes - for example, when notes are added or removed, barlines or time signatures are added or changed etc. - then all dependent parts also change.
An automatic harmonic part is always created when necessary from the chord symbols specified with the main melody. If a chord symbol is changed, added or removed, such an harmonic part will also change.
When an automatic part is edited, it is no longer 'automatic' and is no longer modified automatically. If you notice that the automatic parts suddenly stop updating, you have usually (unintentionally) modified it.
The instrumentation of the automatic parts can be found in the arrange dialog.
For example, to add an third below part, go to: [Part|New part|Parallel|Third below]
Templates
In layout templates you can also use automatic parts using the template function ADDPART(id)
For the new automatic parts to be created, set id to one of the following options:
| ARPEGGIO1 | Arpeggio part 1 |
| ARPEGGIO2 | Arpeggio part 2 |
| ARPEGGIO3 | Arpeggio part 3 |
| ARPEGGIO4 | Arpeggio part 4 |
| CHORDS1 | Chord part on the afterbeat (default) |
| CHORDS2 | Chord part on the beat |
| CHORDS3 | Chord part on the first beat |
| CHORDS4 | Chord part on all counts |
| PIANO1 | Piano part 1 |
| PIANO2 | Piano part 2 |
| PIANO3 | Piano part 3 |
| PIANO4 | Piano part 4 |
| BASS1 | Bass part 1 (default) |
| BASS2 | Bass part 2 |
| BASS3 | Bass part 3 |
| BASS4 | Bass part 4 |
| DRONE | Bagpipe drone based on key |
| FUNDAMENTAL | fundamental based on the chords |
| CHORDSYMBOLS | chord symbols display |
| CHORD TICKS | rhythm guitar part |
| DRUMS1 | percussion part 1 |
| DRUMS2 | percussion part 2 |
| REST | part consisting of rests only |
| IN3UP | third above within the current part |
| 3UP | third above as a separate part |
| IN3DN | third above within the current part |
| 3DN | third below as a separate part |
| IN12DN | octave below within the current part |
| 12DN | octave below as a separate part |
| IN12UP | octave above within the current part |
| 12UP | Octave above part as a separate part |
| IN6UP | sixth above in the current part |
| 6UP | sixth above as a separate part |
| IN6DN | sixth below withinin the current part |
| 6DN | sixth below as a separate part |
| COPY1 | Copy part |
Much more extensive and complicated automatic arrangements can be added using supplied or self-created arrangement files. This uses the template function USEPATTERN, with the argument name of the arrangement such as: rumba, samba, tango , son Standard instrumentation of the arrangements added in this way can be found in the used arrangement files.