Manual for "MakeChord V260+".

1/Information need to know:
This software uses the "Automatic Harmonizing Method", which has been patented for exclusive patents, 2015.
- Input.mid contains your melody, on the first track, channel 1.
- Output.mid is the result of automatic harmonies created by "MakeChord".
- Including the following tracks:
Track 1: your melody in Input.mid, channel 1,
Track 2: additional notes you can write, channel 2,
Track 3, Track 4, Track 5: notes made by "MakeChord", channels 3,4,5,
You can delete Track 3, Track 4, Track 5 if desired.

Track 6: notes identifying chords, created by "MakeChord", channel 6, for Organ Keyboard to identify the chords.
Track 7: Control commands, channel 10, are used to control Organ Keyboard.

- When not registered to use, only up to the first 30 measures of Output.mid have automatic accompaniment.
- You can use Windows Media Player to listen to Output.mid directly,
- Or use "MidiOut Player" (http://www.MidiUtility.com) to send Output.mid to an Organ Keyboard. You will have great sound quality, with any style on the Organ Keyboard.

2/Chords and control commands in "Chord List":
You can edit chords, and control commands, created by "MakeChord", as follows:
- Load Input.mid, do the necessary, then
- Click "4.Fill Chords"
- Click "Save". The content of "Chord List" will be written to the file Chords.txt,
...
- Use Notepad of Windows to load Chords.txt file for editting.
- Edit the chords, in the format of "MakeChord", with the following meanings:
C,D,E,F,G,A,B => root of the Chord,
#,b,., => Augmented/Dimineshed/Normal
s,m,   => Sus4, Minor
_,+,   => Dim5,Aug5
o      => Dim
7      => Add7
!      => Bass Inverted
...

- Edit the control commands, with the following meanings:
0 = No command,
f = Fill-in,
b = Break 1 measure,
e = Ending,
1,2,3,4 = Switch to the variation 1,2,3,4.
i = Intro (variation 1), anywhere, in the song.
- Use Notepad to save the Chords.txt file,
- Click "Load" (of "MakeChord").
Old content of "Chord List" will be replaced with the content of the file Chords.txt;
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You can edit pitch value on Ak-Drums track to enter commands in to the Output.mid file:
Ab3 = No command
A 3 = Switch to variation 1
A#3 = Switch to variation 2
B 3 = Switch to variation 3
C 4 = Switch to variation 4
C#4 = Fill in
G 3 = Break
F#3 = Ending
F 3 = Intro  V1 anywhere in the song
E 3 = Ending V1 anywhere in the song
Eb3 = Stop auto accompaniment anywhere in the song, and then, some where after that, F 3 to re-start auto accompaniment again.
First (Notmal) intro (1,2,3,4) will start at the first measure with command other than Ab3.
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