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====3.3.1 Input of music====
The music notation that is used in MoonBlaster is according to the American way, so an A in octave 3 will be ‘A 3’, an A sharp in octave 3 ‘A#3’. MoonBlaster supports octaves 1 till 8. ‘C5’ is the ‘central C’. A pattern is divided in 16 steps. The steps next to each other are played at the same time. Only one event can be put on a step per channel (for example a note).
More channels are available than shown on screen. With [SHIFT] + cursor keys the available channels can be scrolled onto the screen.
A note can be input in two different ways, MoonBlaster has two input systems. You can alternate these systems with the [CAPS] key. The [SHIFT] is a logical [SHIFT] here: In the first system a temporal switch to the second is made with [SHIFT] and vice versa.
With the first input system (CAPS off) notes have to be entered with several keys, these are the letters [A] till [G], for the right note (plus the [+] or [#] to increase a half note if desired) and the numbers [1] till [8], for the right octave. [ESC] cancels the input. When a note is entered, the [RETURN] key can be used to repeat the last input without having to re-enter it completely.
�The second input system (CAPS on) turns the MSX keyboard into a music keyboard with two rows. Every row is an octave. These octaves can be set with [GRAPH] + cursors. The following keys are used in this system: