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The Playroom Area is the user's primary work space. This is where melodies and rhythms are built. The PlayRoom lies below the Tools Area and is the second largest area in the main Impromptu window. Tuneblocks and Drumblocks are dragged from the Blocks Area into the PlayRoom Area to be assembled, re-assembled, and played. Impromptu highlights the Tuneblocks that are currently being played back. This is indicated with a bold red square around a Block. The Playroom displays one or more voice. Each voice has a block area and a set of voice controls Playrooms and Playroom SelectionThe Playrooms Menu lets the user select a project environment. Each project environment includes an appropriate format of the Playroom Area and an associated Catalog of tunes. Refer to the text book, Developing Musical Intuitions, for the theory and activities associated with each of the following five project environments:
Note: The Rounds, Harmonize, and 4-Voices playrooms mentioned in Developing Musical Intuitions are not implmemented in Impromptu 2.0 Beta 1. Playroom Block AreaBlocks are selected in the Playroom Area by clicking on them once with the Hand Cursor. A selected Block is highlighted or darkened. To de-select a Block or Blocks, click anywhere in the Playroom where there is no Block. The Hand Cursor is used to play Blocks, to drag them into the Playroom, and to move selected Blocks around within the Playroom Area. To play a Block in the Playroom Area, double click on it. Blocks can be removed from the Playroom by dragging them into the Trash Can in the Utilities Area or by selecting them and then pressing "delete." All Blocks that are selected within one voice will be moved or handled as a group. See Tools Area for explanations on how to group / ungroup a set of Blocks to make a Super Block , and on the use of the different cursors. NOTE: If the contents of a Block are changed by editing, changes will be made in the Block in the Playroom Area as well as in the original Block in the Blocks Area.
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