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Zero, go to the menu line at the top of your screen and hit "Melody". There's many options there to do exactly what you want like "kill melody in middle choruses", "first chorus only", "Transpose", etc. The big thing to keep in mind is if you do that and then later you change the structure of the song, the melody will get messed up. The easiest thing to do if that happens is to go to the Melody menu again and select "Copy melody to whole song" then go back and edit out what you don't want.

Another way to change the melody is to edit the notes themselves either in editable notation mode or in the piano roll window. Either one of those allows you to change everything about the melody from adding or editing individual notes to deleting individual notes or whole sections. If using the menu options above doesn't do what you want, going into the piano roll window certainly will. You put your mouse just to the left and above the section of notes you want to delete and hold down the left click button and drag the mouse to the end of the section. You will see that there's now a box around the notes and they are all red. You either hit the delete key or right click and pick delete, I forget which now.

Bob



This is a really interesting and informative thread.

I have a question: If the original song file has a midi style with melody, how do I change it to use real tracks? I have changed the style to a real tracks style but the melody is still midi. How do I get the melody to use a real instrument?

Thanks in advance. Clive