# Preferences window

## Midi stuff

Screenshot of the 'Midi stuff' page of the preferences window.

### Tempo

Set the tempo (beats per minute) for music and arpeggios.

### Preferred instrument

Set the midi instrument and velocity (volume of each note).

### Chord instruments

Solfege can use three different instruments when playing chords. One for the highest tone, one for the tones in the middle and one for the bass tone. This can be helpful if you find it difficult to hear individual tones in chords.

## User

Screenshot of the 'User' page of the preferences window.

Solfege uses this info in some exercises where the user is supposed to sing.

### Lowest/highest tone the user can sing

These spin buttons tell Solfege the highest and lowest tone the user can sing. These values are only considered advisory by the program. If for example the values are set to ''c'' to ''c''' and you have configured the program to ask you to sing small and large decims, you will have to sing tones outside this range.

### Sex

Solfege need to know if the user is male or female when creating some of the questions where the user will sing the answer. This because the male voice sound one octave lower than the female voice.

## Gui

Screenshot of the 'Gui' page of the preferences window.

### External programs

Mail program: Defines the command that starts the mail program.

### Misc

User resizeable main window: Allows the user to resize the main solfege window.

Expert mode: Let the user select what questions from the lesson files to practise. No statistics is stored in ''expert mode''.

Select language: You can manually select the language you want if Solfege does not detect this correctly, or if you want to run Solfege with a different language that your operating system.

## Practise

Screenshot of the 'Practise' page of the preferences window.

Not allow new question before the old is solved: Disable the 'new' button until the question is answered correctly or the user clicks "give up".

Repeat question if the answer was wrong: Play the sound again when the user gives an incorrect answer.

## Sound setup

Screenshot of the 'Sound setup' page of the preferences window.

### Midi setup

There are three ways to play sound:

No sound:

  Use this for debugging or when you are porting Solfege. No sounds are played, the midi events are printed to stdout.

Use device:

  The best choice here is usually `/dev/music` because it has the best support for percussion instruments. `/dev/sequencer2` is usually a symbolic link to `/dev/music`. If your system don't have `/dev/music`, you can create it with this command as root (if you run the linux kernel version 2.2 or later):

  cd /dev mknod music u 14 8

Use external midiplayer:

  This can be useful when porting to systems that don't use OSS, or if you have a bad midi synth on your soundcard and want to use timidity.

#### Extra options

Check the ''My sound card is Sound Blaster AWE32, AWE64 or pnp32'' check button if you have this kind of sound card. This will give you real percussion in the rhythm exercise. Code still has to be added for other sound cards. This option is only necessary if you use `/dev/sequencer` to play midi sounds.