• Introduction
• User Interface
• Creating Slides
•   Creating Slides
•   Choosing a Project Name
•   Assigning Ref Media
•   Assigning Notation
•   Assigning Images
•   Assigning Template
•   Assigning Instrument
•   Playing a Slideshow
•   Windowed Slideshow
•   Self-Playing Slideshow
•   Re-ordering Slides
•   Duplicating Slides
•   Deleting Slides
• Editing Layers
• Editing Sections
• Editing Music Notation
• Editing Tracks
• Menus and Shortcuts

First Slideshow

Now that you know your way around the Lessonator™ UI, let’s make our first slideshow.

Internally, each slide is a separate file. This is why Lessonator™ saves files whenever a new slide is created or when switching from one slide to another.

Here are the steps for creating your first slideshow:

1. Start Lessonator™ – When you first start Lessonator™, an empty slideshow appears with the Slide Panel already open. You are expected to define the project’s name as well as parameters for the 1st slide.

2. Chose a project name – Define the name and target folder in which to save your slideshow project.

3. Define the cover slide – The 1st slide is a cover slide and usually uses a different layout than subsequent content slides. Choose one of the 3 cover slide -- keyboard, guitar or bass.

4. Add new slides – Add new slides (⇧⌘N) and use Setup Panel (⌘.) to change template and/or instrument.

5. Play Slideshow – Play Slideshow (⌥⌘P)

• Next Slide (↓ or →)

• Previous Slide (↑ or ←)

• Stop Slideshow (⌥⌘P) again or esc key.

Congratulation! You’ve created your first Lessonator™ slideshow! Any new slideshow project will follow these basic steps. The Slide panel is where you go to change a slide’s parameters -- like a “home” button.

Subsequent Slides

Additional slides can be created by clicking the “New Slide” button (⇧⌘N). By default, it will use the same instrument as the cover slide and use one of the content slide layouts (not a cover). To override this, you click on the Slide panel icon (⌘.) on the Switch Bar.

How The Slide Panel Works

• The Slide Panel is where you assign a reference media (video or audio), notation and up to 4 images to the slide.

• The Slide panel doesn’t actually load or apply anything until you press the “Choose” button.

• New file names, template and instrument selections are drawn in green, indicating that they have changed.

• For images, the next time you open the Slide panel, image previews are shown instead of the green text.

• A white dot means that no file has been specified.

• For images, there are 4 white dots, which means you can load up to 4 images on a slide.