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Accompli 009 User’s Guide

To assign a value to a note, type the note value symbol after the letter for the note. When the 
device plays the alert, it will continue giving each note this new value until it encounters a 
different note value symbol.

Rests are periods of time in which no note is sounded. Rests have the same values as notes, 
as shown in the following table.

To add a rest, type an upper-case R followed by the alert script language time value symbol.

Alerts written with alert script language cannot exceed 30 seconds. If you create an alert 
longer than 30 seconds and then try to play it, your device will not sound any notes.

To calculate an alert length, use the tables in the “Assigning Note Values” and “Using Rests” 
sections to sum up the time values for all notes and rests in your alert.

Rest

Name

Relative 
length

Alert script 
language 
symbol

Alert script language 
time value

Whole rest

4 beats

Rw

2 seconds

Half rest

2 beats

Rh

1 second

Quarter rest

1 beat

Rq

½ second

Eighth rest

½ beat

Re

¼ second

Sixteenth rest

¼ beat

Rs

1/8 second

Thirty-second rest

1/8 beat

Rt

1/16 second

Dot

Increase the 
length of rest 
50 percent

.

Increase the time 
value of rest 50 per-
cent

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