Synfire & Improvise for Real Tonal Map, Melody Path

It s playing a I(tonic)-IV(subdominant)-V(dominant)-I(tonic) chord progression in a certain to choose key : e.g Cmajor , Dminor , etc 
Seems 4 note chords and using those notes to play over the progression as a melody
Following the shortest distance between the successive notes to play

If you make such a melody map , then you know what melodynotes to play when the chord progression is running

Start with Cmajor key :  look at your keyboard with the ladder own chords
Easy to do with a palette to make the chordprogression, but when doing more with chords you memorize the chordtype 

I you record you improvisation over the chordprogression and record this, then Synfire comes up with the right symbols.
You can experiment with this melody. 

Drag and drop harmony parameter onto the figure parameterslot in order to get those chords on a instrument
Adding a second instrument for improvising with the notes in front of you to choose from.
All improvised melodies are chord notes: it sounds always good. 

New ( i just realize) is the overview page were you can see the rendered midi output: if you look at the chordprogression you can see the voice leading 

Note: i noticed when looking at the chordprogression that the first chord is not repeated in the the 5 th bar ..

This overview page could  beh andy for improvising if it should show the note values?

A improvising melody can be  played by a blue H symbol, but Cognitone can give a better answer than me .

> which symbols to use

You probably already saw this, but a brief overview of the different symbols is provided here. This may initially all sound a bit overcomplicated, but in a nutshell you are helping Synfire to make decisions on which exact pitches to choose with this additional information.

For creating a melody, just start with horizontal (blue) symbols. By contrast, for the accompaniment you want to start with the chord symbols, and the bass symbols kind of explain themselves. 

Later, when you want to further fine-tune your results you might consider using the vertical symbols for your melody. In a nutshell, these implement the notion stemming from modal jazz that certain scales "work" above certain chords, so the scale used changes more frequently with vertical symbols. By contrast, the scale is more static when using horizontal symbols. The relative symbols are a variant of the vertical symbols, also useful for melodies that implements a dynamic offset of the "rugs" depending on the current chord.

Hope this helps.

Well, I think the confusion arises because you expect it to be more complicated than it is. In fact, the first video simply demonstrates a I-IV-V-I progression and its chord tones.

Use horizontal or vertical symbols to replicate this. Use bass symbols for bass voices.

Just focus on the relative movement you want a melody to have. Synfire does the "melody paths" automatically. 

Hi!
I try to do something similar that the things done in the video Melody Path with Synfire. I choose Orchestral Harmonic in Interpretation Tab and nearly got the chords tone similar the video except the maj7 I got the b7.
Is it possible to have maj7 in the scale?

> is it possible to have maj7 in the scale?

Depends on choosen key if the desired chord belongs to this key

Chords and keys, how do they belong together (popschoolmaastricht.nl)

It's even simpler: Open the palette and grab a Maj7 chord.

Hi, But then I got d in Cmaj7 scale also.I am in the interpretation tab with orchestral harmonic settings . I looking for only chords note as in the video!

You can make stricter settings for Interpretation to allow only chord tones:

(https://docs.cognitone.com/synfire/EN/interface/InspectInterpretation.h…)

Thanks I found it "Chords only"

What key do you want to play?