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Help for chromatic notes

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Hi ! 

I am currently testing the software.

I'd like to add a chromatic note that isn't in the scale. How do I do that?

See the attached image.


Sat, 2025-11-22 - 18:41 Permalink

Excuse me, I made a mistake with my musical chords. 

Sorry to have bothered you for nothing. 

I love this software; I'm going to test the different versions and decide.

Sun, 2025-11-23 - 11:11 Permalink

Most of the time a chromatic note is not actually chromatic, but taken from a different scale. Or a chord substitute, or ... here are some possibilities:

  1. Different scale (pick from the inspector)
  2. Different chord (try faster chord changes, substitutions, secondary dominants - chord can change as fast as every beat)
  3. Chromatic planing (use Chromatic parameter in "Global Parameters" such that all instruments transpose by an equal amount, which makes harmony as a whole remain consistent but weirdly shifting around)
  4. Use relaxed voice leading settings for Interpretation parameter. Even disable it.

I remember writing up some suggestions but forgot where they are .... it's early in the morning

Sun, 2025-11-23 - 22:23 Permalink

Your comments were very helpful in further investigating the behaviour I'm seeing. When I move the transpose slider for the first time the parameter does indeed apply and it writes the constant, the odd behaviour is when I go and try to over write with another constant for the second time, the editor constant 'dot' moves but the sound does not pitch up/down, what I then have to do at this point in order to hear a change, is delete the transpose parameter so that we're at the initial state, OR weirdly enough change the interpretation parameter(possibly others) by loading a new template. Another way to get the desired effect is to move the value directly from the editor, but the slider has become ineffectual at this point, after the initial writing of the parameter.