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Hi Andre,
I'm struggling with Synfire Demo to import the above mentioned Etude "as is", then extract phrases, then edit them. It seems there is no way to preserve the Chopin's chromaticism, as Synfire will make efforts to quantize the chromatic notes to the nearest A minor notes, no matter which settings I choose in the Recognition steps.
Thank you for any advice!
Roberto
Do., 21.09.2017 - 16:39 Permalink
A screenshot after MIDI importing. So far, Synfire imports the original Chopin's notes. Then I select the phrases to edit (Cmd-E) and in the Phrase editor I get a completely different thing.
Is this beahvior intentional or am I doing anything wrong?
Thank you, Andre: it looks a very fine piece of software, but not too intuitive to use... :-)
Roberto
Do., 21.09.2017 - 21:12 Permalink
For more faithful segmentation, you can pre-group and tag the chromatic runs in the Take parameter before you run the recognition.
Synfire attempts to denote all symbols in relation to the harmonic context it detected with the input, so chromaticism isn't usually preserved well. To improve your results, be sure you enable accidentals for symbols being generated. For all chromatic runs, disable voice leading for the resulting figure segments. You can allow chromatic output for those segments, too, but that might not translate well to other harmonic progressions.