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Hi,
Though there are many ways to interact with a grid towards the goals of performance and composition, one of the simplest is to say: "Roll the Dice every N measures".
Even though it is so simple as to be "simplistic", in the absence of something more sophisticated, this is a decent way to achieve hands-off jamming!
IOW, play your guitar, or GeoShred, keyboard, saxophone, (whatever!) while Synfire produces a non-static bed of music to keep things groovy and interesting w/o you having to constantly stop playing and mess with mouse or keyboard in order to roll the dice.
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A separate idea, but worth mentioning in this context I think, would be if Synfire could "synthesize" N measures (or N minutes) of the above directly into an Arrangement without us having to play the thing out in realtime first and then do 'Make Arrangement from Last Session' after the fact.
(Stipulated: 'Make Arrangement from Last Session' is very cool. I'm thrilled to find it already there!)