![]() ![]() It is not intuitive in anyway and requires lots of clicking around. And you can drag and drop chord progressions from scaler into Rapid Thanks for your reply. For example, you can take the ‘performances’ from Scaler and import them as phrases to be used in Rapid Composer. In the meantime, Rapid Composer and Scaler work quite well together if you understand what each can do. But I suspect that, given the resources at Davide and co’s disposal, other ideas which evolve the product more incrementally will be preferred by them as a ‘safer’ development strategy. ![]() I agree it would be great if it could do it. My guess is that introducing the ability for the user to define and edit melodies within scaler would be quite a significant task for the developers. Scaler’s first emphasis is on identify scale and chord progressions, and the melodic part has only developed later with the addition of ‘performances’ as an alternative means of playing chord notes rather than simply playing or strumming the notes of a given chord. Rapid Composer by Music Developments (which in my view is much more accessible than synfire, not to mention cheaper) has a similar idea with what it calls phrases. And the core idea is of melodies being defined independently of the chord/scale they are played in (what synfire calls a ‘figure’), so that a chord/scale has to be specified before any ‘figure’ can be turned into actual notes. ![]() As noted earlier, the issue is that the basic idea of synfire is great, but the software tries to do too much which is “daw like” and dilutes that basic idea. Despite that, I just couldn’t get on with it. I have tried the demo of synfire twice and spent a significant amount of time reading the manual and trying to get familiar with its workflow. ![]()
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