At 5:57 PM +0000 11/03/02, Marcus Girvan wrote:
Thanks for your 2 messages.I had been trying to get Finale to interpret chords from the piano part of a midi big band file. This is, or rather I hoped, easier than working them out laboriously oneself. I have, incidentally just got my upgrade of Band in a Box v.11 from v.8 for Mac. This now has a chord analyser and it comes up with far better suggestions for chords than Finale and this by looking at the full Midi score as far as I can determine. If PG Music can do it, why can't Coda? Marcus
Excellent question. I forsee a marvelous collaboration between Coda and PG music in the near future...
And while we're on the subject, would anyone on this side of Bedlam ever use the results from the Auto Harmonise feature in Finale? Even the example they show in the literature proving what marvelous results it gives makes me want to pull my hair out.
My colleague at Universit� de Montr�al, Richard Ferland, has written a small, quick, and useful app for Mac called Harmonis that does a reasonable job on auto-harmonisation. It even writes simple counterlines. Another colleague of mine who frequents this list, Andrew Homzy, brought an brass quintet arrangement of Guantanamera to a shopping centre gig that he claimed was written in 30 seconds by Harmonis. It didn't sound bad, unlike Finale's results most of the time.
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