>Hi everyone >An open-source prod ala Band-in-the-Box sould be very good.
no doubt. but ... >BBox plays lot of styles, not only jazz. And I think the way it works is quite > like this (I'm not a programmer, but a musician ): on a chord loop, say for e >xample Gm, the performance of a musician is recorded via midi, during 2-4 bars >. BBox will replay this, translating the notes as the chords changes. I mean i >f the new chord is G (without the b flat, but with a b) every b flat are chang >ed to a b. If the chord changes to C , the b which is the third in G scale is >translated into E which is the 3rd in C scale. And so on for the other notes. if you think that's all that Band-in-a-Box does, then i have to conclude that you haven't used the program in quite a long time, or haven't used it to do very much. its algorithms for generating accompaniments are way more sophisticated than this description suggests. --p
