On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:27:57 -0500 Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , an important person in this mailing-list, wrote:
> >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. flamebait. My grand-mother 'd respond with a true smile: I will pray for you ;) > > its algorithms for generating accompaniments are way more > sophisticated than this description suggests. > > --p Doesn't anyone want to summarize the way bbox works in a few sentences? Well, don't bother, I'm gonna take a look at autotrack. ==================================================================== (Please remember to flame me on both sides, for even cooking .... ) (c) SirSlud on Linux-Today
