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#415732 05/29/17 07:49 PM
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I have been trying to write some more realistic jazz double bass lines in Stylemaker but I can not make sense of the masks.

I have a base 8 beat riff C G /C G /
No mask, weight of 5
I write an 8 beat riff .... C G/C D Eb E/
with a mask of up 4th , weight 9 (always)
song is cycle of C/ /F / /Bb / /Eb / /Ab/ /Db/ /Gb/ /B/ /E/ /A etc

Works fine till Ab .... then reverts to basic riff Ab Eb/ Ab Eb/
Then works again from Gb ???????

Unless I am reading the help files wrong .... (and there ARE undocumented macro notes) ..... what is going on ????

I don't have much hair left to pull out !

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Erol,

I don't know if this will help...

If you go to the link below, and then scroll down to the "Advanced" section, PG Music have put together a 37:53 minute video on how to use Stylemaker. I suspect that this will be well worth watching.

http://www.pgmusic.com/videos.bbwin.htm

Let us know how you go.

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Maybe Notes Norton can jump in, but it seems to me that when you go up a 4th chordwise, it should select that walk up riff.

Maybe also create a 4-beat walk-up riff with weight of 9 masked as going up to a 4th.

Another thing that comes to mind is perhaps as it has gone up, internally it changed to dropping a 5th, rather than going up a 4th. Don't know, but just a thought. Perhaps create another riff masked to go down a 5th. But just speculating here from memory.


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Try copying & pasting the pattern and setting the mask of the copied pattern to "down a 5th , weight 9 (always)".
The 2 pattern combination should work.


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Many Thanks guys ....

I just never regarded that riff as going down a 5th.
If I was thinking "cycle of 5ths" I might have tweeked to it .... but I doubt it.

I am getting older ... so the grey matter is slower these days !

So now I have to program a riff going down a 5th with a Dom7th mask.

Thanks again

Erol

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