thanks for the responses...

peter...so there is no way to change the density of chords within a melodist?
let's say taking a early beatles style chord structure (like i said above...4 chords for the a (verse) section and 2 chords for the b (chorus) section...but apply that to a bossa-nova melodist? i've tried to muck about with the melodist editor but i see nothing regarding densities of chords.

with some experimenting today...the closest i've been able to get so far is to import a simplified midi file into the melody track and reharmonize based on that. but that is still extremely hit or miss.

my thoughts are that if a song has a chord structure to it...there is a mathematical relationship between the intervals of the chord structure of the verses and the chorus. (i apologize for my extremely limited musical theory) that interval...depending on how it shifts up or down... can create different feelings. i mean...i guess reharmonizing it can work on the same principle. taking and existing chord progression and shifting it into a different key. i was just thinking that it could auto generate similar feeling chord progression if you could feed in a template for it to analyze.

if you guys could nail something like that it would me mighty impressive.