Originally Posted By: major7th
Thanks, guys!

Yeah I'm mainly looking to generate melodies to my own chord progressions. Simply I IV V country-style and folk stuff.

Would you guys have a small list of the "best" melodist styles (when you have your own chords first) that generate some decently catchy melodies over simply country and folk progressions?

I have found a few... but... it's hit or miss, like he said... some bars generate some nice melodies, but most don't. smile



I may have said this already....IDK.... Melodist is probably NOT what you should use. Melodist is used to create from scratch chord progressions. It's not useful for creating leads. Soloist will do leads but I have found them to be a bit frantic at times and non-flowing in the way a real guitar player might play.

Instead, I use Real Band. Take your project from BB and save it then close it. Then open it in real band.
Now, you can add new tracks from the real tracks you have available. Select one of the soloist real tracks and render it.
The result might be "good to go" or you might need to do some editing.
this song>>>> http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=11971116 called The Best Christmas ... is an example I use often because in it, the piano parts and fills are composites of 3 different tracks and the guitar solo in the middle is constructed from 5 different guitar tracks created by real band.

With work and editing, you can get some impressive results. But just like when a diamond is first mined it looks like most other rocks, it needs to be cut and polished to bring on the shine, so too with the tracks BB/RB generally gives you. They are rough cuts mostly, and need some work.

No computer generated song is going to be ready to roll although I do have to agree that Band in a Box can get mighty close with it's attempts. With a good ear, some software tools, and a good ear, it's relatively easy to find those gems and polish them up a bit.

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