You're talking a single note line, right? No bass note, no harmony? How in the world could any person much less a computer program come up with meaningful chords based on that?



yes, i'm talking about a single note line!!!

Read this as advertised:

"Generate chords for a melody, or an improved chord progression for a melody, with the "Reharmonist" feature. This feature generates a chord progression in the chosen genre, based only on the melody."

If i added harmony to that melody, or if i helped it by adding harmony to it, then that's not Generating chords based on a melody. That would be generating chord progression based on harmony. Generating chords based on harmony, is an old technology. Nothing new about it.

In general a software would analyze the melody line entirely. Then based on the chosen genre, it would make some decisions to what is a passing tone, and what is a chord tone. What chord progression is out of character for that genre and what is not. And a lot more.... Then, it would only SUGGEST one or more possible progressions. Then, the user would probably have some editing capabilities ...even a newbie can spot a few wrong chords here and there, and with some editing , the software would probably make some smarter choices...This feature is in its infancy right now.
until few years ago, it was impossible to generate a midi file based on a polyphonic wave file, but i've been getting great results with Melodyne now. In 5 to 10 years from now, there's going to be tons of softwares creating chord progressions with excellent results. I would use the word "impossible" with care in the golden age of technology!!!

one thing for sure, this is not a pleasant forum to stick around. I don't care how long ago someone started using Biab, or when he escaped the communist. You've got to be able to understand, people have reasons to ask questions, and if you can't answer it, that's totally fine, but to attack a new member with attitude is not figure of speech, it's just foolish.