I've been trying to generate some melodies suitable for 'call and response.'

I've been messing around in the melodist editor and I see the control to increase spacing between 8th notes and to reduce the chance of long phrases, but I'm still not getting what I want.

I probably don't understand. Is there a way to produce shorter melodic phrases, maybe more staccato, with greater space between phrases ... or is this more dependent on the particular melodist?

Or is this something I should be trying to tweak using the soloist?

Thanks in advance.

Prado