bit flipper

Nice looking interface design; clear and concise, the sort of thing you'd hope for in BIAB one day.

The good thing about BIAB substitution dialogue is that you can compile and save your own substitutions.

Other similar applications i've come across are the progression composer in Jammer Pro which comes up with sequences according to the particular mode of the diatonic scale.

By far the most useful for jazz purposes is a very interesting one in the old 'Jazzware' midi sequencer.
It has has a grid of possible chords related to a particular scale like harmonic minor or melodic minor etc showing the possibilities in all 12 keys that you can sound when clicking with the mouse.

It also has a number of conditional functions such as ' show all chords with 1 common tone, 2 common tones, 3 common tones,4 common tones, 0 common tones .. 1 half note difference, II V I moves, common base note )..so that when you sound one chord all the other possible moves within those criteria are highlighted.

The beauty of this is that you can come up with unusual progressions freely ranging across key centres, bound only by a close- to-distant relationship based on common tones or functions or absence of same.

This method is far closer to how todays jazz composers today approach harmonic composition, and intersted parties should at least check it out.


Regards

Alan