the 'simple arrangement' feature is still weak: the programs still plays major seconds and ninths even when 'simple arrangement' is on. PG music seems to believe that 'simple' means no sevenths, when it should mean: play the damn chord I specify, no more and no less. Can we please have an option to - only play minor or major triads - ?

A basic rule of arranging is: don't do anything that isn't necessary. If the backing plays all that other mumbo-jumbo, it creates two serious problems:

1. IF the notes were wanted in the melody or the soloists, now there's nothing for them to do, because the backing is already doing it. Say I want a 9-8 appoggiatura: some yahoo is already playing it in the backing, so mine will sound weak. I presume people know here that an appoggiatura is NOT a grace note, it is a dissonance taken by leap that lasts AS LONG or LONGER than the note of resolution, otherwise it IS a grace note. A grace note is a very simple, short dissonance that is heard very briefly. An example of true 9-8 appoggiaturas in pop music are the starting notes of every motif in the sax theme of the George Michael's 'Careless Whisper'.

If the backing had already these notes, it would detract from the sax theme A LOT. In the end, in homophonic music, which forms the 98 per cent of popular music, is just a 'motor' that falls in the background, because the mind relegates in the background any parts that repeat in a more or less predictable way. It's the soloist , the vocals etc that the listener focuses on, because more change and freedom is expected in these parts.

2. and if the notes were NOT wanted, now you are stuck with them, and make the realtrack useless.

Maybe that's easier for PG Music to understand what is needed here. Years ago I complained about the same thing, hopefully it'll happen before I get too old.

Even better, it would be great to be able to edit the realtrack notes and move them up or down, if only by one or half step, just to reach a chord note and get rid of these unwanted ones.

Thanks !

Last edited by ghgtu7yrtfg6e67u; 07/04/25 05:46 AM.