Hi all,

I was looking at stylemaker, and if I edit/look at many of the styles, many of the patterns—all for some styles—always have the interval for the next chord up 1 semitone. If my understanding is correct, that means that the pattern only possibly gets selected if the next chord goes up 1 semitone. To make a concrete example: if I have a chord progression of 1, 4, 2m, 5, 1, 4, 2m, 5, 1, 4, 2m, 5, etc. and a style CHAMBER1.STY then how do those patterns get chosen? The chords of the next interval are more than a semitone. If the patterns are all that way, maybe it ignores that filter. Or I could be misunderstanding something……

Also note: the Interval filter "Up a Semitone" is listed right next to "*Any Interval". Sometimes I have had program indexes off by 1; 0 indexing vs 1 indexing. Maybe internally the program (2017 Mac) thinks it is "*Any Interval", but displays it to the user as "Up a Semitone"

Thanks in advance!

This might help...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28IjWyLQBgM

This in-depth video clip explains how Stylemaker works. While the clip is from 1997, the principles are exactly the same today.

Regards,
Noel

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Yes, and that leads to the above question. I may have to ask on the windows biab forum....

Noel,

Do you have mac or windows program?

And what do you see for the patterns if you edit say the CHAMBER1.STY for the Interval - Chord filter? "Up a Semitone" or "*Any Interval" for all/most the patterns?

It could be just how it displays on the mac 2017 program.

Also, on a separate question, if you select the key of A minor, write some chords using Nashville notation, eg, 1m, 7, 5m, 7--Do you see chords with sharps and flats? Are all the notes in the key of C / A minor?
Look in this post: http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=65973&Number=446014#Post446014