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Angstrom wrote:this thread, paraphrased :

"I want to make music but I don't want to know how"

scutheotaku wrote:

simpli.cissimus wrote:It's not about knowing the chords...
...it's a way to program them faster too !!!

Also it would be nice if you could choose a scale and only the right notes staying active.

Then it would be cool to have some transposing feature available.
If you need to transpose a whole song into another tonality.
From C to D as example.

There is actually no software doing this and it's much work to do that by hand.

Idk, I think it's faster to just put some notes in than to worry about other menus and such...just learn intervals and you can do any chord.

For Major chords-
Take your root, that's your first note. Now take the note that's 3 keys away from your root (by 3 away, I mean that there's 3 keys in between the two notes), that's your second note, the third of your root. Now take the note that's two keys away from that and it's your third note, the fifth of your root.

For Minor chords-
It's the same as Major, except that you move the second note one key back (so the second note is 2 keys away from the root and 3 keys away from the third note).

For example-
To find the C Major chord, take C. That's your root and your first note. Now count three keys away - that's E, which is your second note. Now count two keys away from E - that's G, your third note. Play all three of those together, and you have a C Major chord.

Once you learn it, you can do it very quickly - and you can do it anyway, without the help of programs.

Oh, and if you're transposing an entire song - just move all the notes up or down by the same amount.