Working with natural breaks in a longer melody

[d.vyd]

Please find attached an image of a phrase created with the melody generator for a lead synth. I marked in red pen where I hear natural breaks in the melody. How would you work with these subsections in rapid composer if you wanted to repeat a subsection or mirror it before completing the melody? Would you somehow keep it as a single phrase? Would you manually copy or paste the notes into other phrases that are static and not generators?

The subsections do not line up easily with the bars. Would you scale the subsections so they are each one or two bars long exactly? If so, wouldn't that change and possibly ruin the feel? I'm hoping some more advanced composer and software users can provide some musical and technical guidance.

Thank you,
-da'ud

[musicdevelopments]

While I do not consider myself a composer, I never recommended using long phrases. You have so many options when you use 4, 6 or maximum 8 beats long phrases, e.g. repeating them with or without rest, applying variations (transpose, mirror), using the same rhythm but generate a different melody, and so on.
Another suggestion (also take it with a grain of salt): a melodic phrase usually has a repeating rhythm pattern. So feel free to use the Length setting for the rhythm:



Thanks,
Attila

[HiEnergy]

The breaks have one thing in common: They're either a very long note followed by a very short one (the break sitting between those) or the last note of a phrase (the break following that note).
If you use a two bar phrase generator with 4 beat repeat and a manually edited rhythm consisting of one bar filled with some short notes and one final long one, then you should get a phrase with a "natural" break inside.
You could also use "smooth rhythm" and regenerate the rhythm until the generator delivers something where you hear the breaks sitting at the "right" positions.

[d.vyd]

Interesting observations. Thank you!