Plugin to create chords from a melody

[Scoops]

"If you've used samples, you've failed someone's purity test." is a really obviously fallacious tack to take.
Let's apply reductio ad absurdum: if you aren't a luthier and are using an 'off-the-rack' store-bought instrument you'll have failed SOMEBODY'S "purity test". I can't be certain you know what a capo is if that's one. It smacks of desperation.

Actually, I've built a quite a few guitars and basses. The whole tone wood discussion is a purity test on it's own dimension

[Hewitt Huntwork]

My point was that technological advancements generally tend to make things easier to accomplish than they used to be. If you use any kind of technology at all, you're having an easier time at certain tasks than others that came before you. If one draws a line in the sand and says, "No, nobody can accomplish anything more easily than I did," that's just where the hypocrisy begins.

Plus, maybe the OP just wants to have some fun and explore a little. One deserves to be able to ask about it without someone else's judgments and baggage.

[jancivil]

More fallacy. What do you want from the discussion? You're arguing all over the place as though driven, so what's eating you?

... one draws a line in the sand and says, "No, nobody can accomplish anything more easily than I did..."

Who is doing that? What does that even mean? If you need a software to sort out your chords for you, you are never going to have what the knowledge brings coming to you at all.

Now, it's easier to outsource work than to do work.
but if creating the harmony yourself with your own storehouse of information-experience-knowledge never happens, what exactly was made easier? Paint-by-numbers is def easier than... You just said accomplishment. Level of accomplishment, confer level of commitment, let's be honest.

- then of course the flagrant strawman.
I don't have the resentment. What's eating you though? I don't care how anyone conducts their business, I'm just offering the viewpoint that I think is the healthy and wholesome way to be.

If I were in competition for work with someone that can't cut it their own self, I suppose I would have beef on that level. Not much to talk about there.
But guess what? The hack work 'bout to get outsourced to the machine learning gizmo (ain't gon call it AI and corrupt the meaning of intelligence) anyway.


I'm not taking against the tool itself but addressing a particular argument.

[jancivil]

One deserves to be able to ask about it without someone else's judgments and baggage.

Well, I was clearly talking to you, not them. Is 'recommend to me a plugin' a music theory topic just because it's adjacent to it in its sort of avoidance? What's the idea?

rather than edit to explain my meaning per the capo, I'll waste some more space here.
I mean preserve the sort of weight that the open strings in open position in conference w. the stopped notes have. EG: a D major in open position can be played barre chord at position 5 but it's not the same sound.

also too:

[audiogoeroe]

Scaler 3?

[TheMaestro]

You can use Scaler 2 for that. Detect the melody from your DAW/midi, or play the melody yourself. Scaler will find the key and chords, but not a "random" fitting chord progression, unless you use the "Suggest" button and click in a progression yourself or the "Modulation" section.
You can also choose a chordset from "Common Progressions" in the SONGS menu, and adjust with the semitones (ST) button into the scale of the song.

[Hewitt Huntwork]

More fallacy. What do you want from the discussion? You're arguing all over the place as though driven, so what's eating you?

... one draws a line in the sand and says, "No, nobody can accomplish anything more easily than I did..."

Who is doing that? What does that even mean? If you need a software to sort out your chords for you, you are never going to have what the knowledge brings coming to you at all.

Now, it's easier to outsource work than to do work.
but if creating the harmony yourself with your own storehouse of information-experience-knowledge never happens, what exactly was made easier? Paint-by-numbers is def easier than... You just said accomplishment. Level of accomplishment, confer level of commitment, let's be honest.

- then of course the flagrant strawman.
I don't have the resentment. What's eating you though? I don't care how anyone conducts their business, I'm just offering the viewpoint that I think is the healthy and wholesome way to be.

If I were in competition for work with someone that can't cut it their own self, I suppose I would have beef on that level. Not much to talk about there.
But guess what? The hack work 'bout to get outsourced to the machine learning gizmo (ain't gon call it AI and corrupt the meaning of intelligence) anyway.


I'm not taking against the tool itself but addressing a particular argument.

I enjoyed the capo video you shared. You mentioned the difference in tone between and open D chord and a barred one. I spent a long part of my life amongst folk/coffeehouse performers for whom the barred version was not an option due to never learning it or not being able to execute it. So when I mentioned the capo I was trying (and apparently failing) to suggest that it is used by some people to allow them to play in other keys without learning new chord shapes. I use a capo much of the time both writing and performing.

I hope this helps you understand where I was coming from. I appreciate you taking the time to ask. So few people seem genuinely curious about why we say the things we do. Most of them seem to take some issue with what was said and then try to pass off their condemnation as curiosity. I appreciate that you didn't do that.

[jancivil]

It does help me understand. I'm sorry for the heat on the capo thing. I can't recall using one unless it was when I was like 13 while I also had that harmonica supporter that goes around yer neck.
& I'm sure annoying my mother trying to sing Like a Rolling Stone. But I only wanted to play lead electric, I wanted to do Hendrix, not strummy strum strum really, so that was a brief phase.

[...] to suggest how easy it would be for any individual to take issue with tools and methods that we use in order to allow us to do things we otherwise couldn't.

Well, guilty as charged. I don't play saxophone at all. I don't even really play keyboards, and haven't played a drum kit since, donno, 1987. I don't play any orchestral stringed instrument. I don't play oboe ad infinitum. One could say, and I would not argue, my entire opus is a great honking lie.

I feel reasonably certain Igor Stravinsky will have been unable to get up in the orchestra and demonstrate 'it goes like this' on all the instruments, for that matter.

So, even as I'm not any kind of keyboard player the mere fact of a piano keyboard makes thought possible that might not be, and to full-on reductio ad absurdum the concept itself makes understanding any interval one's voice cannot manage possible that may otherwise not be concrete. It's not very different than 'you use a capo to cheat' in the end.

I'm quite aware a fill in the chord for me software has use value for people that aren't me or like me, and should be a great learning tool. I'm equally aware - and here is my context like ol' Scoops there is yours - that there is a history on this subforum of people that aren't rank beginners, incl. some who were here before I was 16 yrs ago, that cannot be arsed to learn basic chord theory but will argue. (My attitude is 'why are you here on this board, then?')

But it's no skin off me, the person that has convinced herself not to learn (it's not terrifically challenging, but then again confer aptitude) is cheating herself, not me. I'm unlikely to hear the product of a Scaler proponent and be wowed by their handling of harmony.

[jancivil]

Some use a capo because of a deficiency and we could say laziness, but for me that was always 'find your level'. But the whole bit to me, 'thay can say you're cheating with teh sample libraries', not my problem. "my music is a lie, then" is semantics coming and going, & not very illuminating.

So few people seem genuinely curious about why we say the things we do. Most of them seem to take some issue with what was said and then try to pass off their condemnation as curiosity. I appreciate that you didn't do that.

Yeah, I really did want to get a sense of where that came from. I almost went into it. My kneejerk was 'is there some resentment' but I kept to affirming I don't have any as regards the 'life of ease' today,

I'm OLD. The book I will have needed in 1969 or that probably wasn't even in the downtown Charlotte public library (which wasn't a terribly friendly environs for me anyway). I had to bother some girl at school 'can you check my work'. So it should be easier to access information today.

[Slowjamz]

Scaler I think is pretty much your best bet, like the ones already stated. The good thing is that there is no right or wrong, just play around till you find the chords that sound the best to your ears! Most if not all song writers experiment with different chords and voicing until they find something that sounds pleasant.