How do define a harmonic melody?

[Elenesski]

Below is a picture of a simple chord progression. The second track is a melody generator with the details of the melody generator below. The MODE is "Chord Notes Only", so I expected when I created 3 ghost copies of the original melody, the notes in the melody would be adjusted to the chord; instead, it looks like the notes are nothing more than copies of the original generator.

How do I force the melody to "snap" to the chord, the way it's shown in the third track? [In the third track, I exported the rendered midi to my DAW and re-imported it into RC and added a variation called "Permute Chord Notes"] ... I assumed the melody would have done the same thing without me having to EXPORT -> IMPORT (set permute) -> EXPORT. Adding a Permute to the ghost doesn't affect the notes at all.

Is this a bug?

[tsmiguel]

I am not a RC Expert but the way I do what you want is using real copies of the melody track instead of ghost copies. Try it out to see if it works for you
Tomi

[Elenesski]

But then the pattern of the original melody is lost.

[musicdevelopments]

This is a good question. It is not really a bug, but it works this way.
The melody generator creates scale notes only. This is the reason why you see the same phrase when you ghost copy it.

I would do the following: You created a short phrase with the MG. If you render it and convert it to relative form (Chord+Scale steps) you can ghost copy it and it will behave as you expected. So you need to select the phrase, click on 'Convert To Absolute Notes', then 'Convert To Relative Form'.

There is a reason why the melody generator works with scale notes. It uses a complex algorithm to lay out the notes depending on your rules, the scale and chords used.
If it used only chord relative notes, and you change a chord in the middle of the MG, it would need to be regenerated anyway because with the changed chord some rules may be broken. This will be improved in the future so that when a chord changes, only the few beats that belong to the chord will be regenerated.

Thanks,
Attila

[Elenesski]

Wow, not only that, but if you pull the melody into the the Phase Editor and modify it, the modifications are applied to the ghosts as well. Which means I can pull a midi phrase into the system and drop it on to the composition and use it properly applied to the chords.

Most fun.

Cheers.