Impro-visor
icarusi
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ImproVisorTutorial4.htm
Seems a bit like BiaB with more user control
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Travis
icar...@hotmail.com says...
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> Anyone here using (or used) it?
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> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/
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> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ImproVisorTutorial4.htm
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> Seems a bit like BiaB with more user control
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> icarusi
It actually looks very promising, especially when it's free!
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icarusi
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> In article <lbCdnV-YXMpQ5JzQ...@brightview.co.uk>,
> icar...@hotmail.com says...
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>> Anyone here using (or used) it?
>>
>> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/
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>> http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/improvisor/ImproVisorTutorial4.htm
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>> Seems a bit like BiaB with more user control
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>> icarusi
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> It actually looks very promising, especially when it's free!
Difficult to argue with 'free'. Seems to have quite a bit of tweakability,
although some of the auto-generated stuff has a strange angularity about it,
but could be more suited to fusion stuff.
Travis
icar...@hotmail.com says...
I didn't get the impression it had an orientation towards any style.
Perhaps I don't understand your intended use.
My perspective is that it seems to be a free alternative to BIAB,
perhaps without all the functionality...or perhaps not, I don't know.
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Travis
JBAFromNY
I've got it. You can use it as a freebie BIAB. However, it seems
mainly geared to being a practice and teaching tool, whereas BIAB
sells itself partly on its potential for gig-ready accompaniment.
It has lots of potential, but I haven't gotten into much tweaking yet,
so I can't really offer much info on that. I joined the yahoo group,
which has a huge fakebook-without-melodies (called the "Imaginary
Book") and lots of other resources available for downloading. I've
mainly been calling up tunes from the "Imaginary Book" to practice
playing heads and blowing over changes. For that, it's great. I find
the "user experience" a bit frustrating (help is useless; various
dialog boxes don't work very well; things in general work in non-
obvious ways). It's clearly not a piece of commercial software, but
it's free, and runs on a Mac, so I'm not complaining.
John
icarusi
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>> I find
the "user experience" a bit frustrating (help is useless; various
dialog boxes don't work very well; things in general work in non-
obvious ways). It's clearly not a piece of commercial software, but
it's free, and runs on a Mac, so I'm not complaining.<<
The web 'tutorial' explains a lot of it, so I saved the html. I like the
'suggestions' option and that you can audition each option instantly as you
click on it, and it seems to be referencing the actual chords on the sheet
at that position, not just a notional example. I'm fairly used to 'try it
and see' programs fro the old DOS days so 'non-obvious' was more common
before 'user-friendly' was invented.
The Yahoo user group seems pretty good for honesty when a feature is
genuinly lacking, rather than the ignoring or stonewalling of some
commercial outfits.
This is link mentioned, is pretty good for other stuff:-
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~keller/jazz/