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example), the chords will be limited to chords that can be played within the
current position and up to 5 frets away from the current position.
- Force Open Position forces all of the guitar voicings to the open position.
The exception is when the melody notes are so high that they can't be
played using open position voicings. If the melody is in a high range, and
you want a “forced open position,” you should likely transpose the melody
to a lower octave prior to generating the solo.
The settings for Note duration thresholds to get a chord refer to the length that a
note must be before a chord will be generated.
Looking at the settings above (for Guitarist #2), these would be interpreted as
follows:
- If a note occurs and it is the “First Note of a New Chord,” and the note is
not followed by another note for at least 50 ticks (120 ticks = 1 quarter
note), then a chord will get voiced 90% of the time.
- If a note occurs (not the first note of a chord), that is on “Beat 1 of a bar,”
and the note is not followed by another note for at least 50 ticks (120 ticks =
1 quarter note), then a chord will get voiced 90% of the time.
- Similar interpretations for notes occurring on “Beat 2, 3, and 4.” You can
see that the threshold is higher for notes on beat 2 and 4, which is how a
guitar player makes chord solos.
- “Passing notes” are defined as short duration notes that aren't on the beat,
and are followed by a note that is on the beat. In the example above,
passing notes will never be voiced as chords, since the tick threshold is set
to zero.
There is a further threshold applied to whether or not a note is voiced to a chord.
These are durations in milliseconds.