Forum for Impro-Visor: Jazz Improvisation Advisor, free software for musicians, used to create improvised solos, tunes, transcriptions, or bass lines in the form of lead sheets (chord symbols with melody). Runs on Windows, MacOSX, Linux. Here are example of a solo, tutorial, FAQ.

Generates styled accompaniment automatically from chord progressions. Provides a database for storing and retrieving licks. Creates new licks and full solos based on a user-modifiable grammar that can be learned from transcriptions. Music information is stored as open text files. Sound output is MIDI. Exports MIDI and MusicXML.

Impro-Visor is provided courtesy of Bob Keller. The official home page for documentation is http://www.impro-visor.com/.

Download the latest release from sourceforge.

Note: Leadsheet files and The Imaginary Book are available only here, in Files>Bulk Distribution>leadsheets.zip. Unzip and replace your leadsheets folder with the resulting folder.

Installation Notes:

• Java 1.6 or later must be installed.
• On Macs, OS version 10.5.5 or later is required.
• To use external MIDI on Macs before 10.7, you also need Mandolane.
• Please post problems here. The moderator may answer on or off list, depending on the issue.

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