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  • Members: 7757
  • Category: Jazz
  • Founded: Mar 29, 2006
  • Language: English
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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 Prof. Bob Keller. The official home page for documentation is here.

Download the latest release here.

Note: Download The Imaginary Book from Files > Bulk Distribution > leadsheets.zip Expand it and copy to your leadsheets folder.

Troubles? Installation Notes are here.
Please post problems to this group. Answers may be on or off list, depending on the issue.

SPAM-FREE: Anyone joining for the purpose of spamming will be banned without warning.

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Re: How to Remove Entire Bar
OK that works for me.
Posted - Thu May 16, 2013 9:07 pm
saemark30
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Re: How to Remove Entire Bar
Unfortunately there is no button or menu item for removing bars, but here's what to do: First save your work, in case the result isn't quite what you wanted,
Posted - Thu May 16, 2013 8:40 pm
Bob
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How to Remove Entire Bar
I could not see in the manual how to remove the first 4 bars in a song. I tired CTRL-x but that removed the notes and chords but the bars were not removed.
Posted - Thu May 16, 2013 8:29 pm
saemark30
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Re: Improvising Solos
Yes. Open Lick Generator controls (rightmost lightbulb icon). From Grammar Options in the upper menu bar uncheck "Use Grammar". Uncheck Auto-Fill. There are
Posted - Wed May 15, 2013 5:57 pm
Bob
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Re: Improvising Solos
Can I force the program to improvise on only 1 scale such as F lydian or F altered?
Posted - Wed May 15, 2013 5:32 pm
saemark30
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