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Transpose

This one is somewhat difficult to explain, but its probably the most interesting feature of the Harmony Browser. First you specify a chord sequence by clicking with the middle (or shift+left) button on some chords. You can delete the last chord from the selection by clicking on it. Lets assume, you have selected 4 chords. Then you select eg 8 bars in the track window (all tracks) and you select transpose. Now, the Harmony Browser tries to change the harmonies and scales from the trackwindow selection into the selected chords.

Algorithm: First it computes: 4 chords for 8 bars, so every chord is used for 2 bars. Then it looks at the first 2 bars from the trackwin selection and counts the length of all notes. It assumes, that the 4 notes with the largest sum of length are the chords present in the song and changes them to the 4 notes from the first chord of your chord selection. Afterwards, the remaining notes from the trackwin selection are mapped to the remaining notes of the scale the chord was taken from.

If you have recorded simple material (e.g. just 4-note chords) this will work fine. However, if you have recorded complex material, the results are not always satisfying. You may set analyze source in sections per harmony to a value > 1 which I'll try to explain with an example: assume you have selected 2 chords G7 and Cj7. Setting the value to 2 will make the Harmony Browser work as if you had selected each chord twice (G7, G7, Cj7, Cj7). So the trackwin selection is analyzed and transposed in finer sections and will get closer to the selected chords.