Harmony Improvisator is the most advanced harmonic composition tool on the market. It opens up the infinite world of harmonic theory by making centuries-old knowledge uniquely transparent. Critical time advantage for creating harmonic frames of songs, soundtracks, and arrangements. The mathematical.

Improvisator ManualThank you for purchasing Harmony Improvisator. This VST plugin is intended to compose music based on the rules of classical harmonic theory. The program lets you explore, by clicking the mouse, the manyfold worlds of harmonic theory without having to consider rules of part-writing or keys and scales. Embedding Harmony Improvisator has to be inserted into your host software as a VSTi plugin. Per default it routes the chords you trigger to a built-in synthesizer. You can optionally load a separate sampler or synthesizer in your host application and route the midi output of Improvisator to it instead of using the built-in synthesizer.

For that, choose Midi out in Improvsators output option menu and connect both Improvisator and your sound generator via a midi track which has Improvisator as the input and the sampler / synthesizer as the output. After setup you should hear harmonies when clicking and holding the mouse on any of Improvisators chord buttons. First steps The main key is chosen in the Circle of Fifths on the top right. The two rows of buttons top left are the most important buttons. These are the scale degrees of the chosen key. The upper row corresponds to the current major key and the lower one to the corresponding minor key.

Below that you find more complex derivatives of these functions: Various inversions, i.e. The same chord with different bass note, one gender inversion, Suspensions, which are chords that tend to be solved to a simple harmony, various characteristic derivatives of subdominants, various characteristic derivatives of dominants.If you prefer the harmonic functions to be named as chords (like A7) or as scale degrees (like I-IV-V-I) you can change the display style in the 'Show harmonic function' dropdown. Suggestions On the middle of the plugin you find suggestions of harmonies that could well follow the one you actually triggered. These are computed anew after each choice of harmony. The first suggestion usually is a rather common sound, for example the standard resolution of a suspension or of a dominant. To try more than one suggestion without loosing the others, you can right click them to avoid that new suggestions are generated after each click.Recently triggered Above the ten suggestion buttons Improvisator registers the four most recent harmonic functions that have been triggered.The harmonic timeline Any harmonies that you play you can drag with the mouse into the harmonic progression area.

Individual harmonies can be deleted, replaced or moved via drag and drop. With that timeline you can not only visualize the actual sheet music of the chords you are interested in but also you can compose up to seven different chord patterns for assembling a piece of music. (See chapter 'Patterns') To switch between the patterns you can use the dropdown menu 'Active Pattern'. Individual patterns can be played back in a loop with the play button beneath the harmonic timeline. The Zoom slider on the right below the timeline allows to zoom in and out to the desired time resolution to create your style of music. Some other means of manipulation of the timeline are available via right-click into the timeline whereby a drop-down menu is opened. Use this to reset the whole pattern or to insert pauses.