Thanks for sharing Tapas! Seems to be a fairly complete effort but IMO they made a mistake which excludes me from the potential customer list. Under Settings, Arranger: Bass inversion is bundled with the chord recognition mode instead of being an independent setting.

Roland and Casio do this especially well: You can trigger major chords with a single note all day long. Minor, 7, Maj7, dims with just two notes and STILL have bass inversion active. Of course R and C don't penalize you for playing three or more notes, but they're not required, which makes fast progressions much easier to play.

Unfortunately it appears that GIGLADs only option for controlling the bassline requires always playing 3-note chords. This is inferior to Yamaha's "AI Fingered," as well as the brands mentioned above. No matter how much else an arranger does, IMO "intelligent" chord recognition is the ONLY thing that reduces the player's real-time workload in live play. In an age when AI chatbots can write poems, essays, and whole modules of computer code, there's no reason a software arranger shouldn't leverage this intelligence with enough customization to faithfully emulate any of the popular hardware brands.

If the developer breaks out Bass Inversion as an independent setting in a future version update, I would at least download the demo, because otherwise it looks intriguing.


Edited by TedS (05/06/24 01:01 PM)