Chord track effects

Cubase
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I made a chord track and used chords I already had in the song. There are melodies, based on the scales, which may change as it goes through different keys.

I duplicated the melody track so I could compare what the chord track does with it and it really alters it a lot as though it doesn’t recognize that the notes already there are in the scale.

When I tried using some new chords to see how much it would alter the existing melody, it replaced it hardly and variation, like r or 6 notes of the same pitch in a row. Is there little AI here?

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I assume you are doing this using the Inspector on an Instrument Track.

I suspect AI would do a much better job. Mostly it just looks at the current pitch of a Note and if that isn’t in the Chord and/or Scale it moves it to the closest one that is.

It’s not really designed as a transformative tool and I can imagine that reapplying it multiple times could result in a flatlined melody. I think the most common use is to keep from playing bum notes.