I watched all the videos you have and the user interface is different than Melody plugin of the Mac and PC latest version.

When I have already in the Ableton Chords and Deep and add Melody I am not getting any produced Melody like you have on screen. Only options are you paint, edit or import your own in. It does not produce melody ground work.

I am using the beta version of PC and Current version of Mac.

Thanks
Steve

Hey Steve,

We will be following up with some detailed tutorials as soon as possible on the new Melody plugin.

The basics work like this:

Connect to Chords if you wish. Or, you can use Melody as a standalone tool. Select your key if you're not connecting to Chords (which sets the same key automatically)

Generate notes in a number of ways. Pencil (Click on the grid to add a note), Paintbrush (click and drag to draw multiple notes) or Idea. 

Idea involves creating an Idea box, which is a section inside which notes will be automatically input. You can change the borders of this Idea box any time. 
Once an Idea has been started you can then alter the notes inside it in many ways - it involves a little trial and error here. Like all sophisticated software, mastering the finer controls takes a little practice, and it may take some getting used to since there is nothing similar on the market.

Pencil and Paintbrush also have interesting parameters that let you choose your starting note, how much of certain notes to generate and so on.

You can also use MIDI editing to manually change notes around, alter lengths etc.

Right-click on a note to delete.

Blue notes are either the Root, Third or Fifth note in the current chord. Green Notes and Yellow Notes can be 2nd, 4ths, 6ths or 7ths depending on the chord itself. They are dissonant in varying degrees, but still, sound cool. Red Notes are highly dissonant and would probably be best avoided. (Rules are made to be broken, of course)

Please bear in mind this plugin is still in Beta and some changes in the workflow may yet be rolled out in the final version :)

On Monday, July 8, 2019 2:46 PM James Araujo - MIK Team wrote:

Hey Steve,

Idea involves creating an Idea box, which is a section inside which notes will be automatically input. You can change the borders of this Idea box any time. 

The problem is, in the video, you can use the patterns in Melody to create melodies (one can even create these patterns in Odesi).. But you cannot use these patterns in this ‘beta’.. I think that is defeating the whole purpose of this program.. I understood it is still in beta but, if you can acknowledge what people are trying to I point out .. we can go progress.. Thanks..