Voice Leading

Chords played in root position jump around: C, then G, then Am, each built up from its root, moves every note a long way. A pianist plays G with its B at the bottom and F with its C at the bottom, so that the notes barely move. A voice leading does that for you: the first chord of a clip plays as written, and each chord after takes the inversion and the octave whose notes move least from the chord before. Single notes, such as a bass line's, are left alone.

Settings

Setting	What it does
Name	ENTER renames it, and every chain using it follows.
Lowest octave, Highest octave	The chords stay within these octaves, shown in the set's octave labels, so that they don't drift up or down over a long piece. A chord no voicing fits plays as written.
Keep the root in the bass	Off by default. On, each chord's lowest written note stays where it is and only the notes above it are voiced, always above it, as a keyboard player plays beside a bass player. Space or ENTER toggles it.
Restart	When it starts over, as Generators describes; with "on new scene" or "whole song" a scene's first chord is voiced near the last chord before.

Applying the Generator

Add the Voice Leading generator to a chain after a progression, as voice_leading: name, or put it on any clip of chords. examples/learning/05_voice_leading.yml plays three progressions in root position, inverted by hand with the chord editor's Inv. row, and voice-led; the last scene of examples/learning/06_chord_progression_generator.yml voice-leads its pad.