Tweaking the Composing Parameters

In this most advanced SongSprouter feature, you can adjust the parameters that are used to judge musical sensibility while composing, and thereby modify the style of the songs that get composed. You can save multiple sets of alternate composing parameters and load them whenever desired, or revert to the default parameters at any time. To do this, use the "Modify Composing Parameters" (W) command.

The parameters also get adjusted automatically if you rate the songs by pressing a key from 1 (worst) to 9 (best) to let SongSprouter learn what you personally like. That's a very gradual process, but you can make large experimental changes yourself to see what happens. It's problematic to adjust the many parameters (so many combinations!) for the optimal balance that produces the best songs that SongSprouter could produce, so you're likely to find some changes that improve the songs if you're willing to put some time into it.

Most people might calls these things "rules" rather than "parameters". But SongSprouter avoids that word because in everyday speech a rule is usually something that you should always do or something that you should never do, and there is nothing like that in SongSprouter. There are only parameters that make various things more or less likely to happen. So (for lack of a better word) these are called parameters even though that word takes longer to say than rules.

Here are some of the pages from the menu tree of composing parameters.