Any alternative to Songworks?

[brokendreambin]

I bought Tanager Songworks to sketch out song ideas and catalog ideas. The idea was to enter chords and melodies, here them, transpose them, the export to Logic for better processing later.

However, it turns out to be buggy. The library function does not work at all. The scrolling is like molasses. Whenever you have more than one chord per bar, it puts a yellow diamond and you can not read the chord at all. I emailed their techsupport several times and don't get a response.

Are there some other alternatives for this? I know can enter everything in Logic but it does not have a facility for typing chords (e.g. "Amin7"), and there is no facility for storing varioous verses and choruses and combing them easily.

[eeoo]

There's something called Band in a Box that I believe does what you're talking about. Don't know how it sounds but it's been around for a long time and lots of people use it.

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[brokendreambin]

Oh thats right, I forgot about B-in-a-B. Does that let you have a library of verses, choruses and bridges to put together in your songs?

[Len911]

You mean songframe? There is a relatively new program called rapid composer that you might take a look at. As far as storing verses and chords, the easiest is to probably just make a folder on your hard drive and store them as midi files. There are probably a handful of programs available, and I believe most probably have a demo.
http://www.musicdevelopments.com/index.html

Band in a box you can save the song in their song format, or export midi, etc.

I'm not sure what it is exactly that you are looking for, a library to store chord progressions and ideas for different sections of your songs? I'm not sure if it isn't easier in some of these programs to keep the entire songs together, and just work out different sections later. Whether it is a motif, a phrase, or a chorus or verse or bridge, etc. I would save what you have as a song and add whatever whenever. Of course you could store your verses, chorus's etc as Logic files also. Midi files are probably the most generic easiest way to store your ideas,
because they can be opened and edited in any program and exchanged universally.