Comment by stevage

I'm currently building a music composition tool / MIDI sequencer that is very chord and music theory driven. You write melodies in terms of the degrees of the scale, which are relative to each bar's chord. So instead of writing an "F" it might be a "3" for the third degree of a D minor chord.

It's been a couple of weeks of work, but it's at the point where it's actually fun and pretty quick to blast out a little tune and experiment with different chord progressions.