Please watch this 8-min video to see what a professional software arranger can do for a fraction of the price of a hardware arranger.

Introducing GIGLAD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8MeQ7662qI


GIGLAD is offering a 14-day free trial:

https://deltarray.com/

The full version is priced affordably at 250 Euros.
It comes with 300 Styles, Native Effects, GM Soundfonts, Style Editor and a Song Editor.

GIGLAD reads Yamaha SFF2 and SFF3 Styles.
It supports VST, VST3 virtual instruments and Audio Units synth plug-ins and effects.

It has an exhaustive feature set that rivals hardware arrangers.
Here is the documentation:

https://deltarray.com/documentation/giglad/

Here is a tutorial on the Style Editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHwWYh-YZM

For someone who primarily uses a PC or a MAC with a large touch screen along with a collection of Virtual Instruments and MIDI Controllers, GIGLAD is the ideal software to bring arranger capabilities to their setup.

Thanks for sharing Tapas! Seems to be a fairly complete effort but IMO they made a mistake which excludes me from the potential customer list. Under Settings, Arranger: Bass inversion is bundled with the chord recognition mode instead of being an independent setting.

Roland and Casio do this especially well: You can trigger major chords with a single note all day long. Minor, 7, Maj7, dims with just two notes and STILL have bass inversion active. Of course R and C don't penalize you for playing three or more notes, but they're not required, which makes fast progressions much easier to play.

Unfortunately it appears that GIGLADs only option for controlling the bassline requires always playing 3-note chords. This is inferior to Yamaha's "AI Fingered," as well as the brands mentioned above. No matter how much else an arranger does, IMO "intelligent" chord recognition is the ONLY thing that reduces the player's real-time workload in live play. In an age when AI chatbots can write poems, essays, and whole modules of computer code, there's no reason a software arranger shouldn't leverage this intelligence with enough customization to faithfully emulate any of the popular hardware brands.

If the developer breaks out Bass Inversion as an independent setting in a future version update, I would at least download the demo, because otherwise it looks intriguing.