Next-Note Suggestions

Next-note suggestions show you a set of rated, plain-language options for the next note — right at your insert cursor on the piano roll. Hover one to hear it, click one to place it. It's a guided way to build a melody a note at a time when you're not sure what should come next, so it's sometimes called beginner mode — but it's just as handy for sketching ideas quickly.

It is currently available on the piano roll.

Turning it on

In the compose toolbar above the note grid, the leading slot on the left holds the ✱ button (tooltip: Suggest next notes). Click it to switch suggestions on — the button highlights while it's active. Click it again to switch them off.

This is a separate toggle from the four compose peers (Boilerplate, Resume, Improve, Contour) — you can leave it on while you work and it won't interfere with them.

What you see

With suggestions on, a column of blocks appears at the insert cursor — one block per candidate pitch:

Colour is a rating. Green = a strong choice, amber = a fair choice, red = a weak choice for this spot.
A label sits to the right of each block describing what the move does musically — see below.
Suggestions land near your last note, within a small range, so the line stays singable rather than leaping all over the keyboard. On an empty section they appear around the octave you're typing in.

Notes outside your instrument's playable range are dropped automatically.

Trying and placing a suggestion

Action	What happens
Hover a block	You hear it once — a brief audition. Swipe across the column to compare options by ear.
Click a block	The note is placed at the cursor with a suggested length. The cursor advances and a fresh set of suggestions appears.

Placing a suggestion goes through the normal note-insert path, so undo (Ctrl+Z) works exactly as it does for notes you draw by hand.

Reading the labels

Labels describe the feel of the move, not music theory. A few examples:

Label	Meaning
Comes home — releases the tension	Lands on the home note; the line resolves.
Lifts the line — pulls toward home	Rises toward a note that wants to fall back home.
Builds tension — wants to resolve up	A tense note that asks to keep moving.
Steps along — keeps the line flowing	A gentle passing note that keeps momentum.
Bright surprise — off the scale	A colour note from outside the key — risky but interesting.

Suggestions are phrase-aware. Near the end of a phrase, landing on the home note earns a special label — "Closes the phrase — the listener has been waiting for this" — so you know when a moment of arrival is on offer.

The rest suggestion

Toward the end of a phrase you may see a lighter, dashed block labelled "Let it breathe — a rest seals the ending". Click it to drop in a rest instead of a note. Beginners almost never leave space; this nudges you to let a phrase end.

How suggestions are chosen

They follow your key. The home note (the tonic) always reads as home, wherever it lands.
If you've laid down a chord progression, suggestions also know the chord under the cursor: notes that belong to that chord read as consonant, and notes outside it read as colour or tension.
No genre or progression is required — suggestions work from the key alone and simply get more context-aware as you add a progression and a genre.
Red suggestions still appear. A tense or surprising note can be exactly the right choice — the rating is advice, not a rule. You decide.

Tips

Build, then refine — place suggestions to rough out a phrase, then drag and tune notes by hand.
Compare by ear — swipe slowly across the column and listen before you commit; the label tells you why, your ear tells you whether.
Set your chords first — lay a chord progression down before suggesting notes, and the options become genuinely chord-aware.
Take the rest — when "Let it breathe" appears, use it; space is part of the melody.
Leave it on — suggestions sit alongside the compose toolbar, so you can keep them visible while you generate or edit.