Hi Gingerman,
thanks for the interest in Harmonies!
The program is not very complicated so I hoped by just trying a bit out everyone could figure out how it works... :S
But of course, I should write some more detailed instructions on the website ;)
In short:
- click in the staff to place notes (similar to midi editors) or remove (click again). When choosing notes, the grey areas in the "harmony-staff" will show you how "distant" your chord is from the scales (the more grey, the more notes don't exist in that scale).
- click in the "harmony-staff" to choose a scale with a given base note, e.g. "C" to have C (e.g. ionian) scale. The red markers in the normal staff will show the notes that do not exist in that scale.
- below the "harmony-staff" you can choose the mode, (church modes for now). If you're not used to modes, just think of "ionian"=Major and "aeolian"=minor. All of the harmony-staff right of a chosen mode will be interpreted as such, meaning if you only have "ionian" on the very left, the whole staff will be interpreted as "ionian".
I hope this helps! Thanks for letting me know!
Cheers :D