Everyone, thanks for chiming in. I’ve been playing around with Hookpad more and I’m starting to come around to ElSmurf’s line of thinking.
Admittedly, I don’t have a ton of experience writing music, so some of this is me just trying to understand what is going on in the application and why (musically speaking).
For instance, I don’t understand why a iii7 chord would have the 7 dropped an octave (under the root note) in one composition, but if I play the iii7 in a brand new composition, the 7 is above the triad.
I know I should just give in to the ‘smartness’, but is there any literature on methodology that would be helpful in understanding why the application behaves the way it does?
I found this forum post: Moving chords down an octave in Hookpad - #3 by jokull
I assume it has something to do with the determination of the “general range of chord tones” and the “octave break”, but why would that impact the placement of 7 for iii7?