✔ Chord Pad
◾ Transpose the pad
◾ Sort the pad
◾ Remove duplicate chords
◾ Piano shows the notes of chords
✔ Tap BPM: Tap tempo dialog is now available as tool for the home screen
✔ Song Analyser: Complete support for Solfege and Nashville Number System
? Songbook: Problems to replace a chord if the song was in Solfege
◾ Customise a toolbar to have quick access to your favourite functions. Available on nearly every screen like Songbook, Song-Writer, Chords, Editor or even the home screen
◾ Documentation: https://smartchord.de/docs/general/toolbar/
✔ Android 14 compatibility
? Chord Progression: Change capo
? Circle of Fifths: music sheet wasn't always updated correctly with naming method 'Solfege'
⭐ Instrument translator:
◾ Translates the fingering from one instrument or tuning to another instrument or tuning
◾ It translates from one of the approx. 40 supported string instruments and the piano to another
◾ It supports any tuning
? Songbook internet search: Workaround to handle corrupt song pages on cifra
? Songbook: Scrolling on rare conditions
? Chord name: Not all note names were visible without a selected chord
? Play chord sounds in some screens
...
✔ Settings are searchable
✔ Chord name:
◾ Fingering colors follow the color scheme binding for the selected chord
◾ Optional notes of a chord are marked in red
✔ Set list: Layout optimizations
? Songbook: Automatic scroll speed after editing a songtext
? Songbook internet search: Workaround to handle corrupt song pages on chords-and-tabs.net
? Categories have been lost when you save a song that is running the set list
? Rootless chords didn't enforce to have the bass note in slash chords
✔ Chord diagrams: Option to mark open strings with a rectangle
✔ Fretboard Trainer: Possibility to select single scales with tonic
✔ Set list: Import is possible from an arbitrary folder on the device
✔ Piano: Possibility to change the base note of a chord or the tonic of a scale
✔ Notepad: More scale selection possibilities
✔ File importer: Menu entry to set smartChords app specific folders for import
? Set list: Export and print showed a blank page when 'No content' was selected
✔ Songbook:
◾ Optimized print and share
◾ Workaround to handle corrupt song pages on Ultimate-Guitar
✔ Set List:
◾ Add Notes as set list entries. Use a note entry to make a joke or address the audience, or indicate a change of instrument, tuning adjustments, equipment requirements, or other specific details
◾ Optimized set list export and print
✔ Editor: Text capacity increased
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
✔ Notepad:
◾ Add Images
◾ Add YouTube videos
◾ Menu items to collapse or expand all notes
◾ New editor menu items to add links to chords, scales, picking patterns
✔ Scale:
◾ New button to define scale favorite
◾ More scale favorites visible on large screens
✔ Songbook: internet search optimized
? Editor made problems on some devices (song editor, lyrics pad, song writer, notepad)
? Scale favorites: Drag'n'drop works again
✔ Notepad:
◾ New way to organize notes for different items
▶ Watch our video about the notepad and the notes: https://youtu.be/hMIqXNRPniw
? Set list: Problems to add songs into an empty set list
✔ Songbook:
◾ Editor colors blocks and instructions to make the song text clearer
◾ Scroll bars when scrolling
◾ ChordPro annotations [*]
◾ Possibility to import songs from an arbitrary folder on Android 13 and newer
✔ Piano: Option to show scales and chords on the keys
? Songbook: Corrections for scrolling
? Songbook: Some songs could not be opened
? Octavation corrected in some tunings
✔ Other improvements and fixes
✔ Songbook:
◾ Editor colors blocks and instructions to make the song text clearer
◾ Scroll bars when scrolling
◾ ChordPro annotations [*]
✔ Piano: Option to show scales and chords on the keys
? Songbook: Some songs could not be opened
? Songbook: Corrections for auto scroll
? Octavation corrected in some tunings
✔ Other improvements and fixes
✔ Songbook scroll control behavior: Possibility to control the scrolling by defining a time from the start when automatic scrolling reaches the line
▶ Learn how to scroll: https://youtu.be/Aj6Zlc1gsJY
❗❗ Behavior change: Decide whether to save or discard on exit a feature
? Songbook:
◾ Scrolling no longer worked for songs without a duration
◾ When using 'Replace chord' and the song was already transposed, the new chord was not transposed
◾ Internet song search problems with guitartabs
...
✔ Songbook scroll control behavior: Possibility to control the scrolling by defining a time from the start when automatic scrolling reaches the line
▶ Learn how to scroll: https://youtu.be/Aj6Zlc1gsJY
❗❗ Behavior change: Decide whether to save or discard on exit a feature
? Songbook: When using 'Replace chord' and the song was already transposed, the new chord was not transposed
? Songbook: Internet song search problems with guitartabs
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐ Song Writer
◾ Drag'n'drop support
◾ Drum Machine and Metronome integrated for parallel playback to the player
◾ The diatonic chords in the selection view are colored according to the color scheme
◾ History button to go back to the last used scales
❗❗ The hash sign (#) is now allowed in names
? Circle of fifths: Switching the key by dragging works again
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐ Song Writer
◾ Drag'n'drop support
◾ Drum Machine and Metronome integrated for parallel playback to the player
◾ The diatonic chords in the selection view are colored according to the color scheme
◾ History button to go back to the last used scales
❗❗ The hash sign (#) is now allowed in names
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐⭐⭐ Song Writer is released ⭐⭐⭐
? Shop: The Song Writer, the Lyrics Padand the Key Identifier are now available as an in-app purchase
✔ Scale: Option to show a resizable piano which also shows the name of the notes of the scale
? Internet song search: Workaround for the changed response from Ultimate Guitar + Warning when browser blocks access
? Song Writer: Scale wasn't stored
? Table of contents and Backup: Long names weren't completely readable
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐⭐⭐ Song Writer ⭐⭐⭐
✔ Possibility to get the key of every line or block or the whole song
✔ Possibility to loop a single song block in the player
✔ Menu item to open the piano
✔ The documentation is ready: https://smartchord.de/docs/song-writer/overview/
? Song Writer: Fixes e.g. replacing chords
? Songbook: Crashed on older devices (Android 4.x)
? There was a short delay after a count-in
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Song Writer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
⭐ Player to automatically play song chords
⭐ Possibility to set the duration of chords and rests within a bar
⭐ Add or replace a chord by entering the name of the new chord
⭐ Possibility to change the instrument and tuning for the song
✔ Circle of Fifths and Scale-Circle: Piano is playable
? Songbook: YouTube search and song search
? Song Writer: Fixes move and delete chords
? Set list: Crashed on older devices (Android 4.x)
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐⭐⭐ New 'Song Writer' ⭐⭐⭐
The new Song Writer makes it uniquely easy to write and arrange songs. The Song Writer helps you to find the chords that sound good together and write lyrics with the right words
✔ Subscriptions are available again! Either annually or quarterly
✔ Circle of Fifths and scale-circle: Option to show the key's accidentals or just the selected chord's accidentals
✔ New themes: Waikawa Dark + Waikawa Light
✔ Circle of Fifths and scale-circle:
▫ New piano setting to mark the keys belonging to the scale with its note name
▫ Option to allow/disallow the rotation of the circle to switch the key
▫ Option to keep the display active even without touching it
▫ Improved sound
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
⭐ Lyrics pad:
The new Lyrics pad is an inspiring tool for poets, rappers, lyricists and songwriters. With it you'll easily keep all your ideas and the Word-Finder will help you with the right words. No matter if you are looking for a rhyme, a synonym, an antonym or even a word with a certain meaning or beginning or end.
✔ Translations for all languages
✔ Other improvements and fixes
✔ Scale fretboard screen: The fretboard range can be changed if none of the 'Pattern' modes is selected
? Set list: Problems to open a set list
? Songbook: The 'Printout' color scheme is used again for printing
? With some themes, the text of slide switches was hardly or not at all readable
? Songbook: Wrong sound for chords when tuning has a capo
? Missing E in C Dominant 7th scale
✔ Other minor fixes
✔ Circle Of Fifths and Scale Circle:
▫ Option to show the piano to visualize the chords
▫ Optimized sound
✔ New sound options for all instruments
✔ A further set of chord notations mainly used in South America
✔ Table of contents: Possibility to add categories
✔ Possibility to add single chords or chords from chord progressions and songs
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
⭐⭐⭐ World first: Song analyzer ⭐⭐⭐
⭐ New 'Song analyzer' detects the chord progressions and keys of any song
⭐ Write your songs based on the chord progressions of successful songs
▫ It analyzes the songs in your songbook or any other song found by the internet search
▫ It shows the set of chords and the key of a song
▫ It shows the chord progressions and also their keys
▫ It lets you create your chord progressions based on the ones detected
✔ Other improvements and fixes
✔ Scale Name and Key Identifier with context menus to:
▫ investigate a scale in the scale screen
▫ show the diatonic chords for the scale
▫ show the scale in the Fretboard Explorer
▫ add a scale to the scale favorites
▫ add a scale to the scale blacklist
✔ Circle of fifths: show the fingerings for the chords on a dedicated screen
? Workaround for incompatibilities on devices with Android 4.x
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
✔ Scale Name and Key Identifier with context menus to:
▫ investigate a scale in the scale screen
▫ show the diatonic chords for the scale
▫ show the scale in the Fretboard Explorer
▫ add a scale to the scale favorites
▫ add a scale to the scale blacklist
✔ Circle of fifths: show the fingerings for the chords on a dedicated screen
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐ Scale name:
▫ Determines the scale for a song or a chord progression
▫ Determines the scale also for an arbitrary set of chords or notes
⭐ Songbook
▫ The musical key is automatically determined by the Key Identifier:
▫ New directives to repeat blocks:
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
⭐ Modes for each scale
⭐ 'Note-circle' to visualize the distribution of a scale
⭐ Swipe gesture on the musical notation changes the scale
⭐ New 'Note-circle' view to select the root notes e.g. for the scales
⭐ Dialog to define the tools on the home-screen in one step
⭐ Songbook: Support for changes on chords-and-tabs.net
⭐ Many improvements and fixes
⭐ Practice: Combine any exercise with existing exercises
⭐ Songbook: New supported website: https://acordesweb.com
✅ Chord simplification improved
✅ Songbook: Detects all chords from the chord dictionary
✅ Songbook YouTube search: Additional button to extend search text by 'acoustic', 'cover', 'lesson', ...
✅ 'Show arpeggio' added to menus in chord screens and on long-press on a chord diagram
? Circle of fifths and scale-circle: Empty chord gallery and a lot of error toasts when using solfége
⭐ Circle of fifths
▫ Get triads, 7th or 9th chords
▫ Show the chord charts, scale on the fretboard, sheet music for the chords
⭐ 'Scale-circle'. New innovative mode of the Circle of fifths
▫ It can be used with each scale which does have all 7 degrees
▫ There are more than 300 scales beneath the modes of the major scale like Dorian, Lydian or Mixolydian
✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes
⭐ Simplify chords
⭐ Songbook: Optimized transpose functionality
✔ Chord chart galleries are resizable
✔ 'Black bright' and 'Black dark' theme
✔ Dialogs are movable by dragging the title bar
✔ Transposer with color scheme support
✔ Charango tunings: Charango Hatun (six course and seven course)
✔ New color scheme
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐ Songbook: Replace a chord or fingering by direct input on the fretboard
⭐ Improved handling of fingering favorites
⭐ 5-string Banjo with improved chord algorithm
✅ Set list: Possibility to add PDF or image files from GoogleDrive
✅ Scale favorites are now part of the synchronization
✅ Open a chord in the fretboard explorer by the context menu of a chord gallery
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐ Songbook: Replace a chord or fingering by direct input on the fretboard
⭐ Improved handling of fingering favorites
⭐ 5-string Banjo with improved chord algorithm
✅ Set list: Possibility to add PDF or image files from GoogleDrive
✅ Scale favorites are now part of the synchronization
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐ History is filterable to speed up access to the entries like songs
⭐ Songbook: MIDI support extended
✅ Songbook: Scroll breaks are recognizable as such and show the duration of the breaks in seconds
✅ Possibility to change the folder for import and search when 'Read storage' permission is granted
? Online song editor, importer, viewer: HTTPS support completed
⭐⭐⭐ 'Set list link' released ⭐⭐⭐
▫ Connects different devices of your bandmates during rehearsals and live performances
▫ Mirrors the set list of the 'Leader' to the devices of the 'Followers'
▫ Opens, starts and stops the song on the follower devices in synchronization with the leader so everyone is on the same song
✅ Online song editor, importer, viewer: HTTPS for all supported Android versions
✅ Online song editor, importer, viewer:
▫ Chrome is supported again
▫ HTTPS support
? Fixed: File access on some device
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐ Further internal privacy improvements to protect your data
✅ Set list: Automatic lookup for images or PDFs, if the location has been changed or if the location is different on synchronized devices
? 'Table of contents': Problems to open items with spaces at the beginning or end of the name are solved
✔ Other improvements and fixes
⭐ Further privacy improvements to protect your data
⭐ New instrument: Viola Caipira with predefined 19 tunings
⭐ Songbook: Possibility to show all chord charts at once
⭐ Songbook & Set list: Option to show player and 'Information' area in full-screen mode
⭐ Edit screen and text dialogs support voice recognition to enter the text
⭐ Backup: Restore your data directly from a backup file in your cloud
⭐ Privacy improvements to protect your data
▫ Songbook does not need storage permission anymore
▫ Links to audio and video files in songs are migrated to links to Androids MediaStore
✅ New instrument: 9-string guitar with nine predefined tunings
✅ Notepad: Manage your favorite YouTube videos in the Notepad.
✅ Audio-, video and YouTube-search: Use voice recognition to enter the search term
✔ Other changes and fixes
⭐ Songbook enhanced with a contextual menu to
◾ Mark blocks like chorus or bridge
◾ Insert and delete scroll breaks
✅ Scroll breaks are now visible and and changeable in the songbook itself
✅ Restore from file: Backup got a new menu item to select a backup file via the file explorer
✅ New picking patterns
? Major fixes
▶ There is a video editing songs: https://youtu.be/QGxaxAS6Dwk
⭐ Songbook enhanced with a contextual menu to
◾ Mark blocks like chorus or bridge
◾ Insert and delete scroll breaks
✅ Scroll breaks are now visible and and changeable in the songbook itself
✅ Restore from file: Backup got a new menu item to select a backup file via the file explorer
✅ New picking patterns
? Major fixes
▶ There is a video editing songs: https://youtu.be/QGxaxAS6Dwk
⭐⭐⭐ Chord dictionary ⭐⭐⭐
▫ The chord dictionary lists every possible chord without exception
▫ Add any chord as 'custom chord' into smartChord to be used in every feature e.g. the songbook
▫ Get details for any chord
▫ Get every possible voicing for every tuning and every instrument
✅ Songbook allows chord names that contain brackets ()
✅ Instrument favorites: New setting to define your favorites
✅ Other changes and fixes
⭐ Privacy improvements to protect your data: The need for general external storage access removed
⭐ Fretboard Explorer as a customizable learning interface: Focus on the things that are important at the time
✅ Many other changes and fixes
⭐ Reverse chord finder is now complete: Get the chord name for every possible voicing, every tuning and every instrument ⭐
✅ Other minor changes and fixes
⭐Songbook with extended MIDI support
▫ Select a song by a MIDI device
▫ Control a MIDI device from the Songbook
▫ New simple 'MIDI test' tool. It shows the MIDI messages received from a MIDI device or allows to send messages to a MIDI device
✅ Share your chord progressions with friends, other musicians or students
✅ Auto completion from history for song internet search and YouTube video search
✅ Undo and redo in editor for songs and notes
⭐⭐⭐ Songbook with support to simplify chords ⭐⭐⭐
▫ New screen 'Simplify chords' shows the chords of a song and their simplified chords
▫ Complex chords do have multiple possible simplifications
▫ Simplification level can be selected individually for each chord
▫ Pre-selected are the simplest chords or your favorite chords (according to settings)
▫ Simplification can be made undone by calling the menu item 'Simplify chords' again
✅ Gesture support
✅ Some fixes
⭐ Songbook internet search:
▫ Extended user interface
▫ Song preview option
▫ Option to exclude certain chord sites from the song search
▫ Support for chords-and-tabs.net
▫ Support for ukutabs.com
⭐ Drum machine: 422 drum patterns
✅ Notepad: Text wrap button and broader boarder
✅ Fix: Categories were limited to 3 items
✅ Fix: Mixolydian Pentatonic Scale
⭐ Songbook internet search:
▫ Extended user interface
▫ Song preview option
▫ Option to exclude certain chord sites from the song search
▫ Support for chords-and-tabs.net
▫ Support for ukutabs.com
⭐ Drum machine: 422 drum patterns
✅ Notepad:
▫ Improved audio recording quality
▫ Expandable/collapsible notes
▫ Copy & paste
✅ Create notes with a link to your item from each 'Folder' menu. Use it for instance to document your ideas.
✅ Songbook:
▫ New directives to embed links to your item like chord progressions, notes, exercises, ...
▫ New color options to define the text and background colors for the {highlight:} directive
✅ Custom tunings with just two strings are allowed
✅ Other changes and fixes
* Rootless chord voicings *
Use it if ...
▫ you play instruments with fewer strings like a Cigar Box Guitar or a Ukulele
▫ you’re playing in a band and the bass player will play the root note
▫ you like this 'jazzy' sound
⭐ Songbook:
▫ Different ChordPro style delimiters
▫ Predefined color schemes
▫ Optimized scrolling
▫ New documentation: https://smartchord.de/s-mart-songbook
⭐ Drum machine:
▫ 234 drum patterns for download
▫ Preview in the 'Table of contents'
▶ New video: https://youtu.be/Klu5uIO_WLQ
✅ ...
⭐ New option to apply the color scheme either to intervals or notes
⭐ Three new arpeggio 'notes per string' pattern modes
✅ Optimized gallery and grid sizes for chords, scales and arpeggios
✅ Optimized printout for chords, scales and arpeggios
❗❗ Scale freeze: Workaround for Android bug on some devices
❗❗ Important fixes and many other changes
⭐ Categories to classify and filter your items like songs or drum patterns
▫ Assign the categories to your items
▫ Filter your items by one or more categories
⭐ New set list export as text or HTML to share or print it
⭐ New set list import
✅ A lot of other minor changes and fixes
✅ Individual 'Auto save' option for the different items like songs or notes
✅ Drum machine: Improved handling
✅ Set list: Improved search handling
✅ Other changes and fixes
✅ Individual 'Auto save' option for the different items like songs or notes
✅ Drum machine: Improved handling
✅ Set list: Improved search handling
✅ Other changes and fixes
⭐ Songbook with an integrated Drum Machine
⭐ Run the Drum Machine in the background to have it in other smartChord features or apps
❗ Fix Drum Machine: Replacing instruments didn't work anymore
✅ A lot of other changes and fixes
⭐⭐⭐ Drum machine ⭐⭐⭐
▫ Use up to 16 percussion instruments in parallel to create your drum patterns
▫ Use them for the musical accompaniment for your songs
▫ Use the Drum machine as rhythm trainer
▫ Choose between more than 40 percussion instruments
✅ Piano with optimized multi touch handling and more options
✅ Lot of other changes and fixes
⭐ Pretty nice piano to jam around. Just for fun :)
✅ Synchronization: Option to allow deletion of song and set list files in the cloud, if the songs or set lists are deleted in smartChord
✅ Other changes and fixes
⭐ A lot of Songbook improvements like smoother zooming
⭐ New picking patterns and possibility to filter the huge list
✅ Scales: Option to choose scale with or without tonic
✅ Tuner: Tune your instrument with the capo set
✅ Tuning is shown everywhere with capo position if capo is set
✅ Possibility to translate tips and hints
✅ Other changes and fixes
⭐ New setting to define favorite chord types for all instruments at once
⭐ Enhancements for fingering favorites
⭐ New screen to get all comprehensive help
✅ Chord name: support for beginners with inverse and slash chords
✅ Possibility to translate help texts
✅ Other changes and fixes
⭐ Custom instruments
▫ Create additional instruments with their own instrument and chord settings
▫ Gives you the possibility to change very comfortably all the instrument settings (more than 20) at once
⭐ s.mart Online Songbook Importer
▫ It allows you to import new songs comfortable via the browser of your computer
▶ Our video leads you through the import process: https://youtu.be/V7L-p4UzZWo
✅ Fix Songbook: Share PDF generated a blank page
✅ Smaller fixes and changes
⭐ Custom chords
▫ New screen to create your own chords
▫ They are seamlessly integrated and available in all features (e.g. in a song)
▫ You can also use it to rename existing chords to your naming convention
✅ Metronome optimizations
✅ Complete full screen mode
✅ A lot of other changes and fixes
⭐ 'Table of content' mode
⭐ Drag'n'drop support
✅ Auto save option
✅ YouTube search for every user
✅ Showcase for the most important functions and GUI concepts
✅ Tooltips
✅ Welcome wizard
⭐ 'Table of content' mode
⭐ Drag'n'drop support
✅ Auto save option
✅ YouTube search for every user
✅ Showcase for the most important functions and GUI concepts
✅ Tooltips
✅ Welcome wizard
⭐ Songbook supports YouTube videos
▫ Link to a YouTube video within a song
▫ Embedded YouTube player to show the video
▫ Special search to find the YouTube video for your song (at the moment it is unfortunately limited to subscribers and UNLIMITED customers, as YouTube has a limited quota to access their data)
✅ Fixes
⭐ Songbook supports YouTube videos
▫ Link to a YouTube video within a song
▫ Embedded YouTube player to show the video
▫ Special search to find the YouTube video for your song (at the moment it is unfortunately limited to subscribers and UNLIMITED customers, as YouTube has a limited quota to access their data)
✅ Fretboard Trainer fixes
⭐ s.mart Fretboard Trainer released
▫ New quiz type to identify and locate chords
▫ New statistics
▫ Share your quizzes
▫ Define a visible range beyond the fretboard range to be queried
▫ Option to query just whole notes
▫ Synchronize quizzes
✅ Songbook supports new search engines
✅ Many other changes
⭐ s.mart Fretboard Trainer (still pre-release version)
▫ Shows correct answer on mistake
▫ Shows cheat hint on all modules
▫ Statistic summary
▫ Other smaller refinements
✅ Metronome: Shows status of loops and iteration when using the speed trainer
✅ Fix: Chord name and Fretboard Trainer had incompatibility with older devices
⭐ s.mart Fretboard Trainer (pre-release)
▫ Teaches you the notes on the neck of your instrument in a playful and nevertheless effective way
▫ Different quiz types: Either identify notes or locate notes
▫ Different input/output modules: Fretboard, Piano, Text, Musical Notation, Sound
▫ Statistics to check your training progress (table and chart)
▫ Supports all instruments and tunings
▫ Supports all other relevant smartChord features (e.g. left handed fretboard or Solfège)
✅ Songbook has now support for Bluetooth device and MIDI device (Android >= 6.0 Marshmallow)
▫ Uses the same Bluetooth and MIDI configuration as the set list
▫ Start/stop auto scrolling, metronome or the audio player
▫ Smooth scrolling
✅ Set list: New search tool to handle also large set lists
✅ Fixes
✅ Set list notes:
▫ Add links to your stored items: chord progressions, songs, set lists, exercises, patterns, metronome and tone generator settings
▫ Add internet links
✅ Notepad: Support for internet links within notes
✅ Fix: Tempo of metronome couldn't be changed by '+' and '-'
✅ Fix: Set list opening PDFs and images
✅ Access to the 'Table of content' by the navigation menu
✅ Metronome: Option to keep the screen on either dimmed or bright
✅ Songbook: You can determine the scroll speed by editing a song (even below the limit of the seekbar)
✅ Fix: Chord diagrams are sometimes too narrow, when the setting 'Frets per chord' was small
✅ Fix: Practice: 'Table of content' didn't show the name of the entries
✅ Fix: Audio player in 'Notepad' did not start the playback in every case
✅ ...
⭐ Chords: Extended algorithm to show the formula according the music theory
✅ Ear training: Mode so that automatically and continuously a new riddle is asked
✅ When changing between instruments, the appropriate bass or treble clef is set
✅ Fix: Bug in animation prevented scrolling in Set list and other animated views like tabulature view
✅ Fix: Print whole fretboard for arpeggios
✅ Fix: Songs are printed with chord diagrams again
✅ Other changes/fixes
⭐ Full text search for songs and notes
⭐ Favor your store items like Songs or set lists to find them more easily
✅ New directive to tag your songs and set lists
✅ Option to print arpeggios and scales black/white
✅ Fixes
⭐ Full text search for songs and notes
⭐ Favor your store items like Songs or set lists to find them more easily
✅ New directive to tag your songs and set lists
✅ Option to print arpeggios and scales black/white
✅ Songbook with a lot of improvments
✅ Set list with MIDI support (see https://youtu.be/lFaOLgXr-rw)
✅ Arpeggio: Print an arpeggio shown on the fretboard with all its patterns
✅ Metronome: 'Count in' option
✅ Notepad supports basic HTML formats
✅ New 'Folder' menu item to rename your store items like songs, set lists, exercises
✅ Fixes:
◾ Set list shows info view again
◾ Songbook text editor adding picking patterns
◾ Songbook printing on some older devices
◾ Sharing (songs, exercises, ...) with not allowed characters in name
✅ Songbook
◾ Scroll delay time is shown as a count down
◾ 'Back to start' includes the scroll delay
◾ Song name is not shown in first line if info view is visible
◾ Name is marked with '*' if song has been changed until it is saved
◾ Fix: Info view can be hidden again
✅ Set list: Name is marked with '*' if set list is changed until it is saved
✅ Cello, Viola and Violin now with 5 string support
✅ Fixes
⭐ Songbook text editor supports ChordPro and smartChord specific directives
⭐ Songbook picking pattern support: Embed picking patterns within a song
✅ Better support for information in Songbook and Set list
✅ Print dialog with the option to print and share a song via PDF
✅ Songbook: Improved search for audio files
✅ Songbook: Manual scroll speed can now be 10 times slower
✅ Added chord type m6add11
✅ Fix: Scroll speed on older devices
✅ Minor changes/fixes
⭐ Songbook: Start of scrolling can be optionally delayed.
▫ For a defined number of seconds or automatically determined by the visible scroll range and the song duration
▫ General setting for the default value
▫ Song specific setting
✅ Fix: scrolling in set list
⭐ 36 picking patterns for 5 string Banjo
⭐ New Songbook modes: 'Just chords' and 'Lyrics'
⭐ Songbook supports new chord pages: bigbasstabs.com, mandotabs.com, ukutabs.com,...
⭐ Songbook supports different fonts
✅ Songbook provides new song information properties: Dance, Genre
✅ Online song editor update (V1.1): Support for new directives/infos
✅ New general chords print dialog
✅ Chord progression: The printout differs depending on the chosen TAB
✅ Fix: Wrong text color in help screens
⭐ 36 picking patterns for 5 string Banjo
⭐ New Songbook modes: 'Just chords' and 'Lyrics'
⭐ Songbook supports new chord pages: bigbasstabs.com, mandotabs.com, ukutabs.com,...
⭐ Songbook supports different fonts
✅ Songbook provides new song information properties: Dance, Genre
✅ Online song editor update (V1.1): Support for new directives/infos
✅ New general chords print dialog
✅ Chord progression: The printout differs depending on the chosen TAB
⭐ Online song editor ⭐
Edit your song comfortable in the browser of your computer: http://www.smartchord.de/edit/song. ▶ Our video shows the editing process: https://youtu.be/19JVc76ExkY
✅ Songbook
▫ Define the appearance with three different color schemes for text and background colors: Bright, Dark, Printout
▫ New ChordPro directives
▫ Share a song as PDF
✅ New Balalaika folk tuning
⭐ Songbook:
◾ New color options to beautify your songbook (Background, Chord, Text, Text Chorus, Text Bridge, Text Verse)
◾ ChordPro tag {chorus} shows the chorus block defined by {start_of_chorus} and {end_of_chorus}
◾ ...
⭐ Practice:
◾ Share your exercises with your friends, other musicians or students (https://youtu.be/sJkWR-szgjE)
⭐ Set list: Synchronize your set lists with your cloud. Use it to synchronize them between your and your band mates devices
✅ Songbook
◾ Fix: Internet search
◾ Search engine as new setting for internet search screen
⭐ Three new scale pattern modes: 2, 3 and 4 notes per string pattern
⭐ 92 picking patterns for Ukulele (now there are 379 altogether)
✅ New overview screen with all arpeggio patterns for a chord
✅ Songbook: Added DuckDuckGo as an alternative search engine for new songs
❗❗ Fix: Diatonic chords for the scales where incomplete
✅ 58 new picking patterns
✅ Pattern: Switch pattern easily by gesture
✅ Pattern: Option to play the TAB by touching the TAB view
✅ Songbook: Automatic lookup for audio files, if location has been changed
✅ Songbook: Shows target note names when transposing
✅ Synchronization: Better user guidance
✅ New chords
✅ FAQ: New information screen with frequently asked questions
✅ 52 new picking patterns
✅ Synchronize favorite patterns and favorite fingerings individually
✅ Favorite fingerings are defined for a tuning, but independent from an instrument
✅ Songbook: Chord diagrams are part of the printout, if you have the chord gallery displayed
✅ Enter BPM direct per number
✅ Fix: Pattern ignored rests when playing
✅ Fix: Songbook had problems to detect the notes SOL# and SOLb
✅ Fix: Request permissions for external storage to do automatic backup on a reinstallation
❗❗ Fix: Pattern filter was not selectable on some devices
✅ Pattern: Optimizations for small displays
✅ Songbook: Optimized line width in line break mode for different font size settings
✅ Songbook: Menu item to open tuner with the tuning of the song
✅ Set list: Optimized memory handling, when viewing PDF files
✅ Chords: Limit of setting 'Max. frets per chord' raised from 6 to 8
✅ Many minor changes/fixes
⭐ The new app 's.mart Pattern' for picking patterns is released ⭐
◾ It's a dictionary, a sound explorer and a trainer
◾ Link to the store: market://details?id=de.smartchord.droid.plus.pattern
▶ There is a video about 's.mart Pattern': https://youtu.be/i78ELlVbtto
⭐ New s.mart app for picking patterns ⭐
✅ Chord progression: Fixes and better user guidance
✅ Undo and redo in 'Edit' screen
✅ Tuning of the current instrument isn't changed, if a chord is added or replaced for a song or chord progression with different tuning
✅ Tempo of a new exercise or chord progression is set to the last setting
✅ Exercises from "Practice" feature are now part of the synchronization
✅ Fixed: Multiple standard tunings in the favorite tuning list
✅ PDF resolution improved
✅ New color scheme
✅ Name of your most valuable product in the home screen title
✅ Fix: PDF file search referred sometimes to the cloud
✅ Minor changes/fixes
✅ Songbook internet search: Support for new chord sites
◾ www.cifraclub.com
◾ www.cifras.com.br
✅ Songbook: Option to show the chord names of the original text and not as determined in the general 'Tone names' and 'Symbol' settings
✅ Chord progression: Play tab is just visible if at least one bar is defined
✅ Fix: update old database version
✅ 18 new tunings for Viola Caipira (added to Viola as there is no Viola Caipira instrument in smartChord at the moment)
✅ Minor changes/fixes
⭐ Amazon Kindle Fire: In-App products are now also available on Amazon Kindle devices, if the Google Play Store is installed
✅ Songbook regards the key of the song when Nashville Number System is used
✅ Fix: Sharing files like song, backup, ... didn't work anymore
✅ Option to show the chords of a song in bold font
✅ More dulcimer tunings
✅ Minor changes/fixes
⭐ Tabulator view added to the following views with the option to hide:
◾ Arpeggio
◾ Scales
◾ Scales fretboard
⭐ Bigger tabulator view for bigger screens
✅ Option to hide tabulator view on 'Practice' screen
✅ 'History' and 'Folder' buttons are now visible also on small displays
✅ Scale and arpeggio patterns now support capo
⭐ Unified search for files like songs on your device or your cloud e.g. Google Drive.
⭐ Additional method to transpose a song: With or without capo.
✅ Fix: Option 'Max frets per chord' wasn't regarded correctly in the first fret, when the capo was set.
⭐ Cloud access for synchronization is now released
✔ Synchronize your songs with your cloud (Google or DropBox)
✔ Synchronize smartChords data between your devices: Songs, Set lists, Chord Progressions, ...
✅ Fix: Swipe gesture in Set list didn't move to the next song anymore
✅ Fix: Songbook asked sometimes for saving even it was saved right before
✅ Chord progression can now handle 'incomplete' chords like '(no5)'
✅ Fix: Metronome could crash if it was running and 'Tap tempo' was used
✅ Notifications (Timer, Metronome, Chord progression) are now working on all Android versions
✅ Fix: Metronome crashed on Android 8.1 devices, when running in background
✅ Fix: Songbook chordPro chord recognition
✅ Fix: Chord progression crash
✅ Some other changes/fixes
✅ Songbook: New option for click on chord: Play sound or show chord dialog
✅ More tunings for Balalaika, Cigar Box Guitar, Lute, Mandolin, Oud, Viola added
✅ Fix: Some tunings were an octave too low (Cello, Violin, Viola and Veena)
✅ Fix: "Change instrument" in Songbook
✅ Fix: Speed trainer in "Chord progression" and "Practice"
▶ New video about the "Practice" feature: https://youtu.be/trLmeHOTK4s
❢❢ IMPORTANT FIX: Saving items like songs didn't work for new installations with V5.22
⭐ Arpeggio patterns and fingerings: smartChord will show you based on pattern including fingering how and where a arpeggio is best to play. For each pattern you can display the corresponding fingering
⭐ "Practice" feature to play and practice arpeggio patterns and chords as arpeggios
▶ https://youtu.be/trLmeHOTK4s
✅ Fix: "Change instrument" in songbook
✅ Fix: Practice feature if instrument changed
⭐ New sorting criteria 'Last viewed' in the storage. Applied shows it the history of the last viewed items like songs, set lists or chord progressions
✅ Optimized algorithm in detecting TABs
✅ Fix: Playing exercise and chord progression without speed trainer
✅ Some minor fixes
❀ Special thanks to Leo Müller, Luis Romero, Marco Pfeffer and Vladimir Stojiljković for their contribution to this version
⭐ New "Practice" feature: As a first step to play and practice scale patterns
✔ Create your exercises for scale patterns
✔ Play the patterns forward, backward or in both directions
✔ Use the speed trainer to increase the tempo step by step
✔ Use the timer to limit your practice time
✔ Save your exercises with all your settings
▶ https://youtu.be/MUZ9f7vQIgE
...
✅Fix: Some features crashes on older Android versions
⭐ New shop item to provide 25 additional instruments like Charango, Guitalele, Lute, Violin
⭐ Apply the chord type filter also for diatonic chords
⭐ New instrument (UNLIMITED and subscription): Mandola
✅ Fix: Song import
✅ Chord progression: optimized toolbar
✅ Minor changes
⭐ New instruments (UNLIMITED and subscription):
✔ Cello
✔ Charango (also with Charangon, Ronroco and Walaycho tunings)
✔ Cümbüş
✔ Lute
✔ Oud
✔ Pipa
✔ Rebec
⭐ Filter for Scales and Scale names
⭐ New instruments (Baritone guitar, tenor guitar, Guitalele, ...)
✅ New Tunings
✅ Other fixes and changes
⭐ New instruments (UNLIMITED and subscription):
✔ Bass 5-string
✔ Bass 6-string
✔ Bass 7-string
✔ Guitar 5-string
✔ Guitar 7-string
✔ Guitar 8-string
⭐ Italian translation completed
✅ Fix in 'Scale name': Notes are not selectable, when option 'Sound' was active
✅ Corrected scale Altered bb7
⭐ New instruments (UNLIMITED and subscription):
✔ Fiddle
✔ Veena
✔ Viola
✔ Violin
✅ New Tuning 'Baritone 2' for Ukulele
✅ Fix: Synchronizing songs
✅ Other fixes and changes
⭐ Share your setlist with your friends, other musicians or students✅ Zoom factor is also saved with a song in the 'non line break' option✅ The scale fretboard view now supports also both 'Notes' options: 'Notes (Settings)' and 'Notes (Theory)'✅ Optimized 'Replace all' performance in 'Edit' screen✅ Fixed: Menu item 'Home' didn't work with general setting "Starting screen" ...
⭐ Feature "SCALE NAME" extended for chords ⭐▫ This reverse scale feature helps you to find a key and scale for a set of notes and now also: a set of chords▫ Call it from the songbook to get the scales for the chords of the song▫ Call it from a chord progression and get the scales for those chords▫ Change the chord set and add or remove chords⭐ Scale screen with new option to see and hear a scale ascending and/or descending...
❢❢ Improved Scale favorites:✔ Favor your scales with key!✔ Change the key of a scale favorite✔ Scale favorites are now sorted by name✅ Fixes and changes
⭐⭐⭐ New feature "SCALE NAME" ⭐⭐⭐▫ This reverse scale feature helps you to find a key and scale for a set of notes▫ Investigate each scale of the resulting list▫ Show the diatonic chords for the scales▫ Add the scales to your favorites⭐ 84 new scales added✅ A lot of other changes
✅ Fix in Songbook and Set list: updating info works again (changed behavior in Android)✅ Fix in Songbook: Some songs crashes with Do-Re-Mi-...✅ New 5-string Banjo tuning "Baritone"✅ Other minor fixes and changes
⭐ Much more supported websites for songs✅ Increased text size in arpeggio, scale and chord diagrams✅ Increased number of chords in the playground✅ Fix in Songbook: changing settings or songs works again (Android bug)✅ Other minor fixes and changes
⭐ New option for chord diagram info: Beneath the 'Notes' view, that obeys your general settings, there is an option to show the note names according the chords theory⭐ Songbook: extended support for Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-SiIn most of the songs found in the internet the note names C-D-E-F-G-A-B are used. To get them as Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Si you can change the general setting 'Tone names' to solfége.✅ Optimized width in Songbook line break mode
⭐ Share your songs with your friends, musicians or students✔ The free version of smartChord is sufficient to receive a song ❢❢❢✔ Share a single song or many songs at once✔ Easiest handling✔ Just a link to share via mail, WhatsApp, ...✔ Just a click to show or import a single song✔ Individually pick the songs from the shared song list to import into smartChord...
⭐ Share your songs with your friends, musicians or students✔ Easiest handling✔ Just a link to share via mail, WhatsApp, ...✔ Just a click to show or import the song directly into smartChord✅ New scale "Diminished sixth"❢❢ Songbook: Line breaks not highlighted and chords not underlined anymore
⭐ Pre release: Synchronize smartChords data between your devices:✔ Songs of your songbook✔ Your set lists✔ Your chord progressions✔ Your favorite fingerings✔ Your metronome sets✔ Your tone generator sets✅ Lot of minor improvements like adopted song name determination in web search✅ smartChord creates automatically backups of the last 7 active days✅ Tuner: Check if microphone is available
⭐ Pre release: Synchronize smartChords data between your devices:✔ Songs of your songbook✔ Your set lists✔ Your chord progressions✔ Your favorite fingerings✔ Your metronome sets✔ Your tone generator sets✅ Lot of minor improvements like adopted song name determination in web search✅ smartChord creates automatically backups of the last 7 active days✅ Tuner: Check if microphone is available
⭐ Add PDF files to your set lists (Android >= 5.0 Lollipop)⭐ Share the lyrics of your set list with your audience✔ Individualize your songs and use your favorite fingerings✅ Optimized set list navigation by Bluetooth and USB devices✅ Fix: Format of info screens for older Android versions✅ Other fixes
✅ Songbook shows chord names according to the general setting 'Tone names' (also Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Si)✅ Fix: Save general setting 'Symbol'✅ Fix: Open song synchronization screen✅ Minor fixes✅ Build for Android Oreo❀ Special thanks to Daniel Bohan and Brian Lawrence for their contribution to this version
✅ Define information like location, duration, date and notes for a set list✅ Collapse and expand information on the song screen✅ ChordName: extended detection of slash chords✅ Fix: Refresh after german musical nomenclature transformation✅ Fix: Refresh scale fretboard after instrument or tuning has been changed✅ Fixes in cloud access
⭐ Navigate within the set list by an external bluetooth device like a PageFlip pedal.✔ Navigate between the songs✔ Scroll within a song✔ Start/stop auto scrolling or the audio player✔ Configure your pedal individually⭐ Define your preferred musical symbols: C# or Db, D# or Eb, F# or Gb, G# or Ab, A# or Bb✅ Fix: Transformation of 'slash' chords in songbook...
✅ Change font size for the edit text screen✅ Show details for fingering favorites✅ Fix: Add chords with '/' in name to fingering favorites✅ Fix: Transposition of a song is applied correctly when a song is opened again✅ Fix: smartChord crashed one some devices on startup because of a special character✅ Fix: Audio player did not start again, after resuming the songbook screen✅ Fix: Formatting issues in help texts
⭐ Songbook:✔ Edit song information like title, subtitle, artist, arranger, ... in a dedicated information screen✔ New ChordPro tags supported: arranger, copyright, duration, highlight, lyricist, year✔ Summary of song information like album, arranger, ...✔ The zoom factor is stored for each song (when in 'line break' mode)✔ Remove audio file from song✔ Add the song to the current set list...
✅ Fixed: transposition in Songbook✅ Bought products are listed in the shop, even if they are not for sale anymore✅ Your bought features (included in the bought products) are listed under 'Info -> Your features'
✅ Set lists to organize your songs and lyrics for performance or practice✅ Search & replace when editing song texts (see menu)✅ Line break conversion in songs for some internet song catalogues✅ Comfortable solution to report problems with internet song search✅ In 'dark background mode' songs now are also printed with white background✅ Fix: Import of smartChord song files (.sccrd) with correct encoding✅ Minor fixes and improvements
