Monthly Archives: November 2020

⭐ Songbook:

• Different ChordPro style delimiters to be able to see the chords more clearly: Brackets ‘[Am]’, spaces ‘ Am ‘ or underscores ‘_Am_’
• Predefined color schemes for normal and dark background (‘Songbook appearance -> Reset’ for existing users)
• Optimized scrolling if the intelligent line break isn’t active
• There is new documentation for the s.mart Songbook. It is worth a glance: https://smartchord.de/s-mart-songbook

⭐ Drum machine:

• 234 drum patterns: You shared your drum patterns with us. We have collected them and made them available for download
• Covers a lot of genres: Blues, Disco, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Reggae, Rock, …
• ‘Download’ button in the ‘Table of contents’ to download and import the drum pattern collection
• Preview in the ‘Table of contents’ of the drum machine makes it much easier to select an adequate drum pattern

▶ Our video shows how to use the drum machine:

✅ Table of Contents: More natural sort order especially if the item name contains numbers

✅ Speed trainer: Possibility to reduce the speed

✅ Fix: Select ‘cloud’ as ‘data source’ for song import

✅ Fix: Color scheme preview

✅ Other changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Harry Fehlemann, Marilyn Leahy, Marius Bleeke, Serkan Gürses, Stepan Efremov, Tom Geldner and Troy Cox for their contribution to this version

There is a new documentation for the s.mart Songbook. It is worth a glance: https://smartchord.de/s-mart-songbook

⭐ Songbook: Options to get the whole song on one screen
▫ Multi column layout
◾ Option to present a song in 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns
◾ It is song specific and can differ from song to song
◾ Supports intelligent line break with zooming
◾ Needs Android 7 or newer

▫ Compact song view mode
◾ New ‘Mode’ presents the song in ChordPro style, where the chords are in the same line of the lyrics

▫ Buttons for ‘Info’, ‘Line break’, … are staying visible in ‘Just chords’ or ‘Lyrics’ mode
❗ Fix: DropBox synchronisation
❗ Fix: Update the song when changing the mode

✅ Simple ‘drum kit’ to jam around. Just for fun 🙂
▫ Use up to 16 percussion instruments in parallel
▫ Choose between more than 40 percussion instruments
▫ Create multiple drum kits and sync them between your devices

✅ Drum machine:
▫ Possibility to use the same instrument with different volume or velocity
▫ Button to get a drum kit for the drums in the drum machine

✅ Metronome: New lower limit of 4 BPM

✅ Other changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Eugene Mih, Henk Oostrom, Jose Climent, Lee Lawrence and Mike Mountain for their contribution to this version