Monthly Archives: January 2024

⭐ Songbook for piano:

◾ Get the piano chord charts with the fingerings for the song’s chords

◾ Get the piano chord either in a zoomable grid or horizontally scrollable gallery

◾ Clicking on a chord in the song text opens a dialog with the piano chord chart

◾ Possibility to change the chord in the song

◾ Clicking on a piano chord chart plays the chord

◾ The option ‘Piano mode’ activates the ‘Songbook for piano’

◾ Documentation

⭐ Song Writer:

◾ Get the piano chord charts with the fingerings for the song’s chords

◾ Clicking on a piano chord chart plays the chord

◾ The option ‘Piano mode’ shows the piano chord chart in the chord gallery

◾ Documentation

✔ Piano: Fine-tune the number of keys with +/- buttons

✔ Chords: Clicking on the piano plays the chord

✔ Chord details: Clicking on the piano plays the chord

✔ Circle of fifths:
◾ Clicking on the chord diagram plays the chord
◾ Clicking on the piano plays the chord

✔ Instrument translator:
◾ Clicking on the chord diagram plays the chord
◾ s.mart Instrument Translator is released on Google Play

✔ Scale screens: Menu items to show the scale in the playground or piano

🐞 Chord Progression: Transpose works again

🐞 Notifications on Android 13 and newer

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andreas Arbeit, Cristian Rauta, Marcos Giovane, Peter Fresser and Somrata Sarkar for their contribution to this version

⭐ Instrument translator:

◾ Translates the fingering from one instrument or tuning to another instrument or tuning

◾ It’s easing the learning process for musicians who are proficient in one instrument and want to learn or switch to another

◾ It allows you to enter the notes or fingering on the instrument you are familiar with

◾ The reverse chord finder finds the resulting chords for the notes entered

◾ The chord dictionary presents the possible fingerings for the resulting chords

◾ It translates from one of the approx. 40 supported string instruments and the piano to another

◾ It supports any tuning

◾ The reverse chord finder is configurable and also looks for inversions, slash chords, incomplete or rootless chords

◾ The note colors follow the color scheme and the selected chord

◾ Documentation: https://smartchord.de/docs/instrument-translator/instrument-translator-overview/

🐞 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

✔ A lot of other improvements and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Andreas Arbeit, Daniel Ruíz Mojica, Marcos Giovane, Martin Wiesenhofer, Peter Fresser and Yves Sancho Oliver for their contribution to this version