⭐ 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) ▫ Option to synchronize the start/stop for the YouTube player ▫ Duration of a song is automatically set by the duration of a video ▫ New directive to define the YouTube video id {x_sccrd_yt:19JVc76ExkY}
✅ Fretboard Trainer: Sound was to quite and it crashed, when capo was set outside the quiz range
✅ Two new tunings for Portuguese Guitar: ‘Portuguese Lisboa’ and ‘Portuguese Coimbra’
✅ Online song editor update (V1.5) with support for YouTube directive (http://www.smartchord.de/song/edit)
✅ Other changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks also to Evgenij Neuwirt, Hugo Maia and Maria Amélia for their contribution to this version.
⭐ s.mart Fretboard Trainer released (frets 0-3 in free version) ▫ New quiz type to identify chords ▫ New quiz type to locate chords ▫ Add chords easily from your songs and chord progressions ▫ New statistic type ‘Distribution’ to identify the chords and notes you have to focus on ▫ Share your quizzes with your friends, other musicians or students ▫ Define a visible range beyond the fretboard range to be queried ▫ Most effective training mode realized: ‘Lab by lab’ ▫ Option to query just whole notes ▫ Menu item to link your quizzes within the notepad ▫ Synchronize Fretboard Trainer quizzes
✅ Songbook supports new search engines e.g. for the case that your preferred internet site for chords is not listed by the default search engine: ▫ ecosia.org ▫ qwant.com ▫ bing.com ▫ yandex.ru ▫ baidu.com
✅ Possibility to overwrite an existing item when saving or renaming
✅ Possibility to define a color for the fret markers
✅ Chord name: Tap on the nut allows to mute a string
✅ Fix: Correct name when importing shared exercises
✅ Other changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks also to Andreas Isaksson, Dale Alan Bryant and Kyle Bradley for their contribution to this version.
⭐ s.mart Fretboard Trainer (still pre-release version) ▫ New input module ‘Microphone’. With this module you can play the answer with your instrument ▫ Option to play a buzzer if the answer is wrong ▫ Refinements and fixes e.g. for 5-string Banjo
✅ Fix: Removed audio file in songbook
✅ Other changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks also to Dave Murray, Derek Lichter, Roland Schippmann, Tarun Mudgal and Yuriy Medyany for their contribution to this version.
⭐ s.mart Fretboard Trainer ▫ In a pre-release version for subscribers and UNLIMITED customers (invisible for all others) ▫ Teaches you the notes on the neck of your instrument in a playful and 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: Improved lookup for audio files, if location has been changed (e.g. after synchronization)
✅ Fix: Set list crashed when adding PDFs and images into a empty one
❀ Special thanks also to Antoni Nicolau, Emory Keller, Jürgen Wernicke, Pavel Novák and Robert Hilverth for their contribution to this version.
✅ 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
✅ Fix Songbook: Audio player had to be visible to play
✅ Fix Songbook: No more loop of search for audio dialogs when audio file does not exist anymore
✅ Fix Metronome: Option to keep the screen on either dimmed or bright
✅ Other changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks also to Christopher Noll, Karlheinz Mackel and Armin Schmitt for their contribution to this version.
✅ 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
✅ Other changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks also to Andre Messerschmidt, Arisio Costa, Francisco José Vela and Simon Thompson for their contribution to this version.
✅ 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: Practice asked too often for saving
✅ Fix: Audio player in ‘Notepad’ did not start the playback in every case
✅ Other changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks also to Benno Schoppel, Christopher Noll, Daniel Rothra, Daniel Südhof, Henk Oostrom and Thaddeus Steyskal for their contribution to this version.
⭐ Chords: Extended algorithm to show the formula according the music theory
Chord formula according the music theory
✅ Ear training: Mode so that automatically and continuously a new riddle is asked
✅ New chord: dim(7+)
✅ When changing between instruments, the appropriate bass or treble clef is set
✅ Info screen: Link to the smartChord user forum: https://smartchord.de/forum
✅ 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
✅ Many other changes/fixes
❀ Special words of thank go to Howard Brydle for his extremely thorough and comprehensive revision of the English translation
❀ Special thanks also to Enad Guraziu, Jean-Pierre Martin, Jon Åkerlund, Magdalena Haefs, Marc van Westerlaak, Rick Johnson, Rudy Gamberini, Shaun Powell, Walter Tuzi and Youssef Saad for their contribution to this version.
⭐ A tradução para o português está completa novamente (Portuguese translation is complete again)
⭐ Set list: ▫ Add images like photos of your sheet music ▫ Zoom into PDF and images. Individual zoom factor is persisted for each PDF and image ▫ Add notes to your set list items ▫ The ‘Break’ screen shows the notes (e.g. a joke or an anecdote) ▫ Collapse or expand the notes in the set list ▫ Smooth scrolling of songs and images ▫ Optimized handling of large PDF files ▫ Navigation buttons to switch between the songs/items
⭐ Songbook ▫ Allows to replace the fingerings and the chords of a song ▫ Option to sort the chords in the gallery by name or their occurrence in the song ▫ Songbook internet search: Option to show/edit the link
✅ Notepad: Menu item to share your notes
✅ New chords: maj7sus2, maj7sus4, maj9sus2, maj9sus4, 9sus2, 13sus2, mb11/b9
✅ Fix in ‘Table of content’: Deletion crashed on multiple selection
✅ Fix in Songbook: Behavior of scrolling delay indicator for short texts
✅ Fix in Songbook: Better results with search engine DuckDuckGo when no ‘Chord page’ was selected
✅ Fix: ‘Select directory’ didn’t show the arrow to switch to the parent directory in light themes
? smartChord user forum: We have installed a forum for smartChord users to ask questions, get answers, hold discussions and exchange ideas and opinions: https://smartchord.de/forum
❀ Special words of thank go to Rodrigo Duarte for completing the Portuguese translation. He did a really great and thorough job!!! Um agradecimento especial a Rodrigo Duarte por concluir a tradução em português. Ele fez um trabalho realmente excelente e completo!!!
❀ Special thanks also to Denny Gäbel, Francisco José Vela Roncero, Joshua Nunez, Marc Barten, Michael Soots, Oded, Olav Stüwe, Paul Schoonderwoerd and Victor Osaka for their contribution to this version.
⭐ Full text search for songs ▫ Can be used to search for chords, song text or arbitrary song information ▫ The search also supports the wildcards ‘?’ for any character and ‘*’ for 0 or more characters ▫ Complex search terms can be logically linked with ‘AND’, ‘OR’, ‘(‘ and ‘)’ ▫ Option for case sensitive search
⭐ Favor your store items to find them more easily in the storage: ▫ Songs ▫ Set lists ▫ Chord progressions ▫ Exercises ▫ Notes ▫ Metronome sets ▫ Tone generator sets ▫ New setting to define the sort behavior
✅ Songbook: New directive to tag your songs
✅ Set list: New directive to tag your set lists
✅ Full text search for notes
✅ Option to print arpeggios and scales black/white
✅ Chord 6/11 added
✅ Fix Songbook: Set song duration different than the audio duration
✅ Minor changes/fixes
✅ Online song editor update (V1.4) with support for tags (http://www.smartchord.de/song/edit)
❀ Special thanks to Edson Siqueira, Javier Ran, Jens Martin, Ken Cowie, Tarun Mudgal and Thomas Fiebich for their contribution to this version.
⭐ Songbook ▫ Option to print song info ▫ Edit all song properties ▫ Duration is now formatted in format ‘mm:ss’ and entered by dialog ▫ Option to activate word wrap in editor ▫ Keeps original ChordPro lines as they are (no conversion) ▫ Fix: Song page jumped to the top after restart, when audio player was active
⭐ Set list ▫ Navigate within the set list by a MIDI device (Android >= 6.0 Marshmallow) ◾ Navigate between the songs ◾ Scroll within a song ◾ Start/stop auto scrolling, metronome or the audio player ◾ Configure your MIDI device individually
▫ Pedal configuration extended for ‘Start/stop metronome”
✅ Arpeggio: Print an arpeggio shown on the fretboard with all its patterns
✅ Metronome: ▫ ‘Count in’ option ▫ Fix: Sound was muted after changing the time signature
✅ Notepad: ▫ Supports basic HTML formats ▫ Menu to format your notes comfortably ▫ Option to activate word wrap in editor
✅ Added chord type m6add11
✅ Other changes/fixes like printing slash chords
❀ Special thanks to Aklan Akdağ, Buule Julius, Francois Amaral, Jeff Puchalski, Joel Allen, Марат Прошкин, Pepe Zaldivar, Rodrigo Mathews, Rick Tucker, Serkan Gürses, Shant Shinde and Thomas Nuckel for their contribution to this version.
⭐ Songbook ▫ Optional metronome integrated: ◾ Enter song specific tempo by BPM dialog with tap tempo functionality ◾ Select song specific time signature from list ◾ Optionally flash ◾ Optionally mute ◾ Optionally vibrate
▫ Determine capo and key when searching songs on Ultimate Guitar ▫ Capo is now also part of the collapsed info section ▫ Toolbar vanishes on start ▫ New arranged buttons in toolbar
▫ Different content for the ‘Online song viewer’: ◾ Provide the lyrics for your audience or the whole song for your band mates ◾ Present your song in any browser at http://www.smartchord.de/song ◾ Our video shows the handling for the ‘Online song viewer’: https://youtu.be/LoZtCWNnwS4
✅ ‘Table of content’ allows fast scrolling by dragging the scrollbar
✅ Metronome: Option to flash the screen on every beat
✅ Notepad: ▫ Add links to your store items: chord progressions, songs, set lists, exercises, patterns, metronome and tone generator settings ▫ You can use it to document your exercises or create your exercise plan
✅ Chord name: ▫ Improved determination of slash chords ▫ Fix: ‘Change tuning’ does now update the fretboard view
✅ Practice: Option to show note names
✅ Minor changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks to Aklan Akdağ, Benno Schoppel, Gina Millis, Henk Oostrom, Jacob Pemberton, jmboof1, Jonathan Boughton, Marc Barten, Roberto Quaciari and Thomas Wenselowski for their contribution to this version.
⭐ Songbook: Accelerate or slow down the speed at which you’d like to practice a song (Android >= 6.0). It affects the audio play speed as well as the scroll speed
⭐ Scales: Print a scale shown on the fretboard with all its patterns
✅ 38 new predefined tunings for Lute
✅ Fixes: ◾ Songbook: Scroll break directive ({x_sccrd_sbr} did not work in all conditions ◾ Songbook: Unnecessary line breaks removed ◾ Metronome: Some names of the drum sounds were mixed up ◾ Scales: Some “2 notes per string” scale patterns came twice
✅ Chord 7/b5/b13 added
✅ Minor changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks to Jamie Birger, Marc Barten, Marek Drizhal, Paulo Silva, Paul Breaux, Robin Grant, Thomas Terranova, Thor Crowley and Wesley Oldaker for their contribution to this version.
✅ 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
✅ Minor changes/fixes
❀ Special thanks to Buule Chris, Dean Eisen, Gregory N and Bob Hilverth for their contribution to this version.
