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✅ Fix: Sorting in ‘Table of contents’ with active category filter
✅ Fix: Number of printed chords were limited in Songbook
✅ Fix: Timer wasn’t readable on some devices
✅ Other minor changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Gian Müller, Glenn Homes and Nikolai Bardukow for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ 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:
▫ Home screen:
◾ Swipe left: Open last screen
◾ Swipe right: Open ‘Navigation menu’
◾ Swipe up: Open ‘Add tools’ screen
◾ Swipe down: Open ‘Settings’
▫ Table of contents:
◾ Swipe right: Back
◾ Swipe left: Open selected item
▫ Notepad:
◾ Swipe right: Back
◾ Swipe left: Delete selected item
▫ Arpeggio and Scale fretboard:
◾ Swipe right: Previous pattern or back if not in ‘Pattern’ mode
◾ Swipe left: Next pattern
◾ Swipe down: Open ‘Settings’
▫ Other screens without scrolling elements do have gesture support for ‘Back’ and/or ‘Settings’

✅ New chord types and fixed ‘-‘ chord

✅ Fix: Metronome was shown too narrow in the songbook

✅ Lot of minor changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Gian Müller, Glenn Homes, Hotte Schmiegelt, Hubert Egger, Jan Hovancik, Matthew Heinly, Philibob, Ramon Haack, Roland Schippmann and Stefano Tranchini for their contribution to this version

✅ Notepad: Text wrap button and broader border
✅ Fix: Categories were limited to 3 items
✅ Fix: Mixolydian Pentatonic Scale
✅ Other changes and fixes
❀ Special thanks to Emilio Polog, Gian Müller, Hubert Egger and Jérôme Tarbouriech for their contribution to this version.

⭐ Songbook internet search:
▫ More clear user interface
▫ Song preview option
▫ Option to exclude certain chord sites from the song search
▫ Reload button for the case that the found song was incomplete
▫ Improved search for instrument-specific TABs
▫ Support for chords-and-tabs.net
▫ Support for ukutabs.com

⭐ Drum machine:
▫ 422 drum patterns: You shared your drum patterns with us. We have collected them and made them available for download

✅ Metronome: Number of cycles and elapsed time added

✅ Tooltips for most of the buttons (long press on the button)

✅ Songbook: Printed and shared PDF gets the name of the song

✅ Other changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Edson Ferreira de Siqueira, Jasper Peñaredondo, Knut Beese, Lili Wass, Leopold Müller, Orange Gossimer, Peter B. Schmidt, Werner Lukanek and Wim Lemmens for their contribution to this version

✅ Notepad:
▫ Option to improve audio recording quality
▫ Expandable and collapsible notes
▫ Support for copy & paste
▫ Audio player is now part of the toolbar
▫ Starts editing at the end of the note

✅ Create notes in the notepad with a link to your item from each ‘Folder’ menu. Use it for instance to document your ideas about certain items.
▫ Chord progression
▫ Fretboard Trainer
▫ Metronome
▫ Pattern
▫ Playground
▫ Practice
▫ Set list
▫ Songbook
▫ Tone generator

✅ Songbook:
▫ New directives to embed links to your item like chord progressions, notes, exercises, …
▫ Editor got menu items to create these links
▫ New color options to define the text and background colors for the {highlight:} directive
▫ Fix: Replace chord didn’t update the song text
▫ Fix: Switching player to ‘automatic’ shows the right player again

✅ Custom tunings with just two strings are allowed (could make sense with activated setting ‘Rootless chord voicings’)

✅ Favorite fingerings are always preferred during sorting

✅ Chord name fix: Range switched accidentally

✅ Other changes and fixes

▶ There is a new video that explains the fretboard trainer

❀ Special thanks to Dominik Janiec, Eric Snoddy, Glenn Homes, Josef Metzger, Martin Hägerås and Paul Aussem for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ Rootless chord voicings ⭐⭐⭐

▫ Consider the new option to allow rootless chord voicings 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

▫ Rootless chord voicings…

• ❗❗ are active by default for instruments with three or four strings
• are shown in the features ‘Chord’ and ‘Choose chord’ if the option is activated
• can be allowed by option in ‘Chord name’
• can be added to the fingering favorites
• are valid in the ‘Fretboard trainer’ if the option is activated
• are used in the ‘Songbook’ if the option is activated

⭐ Chord name
▫ Option to allow rootless chords
▫ Possibility to add rootless chord voicings to fingering favorites
▫ Replaced context menu with buttons in the toolbar
❗ New sort order of the chord name list

⭐ There is a new manual describing the handling of chords in smartChord

⭐ Drum machine:
▫ 311 drum patterns: You shared your drum patterns with us. We have collected them and made them available for download

✅ Songbook: New section in documentation ‘how to get the best fingerings‘

✅ Other changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Rolf Puchtinger, Ron Beaver and Sébastien Streit for their contribution to this version

⭐ 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

✅ 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

❀ Special thanks to Fernando G. Rojjas, Neil Stretton, Santi Chacon and Wayne Minor for their contribution to this version

⭐ Changes in appearance of chords, scales, arpeggios and the circle of fifths
▫ New option to apply the color scheme either to intervals or notes. With the new option, you can get always the same color for the same note
▫ New option to show semitones on the fretboard smaller. This helps your orientation on the fretboard a lot
▫ Consistent coloring according the chord and scale formula

⭐ Three new arpeggio pattern modes:
▫ 2 notes per string pattern
▫ 3 notes per string pattern
▫ 4 notes per string pattern

❗ Now there is just one general setting for what kind of information is shown on the fretboard. It’s the same for chords, scales and arpeggios

❗ New setting groups ‘Name settings’ and ‘Appearance’. Some settings have been moved to the new groups

✅ Scale and Arpeggio with improved usability and optimized pattern overview

✅ Synchronize categories

✅ Piano: Option to show color scheme together with the note name

❗ Scale: Fixed patterns with fret range bigger than 12

❗ Scale: Fixed update screen after scale change

❗ Arpeggio: Fix for more complex chords like 13sus4

✅ Fix: Keep categories when synchronizing songs or set lists

✅ Many other changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Christoph Lanz, Henk Oostrom, Leo Müller, Liam Gotch and Santi Chacon for their contribution to this version

⭐⭐⭐ Categories to classify and filter your items like songs or drum patterns
▫ Create and maintain your own categories
▫ Assign the categories to your items
▫ Filter your items by one or more categories
▫ Each item type may have different categories
▫ A category can be used in multiple item types
▫ Category ‘Genre’ is predefined but changeable
▶ Our video shows how to use categories: https://youtu.be/XBHYoUeMKA4

⭐ New set list export:
▫ Option to export as text or HTML
▫ Option to include the whole songs or just the lyrics
▫ Option to include ‘table of content’
▫ Option to include notes
▫ Export as text can be used e.g. to share it with your audience or to copy it into the clipboard
▫ Export as HTML can be used to open it in a browser to print it or create a PDF file

✅ New set list import

✅ Notepad
▫ Accepts shared texts and adds it as a note
▫ Copy a note to the clipboard

✅ Fix Songbook: Crashed on some old devices

✅ Fix Share: Allows to overwrite existing items

✅ A lot of other minor changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Barth Harrington, Chris Elstrodt, Emory Keller, John de Jong and Martin Porubsky for their contribution to this version.

✅ Individual ‘Auto save’ option for the different items like songs or notes

✅ Drum machine: Improved handling

✅ Set list: Improved search handling

✅ New chord types

✅ Fix: Edit song online

✅ Fix: Renaming of items

✅ Other changes and fixes

❀ Special thanks to Claudio Dossetti, Emory Keller, Henk Oostrom, Manfred Thyssen, Marc van Westerlaak, Marius Bleeke, Martin P. Daniels and Steve Marshall for their contribution to this version.

❗ Fix Drum Machine: Replacing instruments didn’t work anymore
❀ Special thanks to Thomasa Velin and Zdenek Musil for their contribution to this version.