Chord Love

August 22, 2023

* Fixed bug in Chord Wizard that was adding wrong chords to scales and keys. * Fixed bug in Chord Wizard showing chords in scale (or key) with optional notes that weren't in the scale. * Changed explore scale and explore key to highlight all instances of notes being played; now they act the same as explore chord * Minor tweaks to font sizes and colors to improve readability, especially in dark mode * Fixed bug that would not highlight root note of scale if it was selected before launching Explore scale * Fixed column widths in search chord dialog so notes and alternations are consistently visible

November 16, 2019

Added support for Dark Mode and high contrast accessibility. Improved and updated FAQ and hint text.

October 23, 2019

* Fixed crashes occurring going into/out of dialogs * Fixed crashes in drawing musical staff for some chords * Internal refactoring, code clean-up, and minor bug fixes. * Improvements to chord naming in complex chords with multiple alterations as well as polychords

August 8, 2019

VERSION 1.0.9 * Restructuring of the chord engine's caching strategy so it is significantly faster on most chord management tasks, and fixed several corner cases that resulted in improperly assigned roots or spelling. The speed is especially noticeable on pages that generated a lot of chords (like search chord), as well as when loading large scratchpads. * Added settings to allow more control over clipboard copy processing (Double-tap | Copy). Number of columns lets you control the size of a chord chart (how many chords are in each row). Settings "include graphics" and "include text" allow you to force apps to use images or text as necessary. This is important for iOS apps that understand multiple clipboard formats like EverNote, Apple Pages, or Microsoft Word. By setting those options you can get either text (Chord Pro notation) for pasting songs/lyrics or chord diagrams for pasting chord charts as you prefer. * Added setting to choose notation displayed underneath chord grid: Roman numeral degree, chord spelling, finger positions, or blank. (The search chord screen always displays chord spellings under each of the chord variants.) * Compute finger positions for chords. Available as an option under all chord grids, on main window finger dots, or on notation bar underneath main chord grid. * Removed Facebook and Twitter links from feedback page - they're incompatible with iOS11, and they weren't being used anyway. * Fixed assorted bugs: now preserves chord name when loading chord from scratchpad, fixed progression names with minor seventh (were showing as 7m, not m7), crashes in deleting selected chords and exiting chord dialogs. * Updated app to iOS11

July 5, 2019

* Added ability for scales to highlight notes (such as 1, 3, 5) by tapping on scale position in scale search * Added UX logging so usability patterns could be analyzed for UX improvements * Updated FAQ to cover all new features and UI updates since initial release * Key guessing is now able to detect major vs relative minor key * Changed scale labeling to show position in major scale (1 3b 4 5 7) rather than relative position (1 2 3 4 5) * Wizard provides hint when no chord is selected * Fixed bug where setting of accidentals other than default "Best Guess" would not always update chord names * Fixed bug where selecting all and deleting selected chords (as opposed to clearing all) would crash

April 8, 2019

Assorted fixes: * Allow chord grids with large fret stretch to expand up to two additional fret rows if necessary * Made hints less intrusive * Fixed bug where swiping to play strings from far left or far right would neglect to play the first string * Fixed bug where reordering chords in Search Key or any of the Chemistry dialogs would shows animation of chord flying off to left * Fixed bug where fret dots on the bottom row of a chord grid would display as grey dots as if frets were off-grid

March 19, 2019

Fixed bug where holding down "+" to add a chord for prolonged time no longer crashes app

December 18, 2018

* Improved chord audio playback to sound more natural with new sound font and human-like strum * Double-tap on chords for context-sensitive menu * Cut, copy, paste chords into Chord Love as well as other text (ChordPro format "[A] [Cm]") or graphics programs * Reorder chords in context menu (when done dragging chords into order, double-tap to finish) * Added Undo and Redo through standard shaking gesture * Display most likely keys that match chords in scratchpad underneath musical staff * Improvements in logic for auto-determining sharps/flats * Add option to Transpose Capo to choose whether it should keep the root or keep the fingering when applying the capo * Return standard fingerings for transposed chords in Chemistry screen * New animations for adding and loading chords * Fixed bug where Transpose Tuning didn't always adjust chords played high on fretboard to ensure they were visible * Fixed bug when scrolling synchronized views in transpose chemistry, where window would ignore taps to select and long presses

November 19, 2018

* Musical staff notation to display chords in treble or bass clef * Chord chemistry feature to transpose chords by keys, scales, capo, tunings * Added heart badge in ScratchPad to identify root degree (Roman numeral I or i) * Fixed layout for iPad displays * Improvements to chord engine: - smarter elimination of generated chords with unplayable fingerings - better chord name prioritization - more choosy filtering of less reasonable chord names * User interface improvements - Standardized colour palette - Remove (+) button, replace with floating (+) box in scratchpad window where next chord would go - Finer lettering, lines, colour choices, scaling back non-focal items - Animations for turning on/off scale grid, scratchpad chord addition/deletion - Removed color fringing artifacts from search key clefs * Fixed occasional crash when deleting chords in scratchpad

October 21, 2018

* Show chord degrees (Roman numeral notation) for chords in scratch pad, set the degree root with a long press on any scratchpad chord * Allow a long press on a fretted note to force that note as the root for formula display * Allow selection of instrument for audio playback in Settings * Expanded available Bebop scales to add Bebop Dorian, Bebop Alternate Dorian, Bebop Melodic Minor, and Bebop Harmonic Minor. Also fixed notes in Bebop Major scale and renamed for consistency with other Bebop scales * Fix bug where rootless chords were sometimes not marked with "(No Root)" as well as being listed in higher priority than they should have been * Fix fret notation ("F1") being displayed sometimes on first fret chord grids when it shouldn't be * Fix improperly highlighting root note when playing scales with more than 7 tones * Fixed Twitter and Facebook share links to point to ChordLove in app store * Updated internal release number to match AppStore release number