Hidenori Matsuoka has updated Piano Kit for iOS to v3.4. The update includes some features and improvement in usability. A new approach to bass notes supports various situations (finding chord, remaking chord form with bass, importing SMF, guessing chord name) and the Temporal Mute function allows a user to omit some notes in Chart View (like chord progression).
Changes:
- Implemented "Direct Edit" Menu in Chart View. Even if it is not Edit Mode, you can change chord form and chord name directly by tapping upper left Chord Name area immediately. In Edit Mode, you can change chord form using chord list to be recommended by chord name or used notes conventionally.
- Implemented "Title" Menu in Chart View. If you tap left top "Forms Chartâ–¼", you can choose Clear All, Duplicate, Show Popup Mark in non Edit Mode.
- "Beat" Menu in Chart View is now available even if it is not Edit Mode.
- Implemented Temporal Mute function about chord form in Chart View. You can omit some notes by "Direct Edit" Menu. Omitted notes will be handled as velocity 1 sounds in importing or exporting SMF.
- "Clear All" button moved to "Title" Menu in Chart View.
- "By Name" section of "Name" Menu in Chart View ignores specific bass. Once you choose a chord form without specific bass, later you can specify bass note by "Direct Edit" Menu.
- "By Note" section of "Name" Menu in Chart View now lists chord forms contain a slightly different note, if you want. You can change setting in "Title" Menu.
- Now display dialog indicating that you can process later by "Direct Edit" Menu, if there are no chord name and chord forms match for Library Tab when you import SMF. You can add imported notes directly as chord form.
- When you import SMF, if there is matched chord form with specific bass note in Library Tab, it'll be used. Otherwise a chord form without bass will be used. You can modify easily by "Direct Edit" Menu in Chart View.
- Fixed no sound problem after interruption.
- Improved engine recognize specific bass note (ex. B of GM7/B).
- Chord Picker in Make Tab list specific bass.
- By long press gesture on 1 octave keyboard in Make Tab, you can keep current decided notes on 4 octave keyboard.
- Improved Guess Chord Name engine, now displayed in more user-friendly order.
- Now you can display switching of Note Name / Interval by long press gesture in non Edit Mode only.
- Chords in Chart View play sounds even Edit Mode when you tap.
- Now specific bass is ignored when you search chord in Library Tab. Once you choose a chord form without specific bass, later you can specify bass note in Make Tab.
- Improved interval calculation engine.
- Fixed problem of waste CPU usage when playing scale sounds.
- Now process Tempo as integer that is easy to handle for users.
- Improved some parts of internal processing.
- Fixed some images.
- Fixed some incorrect representations.
