Songpress news http://www.skeed.it/songpress-news-feed.rss.html it Skeed 2007 120 Songpress 1.3 released! http://www.skeed.it/songpress-1.3-released.html Songpress 1.3 has been released. This version introduce some new interesting features:

  • Chord simplification: for beginner guitarists. Songpress can detect if chords are too difficult, and offer to transpose the song to an easier key, automatically.
  • HTML export: Songpress can generate HTML pages (or HTML snippets, to be embedded in your web pages) with formatted song. Pure HTML code, no images!

There are many bug fixes and small improvement as well:

  • Installer was rewritten from scratch, to improve compatibility with some systems.
  • Chords with a special bass note are now supported, e.g.
]]> Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:41:42 +0200 http://www.skeed.it/songpress-1.3-released.html Luca Allulli Songpress 1.2 released! http://www.skeed.it/songpress-1.2-released.html We are proud to release Songpress - Il Canzonatore 1.2.

New features in this release include:

  • Support for songs in the "tab" format (text above chords)
  • Auto-cleanup of songs with too many blank lines
  • Bugfixes and improvements:
    • Fixed a bug with German notation
    • Nice error reporting dialog

 

]]> Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:35:37 +0100 http://www.skeed.it/songpress-1.2-released.html Luca Allulli Songpress 1.1 released! http://www.skeed.it/songpress-1.1-released.html We are proud to release Songpress - Il Canzonatore 1.1.

New features in this release include:

  • Song transposition with key autodetection
  • Support of several chord notations (American/English, Italian/Spanish, German, French, Portuguese); automatic notation conversion
  • Quick editing of chords
  • Exporting formatted songs as PNG images
  • Some bugfixes and improvements:
    • Removed flicker in preview pane while editing song
    • It is possible to insert comments in the title block
    • Improved drag'n'drop

 

]]> Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:30:03 +0100 http://www.skeed.it/songpress-1.1-released.html Luca Allulli Detecting key http://www.skeed.it/songpress-autodetecting-key.html One of the new features in the upcoming 1.1 release of Songpress is song transposition. In order do transpose the right way, we need to know the current key of the song (or of the part of it we want to transpose), and the destination key (or, equivalently, the gap between the source and destination key, expressed in semitones).

Thus I decided to experiment an algorithm to "guess" the current key of the song, by examining the song chords. The basic idea is simple: each key has its own "natural" chords. For example, in songs on the C key the most frequently occurring chords are C, F, G, Am, Dm, Em, E, sometimes A and D, etc.

]]> Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:52:12 +0100 http://www.skeed.it/songpress-autodetecting-key.html Luca Allulli