4.35
2023-07-31
• New Arpeggio w/Bass Accomp Style. When this style is chosen the accompaniment will be an arpeggio with a Bass note on the first beat of the bar that lasts for the whole bar. The Bass note is the root note of the chord being played on that bar.
• Random Scale Constraints. When a random scale is chosen for a motif, you can now constrain the scale to be selected from a subset of the available scales.
• New accompaniments added to the Chord & Bass Accomp Style.
4.34
2023-07-17
• Added a new Export MIDI option, MIDI - Multi Track. When this option is selected, one MIDI file is exported that has one track for the melody, multiple tracks for the notes of the accompaniment, another track with a sustain chord per bar, and another track with the melody harmony if Melody Harmony is On
4.33
2023-07-10
• Added the ability to export MIDI file with a Melody Harmony on a 4th track, when Melody Harmony is On.
• Fixed crash when playing a motif after coming back from Arrangement Screen where Arrangement has a single section and the name of the file contains a “/“
• Fixed crash that can occur when programming some 7th chords with inversions and using Guitar Voicing.
4.32
2023-07-04
• Added Power Chords for Chord Accompaniments. When this setting is On or Double and the accompaniment is a chord accompaniment (either randomly chosen or selected in the Accomp Style), the chords generated will be Power Chords (chords with the root and the fifth notes). When the setting is Double, either the root note or the fifth note (depending on the inversion of the chord) will be doubled at a higher octave.
• Fixed crash that could occur when the Melody Triplets setting is selected.
4.31
2023-06-20
• Added Alternate Scale Chords in the Program Chord Progression Screen. This adds the ability to select chords from any of the available keys and scales for a programmed chord progression.
• Fixed bugs.
4.29
2023-05-04
• Fixed crash when pressing Cancel on the Save Motif popover screen.
• When playing an arrangement in the Main Screen, the current section's motif name, key and scale are now displayed.
4.28
2023-04-30
• Small update
• Fixed issue where seventh note of a sequence in the Arpeggio Seq Accomp Style was incorrect when the chord was a secondary dominant seventh chord (example: A7). The note chosen was the major seventh and not the dominant seventh.
• Fixed size of some segmented controls in the Settings Screen to allow for full text display.
4.27
2023-04-28
• Added new Accomp Guitar Voicing Setting (Chord Accompaniments Only). When this setting is On and the accompaniment is a chord accompaniment (either randomly chosen or selected in the Accomp Style), the chords generated will have a guitar voicing using the first four frets of the guitar (notes from E1 to G#3). When this setting is Off piano chord voicing will be used.
• Fixed issue for motifs saved before version 2.26. If a motif has Melody Swing Rhythm enabled the app can crash when either loading or playing the motif.
4.25
2023-04-16
• Added Accomp Voice Leading setting. When this setting is On and the accompaniment is a chord accompaniment (either randomly chosen or selected in the Accomp Style), the chords generated will be voice leading chords. When this setting is the default (Def) voice leading chords are chosen 50% of the time. When this setting is Off no voice leading chords are chosen.
• Fixed issue where the Melody Shift function was not working for melody harmony notes.
4.24
2023-03-18
• Added 5th interval harmony as an option for the Melody Harmony setting.
• Enhanced chord progression generation algorithm for random motifs.
• Fixed issue with layout in Programmed Progression window where options scroll window wasn't resized correctly (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In only)
• Fixed issue where when using Start Delay the Time display was jumping for BPMs less than 60 BPM.
4.23
2023-02-16
• Added a Host BPM multiple to be used when in Sync Mode. When the multiple is used, the app's BPM will be a multiple of the Host's BPM. The possible multiples are: 1/4x,1/2x and 2x. (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In only)
• Added the App Version to the manual. The manual can be accessed by pressing the Help button.
• Fixed issue where when the Min Bass Interval was used, some accompaniment arpeggio notes would not play in the correct octaves.
4.21
2023-02-07
• Melody and Accompaniment Velocity are now AU parameters that can be controlled from hosts like AUM.
• Added new accompaniments for random generated motifs.
4.20
2023-01-31
• Added the ability to program a Melody Sequence. When Melody Sequence is On, you can program a sequence for the melody with the following options per 1/8 beat : play, rest, hold or random. You can also program which beats you want to accent.
• Fixed issue where when the device's audio output changes the AUv3 MIDI plug-in can stop sending MIDI.
• Fixed crash that can occur for arrangements with sections using the 3rd track Multibar Chord Sustain and other sections using either just Chord Sustain or Drone.
• Fixed issue where when using the MultiBar Chord Sustain Accomp Style, the 3rd track will have silent bars on the bars where the sustain is occuring.
4.18
2023-01-25
• Added Velocity Control for Melody and Accompaniment (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In Only). To access this new function, press on the Octave Shift Label, this toggles this window to be the Velocity Control window. Please note that the melody harmony velocity will be controlled by the Melody Velocity Control and the 3rd track velocity will be controlled by the Accompaniment Velocity Control.
4.17
2023-01-17
• Improved accompaniment algorithm for richer variety of motifs.
• Improved melody gate (rests) algorithm for richer variety of motifs.
• Added Voiceover Accessibility features for Main Screen
• Fixed issue where if a motif is imported from the file system or loaded from the library in non-Sync mode and the motif isn't played, if you toggle to Sync mode the new motif won't be played.
• Fixed issue where if the Melody Triplets option is On, the Settings Red Light Indicator isn't turned on.
• Fixed issue in Arrangement audition where the section's scale and key weren't displayed correctly
4.16
2023-01-05
• Added new options to the Accomp Seq Accomp Style: sus2, sus4, 7th and add9. These new options combined with the already existing Chord, Bass, Hold and Rest options allow for some really creative accompaniment sequences for your motifs.
• Fixed issue where Accomp Seq settings weren't being reset when a Settings reset was performed.
• Fixed issue where octave ranges weren’t being applied when certain accompaniments were used.
• Fixed issue where in rare cases melody notes were played even though the Melody note frequency was set to 0.
• Fixed the note duration of Bass notes in Accomp Seq, only one beat duration was used regardless of there being holds for the next beats.
• Fixed issue where when Melody Max Note Duration was set to a value different than Any, the last note of the motif could be longer than the set value.
4.15
2022-12-19
• Changed Chord Seq Accomp Style name to Accomp Seq and added the ability to define if you want a Chord or a Bass note for a beat in the sequence. Added the ability to set accents for the beats of the sequence.
• Added new accompaniments to the Chord & Bass Accomp Style.
• Added new chord progressions for randomly generated motifs.
• Enhanced and refined the Melody Triplets generation algorithm.
• Fixed issue where the last note for a motif with a programmed chord progression and swing rhythm or triplets, had a short duration.
• Fixed crash when no notes were defined in the User Defined Melody Constraint.
4.13
2022-12-08
• New Melody Triplets setting. This setting enables the generation of triplets in the melody.
• Fix for a crash where after playing a saved motif it was incorrectly allowed to be locked and caused a crash when a new motif was attempted to be generated.
4.12
2022-12-04
• Added new Call/Response Accompaniment Style. In this Accompaniment Style, the even bar accompaniment notes (Response) will follow the odd bar melody notes (Call). When this option is selected a popup screen will be displayed where you can define what notes you want the accompaniment to have. The options are Any, Unchanged and Chord. When Unchanged is selected, the accompaniment notes will be the same as the melody notes, but one octave lower. When Chord is selected, the accompaniment notes will have the same rhythm and intervals as the melody notes but played in the chord of the bar and one octave lower. When Any is selected, the app will choose randomly between Unchanged and Chord for the motif.
• Added new accompaniments for randomly generated motifs.
4.10
2022-11-30
• Completely revamped the algorithm that manages the generation of accompaniment arpeggios for extended chords (7th,add9).
• Third track can now be of a different type (chord sustain, chord sustain multibar, drone) for different sections of an arrangement.
• Removed "Motif Generated" display message (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In)
• Added Purchased label for IAPs that have already been purchased.
• Fixed incorrect display of beat/time for a Start Delay value that is greater than the number of bars of the motif (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In).
• Fixed issue where a motif started playing on the wrong bar if playing a motif after restoring a Host session in Sync Mode with a time signature different than 4/4 and using a Start Delay. (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In)
• Fixed issue where extra MIDI Notes Off messages were being sent at the end of a motif or when the Host transport was stopped in Sync Mode (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In).
4.9
2022-11-11
• Added the ability to set a percentage for the number of melody harmony notes that will be generated for melody notes in a motif. Find this setting in More Settings under Melody Harmony.
4.8
2022-11-10
• Fixed issue with melody harmony notes not being turned off when melody octave is shifted when the app is used as an AUv3 MIDI plug-in.
4.7
2022-11-08
• Ability to import and export motifs from and to the device's file system.
• Import one or several motifs by pressing the Import button.
• Export a motif by selecting the Motif option after pressing the Export button.
• Export a motif by selecting the Export option in the Library Screen when swiping left on a motif.
• Ability to select a MIDI channel for the melody harmony in the MIDI Screen, if the Melody Harmony option has been selected in the Settings Screen. (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In only)
• Fixed an issue where, in Audition mode, the MIDI channels were set to their default values and not to the ones set by the user (AUv3 MIDI Plug-In)
4.4
2022-10-27
• Fixed issue where in some cases Piano Motifs doesn't generate MIDI after the Host has been in the background and comes back to the foreground.
• Fixed problem in AUv3 plugin where time and beat display were incorrect when loading and playing a saved non-swing motif after a swing motif had been generated and played.
• Added a Delay Start function with which the user can determine a number of bars a motif will be delayed before it starts playing when in Sync Mode. To access this feature, long press on the SYNC button. A popover window will be displayed where you can select by how many bars you want to delay the start of the motif.
• In Standalone mode, allow for the dismissal of the "BPM will change on next loop" warning by touching outside of it.
• Increased the size of the Octave Shift steppers for iPhone devices.
4.2
2022-09-27
- Fixed issue where in some rare cases when instantiating Piano Motifs, the BPM and the Time Signature weren't synchronized with the host.