What's New?

Revision 4 introduces a number of new features and enhancements while improving the user interface to give you the greater control and new capabilities for learning, discovering, teaching and playing.

New Features Include:

  • imageAlchemy - A Chord Diagram Bitmap Editor
    • Chord Diagram Manipulation
      • Toggle Chord Diagrams Elements On and Off
        • Chord Name, Capo, Chord Information
      • Change Size and Appearance of
        • Font sizes, Line weight, Dot Color
        • Grid Height, Grid Width
      • 2 user labels
      • Save as .BMP or .JPG File
    • Save .BMP to Clipboard
  • Fretboard/Scale Diagram Screen
    • Display Fretboard Diagram
    • Save as a .BMP or .JPG file
    • Save BMP to the Clipboard for easy pasting onto Word and other applications that accept graphic images.
  • Scales/Modes Chord Relationship Screen
    • Quickly see all of the chords and how the related to any Scale or Mode.
    • Great tool for navigating through any chord for a given key
  • Chord Page Improvements
    • Move and rearrange chords
    • Display options, cleaner layout
    • Display area for Common Information for all chords on the page
    • Display Area for Chord Information for the current chord
    • Open chord pages directly.
      • You can still use books to organize them but you do not have to "go through" a book to create and open them
    • Resizeable Window
  • Support for Instruments up to 12 strings
  • Multi-window User Interface
  • Improved Reverse Lookup Interface
  • Capo Support
  • Improved Fretboard Functionality
    • Full Left-Handed Support - Flip the fretboard to any orientation
    • Display Notes, Intervals, or a Combination
  • Instrument Tuner built into the fretboard
  • Formal Support for a additional dozen instruments
  • Resizable Chord Diagram and Chord Page windows
    • Now you can fill whole screen with chord diagrams.
  • Copy diagram to Clipboard - fast cut&paste into word like
    documents
  • Improved Added Bass (slash chord) intelligence
    • You control the number of strings to considered for the added bass
  • Improved user interface
    • Window based interface for each major functions
    • Toolbar with graphic buttons for common tasks
  • Improved Diagram Control
    • Enhanced Chord Inversion (any note in the bass)
    • *New* Lead Tone support (any note in the lead tone position
    • Improved Chord Display
      • Toggle selected elements on and off including:
        • Chord Name, Notes and Interval