AudioTheory Guitars News

A new version of AudioTheory Guitars is here. It includes a few changes behind-the-scenes and a couple of new features.

[h2]New Diminished 7th Chord Selector[/h2]

Diminished 7th Chords are symmetrical, which causes all sorts of UI related challenges when attempting to represent them in the app. The chord library previously just showed them all in a grid, but this has now been updated so that the selector matches the layout of the other chord types, whilst also accounting for the fact that each position can be viewed as 4 different chords.

The root note selector now highlights multiple backgrounds, matching the functionality previously used in the smaller popup that displays below each chord in the main application view. The three different chord shapes are shown next to each other, and the cycle can be used to swap between the different positions on the fretboard.



[h2]Additional Minor Scales[/h2]

Full sets of harmonic and melodic minor scales have made their way to the scale library. To find these, select the minor type first and then below you'll see the different subtypes – natural (the standard minor scales that were already available) as well as harmonic and melodic.



I've also made some changes to the labels within the scale library, both to give clarity now that there's multiple minor scales to choose from, and also to better differentiate between the diminished scales that are also available.


[h2]Bug fixes and more[/h2]

Numerous systems within the app have been overhauled internally. The following bug fixes and improvements make their way into this update:

• Relative Roman numerals review to ensure consistent sharp/ flat information across all scales
  
• Solfege standardisation – all notes now use Do Re Mi for fixed do
  
• Standardisation of default sharp/ flat display across all scale types
  
• B now displays as C♭ when appropriate in scales (e.g. G♭ major)
  
• Hotkeys for swapping note language (buttons 1 – 4) now also work when viewing scale and chord sheets
  
• Adjusted position of keyboard input overlay on black keys
  
• Fixed some small display issues with the dim7 popup when editing a chord
  
• Fixed an issue with MIDI input not highlighting chord notes at the correct octave in the chord library
  
• Quick load chords label in the file menu dropdown now correctly updates to sus2 when viewed in a drop tuning mode
  

Just a small patch today. AudioTheory Guitars 3.1.2 includes the following changes:

• Chords are now correctly loaded from .txt preset files that also include a scale preset
  
• The fretboard position is now slightly offset on 16:10 to account for the extra screen height. This was already in effect on the iPad version of AudioTheory Guitars, but now it's here in the desktop version too.
  
• Press colour has been added to the cross button in the options popout
  
• The Quit and User Guide dropdown options now fully close the dropdown before running their respective functions
  

A small update for AudioTheory Guitars arrives today. It includes the following changes:

• Note selector scale label is now appended with an asterisk when modified. This is to support some changes made in the last update to how relative note names display, and makes it clear what scale these labels are in reference to when the scale is modified.
  
• Fixed an issue where the current note highlighting colours would inadvertently be reset
  
• Fixed an issue where one of the F# keys would also play an octave up when using the full keyboard overlay
  

A new update to AudioTheory Guitars is here. This update includes a whole load of miscellaneous changes and bug fixes. Let's take a look at what's new...

[h2]Relative note names[/h2]

Numerous changes have been made to improve how the application handles relative note name formats (Degrees, Roman numerals and movable do). These now display relative to the last selected scale, rather than the current scale. This has the effect of allowing you to subtract notes from the scale and still see the relative intervals for what's left. So for example, if you started out with C major and removed D, F, A and B then you'd be left with C, E and G, which would be labelled as 1, 3 and 5 respectively (which is useful if you're learning arpeggios!).

Further to the above, auto scale matching now only checks the current scale set group, as well as and the regular major and minor scales. This prevents accidentally swapping to the pentatonic scale of another key (e.g. G A B D E can be viewed as a subsection of C major, and won't automatically swap to G major pentatonic in this situation).


[h2]Chord Updates[/h2]

Some chord display and playback issues have now been corrected. There's also some new barre chords available – an alternate set of 6th chord shapes and D minor shaped barre chords (found as an alternative option once the minor chord type has been selected – the default is still the A minor shape).




Also included in this update:

• It's now possible to view and set the note display colours by hex value in the options
  
• Two alternate note colour sets can now be loaded directly from the options popup
  
• The note selector (bottom left) now has a highlight effect when you add in notes
  
• Custom sharp and flat states now save between sessions (where as previously it was only the scale as a whole that would save)
  
• A message has been added to the options popup to clarify that the buttons 1–4 can be used to swap the note display language from the main application view
  
• A message also appears on the main display when swapping note language via hotkey, just to clarify what change has been made
  
• Hotkeys now also respond to the keyboard number pad
  
• Clicking on a sharp/ flat chord name in the main application view now adjusts the sharp/ flat display for that note globally
  

And the bug bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue with the audio latency value not displaying correctly on MacOS
  
• Fixed an issue with certain pentatonic scales not highlighting correctly
  
• The chord offset label in the settings now correctly saves between sessions
  
• Since the last update chord circle outlines have been missing from the light theme. They are now back.
  
• Barre chords label is replaced with Sus2 label in dropdown when in a Drop 6th tuning
  
• Dracula's Cave Software logo now only displays in options and not also in the 'Welcome to AudioTheory Guitars' popup
  
• A few corrections have been made to how notes display when using Solfege
  
• Quick select chords popup now always displays on top of the scale select popup
  

A small update to AudioTheory Guitars arrives today. It includes the following changes:

• Engine upgrade
  
• Removal of the splash screen
  
• Mode labels now correctly update to major or minor
  
• Removal of the legacy binary (this helps keep the filesize down!)
  

Please note that the removal of the legacy binary means that there's no longer the option to automatically launch the legacy version of AudioTheory Guitars (version 2.4.0 and below) through Steam. If you really, really wanted to, it's still possible to override the launch path in the game properties, but there are no benefits to doing this. If you have automatic updates turned off, and you've eluded the 3.0.0 update for the few months since its release, now is the time to upgrade!