Feature requests

[Kalokagathon]

Originally Posted by Keith88
I would like a key added to the chord keyboard. The key should insert a single bar line at the end of a space on the chord chart. Presently, there is a key that inserts a single bar line at the beginning of a space. Adding this new key would avoid having to switch to the symbols keyboard at the end of a line.

As Nimbleswitch said, it will automatically add a right barline at the end of a system when you insert one at the beginning of the next system. If you want any other barline at the end (double, final, repeat) you will have to change to Symbols for all the choices.

Barlines inserted at the BEGINNING of a system also make barlines show at the END of preceding system. I have found sometimes editing a chart with right barlines to be confusing in layout, when deleting or inserting measures. I have no problem with using only left barlines, since there really is never a need to insert a single right barline.

From some posts somewhere else a short while ago (bugs?), someone noticed that barlines inserted at the left or the right of a measure create different behaviors with the player.
They were talking about double-bar lines, but it was a behavior not intended by the developers. I wonder if something analogous could happen by indiscriminately using left or right bar lines...

 

[nimbleswitch]

A range of bass notes: /B0 to /E3.

it'd be great to be able to designate the bass notes as, e.g., /E1 or /E2. And for those who enjoy bass guitar (not me) you might start with /B0 and go up to /E3, which would give 2 full octaves to even the double bass players. That'd be something bassists here would really dig.

 

[girlinagale]

I busk along with iReal Pro with saxophone. In the winter the cold flattens my instrument beyond it's ability to tune up by pushing the mouthpiece further on.
I would really appreciate being able to flatten iReal Pro by nearly a half step.
I know I can change the key down a half step but that is too much.
Any hope of this being added by next winter?

 

[dflat]

I busk along with iReal Pro with saxophone. In the winter the cold flattens my instrument beyond it's ability to tune up by pushing the mouthpiece further on.
I would really appreciate being able to flatten iReal Pro by nearly a half step.
I know I can change the key down a half step but that is too much.
Any hope of this being added by next winter?

There is probably an effects app you can use with the AudioBus app (iReal Pro as Input, pitch shifter as Effects) (iOS only). Or just use a (guitar) pitch shifter (pedal) if you use an amp.
http://audiob.us

We might take a look at pitch some time in the future but not at the moment.

 

[ptuner111]

suggestion for update:

have the verse count larger and/or the final verse blink.

thank you. love the app.


(Copied from the Android forum)

 

[nimbleswitch]

An 8/8 time signature.

I know it would be artificial, but I think it would enable us to Playback chords and/or bass notes on the "and" beats in what could effectively be 4/4 time. So we could effectively Playback bass 8th notes and the chords on the 8th beats in some of Gershwin's measures. (Of course, if you could find a way to just directly add chords on the 8th beats in 4/4 time, even better.)

This combined with the ability to designate bass notes from /B0 to /E3 (or even higher?), which I already have wished for, would surely be loved by bass players, wouldn't it, Massimo?

Thanks for even considering all these requests we're constantly making.

-Jack

 

[Bobsax]

Specify inversions

Ability to enter and Playback m13 chords

Gershwin, again.

This Q could be addressed if we could ..

specify the inversion of a chord.
On the piano playing Eb^ C-7 Ab^ F-7 all in root position outlines a sort of descending melody of D Bb G Eb .
If we could specify inversions we could theoretically have iRealb play heads

The first line here demonstrates how the descending chords i'm going for are muddled in inversions
Test moving bass stagnant chord vice versa - Harold Arlen

 

[mikeva]

This is my first post, so maybe this has already been discussed. Is there a way to change styles in the middle of a tune? Like "Latin" for 8 bars then "Swing" for 8 bars then back to "Latin?" If not, that would be a great feature. Thanks.

 

[pdxdjazz]

This is my first post, so maybe this has already been discussed. Is there a way to change styles in the middle of a tune? Like "Latin" for 8 bars then "Swing" for 8 bars then back to "Latin?" If not, that would be a great feature. Thanks.

https://forums.irealpro.com/threads/how-can-I-changes-rhythms-within-a-song.3081/
)BOB

 

[LDL]

Is there a good way to request specific styles? I'm thinking some of the lesser known Brazilian styles like:

Maxixe
Tango Brasileiro
Choro-lento
Forro
and a reversed samba pattern (samba is a two measure pattern - first measure starting on the downbeat - second on the anticipated upbeat. In Pagode it is common to flip the order so that the first measure is an anticipated upbeat - the second starting on the downbeat).

A very good reference for guitar players is in Billy Newman's Guitar Atlas book Brazil.

 

[stan38]

Being able to enter your own voicings, which could then be both heard and seen on the diagram charts (piano and guitar). That would be KILLING! (also: puting back the anticipation feature!)

 

[nimbleswitch]

... and no bass note at all.

Since I've already requested the ability to enter and Playback specific bass notes with and without cords from /B0 to /E3 (or even higher), I should also request the ability to enter /0, or some such, for no bass note with the chord at all.

Don't want much, do I.

 

[jarnoldazaz]

Hello all,

I apologize if this has been covered previously, but I didn't see it when I searched.

Is it possible to use an Airturn controller to signify an end of repeats? When using iRealB for drums with other live players trading choruses, it's a little hard to keep track of where we are at in the number of repeats. It would be nice to click a foot controller to signify "ok, this is the last chorus, we'll go to the coda" when we feel ready.

Thx in advance,
Jim

 

[pdxdjazz]

Hello all,

I apologize if this has been covered previously, but I didn't see it when I searched.

Is it possible to use an Airturn controller to signify and end of repeats? When using iRealB for drums with other live players trading choruses, it's a little hard to keep track of where we are at in the number of repeats. It would be nice to click a foot controller to signify "ok, this is the last chorus, we'll go to the coda" when we feel ready.

Thx in advance,
Jim

As far as I know, page forward/back and player start/stop are the only available functions.

If you write out the repeating section again for the last repeat after the bracketed section, you'll know when the final repeat is happening because the playback position indicator will move on instead of continuing to cycle within the brackets.

Example: you want a 4 bar section to repeat 8x. Bracket that section, repeat 7x, copy and paste the section again for the 8th repeat.

If you are using player repeats, you need to keep your eye on the countdown at the top of the chart to know when it's the FINAL time...
)BOB

 

[jarnoldazaz]

As far as I know, page forward/back and player start/stop are the only available functions.

If you write out the repeating section again for the last repeat after the bracketed section, you'll know when the final repeat is happening because the playback position indicator will move on instead of continuing to cycle within the brackets.

Example: you want a 4 bar section to repeat 8x. Bracket that section, repeat 7x, copy and paste the section again for the 8th repeat.

If you are using player repeats, you need to keep your eye on the countdown at the top of the chart to know when it's the FINAL time...
)BOB

Thank you Bob. Yes that does help I agree. I guess what I was hoping for was an undefined number of repeats (for solos) and then when the group is ready to end it, tap the foot controller, and go to the Coda or last chorus to replay the head.

Perhaps a future feature?
Thanks again,
Jim

 

[DaleMac]

...what I was hoping for was an undefined number of repeats...

For many (many) years I used an Ensoniq EPS sequencer for backing tracks. Just as you describe, it could loop the song until I decided to manually advance to the coda. This was, and still is actually, the hardest thing about adapting performances to iRP. Yes, it does take some pre-planning to accommodate the personnel on a particular gig. And it's definitely a distraction to keep track of how many repeats are remaining, and hope you guessed correctly. The advantages of using iRP are many (ease of composition, changing styles and tempos, sharing files, etc.) and I would never go back to using a sequencer. But I do still miss controlling repeats on the fly - especially when some couple decides to get up and dance 15 seconds before the song is pre-set to end.

 

[Keith88]

A new combo style

I read in another thread that an update for iRP would be released soon. I don't want to be a nuisance, but I would like to see a new combination style Rhumba/Swing, similar to the existing Latin/Swing style. I've made this request in the past, and I hope the development team will give it serious consideration. Ditto for an Acoustic Bossa/Swing style.

I'd still like to see some type of folder system for managing playlists, as well as a way to indicate for each song which playlists the song is in, but I realize that these items would be more difficult to implement. All of us await an update with new goodies.

 

[Bobsax]

Hi Keith

I might be helpful to give an example of what you mean.
Perhaps an iconic song?
For instance Poinciana has an iconic grove that would be nice to have in the groove toolbox.
It may already be there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU1hm7KlfT8

I read in another thread that an update for iRP would be released soon. I don't want to be a nuisance, but I would like to see a new combination style Rhumba/Swing, similar to the existing Latin/Swing style. I've made this request in the past, and I hope the development team will give it serious consideration. Ditto for an Acoustic Bossa/Swing style.

I'd still like to see some type of folder system for managing playlists, as well as a way to indicate for each song which playlists the song is in, but I realize that these items would be more difficult to implement. All of us await an update with new goodies.

 

[dflat]

I read in another thread that an update for iRP would be released soon.

Yes due very soon, but sorry, no new styles nor changes to playlists. There's a screenshot of the new hand writing font on our Facebook page.

 

[Keith88]

Bobsax: A tune like "If Ever I Would Leave You" would work well with a Rhumba/Swing style; "My Reverie," Invitation," "All Or Nothing At All," "Flamingo" would do as well. I'd prefer something a bit smoother and without the prominent cymbals that are present in the Latin part of the Latin/Swing style for these tunes (although the Latin/Swing style works great with "On Green Dolphin Street" and "Speak Low"). I would like to be able to play "The Girl From Ipanema" and "Beautiful Love" with an Acoustic Bossa/Swing style.

The Ahmad Jamal version of "Poinciana" is not my idea of a Rhumba, although I do like the performance (treat yourself to another Jamal jem: "Stolen Moments" as a piano trio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HClD5wy7K5s). I'd be happy with the Bolero style to be mated with the Swing style for the combination style I'm requesting, and continue to hope we'll get someday.