What's new in iReal Pro 2024.2
Mar 5, 2024
- Improvements to the piano part in Jazz Ballad Even
- Updated piano part in Bossa/Swing and Latin/Swing
- Fixed diminished bass lines in Blues styles
- Improved behavior of the editor when a selection is in place
- Added contextual menu in editor (Right-click on mouse or two-finger click on trackpad)
- Added ability in the Editor to select from keyboard with Shift+cursor arrows
New in iReal Pro 2024.1 (Jan 30, 2024)
- Fixed issue with looping sections containing repeats
- Fixed bass line for min7b5 chords in Glam Funk
- Fixed bass line for dominant chords in minor keys in Blues Flat Tire
- Made small chord qualities narrower
- Fixed position marker not showing after a Final bar line in the middle of a line
- Fixed backup import count with older format backups
- Now requires macOS 11 Big Sur or newer
New in iReal Pro 2023.11.2 (Dec 17, 2023)
- Fix minor bug with chord diagrams
New in iReal Pro 2023.11 (Dec 8, 2023)
- Added options in the Player menu to change the Transposing Instrument with keyboard shortcuts
- Moved commonly used song chart settings to the Aa menu in the toolbar
- The song chart color now follows the app theme settings
- The editor now works in dark mode
- Swapped the behavior of the Space bar to toggle Play/Stop and '.' to toggle Pause
New in iReal Pro 2023.7 (Aug 18, 2023)
- Jazz-Medium Up Swing:
- New flat ride cymbal sound
- Ride swing at 72%
- New drum fills and snare comping accents
- New piano comping rhythms
- Bass accents match new 72% swing feel
- Jazz-Medium Swing:
- All the changes from Medium Up Swing plus:
- Better position of hi-hat because of the sample attack at slower tempo
- Additional triplets in the the fills and snare comping accents **TODO**
- Additional triplets in the bass lines
- Jazz-Doo Doo Cats:
- Two feel swing on hi-hat at 72%
- Same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Jazz-Bossa Nova: new flat ride cymbal sound
- Jazz-Bossa/Swing: new flat ride cymbal sound and same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Jazz-New Orleans Swing: same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Jazz-Swing Two Four:
- Two feel swing on hi-hat at 72%
- Same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Double Time Swing now also works with 3/4 and 2/4 time signatures
- Better guitar/keys rhythms with 2 chords per measure in 4/4 in Blues: Funky, Gospel, Muddy, Nola, Shout, Texas Rock
- Better piano rhythms with 2 chords per measure in 4/4 in: Latin-Brazil Samba, Latin-Cuba Bolero, Salsa-Cuba Bolero, Salsa-Cuba Cha Cha Cha
New in iReal Pro 2023.6 (Jun 2, 2023)
- Fixed various guitar chord fingerings
- Fixed MusicXML export with 1st and 2nd endings
New in iReal Pro 2023.5 (May 15, 2023)
- Fixed cell selection in editor in song with vertical spacers
- Fixed issue with starting playback from coda with END symbol
- Fixed issue with click target to select a measure after a new line with extra vertical space and single bar line
- Fixed accessibility with invisible roots
- Fixed Ukulele D7 chord
- Improved some guitar chord fingerings
- Improved matching style text in editor to player style
New in iReal Pro 2022.11 (Dec 4, 2022)
- Reduced size of exported playlists
- Fixed some translations
- Fixed a few guitar chords
- Updated exported MusicXML to version 3.1
- Fixes to VoiceOver with numeric font
New in iReal Pro 2022.10 (Oct 19, 2022)
- Changed Share menus into Export menus
- Fixed key Signature of exported MIDI files
- Fixed default guitar chords
- Fixed synth brass sound
- Lowered Volume of synth sounds
New in iReal Pro 2022.9 (Oct 12, 2022)
- Print and export of long songs is now stretched to fill the page
- Fix chord fonts not displaying for sone charts in odd time signatures
New in iReal Pro 2022.7 (Aug 1, 2022)
- Updated all styles with better fade out endings
- Fixed random crash on some M1 based Macs
- Fixed rare crash when displaying a song with only two equal chords with piano or guitar font
- Fixed too high one handed piano chord font diagrams
New in iReal Pro 2022.2 (Mar 4, 2022)
- *NEW* Salsa styles backing tracks
- Added more triads to the guitar chords library
New in iReal Pro 2021.9 (Dec 19, 2021)
- New Stereo sampled piano sound
New in iReal Pro 2021.8 (Sep 13, 2021)
- Editor: move staff text "// New Line" symbol to dedicated button next to the input text field
- Editor: fixed bug where it wasn't possible to edit the last cell in the chart
- Editor: Fixed issue where it was impossible to enter a chord in the last cell without a closing bar line
- Editor: Clearer controls of Regular vs Alternate chords input mode
- Editor: Changed Delete key behavior to not delete all content under the cursor at once but in stages
- Change Son Montuno behavior to only put fills at the change between heads and middle choruses
- Fixed issue with piano chords font not drawing after a vertical spacer
- Fixed issue with selection in the song list wouldn't be visible when switching song list layouts
- Added Portuguese and Russian language localizations
New in iReal Pro 2021.6 (Jun 27, 2021)
- Show playback controls during edit
- Fixed song list scrolling behavior when deleting and reordering songs
- Added support for special symbol "//" for multiline staff text
- Fixed issue with long staff text flowing off of the right edge of the chart
- Improved export to PDF
- Fixed issue in Son-Montuno style where sections with odd numbers of measures would disrupt the clave pattern
- Fixed Tango style final chord with a smoother fade out of the accordion
- Fixed issue with multicolumn Song list not updating song info when saving in editor
New in iReal Pro 2021.4.1 (Apr 23, 2021)
- Fixed issue with drum breaks not working with uppercase "Break" text
- Fixed issue with drum breaks not working when multiple text snippets were added to a single measure
- Fixed issue with practice settings incorrectly resetting after editing a song
New in iReal Pro 2021.4 (Apr 12, 2021)
- Added new Jazz style with alternating Bossa Nova and Swing sections
New in iReal Pro 2021.2.1 (Mar 1, 2021)
New in iReal Pro 2021.2 (Mar 1, 2021)
- Minor fixes and improvements
New in iReal Pro 2021.1.1 (Jan 21, 2021)
- Fixes a crash that could sometime happen at the end of a recording.
New in iReal Pro 2021.1 (Jan 19, 2021)
- Fixed issue with practice settings resetting after iCloud sync completion
- Add button to open system preferences from error dialog when there is a sync error
- Fixed A6/E guitar chord diagram
- Fixed issue with Backup button not working when starting sync
New in iReal Pro 2020.12 (Dec 18, 2020)
- Added support for drum breaks! Insert the word “Break” in the staff text and the drums will stop with a shot on one until the next double bar line.
- Added two new chord qualities: minor add 9 (-add9) and diminished major 7th (o^7).
- Don’t show import preview window when importing existing single song and override player settings in existing song with incoming imported song
- Improved print panel to show scale and orientation options
New in iReal Pro 2020.9 (Nov 26, 2020)
- Added support for new Apple M1 based computers (Universal app)
- Adopted new macOS 11 Big Sur design
- New player controls with easier access to all functionalities
- Added option for single column song list
- Added support for Dark Mode
- New: search for songs in Spotlight
- Accessibility improvements for Voice-Over reading of the chord chart
- Added ability to copy songs from the song list and paste them into a playlist
- Added ability to drag a playlist or song to the finder as a mean to export
- Added ability to import iReal Pro .html files by dragging them onto the sidebar in the playlists area
- Fixed PDF size for better printing
- Fixed add9 chord voicings so that the 9th is not at the top
- Added foot Hi-Hat sound to click sounds (useful for 2 & 4 click track)
New in iReal Pro 2020.7.1 (Jul 6, 2020)
New in iReal Pro 2020.7 (Jun 30, 2020)
- Updated Cuba-Son Montuno 2-3 and 3-2 styles
- Improve search with high quality results at the top
- Fixed Pop RnB Rhodes part going out of sync on long songs
- Change guitar part in Blues Lucille to play long notes with 4 chords per measure
- Fix issue with songs in 7/4 and 9/8 time signatures not playing a drum crash at the beginning of song sections
- Improved voicing selection for keyboard and guitar instruments to avoid really high and low registers
- Fixed volume getting louder with distortions when adding reverb in the mixer
New in iReal Pro 2020.4.1 (May 28, 2020)
- Fix crash when playing Pop Rock 12/8 in 2/4 or 6/8 time signature
- Better endings in all Blues and Pop styles
New in iReal Pro 2020.4 (May 22, 2020)
- Added a second harmony part (Organ) to the Pop Reggae style
- Added a second harmony part (Guitar) to the Pop Rock 12/8 style
New in iReal Pro 2020.3 (May 1, 2020)
- Improved Blues Funky guitar part
- Fixed drum pattern in Pop Slow Rock when playing time signatures other than 4/4
- Fixes issue with audio output selection with external interfaces not working correctly
New in iReal Pro 2020.2 (Apr 27, 2020)
- IMPROVED the Pop-Country style with an additional acoustic guitar part
- IMPROVED the Pop-Slow Rock style with an additional organ part
- Fixed an issue when recording on older devices where the last few seconds would be cut off
- Fixed a rare crash on stopping playback
- Fixed an issue with AirTurn not working on restarting the app
- Updated AirTurn SDK to v3.7.4
- Fixes an issue when recording on older devices where the last few seconds would be cut off
- Fixes an issue with recording which resulted in noise when using certain external audio interfaces
- Added option to save a recording as WAV or AAC
- Disabled the input volume slider when recording from an external audio interface with its own level controls
- Remember last audio input selected when recording
New in iReal Pro 2020.1 (Apr 16, 2020)
- IMPROVED Pop-Rock style with a second harmony part and new variations in the drums and bass parts between A and B sections
- Dropped support for older versions of macOS. The minimum required is now macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Updates the audio engine for better performance
- Minor bug fixes
New in iReal Pro 2019.6 (Oct 31, 2019)
- Minor fixes for macOS Catalina
New in iReal Pro 10.1.1 (Aug 4, 2019)
- Fixes a crash on startup for some users with external audio interface.
New in iReal Pro 10.1 (Jul 15, 2019)
- Added the option to sort the list of playlists alphabetically
- Fixed audio issues when playing through Bluetooth and AirPlay speakers
- Fixed issue with iCloud Sync sometimes stopping playback
- Fixed reverb not being set correctly on first playback
New in iReal Pro 10.0.0 (Mar 6, 2019)
- Added a new import flow that lets you preview the songs and playlists before importing them
- Added support for macOS 10.14 Mojave
- Increased tuning range to 415-466 (a semitone up and down)
- Increased size of repeat indicator text
- IReal Pro now requires macOS 10.11 El Capitan or higher
New in iReal Pro 8.3.2 (Oct 2, 2018)
- Fixed German localization that prevented the Preferences panel from working correctly
New in iReal Pro 8.3.1 (Aug 15, 2018)
New in iReal Pro 8.3.0 (Jul 4, 2018)
- New:
- Added setting for tuning of backing tracks from standard A4 = 440 Hz to values between 430-450 Hz
- Styles improvements:
- Fixed 3/8 timing of organ in Pop - Funk
- Better mix between instruments in Blues - Flat Tire
- Increased volume of organ in Blues - Mo-Slo
- Simplified bass line for one-beat chords in Blues - Mo-Slo
- Minor tweaks to Blues - Chicago Shuffle
- Fixed bass playing a minor 7th on major triads in Blues - Funky and Stax
New in iReal Pro 8.2.3 (May 28, 2018)
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
New in iReal Pro 8.2.2 (Feb 16, 2018)
- Fixed issue when printing a chart with guitar or piano chord diagrams.
New in iReal Pro 8.2.1 (Feb 14, 2018)
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
New in iReal Pro 8.2 (Feb 9, 2018)
- Added option to share a playlist as a Setlist
- Added option to share a playlist as a PDF book
- Added option to duplicate a playlist
- Various bug fixes and improvements
New in iReal Pro 8.0.6 (Nov 6, 2017)
- Error messages are no longer modal and can be dismissed by clicking anywhere in the window
- Added option to scroll between songs with arrow keys and swipe gestures
- Audio Export in WAV format is now 16 bits depth rate
- Fixed song drawing regression with vertical spacers
- Fixed issue when importing single song and style wasn’t retained
- Reverted to previous search behavior where the search field is not cleared when switching between playlists
New in iReal Pro 8.0.5 (Nov 2, 2017)
New in iReal Pro 8.0.4 (Nov 1, 2017)
- Fixes for macOS High Sierra 10.13.
New in iReal Pro 8.0.3 (Oct 16, 2017)
- Fixes for macOS High Sierra 10.13.
New in iReal Pro 8.0.2 (Oct 5, 2017)
- Fixes for macOS High Sierra 10.13.
New in iReal Pro 8.0.1 (Aug 30, 2017)
New in iReal Pro 8.0 (Aug 22, 2017)
- Blues:
- 12 new Blues styles are now available as a one time In-App purchase
- Each Blues style comes with guitar, keyboard, bass and drums tracks
- iCloud Sync:
- Upload your songs and playlists to iCloud for safekeeping and for synchronization across any of your iCloud enabled devices such as iPhone, iPad or Mac
- Improvements to audio:
- Change tempo during playback- Change instrument sounds during playback (Except drums)
- Exporting audio is now very fast
- Added two new electric guitars
- Added support for Touch Bar in latest MacBook Pro
New in iReal Pro 7.0.1 (Mar 12, 2016)
New in iReal Pro 7.0 (Feb 9, 2016)
- Record yourself playing or singing along with iReal Pro
- Added new Pop styles: Glam Funk, Virtual Funk and House
- Added new Drums, Bass, Rhodes, Synth and Organ sounds
- Improved Tempo and Repeats controls
- Improved full screen support
New in iReal Pro 6.3 (Jul 21, 2015)
- Added Ukulele chord diagrams and font
New in iReal Pro 6.2 (May 29, 2015)
- Added option to choose between normal and embellished chords for each style
- Added min#5 chord quality
- Added option to find a song on the web
- Added Welcome window on first run of the app
- Added What's New window when app is updated
- Added Version History accessible from the iReal Pro menu
- Improved Gypsy Jazz style
- Improved guitar chord diagrams
- Improved playback of diminished triads (lowercase 'o') to not include the diminished 7th
- Improved indication that a song is transposed
- Improved behavior and animation of Split View dividers when toggling sidebar visibility
- Changed keyboard shortcut for Duplicate song to Control-D to avoid conflict with the Editor CMD-Shift-D for Double Bar
- Fixed bug where printing a song that had been transposed in a playlist, would print in the original key
- Fixed issue where chord font would be wrong when the song had an END symbol
- Fixed issue where text in the editor drop-down menus would be invisible if System Accessibility High Contrast settings were enabled
- Fixed issue when trying to play in the editor, would play from the wrong measure
- Fixed issue when exporting to midi with practice settings enabled
- Fixed issue where composer wasn't updated as you typed in the editor
New in iReal Pro 6.1 (Mar 20, 2015)
- New Visual Count-In
- ADDED new Hand Writing Font for the chord charts
- ADDED new option to highlight rehearsal symbols in red
- ADDED a second option for Rhodes sound
- ADDED option to sort playlists in random order
- ADDED option to set the background color of the song
- Stability improvements and bug fixes
New in iReal Pro 6.0.1 (Nov 6, 2014)
- Stability improvements and bug fixes
New in iReal Pro 6.0 (Sep 22, 2014)
- ALL CHORD DIAGRAMS are now included for free in the app
- IMPROVED the sampled sounds of Piano, Fender Rhodes and Acoustic Guitar
- IMPROVED Practice style is now called Long Notes and allows for many more sound options
- ADDED option to have No Count-In
- ADDED ability to set the volume of the Count-In
- ADDED option to sort playlists in random order
- IMPROVED Mixer selection of sounds
- Various improvements and performance enhancements
- ADDED 12 new Jazz Styles available as In-App purchase:
- Ballad Double Time Feel
- Ballad Melodic
- Blue Note
- Doo Doo Cats
- Even 16ths
- Even 8ths Open
- Guitar Trio
- Medium Up Swing 2
- New Orleans Swing
- Second Line
- Trad Jazz
- Up Tempo Swing 2
- ADDED new instruments (each style will have different instruments available to it):
- Harmony sounds: B3 Organ, Jazz Guitar, Banjo, Strings, Choir, various synths and pads
- Bass sounds: Fretless bass, Picked bass, Muted bass, Slap bass, Moog bass, Q Bass, Sub Bass, Tuba
- Old K ride cymbal to the jazz drum set
- Drumstick sound for Count-In
New in iReal Pro 5.1 (Jun 17, 2014)
- ADDED: 3/8 and 5/8 time signatures in notation and playback for all non-swing styles
- Corrected the way 6/8, 9/8 and 12/8 play in non-swing styles
- Improved count-in for all x/8 time signatures
- Improved count-in now matches time signature of starting measure
New in iReal Pro 5.0.6 (May 10, 2014)
- Increased overall volume of audio output
- Added export audio to AAC format
- Added option to select AirPlay or other audio output devices from the main window
- New: double click a song title to start playing it
- Fixed issue with sound offset when playing audio through AirPort Express
New in iReal Pro 5.0.4 (Feb 28, 2014)
- NEW: Quickly import a complete backup including all songs and playlists. CTRL-click the BACKUP html file (in email, Dropbox or wherever you’ve saved it) and choose Open With > iReal Pro
- ADDED: new tutorials for: Transposition, Player, Sharing, Editor and Backup
- IMPROVED: Last viewed song now is opened when restarting the app
- IMPROVED: Exporting playlist to the forums that have less than 300 songs now includes the individual song codes
- IMPROVED: A progress indicator now appears when emptying trash, deleting songs and importing playlists
- CHANGED: Classic Font icon from Bb to C7
- CHANGED: behavior of chord diagrams windows so they don’t hide when activating another app
- CHANGED: deprecated .irb file format as it was not cross-platform compatible. You can still open old .irb files
- FIXED: bug where with Number notation it wasn’t possible to transpose the playback
- FIXED: issue with MusicXML where exporting a song transposed to C (or A-) would result in a chart with wrong key signature
- Many more performance improvements and small bug fixes
New in iReal Pro 2.8 (Jan 30, 2013)
- New style: Jazz – Swing Two/Four style
- Added ability to start playback from any measure during editing
- Added option for left handed guitar chord diagrams
- Added Master volume slider at top of window
- Added option to hide sidebar
- Moved Search field to top right of main window
- The Mixer properly shows guitar or piano depending on the style
New in iReal Pro 2.7 (Oct 26, 2012)
- New In-App purchase: (requires OS X 10.7)
- Chord Scales: Displays chord and scale diagrams during playback following the chord progression. It's also an extensive library of chord and scale diagrams for quick and easy reference.
- Preferred chord diagrams for each song are now saved (guitar, piano and scales).
- Tap and hold a measure to see and choose chord diagrams (guitar, piano and scales). No need to start playback.
- New sharing format: all your transpositions and player settings are now saved and included when exporting and importing songs and playlists.
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
New in iReal Pro 2.6 (Jul 19, 2012)
- New Practice Feature: automatic transpose at each repeat
- New Practice Feature: automatic tempo increase at each repeat
- New Pop style: Bluegrass
- New Pop style: Funk
- Added export as MusicXML
- Improved VoiceOver support
- Transpositions are now saved independently for each playlist
- Player settings are now saved independently for each playlist
- Improved email export format
- Fixed Bug: recurring Password Request after In-App purchase
New in iReal Pro 2.5.1 (Apr 19, 2012)
New in iReal Pro 2.0.5 (Apr 7, 2012)
- New In-App purchase: Guitar chords and Piano chords (requires OS X 10.7 Lion).
- Double click to start playing from any bar.
- Click and drag to select the bars to loop.
- Export audio as MIDI.
- Various other fixes and improvements.
New in iReal Pro 2.0.5 (Oct 25, 2011)
- fixed crash with external speakers and audio interfaces
- fixed number notation bug with inversions
New in iReal Pro 2.0.4 (Sep 23, 2011)
- Added a new Jazz Style: Double Time Swing
- Full Screen support in Lion
New in iReal Pro 2.0.2 (Aug 27, 2011)
- Fixed mailing of playlists incompatibility in Lion
- Minor bug fixes
- French, Spanish and German localizations.
New in iReal Pro 2.0.1 (Jun 10, 2011)
- New Jazz Style: Latin/Swing combo.
- New Latin Style: Cuba - Son montuno 3-2 clave.
- Added Italian and Japanese localizations.
- Various fixes and improvements.
New in iReal Pro 2.0 (May 2, 2011)
- Changed: Due to copyright issues 'iReal Book' has become 'iReal b' and no longer includes any songs (Existing users will not lose their songs). 1000s of songs can be found in the forums.
- Changed: iReal b includes 50 exercise chord progressions.
- Added 5 new Pop styles: Soul, Smooth, Disco, Reggae and Shuffle.
- Added: Loop a selection of bars of a chart for focused practicing.
- Added: Number system notation - Nashville notation (for individual songs or as global setting).
New in iReal Pro 1.1 (Feb 10, 2011)
- Added 5 new Pop styles to the Player: Rock, Slow Rock, Rock 12/8, RnB and Country.
- New Feature: export Player audio as a wav file.
- Added Preferences for setting Global Transposition and for choosing minor chords symbol.
- Added visual count in.
- Improved graphics and menus.
- Numerous bug fixes.