website update

We just updated the website with up to date information about ChordMate 1.3. We may still change a few things in the presentation, but at least now all the information is there.

ChordMate Standard gets retired

ChordMate recently got a review at MacApper. Unfortunately, by the time I noticed it, the video part was no longer available. After reading the comments, I was very curious about the price and e-mailed Tim Cox, who did the review, for a suggestion. He responded that after some thought he decided that the price was a good deal. He also explained that having 3 versions of ChordMate was unnecessary and could easily get confusing. What he said was very logical, and I decided to retire ChordMate Standard (almost all customers buy Pro, some buy Express, and very few buy Standard).

This was also a good time to reconsider prices. Now that ChordMate supports chord progressions, I decided that ChordMate Express should be $20. ChordMate Pro is still $40.

ChordMate 1.3

It will take some time to update the website and the documentation, but the next ChordMate release is out (the link on the main page points to the new version). Here is a list of the main changes:

1) You can now build chord progressions inside ChordMate. There is a chord progression window, and you can just drag and drop chords into it.  You can also play the entire chord progression.

2) Drag and drop chord diagrams into any application. If that application supports images, you’ll get an image, if not it will be the text representation of the chord

3) Keyboard navigation. You can use cursor keys to move from one chord to the next and space bar to play the selected chord.

I am very excited about this update, and hope that the program is intuitive enough to be very useful even before the new documentation comes out.