Unfortunately, we don’t support export into Logic right now. Also, we are working on a song editor that will allow you to record songs (lyrics + chord diagrams). It will be part of the next major release.

In order to use custom chords, you need the Pro version. By the way, what notation errors did you see?

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Ilya

Thanks, Randy Schmuki

We are very customer oriented and implemented many requests as free updates, often within a few days of those requests. We are definitely planning to support more chord types in the future. Here are some details about what we do now:

For the specific chords you mentioned: We don’t support power chords like F5. As you wrote, A2 is the same as Aadd9. The formula for A7sus is (1,#3,5,b7), which is the same as A7#3. I am not sure what you mean by Gm9+; I believe this is the same as Gm9#9.

We support many chord types directly — you can find the full list in the Chord Types window. In most cases, the chord types that you need will be there, maybe under a different name (we need to add better support for the +/- notation). If the chord is not there, there is a good chance that you can construct it from another chord type using alterations. You can take any chord type and alter its formula. Type the chord symbol into the search box, and append the alteration to the chord formula. So above, I altered A7 whose chord formula is (1,3,5,b7) to (1,#3,5,b7) by typing A7#3.

We also support slash chords, for example Dm/C. One area where we need to improve is translating chord names like Gm9+ into altered Gm9#9 automatically.

For the chord types that are supported directly, ChordMate constructs chord voicings according to music theory. For example, ChordMate knows that in a major-minor 7th chord, the 5th or the 3rd are optional, but not both, and it’s better to skip the 5th than the 3rd.

One of the reasons why the number of different chord types that we support directly is a little smaller than some other programs is that we really care about the quality of chord voicings that we provide. If we can’t put some intelligence into the way we search for voicings of a particular chord type, we leave it for generic alterations. The program is not really a database of chords — we search for chord voicings algorithmically, so ChordMate works equally well with alternate tunings.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any more questions or need help finding specific chords.

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Ilya

Everyday chords like F5, A2 (although Aadd9 works), A7sus, Gm9+, etc are visibly missing. I cannot use it by itself without the aid of another guitar chord look up website to learn songs, unfortunately.

How many chords are actually in the program, and are there are there any plans to beef up the chord list to that comparable to mainstream websites for guitar chord look ups?

Thanks!

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