The chord detection on most songs I’ve tried Capo on has been spotty, and that’s being generous, so I need to remove all of them to enter what I know works. Trouble is, I can’t find the way to select all the chords and remove them! Selecting them one by one then hitting delete gets old really fast, especiallly since the app often hallucinates new chords to replace them!
By the way, it’s not like I’m trying to transcribe Zappa or Bebop: the chords Capo found for The Cure’s “A Forest” are demented.
It’s a shame, because the isolation and structure features look very promising, but this super- basic aspect of editing the info I use to learn songs is really breaking the deal for me. Am I missing something?
Can you elaborate on what you mean by the chords being “demented”? Like, how wrong are we talking about here?
Right now Capo doesn’t have a quick way to delete multiple chords. Usually the most common failures[1] are easily resolved by using the “Replace all…” checkbox:
When I took a quick listen at the recording myself (here’s the track I found on Apple Music—is this correct?), I notice the song isn’t very strongly implying its harmony. But still, I bought the song and loaded it into Capo, and it didn’t seem that demented to me. Sure, it struggled here & there, and the chords need a few edits in spots, but it wasn’t blow it all away bad.
Maybe we’re working from different recordings?
For instance, when Capo is leaning hard on claiming it’s a Cmaj7 chord when you’d rather play a C. ↩︎
Hi! Thanks for the very quick reply and taking the time to check the track.
Sorry, I wasn’t too clear! We’re working on the same recording as far as I know, but it was getting too many options from the synth drones: they probably muddy up the harmony. Thing is, I’m getting 4-5 chords per bar, so unless there is an option to “Replace all…” with no chord which I haven’t found, and having no option to select more than one chord at a time, not only are the results of the app’s chord detection unusable, but a big hassle to edit.
I subscribed for a year thinking I could use this as both a phrase trainer and note taking solution, but it seems it’s only going to work for the player half because of these choices taken about the app’s UX/U: shift or command+ clicking has been a standard when editing forever, and I don’t understand the advantage in moving away from them with no other option in place.
The more common complaint is that Capo isn’t detecting enough chords, so this hasn’t really come up before.
I’ll take a look at the multi-selection thing and see if I can add it without mess anything up too badly. There was a reason I limited it to single selection in the past for technical reasons, but I made some changes in recent years that may have eliminated the need to do that.
I also never considered a “Delete all the chords of this type” checkbox, but that might be worth investigating further as well.
