General setting to keep the tempo of a chord chart unchanged with a change of style
I often try a bunch of different styles with a chord chart to hear which works best for me. When I do, the tempo changes with each change in style. This is, at least for me, an unnecessary annoyance that can be easily fixed. My feature request is a new General Setting switch that lets the user choose to keep the same tempo when a style is changed or to permit the tempo to change with the change in style.
I know that the developers have designed each style to work best at a particular tempo. However, in my case, I often find that particular styles work very well at tempi quite different from the default. For example, I often use the Swing Two/Four at a much slower tempo than 180 bpm and Ballad Swing at a much faster temp than 60.
I hope you can implement this feature in an update.
Attach a style and tempo to a chord chart
I know that iReal Pro was developed as a practice aid, but many of us use it for performance. For this use, it is essential that the style and tempo for a particular chord chart not easily be changed. I use an iPad Mini, and because of the small screen, it is easy to unintentionally change the style and tempo while turning a page or just touching the screen. It would be great if there were a way for a user to permanently (better: semi-permanently) attach a style and tempo to a chart. In that way, once these are set, they stay set.
An alternative suggestion is to have a text field attached to a chart (like the fields for title, composer, style and key in the info section) where the user could designate tempo so that if it got changed, the user could easily reset it back to the desired setting.
I don't know if others have this problem--I suspect I'm not alone in finding that after having carefully selected a style and tempo, one or both get changed and I can't remember exactly what I originally chose. I'd like to hear whether or not other users also have this problem.
An enhancement to the Jazz Ballad Double Time Feel style
Back in February of 2013, I requested a new style for ballads that played the interior choruses in double-time. You came through with the Jazz - Ballad Double Time Feel style and thank you very much for that. I would now request an enhancement to this style: the ability to designate a section (perhaps section D) in the form that is also played in double-time during the first and last choruses.
I have a reason for making this request. There are tunes in which the chord changes for improvised solo choruses are different from the changes that best fit the melody. In the case of a ballad, where one would like to use these different solo changes and play them in double-time, presently there is no way to program a chord chart to accomplish this. However, by judicious editing, one could fit changes for a the melody chorus and for the solo chorus on one page; if one could designate the solo chorus as section D, then the enhanced style could play the melody chorus at regular time and the solo chorus in double-time. Using a text designation (eg, 3x, 4x, etc) and repeat signs, the solo chorus could be programmed to repeat a set number of times and then return to the melody chorus to end the tune.
I'm currently working on such a chord chart that I'll submit to the forum for comments. The solo chorus presently won't play in double-time but will have different changes from the melody section.
Thanks for considering this suggestion. It may seem like an odd request, but the development team seems capable of almost anything!