I was playing around with putting holds on chords in a song the other day, and I tried to get help with the Chord Settings dialog and ran into some limitations that I would love to see addressed.

1. INCONSISTENT NAMES FOR CHORD SETTINGS WINDOW.
The same dialog box is called "Chords Settings" in the menu...




...and then "Chord Options" on the GUI icon.



Settings and Options are the same thing, but it would be good to make the name consistent.


2. ABILITY TO MODIFY MULTIPLE SELECTED BARS IN CHORD SETTINGS
What I really wanted to be able to do was to select multiple bars and apply Holds to one of the instruments in the song in all of those bars, to limit that guitar instrument to a very basic strum in each bar.



And then be able to use the Chords Settings dialog to create exactly what I want to happen in those selected bars, including being able to put holds on chords in the second half of each bar, like this:



It's a really cool way to add variety to the song and to take more control of the performance, but it is tedious to do it manually one bar at a time.


3. AN EXTRA OPTION NEEDED IN RESTS, SHOTS AND HOLDS SECTION
In the current version of the Rests, Shots and Holds section, you can choose to select All Instruments or All Except.



But there should also be a third option which is Only or Only These because if your objective is only apply your holds, shots or rests to only a single instrument or 2 instruments, it is much easier to just select those instruments rather than choosing All Except and having to select all of the instruments you don't want to apply the holds or rests to (as pictured in the figure above).

Selecting all the instruments we don't want to have affected becomes a lot more work when you are doing every bar manually. I wanted to do a thing with one song where I put holds on every bar of the song, and that took a fair bit of time having to click so many things for every bar of the song.


4. A TRANSPOSE OPTION COULD BE ADDED TO THE CHORD SETTINGS DIALOG
As was being discussed in another thread, it would be nice to be able to select the bars of a song and then transpose only those selected bars. It seems that this Chord Settings/Chord Options window would be a great place to add that if you can add the multiple bar functionality.

I hope this isn't too complicated to add because these things would really speed things up and allow for more quicker experimentation.

Anyone have any other ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Zedd

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