Release notes and product updates for Tonic Clef, newest first.
Tonic Clef 1.23 — Ear Trainer
- Ear Trainer is now on the home page and in the menu. Listen, then name the interval — the sounding notes also appear on the staff.
- Interval training only for now; chord drills and more are planned.
- The site version is now 1.23 (header label).
Tonic Clef 1.22 — Coach tips
- Coach now shares short practice tips while you browse (guests and Free). Reload the page to see another one.
- The site version is now 1.22 (header label).
Tonic Clef 1.21 — Lead Sheet Hub
- Lead Sheet Hub is now public on the home page and in the menu: browse published charts, keep a personal library, import one song at a time, and open charts in Guide Tone Master.
- Signed-in Free accounts can keep up to 3 songs in the personal library; Pro is presented as unlimited for everyday use.
- The site version is now 1.21 (header label).
Explorer, charts, and phone polish
- Explorers: the page title and menu return you to that tool’s top; bare tool URLs stay a clean landing without forcing a default staff.
- Phone landscape: Staff Paper, Guide Tone Master, and other tool-split pages sit side-by-side like Explorers so controls stay reachable.
- Song search (Guide Tone Master and similar): mobile search no longer zooms the page, and results stay above the keyboard.
- Lead sheets: Segno / Coda glyphs and mid-chart section barlines from iReal import read more reliably on screen and in PDF.
- Primary buttons and Explorer idle intros are a bit clearer (outline, scroll padding when content is tall).
Tonic Clef 1.1 — Guide Tone Master
- Guide Tone Master is now public on the home page and in the menu: hear roots and 3rd / 7th guide-tone lines over chord progressions, with solfège or pitch names, tempo, mix, transpose, and song browsing.
- The site version is now 1.1 (header label).
- Key pickers: F♯ major is folded into G♭ so enharmonic duplicates don’t compete; the sharp/flat rows line up with F under C.
- Controls polish: selected buttons and tempo / volume sliders are clearer and more consistent across tools.
Phone landscape layout and Coach expand
- Phone landscape: Bootcamp and Explorers give more height to the score and controls, with less empty space under the footer.
- Coach: the folded handle uses less vertical space, so practice controls stay easier to reach.
- Coach: tapping the handle expands again in landscape (it no longer collapses to a blank strip).
- Space bar play / pause is more reliable when a transport button still had focus.
Tonic Clef 1.0 — official launch
- Tonic Clef is now officially available as version 1.0.
- The Beta label is gone from the header; the site shows 1.0 instead.
Official launch July 21 — Dictionary & Explorer polish
- Official launch scheduled for Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 8:00 PM Japan time (was July 19).
- Dictionary: many terms now show clearer score examples (notes, rests, meters, rhythms, scales, chords, and progressions such as cadences).
- Dictionary: alternate names and related terms in the side panel; search commits on Enter so Japanese IME typing doesn’t flicker the list.
- Explorers: score descriptions stay readable in the cream area and no longer get clipped under note labels.
- Chord symbols: quality and extensions are a bit lighter so the root letter stays easiest to read.
- Sight-Reading Bootcamp (Survival): the current note value appears under the score title.
- Site chrome: home feature icons (Scale Explorer, Diatonics) refined; footer copyright name links to ryusukeseto.com.