About iReal Pro
Practice makes perfect. iReal Pro offers an easy-to-use tool to help musicians of all levels master their art. It simulates a real-sounding band that can accompany you as you practice. The app also lets you create and...
Practice makes perfect. iReal Pro offers an easy-to-use tool to help musicians of all levels master their art. It simulates a real-sounding band that can accompany you as you practice. The app also lets you create and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference.
~One of Time Magazine's 50 Best Inventions of 2010~
Used by thousands of music students, teachers and some of the world’s top music schools such as Berklee College of Music and Musicians Institute.
“It’s the perfect technology for a practicing musician: high-quality digital audio, mixable, transposable into any key and completely mobile. Now every aspiring musician has a backup band in their pocket.” – Tim Westergren, Pandora Founder
• It's a Book:
Create, edit, print, share and collect chord charts of your favorite songs for reference while practicing or performing.
• It's a Band:
Practice with a realistic sounding piano (or guitar), bass and drum accompaniments for any downloaded or user-created chord chart.
FEATURES:
Have a virtual band accompany you as you practice
• Choose from the included 51 different accompaniment styles (Swing, Ballad, Gypsy Jazz, Bluegrass, Country, Rock, Funk, Reggae, Bossa Nova, Latin,...) and even more styles are available as in-app purchases
• Personalize each style with a variety of sounds including piano, Fender Rhodes, acoustic and electric guitars, acoustic and electric basses, drums, vibraphone, organ, and more
• Record yourself playing or singing along with the accompaniment
Play, edit, and download any songs you want
• 1000s of songs can be downloaded from the forums in a few simple steps
• Edit existing songs or create your own with the Editor
• The Player will play any song that you edit or create
• Create multiple editable playlists
Improve your skills with the included chord diagrams
• Display guitar, ukulele tabs and piano fingerings for any of your chord charts
• Look up piano, guitar and ukulele fingerings for any chord
• Display scale recommendations for each chord of a song to help with improvisations
Practice in the way, and at the level, that you choose
• Includes 50 exercises for practicing common chord progressions
• Transpose any chart to any key or to number notation
• Loop a selection of measures of a chart for focused practicing
• Advanced practice settings (automatic tempo increase, automatic key transposition)
• Global Eb, Bb, F and G transposition for horn players
Share, print, and export – so your music follows you wherever you need it!
• Share individual charts or whole playlists with other iReal Pro users via email and the forums
• Export charts as PDF and MusicXML
• Export audio as WAV, AAC and MIDI
• Support for AirTurn™ and other bluetooth page turners
• Upload your songs and playlists to iCloud for safekeeping and for synchronization across any of your iCloud enabled devices such as iPhone, iPad or Mac
Always backup your songs!
Mar 4, 2024
Version 2024.2
- Updated piano part in Bossa/Swing and Latin/Swing
- Fixed diminished bass lines in Blues styles
- Fixed issue with piano diagrams font covering N.C. symbol
- Improved behavior of the editor when a selection is in place
- Improved behavior of external keyboard shortcuts in the editor on iPad
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of iReal Pro since it was posted on our website on 2016-10-01 21:24:43.
The latest version is 2024.2 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 20:23:18. See below the changes in each version.
iReal Pro version 2024.2
Updated At: 2024-03-04
Changes: Mar 4, 2024
Version 2024.2
- Updated piano part in Bossa/Swing and Latin/Swing
- Fixed diminished bass lines in Blues styles
- Fixed issue with piano diagrams font covering N.C. symbol
- Improved behavior of the editor when a selection is in place
- Improved behavior of external keyboard shortcuts in the editor on iPad
iReal Pro version 2024.1
Updated At: 2024-01-29
Changes: Jan 29, 2024
Version 2024.1
- Fixed issue with looping sections containing repeats
- Fixed bass line for min7b5 chords in Glam Funk
- Fixed bass line for dominant chords in minor keys in Blues Flat Tire
- Made small chord qualities narrower
- Fixed position marker not showing after a Final bar line in the middle of a line
- Fixed backup import count with older format backups
iReal Pro version 2023.11.1
Updated At: 2023-12-27
Changes: Dec 27, 2023
Version 2023.11.1
Fix search bug in the forums
iReal Pro version 2023.11
Updated At: 2023-12-08
Changes: Dec 8, 2023
Version 2023.11
- The song chart color now follows the app theme settings
- The editor now works in dark mode
- Swapped the behavior of the Space bar to toggle Play/Stop and '.' to toggle Pause
- VoiceOver improvements: Three fingers swipe up/down to go to start or end of the chart
- Replace links to Twitter with Mastodon and Threads
- Add search query custom url scheme. For example: irealb://search?song%20title
iReal Pro version 2023.7.1
Updated At: 2023-08-19
Changes: Aug 19, 2023
Version 2023.7.1
- Jazz-Medium Up Swing: 160 BMP default tempo
- new flat ride cymbal sound
- ride swing at 72%
- new drum fills and snare comping accents
- new piano comping rhythms
- bass accents match new 72% swing feel
- Jazz-Medium Swing: 120 BMP default tempo
- all the changes from Medium Up Swing plus:
- better position of hi-hat because of the sample attack at slower tempo
- new piano comping rhythms
- Jazz-Up Tempo Swing: 240 BMP default tempo
- new flat ride cymbal sound
- ride swing at 62%
- new piano comping rhythms
- Jazz-Doo Doo Cats:
- two feel swing on hi-hat at 72%
- Jazz-Guitar Trio: now uses bass and drums from Medium Up Swing
- Jazz-Bossa Nova: new flat ride cymbal sound
- Jazz-Bossa/Swing: new flat ride cymbal sound and same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Jazz-New Orleans Swing: same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Jazz-Swing Two Four:
- two feel swing on hi-hat at 72%
- same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Simplified Piano rhythms in 3/4 for Medium Up Swing 2 and Up Tempo Swing 2
- Double Time Swing now also works with 3/4 and 2/4 time signatures
- Better guitar/keys rhythms with 2 chords per measure in 4/4 in Blues: Funky, Gospel, Muddy, Nola, Shout, Texas Rock
- Better piano rhythms with 2 chords per measure in 4/4 in: Latin-Brazil Samba, Latin-Cuba Bolero, Salsa-Cuba Bolero, Salsa-Cuba Cha Cha Cha
iReal Pro version 2023.7
Updated At: 2023-08-17
Changes: Aug 17, 2023
Version 2023.7
- Jazz-Medium Up Swing: 160 BMP default tempo
- new flat ride cymbal sound
- ride swing at 72%
- new drum fills and snare comping accents
- new piano comping rhythms
- bass accents match new 72% swing feel
- Jazz-Medium Swing: 120 BMP default tempo
- all the changes from Medium Up Swing plus:
- better position of hi-hat because of the sample attack at slower tempo
- new piano comping rhythms
- Jazz-Up Tempo Swing: 240 BMP default tempo
- new flat ride cymbal sound
- ride swing at 62%
- new piano comping rhythms
- Jazz-Doo Doo Cats:
- two feel swing on hi-hat at 72%
- Jazz-Guitar Trio: now uses bass and drums from Medium Up Swing
- Jazz-Bossa Nova: new flat ride cymbal sound
- Jazz-Bossa/Swing: new flat ride cymbal sound and same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Jazz-New Orleans Swing: same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Jazz-Swing Two Four:
- two feel swing on hi-hat at 72%
- same bass and drums as Medium Up Swing in the middle choruses
- Simplified Piano rhythms in 3/4 for Medium Up Swing 2 and Up Tempo Swing 2
- Double Time Swing now also works with 3/4 and 2/4 time signatures
- Better guitar/keys rhythms with 2 chords per measure in 4/4 in Blues: Funky, Gospel, Muddy, Nola, Shout, Texas Rock
- Better piano rhythms with 2 chords per measure in 4/4 in: Latin-Brazil Samba, Latin-Cuba Bolero, Salsa-Cuba Bolero, Salsa-Cuba Cha Cha Cha
iReal Pro version 2023.6
Updated At: 2023-06-02
Changes: Jun 2, 2023
Version 2023.6
- Fixed issue with iCloud sync error not showing an alert in the app setting
- Fixed various guitar chord fingerings
- Fixed MusicXML export with 1st and 2nd endings
iReal Pro version 7.0.1
Updated At: 2008-12-02
