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Achordeon is basically a chord editor, organizer and notation tool.

It was designed to replace Chordii and therefore uses the ChordPro file format.

Many song writers use text editor to do the writing, and this works quite well. But sometimes you have to change words or insert lines, and therefore you have to reformat all your chords. This can be pretty much work. This is where Achordeon steps in.

Achordeon lets you enter chords and text in the same place, and creates nice looking PDF song sheets from your input. This means:

• all chords names appear right above the right lyrics
• the lyrics will always be in the font and size of your choice
• the chords used in a song can be printed as grids at the bottom of the page.

Given the following song

Achordeon will render this input to:

Of course, everything can be reconfigured to your needs. Achordeon can directly print out your song sheet, open it using your favorite PDF editor, or save it for later usage.

Achordeon is WYSIWYG editor: you will see any change in realtime while editing your song. To edit a song you have to....

1. Click the "new song" button
2. Type in your lyrics
3. Insert the chord names between square brackets throughout the lyrics. In the resulting PDF, the chord names will appear right above the letter that follows the closing bracket.
4. Insert any directives like song title, subtitles, comments and so on...
5. Save, print and share your song.

Achordeon can transpose your songs on the fly, render lyrics only, can also render ASCII files you can process with other editors and can import ASCII files from other programs and convert them to the ChordPro format.

Achordeon lets you find the chords on the fret board and will even tell you what notes you are playing:

Achordeon uses a Click-Once-like installer based on Squirrel: just download and run Achordeon.