So, one of the things I have been trying to work out is a better “Root Note Picker”. The Scalculator supports a wide-range of notes, but picking them from a simple stock widget is tedious (there are nearly 3 dozen possibilities, so I only ever listed a basic 12.)

I hope that a Circle Of Fifths-style widget might be a better presentation of the most useful subset of these possibilities. Of course this shows enharmonics rather than relative scales, but whatever.

The not-so-colorful — but currently working — picker is shown over there to the left.

Roll the dice? Another feature I got implemented is generating random figures. I also exposed a few useful options, so you have 2 basic “random” methods:

1. The Scalculator can simply pick a random figure out of its database.

2. The Scalculator can generate a random figure, according to some parameters (both exposed and not-exposed). The exposed options currently are:

2a. Don’t be afraid of double accidentals. The means lots of craziness. With this off, it won’t intentionally generate a double accidental, but combinations of notes might come together to produce them.

2b. Extended intervals. You can include 9^ths, 11^ths, 13^ths and so for^ths in the generated figure or not.

Of course, the result is not truly random and I might tweak the generation parameters as time goes on.

By the by, testing the random figure generation exposed a bug in the engine which I fixed as well. So that was handy.

Anyway, those are the big features that will go into 1.3 – everything is working I just need to polish it a bit.