Pro7 Chord Editor for the Mac 0.2 (early build)

The second early build of the new chord editor, for the Mac.

It puts chords on the songs of a ProPresenter library, so that ProPresenter shows them on a stage screen. A song is shown as a sheet of its slides, with the chords in bubbles over the words, to be put on, moved and taken off with the mouse and the keys; or as ChordPro text, to be typed in. Chords can go where there are no words too: on an intro's line of chords, and on a blank slide.

A personal hobby project, not a product. Nobody supports it and nothing is promised. It changes the files of your ProPresenter library. It has nothing to do with Renewed Vision, the makers of ProPresenter.

New since 0.1

• One of the key's seven chords can be dragged from the strip across the top of the sheet onto a word.
• The window's title says which version it is: "Pro7 Chord Editor [0.2]".

The ways to put a chord on

On the chord sheet (Command+1). There is one place the next chord goes to, the spot. It follows the pointer, and the arrow keys move it too.

• Point and press 1 to 7: the key's own chord for that number goes on where the pointer is. The strip across the top of the sheet shows which seven they are.
• Click one of the seven in the strip: it goes on the spot.
• Drag one of the seven from the strip onto a word.
• Press a letter, A to G, or click a word: a small box opens to type any chord in, and offers what the chord might be going to be. Return keeps it. Tab keeps it and goes on to the next word. A click on another word keeps it and starts the next one there. Esc throws it away.
• Drag a chord to another word, on any slide. With Option held, it is copied.
• Delete takes off the chord at the spot.
• Command+C and Command+V put a line's chords on another line, word for word. Shift+Command+C copies those of a whole group.
• Command+Z undoes, and Shift+Command+Z puts back.

As ChordPro text (Command+2): chords are typed in square brackets among the words, as in [G]Amazing [C]grace. Only the chords can be changed there; the words are the slides'.

In the song's header: the key its chords are written in, and the key ProPresenter is to show them in.

Before you use it

• Keep a backup of your ProPresenter library.
• Quit ProPresenter first. Nothing is saved while ProPresenter is running.
• Try it on a copy first: copy one folder out of ProPresenter's Libraries to somewhere else, and open the copy with Choose Folder.

Every change is saved as it is made; there is no Save. Before the app first changes a song's file it keeps a copy of the file as it was. The copies are under Earlier Versions, in a song's header, and in Settings under Backups.

Opening it the first time

This build is not signed with an Apple developer certificate, and Apple has not checked it. So macOS will not open it at a double-click. To open it:

1. Open the .dmg, drag Pro7 Chord Editor to Applications, and double-click it there. macOS says it could not verify the app. Close that message.
2. Open System Settings, go to Privacy & Security, and scroll down to Security. It says Pro7 Chord Editor was blocked. Click Open Anyway, and say yes when it asks again.

After that it opens like any other app. Do this only for something whose maker you have reason to trust; what this app is made from is in this repository. The same steps are in the read-me inside the .dmg.

Not in it yet

• Finding and mending the songs that the first chord editor, the one for Windows, left wrong.
• Making a song from a ChordPro file.
• An icon.

What it needs

macOS 15 or later, on a Mac with Apple's own chip or Intel's. It has been run on macOS 26 with Apple's chip, and nowhere else yet.

Pro7ChordEditor-mac-0.2.dmg, sha256 5145c64eb1d6c0e920528e493f12a9a68c86dbb8ecebf984d6f16ec03bd74475

There is an early build of the new editor for Windows on this page too. The Windows editor further down, 0.9.5, is the first one and another program.