Stab Help
How Stab works, chapter by chapter. Pick your platform above: the keys, menus and steps on each page follow it.
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Getting started
The home, templates, demos, where songs are saved, editions and platforms.
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The workspace
Panes, the pane bar, workspaces, separate windows, iPhone and Android views, external displays, settings, keyboard shortcuts.
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Writing tab
Lanes and the caret, step and grid, selecting and moving, voices, re-fret, keys lanes, drum lanes and patterns, song rows.
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Techniques
Articulations, bends, graces, slides and slurs, vibrato, trills and tremolo, strums and rasgueado, pick direction, modifiers, fingering, text.
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Clips and structure
Clips as regions, linked copies, takes and comping, the Arranger, markers and cues, tempo, time and key, bars, rhythm cells and tuplets.
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Chords and lyrics
The Chords row and track, the Chart, iReal Pro, diagrams, lyrics and verses.
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Shaping performance
The note inspector, the Inspector pane, lenses, value bars, brushes, transpose, automation, undo.
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Smart Tracks
Drums, bass, guitar and keys playing a style from the chords.
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The Score
Reading, note input, editing, concert pitch, page view and breaks, Score Setup, presentations and parts, fonts and themes, PDF.
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The Stage
What players read across a room: layouts, presets, the header, sharing.
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Sound
The signal flow, the guitar synth, amps and cabinets, impulse responses, the Synth, effects, the Sound pane, the Mixer, drums and kits, sampled instruments, the Sound Library.
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MIDI
Devices, playing and recording, arming, step input, capture and punch, MIDI guitars, e-kits, MIDI out and clock, MIDI control and mapping, the Audio & MIDI pane, latency, MIDI on the web.
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Recording audio
The input, audio tracks, takes, monitoring, crash recovery, the tuner.
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Bringing music in
Guitar Pro, MIDI, MusicXML, text tab, iReal Pro, PDFs and Read Music, photos, recordings and video, relinking.
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Saving and exporting
Autosave, copies, audio, MIDI, Guitar Pro, MusicXML and PDF exports, sharing a file.
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Playing and practising
Play, loop and follow, speed, key, metronome and count-in, Playlists and practice steps, Wait for Me, Listen, Follow Me, the speed trainer, progress, practising by microphone.
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Listening tools
Recording lanes, sync pins, Find the Beats, Write Tab from Audio, Find the Chords, stems, model packs, YouTube reference video, Replace with File.
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Playing together
Hosting and joining, roles, following, watch links, recordings in a session, copies.
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Stab Cloud and Publish
Accounts, songs in the cloud, versions, conflicts, live editing, share links, shared songs, Publish, collections.
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Buying Stab
The free songs, licences per platform, restoring, Stab Cloud plans, managing, refunds.
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Platform guides
Mac, Windows, iPad, iPhone, Android (with phones without Google services), the web, shortcuts per OS.
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Troubleshooting
No sound, latency and dropouts, MIDI not found, the microphone, sign-in codes, licences, purchases, conflicts, offline, Play Together, Read Music, YouTube, unsupported files, damaged songs.