Recordings and video

The web app doesn’t play recordings, so it can’t import them: bring recordings in on the Mac, Windows, the iPad, the iPhone or Android. A YouTube video works on the web as a song’s reference.

Which files

Stab reads the common audio files, such as WAV, AIFF, FLAC, MP3 and M4A, and videos such as MP4 and MOV, through the system’s own decoders, so what plays depends a little on the device. If a file can’t be read, Stab says so and why.

Beside the song, to play along with

Choose Import Recording… (⌘I)Import Recording… (Ctrl+I)Import Recording… (not on Web) (the File menu—) and pick the file. It comes in as a recording lane under the song’s tracks, named after the file, from the song’s start. You can pick several at once, each a lane of its own. Dropping a recording on the song’s window does the same, anywhere but on an audio track.

What you do with it then (play along at any speed, line it up, tie it to the beats) is in Recordings beside the song.

Onto an audio track, as a clip

To make a recording part of the arrangement, put it on an audio track: right-click the track’s header and choose Import Audio…. The file goes on the track at the caret, as a clip to move, trim and repeat. Or drop the file on the audio track’s lane, where it should start.

A new song around a recording

To transcribe a recording or write a part to it, start a song from it:

• On the home, under Bring a Song In, choose Import a File and pick a recording, or drop one onto the home. Transcribe Audio does the same and writes it out as tab.

The new song is named after the recording, with the recording in a lane under a guitar track to write intoan empty song’s tracks. It’s a song of your own, so it counts as one of your free songs until Stab is unlocked.

Videos

A video comes in like an audio file: its sound in the lane, and its picture in a Video pane or on the video card, at the moment you hear, at any speed. A video with no sound track comes in as picture only: no lane, its picture in the Video pane.

Where the file is kept

In a session

In Play Together, a recording you import into someone else’s song goes to the host, who adds it for everyone.