iReal Pro

iReal Pro charts come into Stab as songs: the chords on a Chords track, the sections as markers, the repeats and endings kept, and a band playing them in the closest style. From there you read them on the Chart or the Stage, change them, and play along.

iReal Pro links

Available on every platform.

What to bring

iReal Pro shares a chart, or a whole playlist, in two forms, and Stab reads both:

A link (it starts irealb://), from iReal Pro’s Share › Copy Link, or tapped in a message or a web page.
A page (an .html file), which iReal Pro exports for a song or a playlist.

On the Mac

A link: copy it in iReal Pro, then choose Import iReal Pro Link…Import iReal Pro Link… (not on Windows)Import iReal Pro Link… (not on Web) from the File menu. Stab reads the link from the clipboard.
A page: open it with Open… (⌘O)Open… (Ctrl+O)Import… (or Import a File under Bring a Song In on the home), or drop it on the home.

Every song of a playlist becomes a song in your library, and the first one opens; Stab says how many it imported. With no chart in what you copied, Stab says so.

On Windows

Open the page iReal Pro exported with Open… (⌘O)Open… (Ctrl+O)Import… (the dialog lists it under All files), or drop it on Stab’s window. Stab makes a song of its first chart and opens it. A copied link can’t be imported here; export the page instead.

On the web

Choose Open…Import… on the home and pick the page iReal Pro exported, or drop it on the page. Stab opens its first chart as a song to try: to keep it, keep it in Stab Cloud when you leave it. A copied link can’t be imported here.

What the song holds

Its title, tempo, key and time signatures, and the composer in the song’s credits.
The chords on the song’s Chords track, a chord on each beat iReal Pro gives it, in Stab’s spelling (iReal’s C^7 becomes Cmaj7, Bh7 becomes Bm7♭5).
The form, played out in order: repeats as many times as they say, first and second endings in turn, D.C. and D.S. to the Fine or on to the coda. A bar that plays again is a linked copy of its first pass, so the Chart writes the repeats and endings back as iReal Pro had them, and a chord changed there changes on every pass.
Sections as markers, at each pass.
A band: drums, a bass and keys as Smart Tracks, in the style closest to the chart’s: a bossa as Bossa Nova, a waltz as Jazz Waltz or Waltz, a ballad as Ballad, and a swing tune as Jazz Swing. Change the style from the Stage’s Band menu (Presets, parts and the band).

The song starts with nothing to undo. Its chords are yours to change like any other: see The Chart.

Command	Keys	Where
Import iReal Pro Link…		the File menu

Not on Windows: Import iReal Pro Link….

Not on Web: Import iReal Pro Link….