The Transport pane

The Transport pane is the song’s control panel: a large display of where the song is, the transport’s buttons, and chips for the metronome, the count-in, the speed, the key and the playlist. Add one like any other pane (see Panes); the Practice, Audio & MIDI, Play Along and Write Chords workspaces start with one.

The Transport pane

Available on every platform.

The display

Bar and beat, large (“12.3” is bar 12, beat 3), with the time so far and the song’s length under it.
The section the playhead is in, in its marker’s colour.
The tempo in BPM and the time signature. The tempo is the one you hear: at a practice speed it’s drawn in the accent colour, with the written tempo and the speed under it (“120 at 75 %”).
The beat: a dot for each beat of the bar, the one sounding lit, the first in the accent colour.

The line over the figure says what’s going on: “BAR · BEAT” as a rule, “COUNT-IN” and the clicks left while counting in, the step and the pass while a playlist plays, or the practice mode and the part while you practise. In a Play Together session it adds “TOGETHER”.

The buttons

From left to right: back to the start, the previous marker, Play, Record, the next marker, and Loop. Play shows a square while the song plays. The marker buttons are greyed when the song has no markers. With no loop set, Loop loops the bar the playhead is in. Record is grey until recording is enabled; see Playing and recording MIDI.

The chips

Metronome, with a lamp that blinks with the beat while it clicks.
The click’s sound (Click, Woodblock, Stick, Beep, Cowbell) and clicks per beat (Beats, Eighths, Triplets, Sixteenths). They’re the same as in Settings.
Count-In: Off, or how many bars.
Speed: − and + step the practice speed; the middle chip shows the speed you hear (a playlist step’s speed times the practice speed, as the display says) and puts the practice speed back to 100 %.
Key: ♭ and ♯ play a semitone lower or higher; the middle chip shows how far and goes back to the written key.
Playlist: the playlist on, or “Playlist: Off”. Clicking it turns playlists off, or on with the last one made.

Click a chip and it goes to its next choice. Right-click it for all of them in a menu; the Metronome chip’s menu also has Accent the First Beat, Count 6/8, 9/8, 12/8 in Dotted Beats and Hear the Count-In. On every button, the same menu offers to learn a MIDI control for it (see MIDI control and mapping). Record’s menu holds the recording options and the practice modes.

Its shape

The pane arranges itself for the room it has: a card (display, buttons, chips stacked and centred), side by side in a wide, low pane, a single row in a thin strip, or a column in a narrow one. When the chips don’t all fit, the least needed are left out first: clicks per beat and the click’s sound, which Settings also holds.

The Transport pane has no caret of its own: it plays from the caret where you last worked in the song.