Roles and copies
A band writing together wants everyone to edit; a lesson wants the student to practise without changing the song; a drummer only needs their own part. The host decides what each person may change, and whether anyone takes the song home.
Who can edit, and copies
Available on every platform.
Roles
Each person in a session has a role, a set of what they may change:
- Editor: everything. This is the role at first.
- Player: the notes and the sound of their part, the playlists, and Play and Stop for everyone. Their part is the tracks you pick for them.
- Student: the playlists, and Play and Stop for everyone. The song itself is read-only to them.
- Reader: nothing. They follow along, and their Play and Stop are their own.
- Custom: your own mix, once you tick the areas one by one.
The areas you can tick one by one, in a role’s May Change submenu:
- Notes: notes and all they carry (frets, techniques, bends, grace notes, lyrics, chords in clips).
- Arrangement: clips, voices, tracks, sections, tempo, time and key signatures, recordings.
- Sound and Mix: volume, pan, mute and solo, sounds, buses and sends, automation.
- Score: the score’s style, presentations and breaks.
- Playlists.
- Play and Stop for Everyone: without it, a person’s Play, Stop and jumps play on their device alone.
Ticking or unticking an area changes the role to the preset it now matches, or to Custom.
Those who join
Those Who Join sets the role everyone gets as they join. It’s a menu in Session Options… while you host (right-click or touch and hold the session chip)a submenu of the Together menu while you host, with the roles and May Change. Stab remembers the role you pick (unless it’s Custom) for the next time this device hosts. It applies to people as they join; for someone already in, change their own role.
One person’s role
In the Session pane, each guest has a role pop-up beside their name, Can Edit (Editor) or Can View (Reader) first and the other roles under More RolesIn the Together menu, each person has a submenu, named with their role (“Alex · Player · Bass”). It has the roles and May Change, and two more:
- Their Part: the tracks that are theirs, up to eight. Picking one turns on Only Their Part.
- Only Their Part: Notes, Arrangement and Sound and Mix only on their part. Song-wide changes under those areas, such as the tempo or the master’s sound, are then out of their reach. A Player has it on, and changes nothing until you pick their part.
The change applies at once. The panel shows each person’s role under their name.
What a guest sees
A guest’s panel says their role beside the code (“You: Player · Bass”); a Reader’s says “Following along” and shows an eye. A guest’s panes offer only what their role allows. An edit outside it is taken back, and a line over the song says why: “The host hasn’t let you change the arrangement.”, “The host hasn’t let you change this sound.”, or for a Reader, “You’re following along: the host can let you edit.”
A Stab Cloud song shared with people has roles of its own, from its members: an editor joins as an Editor, a viewer as a Reader. See Shared songs.
Letting guests keep a copy
The song is yours. When a guest leaves, it closes on their device, and nothing of it stays there. To let guests take it with them, turn on Let Guests Keep a Copy in the Session panethe Together menu. It’s off when a session starts unless Settings › Play Together › Let guests keep a copy is on, and you can change it at any time; guests are told at once.
Keeping a copy
When the host lets guests keep a copy, a guest sees “The host lets you keep a copy of the song.” and Keep a Copy: at the foot of the Session pane, or in the File menuin the Together menuin the Session menu.
Keep a copy before you leave: leaving still closes the host’s song. When the session ended by itself, Keep a Copy stays offered beside Rejoin and Close until you close the song.
Someone watching through a watch link never keeps a copy.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Those Who Join | the Play Together panel | |
| Let Guests Keep a Copy | the Play Together panel | |
| Keep a Copy | the File menu; the Play Together panel |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Those Who Join | the Together menu | |
| Let Guests Keep a Copy | the Together menu | |
| Keep a Copy | the Together menu |
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Keep a Copy | the Session menu |
Not on Web: Those Who Join, Let Guests Keep a Copy.