The Inspector pane

The Inspector is a pane that shows whatever is selected in the song as rows to set: velocity and length for notes, gain and fades for clips, volume and capo for the track. It’s the note inspector’s docked, larger sibling: the card is for a quick change, the Inspector sits beside the tracks for a session of shaping.

The Inspector pane

Available on every platform.

Open the Inspector

Make any pane an Inspector from the view picker on its bar (Panes). Or choose the Edit workspace: the tracks, with the Inspector beside them (Workspaces).

The Inspector follows the song’s selection, whichever pane you select in: the Editor, the Arranger, the Score. It never selects anything itself. With nothing selected, it shows the track the caret is on, under Nothing Selected.

What it shows

A section for each kind of thing selected, in this order. Each heading says what and how many (“3 Notes”, “2 Clips”).

Notes: Velocity; Length (1, ½, ¼, ⅛, 16, 32, with Dotted and Triplet); for fretted notes the Fret and where it Sounds (“D4 on string 3”), for keys the Pitch, for drums the Element and its Hit; Detune in cents; Articulations, those that suit every kind of note selected, by their full names; Pick (None, Down, Up) for fretted notes; and Slur, with its Side once there is one.
Bend, for one fretted note alone: with no bend, Add offers ¼, ½, Full, 1½, B+R, Pre and Pre+R; once bent, the bend editor itself is drawn into the section to shape it. See Bends.
Clips: Name; Linked, how many placements share the clip, with Make Unique; Plays, how many times it plays (×1, ×2…); Gain; Transpose; Fade In and Fade Out, a beat at a time; Velocity at Start and Velocity at End. Recordings’ clips have no Transpose or velocity rows. These are the clip modifiers.
Recording: a take you recorded, or a recording lane you tapped: its name and length, and the listening tools as buttons (Find the Beats, Write Tab from Audio, Find the Chords, Separate into Stems), the same ones the action bar offers.
Track, the one track everything selected is on: Name, Volume, Pan, Mute and Solo, Capo on fretted tracks, and on fretted, keys and drum tracks its Smart Track (a menu of styles, or None).
Device, for the device you’ve selected in a Sound pane, first: its name and channel, then its whole face, every knob and choice it has, set as in the rack (a knob’s drag is one undo step). Open Amp Editor and Open Editor open their sheet in the Sound pane. It shows until you select something else.
Smart, for the Smart parts you’ve picked, or the track’s own Smart Track: Style, Intensity, Complexity, Fills (drums), Feel, Song (Intro, Ending), and Another Take, Convert to Notes and Remove.

Notes and clips selected together show both sections. Automation points, a marker or a chord symbol selected are named in a line (“Also selected: a marker (set in the lanes).”): you set those where they are.

Set values

A slider (Velocity, Detune, Gain, Volume, Pan, the velocity ramp): click it to set every selected thing to the value there, or drag along it to move each one’s own value by the same amount, so a phrase keeps its dynamics. Volume catches at 0.0 dB, and a slider filled from the middle catches at its centre.
A stepper (Fret, Pitch, Plays, Transpose, the fades, Capo): − and + step each one from where it is.
A segment or a chip: turns on for all, unless all have it already; then off.
Name: click it to type a new one.
Style and the track’s Smart open a menu of styles.

When the selected things don’t share a value, the row shows “—”, and a slider shows the band their values span. Each gesture is one step in undo, a whole drag included.

In a Play Together session, rows your role doesn’t let you change are dimmed, and do nothing.

The floating editors

While an Inspector is open on the song, in any window, it takes over from the cards that would float over the lanes: the note inspector, the bend editor and the Smart part card aren’t shown. Show Note Inspector (⌥⌘I)Show Note Inspector (Ctrl+Alt+I)Show Note Inspector (Ctrl+Alt+I (⌥⌘I on a Mac)) scrolls the Inspector to its Notes section instead, and clicking where a Smart part plays shows its Smart section. Close the last Inspector and the cards come back.

The grace, modifier and chord diagram editors still float as before.