19. Stab Cloud and Publish

Live editing between your devices

You have a song open on the Mac and pick up the iPad to play it through: Stab notices the song is open on both, and offers to edit it live between them. Taken, the two become one session, as in Play Together, with no code to type: an edit on either shows on the other at once, and so does where each of you is.

Live editing between your devices

Available on every platform.

When it’s offered

The offer comes when a song of yours in Stab Cloud (Songs in Stab Cloud) is open on two of your devices, signed in to the same account. Without it, the song stays in step by saving, as every cloud song does, and the song’s status says where else it’s open: “Also open on iPad”.

For songs shared with other people, live editing starts by itself, with everyone who has the song open: see Shared songs.

While it lasts

• Stab chooses which device holds the session: a computer before a tablet, a tablet before a phone, a phone before a browser; a browser holds one only with Stab Cloud, and a phone’s or a tablet’s browser hands it on as soon as it’s hidden. You don’t pick, and nothing changes in how you edit.
• The song’s status says Editing together with iPad, with a number such as 482 913 on both screens. The two screens show the same number when the connection is the one Stab set up between your devices and nobody else’s. Check the Connection… shows it again.
• Edits, carets and selections reach the other device as you make them, and play is shared, as in a session you host.
• Only the device holding the session saves to Stab Cloud; the other device’s edits reach it first. Nothing is lost by closing either one.
• The session’s key is made on your devices. Stab Cloud carries it to the other device sealed, and can’t open it.

Ending it

Choose Stop Editing TogetherStop Editing Together (not on Web) (the File menu (Play Together’s title)the Together menu—), or closeClose the song on either device. Stab says Editing together stopped: each device keeps the song in step again., and each device goes back to saving on its own.

If the connection is lost, or the session couldn’t start (the other device still had edits going up, or Stab Cloud couldn’t be reached), Stab says so, such as Editing together with iPad stopped: you keep editing on your own. Your edits are kept, and the song keeps in step by saving. If both devices changed the song meanwhile, see Edits on two devices.