Views on iPhone and Android
A phone’s screen holds one pane at a time, so a song there is a row of views at the bottom: the Editor, the Score, the Stage, a playlist. Each tab keeps its place while the song is open. Editing by touch goes through one tray along the bottom of the view.
Views as tabs
Available on Web. Not on Mac and Windows.
This isn’t on Mac.
This isn’t on Windows.
The tabs
Each tab is a view, a pane as it is on a computer: it keeps its own zoom, scroll, the tracks it shows and its display options. Switching tabs loses nothing. A phone shows up to four.
- Change a tab: touch and hold it (or right-click it). The view picker opens as a sheet, the views in four groups (Write, Sound & Mix, Play & Practise, The Song), three across: the tab’s own view has a ✓, and a dot marks the views your other tabs show. Tap one to show it in this tab. Remove This View, under the views, takes the tab away while there are two or more. See Panes for what each view is.
- The bar at the top belongs to the view in front, as a pane’s bar does on the desktop: the song’s title with the context chip under it (which tracks it shows), the link colour, ⚙ for its display options, ↶ to undo, and ⋯ for the More sheet. Touch and hold ↶ to redo; Redo is in the More sheet too, which closes once it has run so you see the result. The bar at the top has ‹ (back to the home), the song’s title, the people in a session, your part (the track every tab shows, or All) and ⋯, which opens the menus as a sheet: File, Edit, View and the rest.
- The track’s name rides whole in its tag over the start of its lane, with M and S; the rail at the left keeps only the strings’ letters, a kit’s codes or a keyboard. Tap the name for the track’s volume, pan and sound; touch and hold a drum lane’s code and the menu that opens is titled with the piece’s whole name.
The workspace button
The last button in the bar is the workspace, with its name. Its menu lists your phone workspaces, the current one checked; choosing one replaces the tabs. It also has:
- Edit Views…: each tab’s view, in order. Tap a view to change it in the view picker, move a view up or down, remove one, or Add a View (the same picker) while there are fewer than four: a phone shows four views at most.
- Save as Workspace…, Update “Name” to This Layout, Rename “Name”…, Delete “Name”.
- Add Built-In Workspace: Learn, Write, Play Along and Read, four views each, to add back if you’ve changed or deleted them. Learn is the first.
The phone keeps its own list of workspaces, apart from the computer’s and the tablet’s (on the web, in this browser). Every song opens in the current one, and changing the tabs never changes the song: a song made on a computer keeps its panes there. See Workspaces.
Not on Mac: Edit Views….
Not on Windows: Edit Views….
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Edit Views… | the tabs › workspace (a phone) |
The tools tray
Available on Web. Not on Mac and Windows.
This isn’t on Mac.
This isn’t on Windows.
On a tablet
On the iPad, an Android tablet, and the web on a touch tablet, the same tray takes over while you work by touch: a finger landing on the song brings it, and a trackpad or a mouse brings back the floating keypads, note card and editors (a Pencil leaves things as they are). It’s one tray, as on a phone: every tool is a tab in its header (the Keypad, Note Input or the Instrument, and the one for what’s selected: the note card, a bend…), one tool at a time, the one you tapped last in front, with one ⋯.
- The Keypad comes up by itself in the Editor when the caret is on a track you write in (a guitar or a bass, a keys lane, drums), and goes on a track with nothing to type (a recording, the Chords track). Put it away and it stays away in that view until you open it again. With several views on screen, only the one you’re working in shows its Keypad: the others put theirs away until you go back to them, and a view you split off opens without one.
- Where it sits: the tray’s ⋯ has Tray Position, Bottom, Side or Auto, kept for every song. Side docks it at the right of the view as a 360-point column, the view’s whole height, the song keeping its height and the caret staying left of it: handy with a pane below the Editor, where the tray along the bottom would cover most of it. Bottom keeps it along the bottom. Auto, the default, docks it at the side when the view is on its side, or when the tray along the bottom would leave the song less than 40 % of the view, and along the bottom otherwise.
- Along the bottom, it sits at its own width, centred (the whole width of a narrow view, in Split View). A view too narrow for the column and the song beside it keeps the tray along the bottom.
- Its handle: drag it up for the tall size, down to the compact one, or well down once to close the whole tray (every tool in it, its tabs kept); a tap switches sizes. Every tool is the same height, 360 points compact and 560 tall, so switching tools never moves the song. Picking a note adds its tab with a brass dot and leaves the Keypad in front; tap the tab to bring the note card forward.
- The ♪ chip is in the tray’s header while a tool is open. With every tool put away, the tray is a strip of tabs along the bottom and the chip is back in the Editor’s corner.
- Turning the Instrument’s Edit on (or Step, with an Instrument open) folds the Keypad to its tab, one tool writing at a time; turning it off brings the Keypad back.
- Keys are a finger’s size, 44 points tall.
Tools Tray in a view’s ⚙ (an Editor, a Score or a Chart) keeps that view’s tools in the tray whatever you work with, a trackpad or a mouse too; choose it again to keep the floating editors, a finger too. The view remembers it.
On a phone, the web page edits through the same tray along the bottom of the view, with the same tabs, ♪ chip and ⋯ menu as the apps (see Stab on iPhone or Android). Tools… (not on Mac)Tools… (not on Windows)Tools… at the top of the ⋯ sheet opens the tray’s menu, for Transpose and the other tools too. On a touch tablet, the tray as above, in place of the page’s keypads. On a computer, the editors float over the song.
Not on Mac: Tools….
Not on Windows: Tools….
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Tools… | the More sheet |
The keypads
Available on Web. Not on Mac and Windows.
This isn’t on Mac.
This isn’t on Windows.
The keypads type what a keyboard would: frets on the caret’s string, the arrows, and the effects.
Not on Mac: Keypad.
Not on Windows: Keypad.
| Command | Keys | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Keypad | tray (a touch tablet) |