Pinned views

Some views you need now and then rather than all the time: the Transport to set the tempo, Stab Cloud to check a version, the Mixer for a level. A pinned view is one of them kept in the title bar as its icon in a small pill. Select the pill and the view opens in a popup over the song; put it away and your panes are as they were.

Pinned views in the title bar

Available on every platform.

Where they are

In a song window’s toolbar, after the workspace menu, come the session chip (Play Together while there’s no session) and then the pinned views, each its view’s icon in a pill, then a faint +. Stab starts with the Transport and Stab Cloud pinned.

Hold the pointer over a pill to see its name. A small red dot on a pill means it has something to say: the Transport’s while a recording is under way.

Opening a pinned view

Click a pill. The view opens in a popup under it: the same view as a pane, with everything it does there. A click elsewhere, Escape, or the pill again puts it away.

The popup’s header is the view’s own pane bar, as every pane has: its kind and name at the left, what it’s about (its tracks, its score…), the ? and the ⚙ with the view’s display settings. Choose another kind there in the view picker (the views a pin can show), the Audio view in place of the Transport say, and the popup shows it where it is, and its pill in the title bar becomes that view, in the same place: the pin follows.

The header also has two buttons of its own:

Keep Open (a pin) keeps it open while you work elsewhere. It becomes a small window of its own over the song: drag it by its header to move it. Drop it near the side of a pane and it docks there as a pane (the pane shows where, “Release to dock as a pane”); dropped over the middle of a pane, it just moves. While it’s open its pill is lit. Click the pill to hide it, and again to bring it back, still kept open, where you moved it and at the size you gave it; × in its header hides it the same way. The pin in its header, selected again, turns it back into a popup.
Open as a Pane puts it in the layout, as a pane beside the one you’re working in.

Kept-open views are remembered, hidden or shown: they’re back where you left them the next time you open a song.

Pinning and unpinning

To pin a view, open the pane’s ⚙ menu and choose Pin to Title Bar. The same item reads Unpin from Title Bar once it’s pinned. Or select the faint + after the pills: it lists the views not pinned yet, with their icons; the one you pick is pinned and opens.
Right-click a pill for its menu: Opens as a Popup or Opens Kept Open (how it opens when selected), Add to the Layout, Open in a Window, Unpin from Title Bar, and Customize Title Bar….

The Session view isn’t a pin of its own: the session chip, always first, is its way in. See The Session pane.

Customize Title Bar

Choose View › Customize Title Bar…, or it from a pill’s menu or the +. The sheet shows the bar as it will look, then your pinned views:

Drag a row to change their order. Session is always first.
Each row’s pop-up sets Popup or Kept Open; × unpins it.
Add a View lists the views not pinned yet: select one to pin it.
Pinned in: Every workspace (as Stab starts), or Only the “Practice” workspace: the current workspace then keeps its own list, and the others keep the app’s.

Choose Done when you’re finished. Changes are kept as you make them.

Your pinned views are kept on this device, the same in every song.

In the title bar

After the workspace menu comes the session chip (see The Session pane), then a pill for each pinned view, its kind’s symbol alone. Point at one to see its name. A faint + after them pins another view: its menu lists the kinds of view, as a pane’s kind menu does.

Click a pill and its view opens in a popup under it. It’s the same view as a pane: it plays, edits and follows the song as any pane does. Its header is the view’s pane bar: click its kind and name for the view picker and show another kind of view there (the pill becomes that view, in the same place), its chip for what it’s about, its ⚙ for its display settings and help.

Transient (the default): a click outside the popup, Escape, or the pill again puts it away.
Keep Open (the pin in its header): it stays while you work elsewhere, its pill lit. Drag it by its header to move it; drop it near a pane’s side and it becomes a pane there. Click the pill, or × in its header, to hide it; click the pill again and it’s back, still kept open, where you moved it. The pin in its header, clicked again, makes it a popup once more. Kept popups are where you left them the next time you open a song in this browser.
Open as a Pane (in its header): it joins the layout beside the pane in front.

Pinning and unpinning

A pane’s ⚙ panel has Pin among its buttons, or Unpin when it’s pinned.
Right-click a pill for its menu: Opens as a Popup or Opens Kept Open, Add to the Layout, Open in a Window, Unpin from Title Bar, and Customize Title Bar….
Customize Title Bar… lists the pins in order: drag one to move it, choose Popup or Kept Open for each, × to unpin it, and add a view from the chips below. Session is always first and stays. Pinned in chooses whether the pins are the same in every workspace (the default) or belong to the current workspace only.

Pins are kept in this browseron this PC with your preferences.