Item Settings

Prepare a page range, backing track, or page turns that follow the audio here. Open Item Settings from a song's menu in Setlist Detail. If you only want to read the score and turn pages manually, you do not need to fill in every setting. Tap the song title to open the score and start.

Where Changes Apply

The page range, audio, song length, tempo and meter, timeline, and related preparations also change in other setlists using the same song. Duplicate the song before changing these if this performance needs a different backing track or page turns. Duplicating a song still shares its score and annotations. To separate markings too, duplicate the score itself.

Display overrides such as display pattern, zoom, and text-page font size are different: they are saved for this particular entry in this setlist. They do not change the display of the same song in other setlists. Audience-facing Display before and after playback is a song setting and affects other setlists using that song. See Video on an External Display.

Do Only the Preparation You Need

• Play only part of a long PDF: Choose start and end pages under Score Settings. Reopen the song and check that the selected range is the one you need.
• Use a backing track: Choose audio under Files, then adjust song length and Audio Start Time under Timeline Settings if necessary.
• Turn pages automatically: For a recording, use actual playback time as the reference. For bars and beats, set BPM and meter and turn on the metronome. Create or inspect the timeline using the steps below, then check its cues against that reference.
• Make this entry easier to read: Enable its display overrides and change only the display choices you need. Leave them off if the score is already readable.

Prepare Voice Count or a Conductor song number only when your performance uses them. Exact BPM and meter are not required for a song with no automatic page turns or metronome.

Adjustments in Each Section

Files

The score, audio, and automatic page turns this song uses. Replace the score, attach audio, or create and manage the timeline here.

To prepare automatic page turns for the first time:

1. Tap Select for Timeline in Files.
2. On the management screen, tap Create timeline. For a song with a timeline already prepared, open Manage Timeline to inspect it. You do not need Reset timeline to keep using existing page turns.
3. Open the score and add page-turn cues to its timeline. See Score Viewer for registering the actual positions.
4. Play it and check that the needed pages appear at the intended times.

If you already have a timeline file, use Import timeline file on the management screen.

Removing audio from the song leaves the audio file in Library. Check Library if you want to tidy the file itself. Detaching an imported timeline file is also separate from permanently deleting that file.

Timeline Settings

Song length, BPM, time signature, audio start time, bar-number correction, and where the score starts. For a new song made from MusicXML/MEI, readable song length and opening tempo and meter are already set. Check or adjust any missing information named in the completion notice here; use the cue list for changes within the song. When the audio and what's on screen don't line up, use Audio Start Time. When the bar numbers don't match what's printed on the score, Bar Number Correction shifts the numbers you see. It does not move the audio.

On a Fumen score, turning on the metronome marks the bar that matches the current timeline position with a subtle tint and outline. If the timeline includes a count-in or an intro that is not written on the score, set Score Starts at Bar to the ruler number where the score's first bar actually begins. Bar Number Correction and Score Starts at Bar have different jobs: changing the displayed-number correction does not move the highlight in time.

Helper actions sit here too, such as reading a BPM out of a ChordPro text page or detecting one from the audio. When you make a new song from MusicXML/MEI, readable BPM and meter are set automatically — see Initial Settings from MusicXML/MEI below. For songs with no automatic page turns and no metronome, BPM and time signature don't have to be exact.

Voice Count

Voice Count speaks the beat — "one, two" — and is saved per song. For a count-in before the song, choose 1 bar, 2 bars, or 2 bars (classic). To build cues inside the song, open the details and set which bars get Count every beat, Half-time, first half, and Half-time, second half, and which voice speaks them. It does not automatically change Score Starts at Bar.

Voice Count only sounds when the metronome is on. If the meter isn't set, check BPM and time signature first. The first time you turn Voice Count on for a song, it starts from the voice count defaults in the metronome settings; the bars and voice you change afterwards belong to that song alone.

Score Settings

Set the start and end pages this setlist uses. Handy when only part of a long score belongs to the song. Changing the page range also moves which annotations show and where automatic page turns land, so open the viewer once before you play it.

For a text page, you can also check or change the format and open the body text for editing. Editing the text itself happens here, through Text Page Editor — not in the display settings.

Display Settings for This Item

Use this when this particular entry in this setlist should look different from the global settings. Normally you can leave it off. Turning it on gives this entry its own display settings. Anything you don't change keeps following the global settings; only the display choices you change become specific to this entry.

Cases where it earns its keep:

• Always show, or always hide, the timeline for this song.
• Fix the initial zoom for this song.
• Turn off tap zones for this song so a stray touch can't turn the page.
• Change the font size or margins of this song's ChordPro or text page.
• Make this song's text page scroll instead of turning pages.
• Switch to a display pattern that suits this song, in landscape only.

Display changes you make to the current song from the score viewer's Display Menu also appear here as this song's own settings. Turning the override off discards this entry's custom display settings and returns it to Global Settings. Turning it on again does not automatically restore the previous overrides.

Check Automatic Page-Turn Cues

The timeline area lists score movements and tempo or meter changes. Cues set to Keep score position can change tempo or meter without moving the page. The first cue — the one that fixes where the song starts along with its opening tempo and meter — is what this manual calls the Anchor cue. Read it separately from the ordinary cues that change pages or shift meter and tempo partway through. Open a cue when you want to adjust its time or its page exactly.

Initial Settings from MusicXML/MEI

When you make a new song from MusicXML/MEI, the readable song length, opening BPM and meter, changes within the song, page turns, and jump cues are set automatically. There is no extra cue-selection screen.

If the score has no numeric tempo or meter, or a repeat destination cannot be determined uniquely, that setting is not guessed. Check any missing items named in the completion notice under Timeline Settings and in the cue list, then adjust them as needed. Tempo-only and meter-only cues do not move the score. These settings are not timed against a recording, so check them against the audio if you use one.

Creating a score in the library alone does not change existing songs. Reusing a prepared song or receiving a shared one does not repeat the initial setup.

Update or Transpose a MusicXML/MEI Score

For a score made from MusicXML/MEI, the score section opens Update score and Transpose…. MusicXML also offers Add another part. These operations need the source file; if it is unavailable, select a source with the same content again.

Edit notes in the original application, such as MuseScore or Dorico, export MusicXML/MEI, and choose Update score. Existing songs keep using the old score until you review the changes for each song and switch it. If you stop midway, Continue update resumes the review. Your adjusted settings are never overwritten silently.

Annotations and manually adjusted cue destinations keep the same page numbers and positions. Check their alignment with the new notes and systems after switching. Annotations on pages that no longer exist cannot be shown but are not deleted. Specified page ranges remain unchanged; songs using the whole score follow the new page count.

Transposition is an absolute change of -12 to +12 semitones from the original key. Transpose all songs using this score and Transpose this song only have different effects. See Library for source management, the scope of transposition, and annotation effects.

Song Numbers When Using Conductor

Conductor Song # matches this song to the number an external DAW or another device sends. Leave it blank if you don't use Conductor. A blank song uses the number its position in the setlist gives it. So the number actually in play is either the one you typed or the one the order assigned — the song's effective number. No two songs in a setlist should end up with the same one.

An explicitly entered number takes priority over a number assigned by position to a blank entry. For example, if the third song is blank and the fourth has an explicit 3, Conductor number 3 opens the fourth song. When multiple entries match at the same priority, such as two explicit numbers, the first match is used. If the wrong song opens, stop the connection and make the numbers unique, including numbers assigned by position, before reconnecting or resynchronizing Conductor.

Pre-Show Check

• Is the page range really the range you will play?
• For a song whose MusicXML/MEI score was updated, has it switched to the new version, do the cue destinations and annotations still line up with the notes?
• For songs with audio, do the audio start time and the length line up?
• For songs with automatic page turns, does the first cue land right, and do the page turns that matter?
• If you updated a score created from MusicXML, have you switched to the new version, checked cue destinations, and checked that annotations still align with the notes?
• For songs with Voice Count, is the metronome on, and are the count-in and target bars right?
• For songs with their own display settings, does the viewer look the way you meant?
• If you use Conductor, is every effective number unique, blank songs included?

If You Get Stuck

• If a change doesn't show up in the score viewer, go back to Setlist Detail and reopen the song.
• If BPM or meter is missing from a new MusicXML song, check the completion notice and set what is missing under Timeline Settings. For a text page, write the chords and meter in, then use From Score to pull them in.
• If the display isn't what you expected, check Display Settings for This Item. To return to the global display settings, turn the override off and reopen the score. Turning it off discards the custom settings.
• Audio remaining in Library after removal from a song is expected. Tidy the file in Library only if you no longer need it.

Where to Go Next

• To replace a video's start or end display with black or an image, open Display before and after playback near the bottom of this screen. See the final section of Video on an External Display for scope and controls.
• To see how the song actually looks, open Score Viewer.
• To review the setlist as a whole, go back to Setlist Detail.
• To connect to Conductor, see Conductor Connection.
• To adjust individual cues or the Anchor cue, see Cue Details.