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Tap the Settings button in the SongViewer to open these settings. Unless noted otherwise, settings are global and apply to every song. Some of them can be overridden per song – see Song-specific.
The settings screen is divided into four groups:
- Song-specific – overrides for the current song
- General – Layout, Display, Font & Size
- Control – Quick Buttons, Gestures, Metronome, Projection, Bluetooth pedal, Triggers, Chord Beats Sync
- MIDI – MIDI Controller, MIDI Tempo (only visible when MIDI is enabled in the app settings)
The sun/moon button in the top-left corner switches between light and dark mode.
Song-specific
Overrides settings for the current song only, stored separately for each device type (iPhone, iPad, Mac). Options that differ from the global defaults are highlighted. See Song-specific settings.
- Layout
- Columns – number of columns (only when View Mode is Pages)
- Apply Song structure
- Display
- Instrument (only if more than one instrument is enabled)
- Lyrics – show/hide
- Chord Diagrams – show/hide
- Notes & Drawing – show/hide (only if the song has notes or drawings)
- ABC notation and its Tablature option (only if the song has ABC notation)
- Guitar Tabs – show/hide (only if the song has guitar tabs)
- Chords
- Show, Chord Style
- Chord Beats
- Show, Style, Bars per line
- Zoom
- Basic size, Chords, ABC notation and Guitar Tabs zoom (the last two only when the song contains them)
- LyricsView
- Background Image & Video – choose a picture or video from the Media Gallery to be used as the lyrics projection background for this song
- Scaling – Fill or Fit
- Metronome
- Subdivision for the song's time signature
- Reset to Defaults – removes all overrides of the song
Layout
- Mode
- Mode – Scrolling (one continuous page) or Pages (song split into screen-sized pages).
- Columns – 1, 2 or 3 columns (Pages mode only).
- Header
- Style – Default, Pinned (header stays visible while scrolling) or Small.
- Song structure overview – show the song arrangement overview in the header.
- Tags – show song tags in the header.
- Song structure
- Apply Song structure – display the song in the arrangement defined in the Song Editor (repeated or reordered sections) instead of as written.
- Section labels – show or hide section names (Verse, Chorus, ...).
- Label position – Top, Leading left or Leading right.
- Label width – Dynamic, Medium or Small (leading positions only).
- Label style – Basic, Underline, Bracketed, Gray highlight or Colorful. A preview is shown below the picker.
- Section colors – rules for coloring sections by name.
Display
- Instrument
- Instrument – instrument used for chord diagrams and capo/transpose (only visible when more than one instrument is enabled in the app settings).
- Lyrics
- Show – show or hide lyrics.
- Chords
- Show – show or hide chords.
- Style – how chords are written: Standard, Roman (I ii iii IV), Arabic (1 2m 3m 4 ...), Do-Re-Mi Movable or Do-Re-Mi Fixed.
- Position – chords Above the lyrics or Inline in the text.
- Capo Dual Chords – Off, Capo Chord First or Capo Chord Last: shows both the capo shape and the original (sounding) chord.
- Preferences – opens Chord Preferences.
- Chord Beats
- (Visible when chords are shown.)
- Show – show or hide the beat/rhythm markers for chords.
- Style – Dots, Dots – Hide Full Measures, Stacks, Pills or Timeline.
- Bars per line – 1–8 (all styles except the two Dots styles).
- Chord Diagrams
- Show – show or hide chord diagrams.
- Show fingers – show finger numbers in diagrams (not for piano).
- ABC notation
- Show – show or hide melody notation.
- Tablature – None or Guitar (adds guitar tab under the notation).
- Notes & Drawing
- Show – show or hide sticky notes and drawings.
- Guitar Tabs
- Show – show or hide tab lines from the song.
- Mode – Standard or Compact.
Chord Preferences
- Minor preference – how minor chords are written (e.g. Am / A-).
- German notation – use H instead of B (C D E F G A H). Songs should use H in the Editor for correct display.
- Preferred Major Keys / Preferred Minor Keys – choose the enharmonic spelling used for each key (e.g. F# vs. Gb).
Font & Size
- Basic
- Basic size – base font size, 8–60 pt.
- Font – Default, Monospaced or Serif.
- Lyrics – font weight of the lyrics. Available weights depend on the font.
- Comment color – color of comments in the song.
- Chords
- Chords – font weight of chords.
- Color – chord color.
- Highlight – toggles a background highlight behind chords; Highlight color (with opacity) appears when on.
- Chord/Bass – how slash chords are displayed: Default, Chord-focused, Bass-focused, Chord only or Bass only.
- Zoom
- Chords, Header, ABC notation, Guitar Tabs, Rhythm diagram – 20–400 % (step 5 %).
- Chord Diagrams – 20–400 % (step 5 %).
- Spacing
- Line – line spacing, 100–300 %.
- Section – spacing between sections, 100–300 %.
- Other
- Section colors – rules for coloring sections by name.
- Reset – resets zoom values to defaults (global settings only).
Quick Buttons
Choose which buttons appear in the Song Viewer and in which order. Tap + to add a button, use Edit to reorder or delete, or long-press a button to remove it. Buttons with extra options (Capo, Loop, Autoscroll, Audio player) open their own settings.
| Button | Function |
|---|---|
| Chord Beats | Show or hide Chord Beats |
| Chords | Show or hide chords |
| Lyrics | Show or hide lyrics |
| Notes & Drawing | Open Notes & Drawing edit mode |
| Chord Beats Sync Loop | Loop the current section while beats are running |
| Key change | Change the key with +/- |
| Capo | Adjust capo position with +/- (shown as Piano Transpose for piano) |
| Metronome | Toggle the metronome with the song's settings |
| Tuner | Open the chromatic tuner |
| Song Picker | Quickly open a song from the library |
| Lyrics Projection Blackout | Show or hide content on the external screen (visible only when a screen is connected) |
| Autoscroll | Timed scroll based on song duration (visible only when the song is longer than the screen) |
| Audio player | Play the song's audio file from the Song Editor |
| Audio recorder | Start and stop audio recording |
| Tonic Pad | Start or stop the ambient pad matching the song's key |
Autoscroll
- Center Autoscroll – start and end in the middle of the screen.
- Default song duration – used when the song has no Duration.
- +/- buttons – show speed buttons during autoscroll.
Key & Capo / Key & Transpose
- Capo Switch (or Transpose Switch for instruments without a capo).
- Capo Reminder (or Transpose Reminder) – shows e.g. "Capo 2" for 5 seconds when a song opens.
Loop section
- Default state – Off or On when a song is opened.
Audio playback
- Play button behavior – Play/Pause or Play/Stop.
Gestures
Gesture options are Single tap, Double tap or Disabled.
- Song
- Section selection – gesture that selects a section (used for lyrics projection and MIDI).
- Show chord diagrams – gesture on a chord that opens its diagram.
- Fullscreen mode – gesture on the song header that hides the navigation bar.
- Chord buttons
- Chord buttons button – enable chord audition buttons.
- Chord play speed – Fast, Medium or Slow.
- Setlist
- Swipe between Songs – swipe left/right to move to the next/previous song of the setlist.
- Songs
- Pinch to zoom – zoom the song with a pinch gesture.
Metronome
See Metronome.
Projection
See Lyrics Projection.
Bluetooth pedal
- Use default mapping – use the built-in mapping (read-only list).
- Turn it off to define your own mappings with Add mapping: choose an Action, then select or press the Button on the connected pedal.
- For scroll actions you can set the Scroll distance (% of screen) and Smooth scroll; some actions also offer a jump option.
- To use a MIDI pedal, enable MIDI and use MIDI Controller mapping instead.
Triggers
Tick the automations you want:
- Start autoscroll after count-in
- Start autoscroll when song appears (with a Start after delay, 1–10 s)
- Start autoscroll with audio playback
- Start autoscroll with host transport / MIDI clock
- Start audio playback after count-in
- Start metronome when song appears
Chord Beats Sync
Syncs the song's chord beats with a timing source: highlights the active chord and section in real time, auto-scrolls the song and can send MIDI.
- Beats Source
- Off, Metronome or MIDI Clock (requires MIDI enabled; also choose the MIDI Clock Source).
- Settings (when source is not Off)
- Loop Song – start over at the end of the song.
- Stop metronome at end of the song – Metronome source with Loop Song off.
- Highlight – Chord, Chord + Lyrics or Chord + Lyrics line.
- MIDI output (when MIDI is enabled)
- Send section selection/deselection MIDI messages – Always, When transport is running or When transport is not running. Song MIDI messages are managed in Structure & MIDI.
- Chord data – Off, Chords (Note On/Off) or Tone Packet Protocol.
- Anticipation – send the chord early: Off, 1/4, 1/8 or 1/16 beat.
- Send first chord on song display / section select.
MIDI
Visible only when MIDI is enabled in the app settings.
- MIDI Controller – map incoming MIDI messages to app actions.
- MIDI Tempo – tempo-related MIDI options.