The show screen

A tour of the screen you play from — the header, the setlist, and the Now panel.

The show screen holds what you touch during a gig, and nothing else. Everything that is setup lives in Backstage.

The header

One row across the top, left to right:

As the window gets narrower the header drops what you need least — the quantisation, then the tempo — and never wraps to a second row.

The setlist

The column on the left is the running order: the setlist that is on stage, or the songs in arrangement order if there is none.

• The song playing is the bright row. Songs already played are dimmed, so your eye lands on what is coming.
• Each row shows the song's number, its name and its length. Stops after appears under a song that is set to stop at its end.
• A song with sections has a count and a chevron on the right. Tap that to open or close its list of sections. It is a separate target from the row itself, so tapping the row still jumps.
• Lists stay as you leave them. Nothing opens or closes by itself in the middle of a song.

Tapping a song jumps to it. Tapping a section jumps to that.

The Now panel

Everything about the song that is playing, top to bottom:

1. Now · 2 of 6 — where you are in the setlist — and the state: Playing, Looping, or Stopped at bar 41.
2. The song's title, and its note if it has one.
3. Bar 42 of 106, then time gone and time left: 1:49 −2:52.
4. Three tiles for the section you are in:
   • Repeat — go back to the start of this section.
   • The section itself, with the bar you are on within it and a square for each beat.
   • Skip to — go to the next section now, with a note of how many bars until it would start by itself.
5. The timeline — one block per section, as wide as the section is long. It shows where you are in the song. It is not a control.
6. Loop — hold this section until you release it.
7. The Next card — the song after this one. When any jump is armed, this card turns amber and says what is about to happen: Jumping at bar 43 → Pre-Chorus 2.
8. The transport — Previous song, Stop, Play, Next song.

The Now panel never scrolls. On a short window it gives up captions and small print first; the transport is always there, at full size.

What the colours mean

Each colour means one thing, everywhere in the app.

On a narrower window

The layout follows the width of the window, so it works in iPad Split View and on a phone. Below about half an iPad's width the setlist column gives way to an Up next list and a sheet. See Split View with your charts.