Changelog

What changed in each build of BarBeatCue, newest first.

In 1.0 (832)

• Printed parts from Dorico read as printed: a bar of rest written as a bare forward is a rest (the Sarid bass had 48 empty bars), multi-bar rests keep the file's own count, drum notes keep their printed noteheads, a restated clef is not drawn twice, and every system but the last fills the page.
• Over the staff, one skyline: chord symbols, rehearsal marks, words, tempo marks and segno / coda signs stand over the highest thing under them instead of on it; a chord symbol's width counts in the bar's spacing (four chords over one bar no longer pile up); a rehearsal box fits its words; "To Coda" and "D.S. al Coda" come through from Dorico in their place. The words are measured in the part's own text face.
• The score's text as the file sets it: section labels bold as Dorico prints them, the part name with its accidental ("Cl. (B♭)"), no number on a pickup bar, and bar numbers in the text face under the staff.
• Endings, 8va and hairpins: a 1st / 2nd ending runs from its start to its stop across systems with its number under the line; an 8va / 8vb moves the notes into the staff under a dashed line, "(8)" repeated at a system start; crescendo and diminuendo hairpins sit under the staff on one line with their dynamics.
• Slurs and ties as printed: a slur breaks level at a system's end and goes on after the next system's clef, sits on the noteheads' side, and rises over the notes, beams and accidentals between its ends; a tie goes to the next note of its pitch, a chord's upper ties bending up and the lower ones down.
• Dorico's slash chords read as the notes they are: a bar written as one note plus seven chord notes at their own places is eight eighths on the beats, beamed as printed, with the chord symbols where Dorico put them; Diagnostics › Scores names the bars read that way. A drum part draws no chord symbols by default (they still feed the charts).
• Correct Bars on a MusicXML part: with Correct Bars on, every measure carries the song bar it starts on; click a label and type where that measure is (a pin; the measures after follow until the next pin), ⌫ unpins, Tab walks the labels, every edit one undo step, the iPads following at once. The Scores list's Start box shows where the file's first measure really falls, and a typed Start moves the whole part.
• Chords from a score moved to where the chords go: the Chords list's + menu (Chord at Playhead, then From Score ▸ the score ▸ the staff ▸ Master or Secondary, each saying what it replaces) and Song ▸ Lanes ▸ Chords ▸ From Score…. The Scores list's form keeps only what a score is.
• The iPad's chord chart scrolls smoothly: the chart is drawn once per row and only moved by the scroll (it used to repaint the whole screen for every point of the ease).
• A player's score when a song has both a PDF and a MusicXML part of one instrument: the Band list's Instrument per song box and the iPad's player menu list each lane tagged PDF or XML, the one shown checked; a per-player PDF or XML preference sits under Display, a song's own pick first. The Score pane follows the Band list's selected player, with a link icon that breaks and re-links the follow; a player sitting a song out shows TACET there.
• The iPad's page, denser: an empty hand of a grand staff is hidden on the systems where it only rests (the first system keeps both, with a small brace beside the lone hand as Dorico prints it), every system is fitted to its own ink with the bar numbers right under it, and the brace and start line open each system — the Sarid piano part holds about seven systems a page instead of five.
• A held press on the iPad's band menu no longer picks: the menu opens on a tap and every choice takes a tap of its own, so a held press on stage cannot switch who the iPad is.
• A written key past six accidentals is respelled: Dorico's C♯ major with double sharps reads as D♭ with five flats, every note of the stretch with it, the chords too.
• On the Mac: a mode switched on outside the layout's set gets its own lit button while the bar has room (the » only when the window is too narrow); several Band rows selected give a tile each in the Screens pane; a staccato dot on a slash sits over or under the slash.
• Small fixes: Change… on a score aligns the new file by its own bar numbers like Add… does (a Dorico part with a half-bar pickup was two beats early); a MusicXML lane that still ignores its bar numbers shows a dot with what to press; the Score pane's current-bar shade stops under the staff; a track row scrolled out of view no longer answers a right-click on the Score pane; "B Flat" in a part's name matches "B♭".

In 1.0 (770)

• Sound check (Band ▸ Sound Check…, and the stage page's button): every output of the song shown in turn — the click, the guide, then each group and track — a second of pink noise and a second of tone at −18 dBFS on that output alone, then the guide's voice naming the track and its outputs. The Mixer strip lights, the iPads say "Sound check: Kick"; Previous, Next, Repeat and Stop have keys; a Play ends it.
• A music font per player for MusicXML parts: Engraved (Bravura), Light (Leland) or Jazz (Petaluma), each with its own text face — the part's words, tempo marks and rehearsal letters now in Academico, the face Dorico prints; slash notes' stems join the slash; a tempo mark and its words no longer overprint. Set in the Band list, the iPad's Look menu, and the show's score defaults.
• Chords from a score's inner staves: a Rhythm Section score with several staves offers each staff under Chords → in the Scores list; the same chord over two staves counts once; the Secondary is named for the staff.
• Temp folders no longer pile up: every run used to leave its converted stems and warp files behind (52 GB found); now they go at exit, and a crash's leftovers are swept on the next launch.
• The MusicXML rendering audited against Dorico's prints — the fixes come in the next builds (rest bars, drum noteheads, 8va, endings, the marks above the staff, slurs and ties).

In 1.0 (754)

• Chord symbols in a music font are read from PDF parts: Dorico's Petaluma chord faces (and every SMuFL text font) are read by their glyph names — the Grand set's rhythm-section parts went from no chords to all of them. Diagnostics › Scores says which font set them and what was left unread.
• Printed drum parts from MuseScore read right: bar-by-bar staff lines, jazz-font barlines, stems that cross the staff and stroked multi-bar rests no longer miscount; the rest counts are solved from the printed system numbers.
• Correct Bars on the Score pane (View ▸ Bottom Pane ▸ Correct Bars): every detected barline as a tick with its number — click a number and type the right one, double-click a bar for its count, drag across the staff where a barline was missed, select a tick and press ⌫ to cross out a false one; every edit is one undo step, saved in the song file by its place on the page, and the iPads follow at once.
• The current bar's mark, your way: per player, Box (lighter than before), Underline, Bar line, Dim the rest or None, with a colour and an opacity — on MusicXML pages, PDF pages and the chords chart; the iPad's band menu has it under Look. The show has score defaults (Show Settings › Band › Scores, Apply to Score Players; a player's Set as Default), and several selected players edit as one form.
• The File menu: Open… (⌘O) takes a show or a song — a song from outside the open show asks whether to add it to the show or open it alone; Add Song… (⇧⌘O) and Add from Library… sit in File beside New Song…; Open Song Alone is gone, its two jobs covered.
• Words and small things: At End's items read as their commands are titled (Continue into Next, Keep Playing); the Sync In preset is "DAW on this Mac…" and the export "Export LTC for the DAW…"; the layout's name sits under the stage lock at the bar's right; the DJ page's tempo and key buttons dim during a crossfade and say why.
• BarBeatCue Satellite: a dark launch screen on the iPad, the iPhone and the Apple TV; the settings sheet opens on the rig to tap and Who am I, the port a plain number, the link's figures in a closed Diagnostics fold.

In 1.0 (727)

• Show Settings › Audio: the click output, the spoken guide and the master volumes are the show's — they live on a page of their own under This Show and travel with the show file; Settings › Audio keeps only this Mac's device, sample rate and buffer. The preflight's click and guide fixes open that page.
• Chords over words, in a long instrumental stretch: the chords + lyrics display reads a break with chords as chord rows of four bars (two on a phone upright), the chord sounding lit, the countdown on the row being read; no chord is drawn over another on any line.
• Printed-part engraving: a run of empty bars is one multi-bar rest with its count, the bar cursor counting through it and the whole run shaded while it plays; the part's name sits clear of a wide key signature.
• Small fixes: the Song inspector's Key box shows a whole key ("C♯ minor"); the help texts name the Settings pages the rows moved to.
• The website: the front page opens on a short film of the app — the window playing, three players' iPads and the choir's Apple TV on one bar line, every frame drawn by the app itself — with the arrange and the Mixer as the still; the contact form takes up to three files (screenshots, recordings, PDFs, text, zip; 25 MB in all).

In 1.0 (705)

• The trial is 30 days from 1.0 on (this beta stays free). The terms of the license are on the site.
• Score engraving: a rehearsal letter sits above its bar number, a tempo mark stacks over a rehearsal mark on the same bar, dynamics clear the lowest notes, two signature changes a bar apart no longer overlap in the tempo lane, the part's name is on the first system too.
• The website is new: barbeatcue.live presents the app for the people who run shows — features, seven use cases, a support section with setup guides (network, audio, MIDI, timecode), troubleshooting for every preflight finding, questions and answers, a contact form, the changelog and a press kit. Every picture is a real screenshot; the iPads are upright, as on a stand.

In 1.0 (672)

• A MIDI fader for the tempo: learn a fader or knob as Tempo Fader in Key Commands (⌥K) and it sets the playing song's tempo like a DJ's pitch fader — the centre is the song's tempo, the ends ±8 %, up is faster. It takes over softly (move it to the ring under BPM on the DJ page), steps the tempo on each beat line, and lets go when you press + / −, Back to Song Tempo, Stop or the next song; Diagnostics says why.
• A key change on the DJ page: + and − beside the NOW deck's KEY transpose the playing song a semitone from the next beat (the drums stay put); the figure reads "Am →" over "Bm", a double-click goes back. A stop keeps the key as the song's Transpose (undo with ⌘Z). The NEXT deck's KEY has its own − / + to set the next song's key before it plays. MATCH KEY beside MATCH plays the next song in the playing song's key by the nearest move (a relative major or minor counts as the same key); the preflight flags a move over four semitones.
• A test fix: the part-name typing test no longer flakes under load.

In 1.0 (663)

• Settings by tier: one Settings window (⌘,) with three groups in its sidebar — This Mac (General, Audio, MIDI, Network, Display, License), This Show (Defaults, Live, Timecode & Sync — the show's timecode plan, Sync In, Sends, Actions out, MTC from —, Band — rig name, Remote, curfew, message presets) and This Song (Timecode & Sync). The rows that were folded into the Setlist and Song inspectors live there now; each inspector keeps what you touch while preparing and one Settings line that opens the window on the right page. Setlist ▸ Show Settings… (⌥⌘,), Song ▸ Song Settings….
• MIDI Learn ignores chatter: a controller that streams the same message without pause (a monitor controller's CC 0, say) can no longer take a Learn — a controller learns only when it really moves, and a press is confirmed after a moment's quiet. Settings › MIDI › Control from lists every MIDI source with a check mark (the menu stays open while you check); a source that shares a device with the show's MIDI out is off by default with the reason, and if you check it the app's own messages coming back in are dropped. A trigger's menu in Key Commands has Source ▸; the Learn line says which sources are heard; Diagnostics names the busiest source and the ones not heard.
• One trash can per list: the Parts, Actions, Chords, Lyrics and Tempo lists have one trash can in their header beside the + (acting on every selected row, as ⌫ does) and none on the rows; ⌫ on the Scores list removes the selected score after asking (the file stays in the song folder; ⌘Z brings it back).
• Test script: a test shard the watchdog stops is reported as killed, with the classes it never ran, and fails the run.

In 1.0 (654)

• One pointer, no tools: the tool palette is gone. The Pointer does it all — ⌘-click cuts a region (⌘T splits at the playhead), ⌃⌥ zooms (drag a range, click out), ⌥ copies, ⇧ extends, ⌃ bypasses the snap during a drag; a drag on empty lane space draws the selection box. Fewer hover cursors: a cursor only where nothing on screen says what a drag does; a drawn handle lights under the pointer instead.
• Gain Lines (View ▸ Gain Lines, G, the switch beside Undo / Redo): while on, every audio region shows its gain line and a dB tag — drag either for the gain, double-click to type it. Off, no mouse move changes a gain.
• Layouts (View ▸ Layouts ▸ Show ⌥⌘1 / DJ ⌥⌘2 / Edit ⌥⌘3, or the name under the inspectors toggle): which panes, folds, lists, control-bar items, strip height and stage page are up — saved in the show, switchable on stage too; Save Layout As… keeps your own. A show from before keeps its window as it is; Restore Layout puts the designed one back.
• The DJ stage page: two decks alternating as the fader does, each song on a plate in its own colour, NOW framed green, the crossfade fader upright between them with LIVE X, MATCH and SONG TEMPO, the song leaving kept on its deck as OUT until the crossfade ends, ghost playheads at the mix, the next deck's view easing to the whole song at the middle, part chips, VAMP and LAUNCH NEXT.
• Tempo nudge: + and − beside the NOW deck's tempo (⇧ for 0.1 BPM, Transport ▸ Tempo Up / Down) step the song's tempo on the next beat line while it plays; the tempo before the nudge stays shown — double-click it to go back; SONG TEMPO still goes to the song's own; a Stop forgets the nudge.
• The inspectors fold: every section and every group of rows inside one folds, a folded header saying its one value; the Setlist section reads SHOW · DEFAULTS · LIVE · TIMECODE & SYNC, the Song section TEMPO & KEY · TIMECODE & SYNC · CHORDS · NOTES; a row's double-click goes to the song. The Network tab is gone — the Band list shows the iPads, a device nobody picked gets an Assign line.
• The menus: Setlist (the songs' edits), Song ▸ Tracks / Lanes / Tempo & Key / Sync / Mix, Transport ▸ Song / Part / Vamp, Band (the people on stage), View with one entry per pane; Key Commands and the cheat sheet grouped the same way. Settings holds only what is this Mac's; what the show carries is set in the window. The words: Show, Stage, Band, Screens.
• Icons and glyphs: + adds, the trash can deletes, ✕ dismisses; no two things on screen share a symbol (Tap to Place and Tap Tempo had one).
• The ⇧⌘P crash is fixed: entering performance mode could crash the app on some Macs (a window property written inside SwiftUI's render); every window write now waits its turn.
• Tests: the offline list runs in eight processes in about three minutes; the ten-iPad test scales its waits with the machine's load.

In 1.0 (626)

• Show files in the Finder: press Space on a setlist or song file for a preview — the set sheet's rows for a setlist, the tempo, parts, tracks and scores for a song — and the file's icon is its first page. Spotlight finds a song by its instruments or a lyric line (once the app is in /Applications). A setlist saved by this build carries each song's key, tempo and length, so its preview is whole wherever the file sits.
• A song library across shows: one song folder used by several setlists, edited once. The Library list (a new tab beside Players) shows every song of every show opened on this Mac — key, tempo, length, the shows using it — with a search; double-click, drag or Add from Library… puts a song into the setlist as a shared song (a link after its title), its folder staying where it lives. Collect Show… asks whether to copy shared songs in or keep them shared; Archive Show… always takes them whole; the preflight says when a shared song changed since this show last played it. The Library's + adds a song folder to the library.
• The iPhone remote: Parts and Setlist are two plain buttons, the chosen one lit, and a sideways swipe over the list turns it.
• Opening a show from the Finder works again: since the first October beta, opening a setlist or song file with the app quit launched it with no window at all. Fixed; a first launch on a new Mac now opens the window at 90 % of the screen.
• Faster tests, a release check: every release now launches the built app with a document and looks for its window before it is notarized.

In 1.0 (614)

• Scores from Logic Pro read right: a MusicXML part exported by Logic carries only the first beam of its sixteenths, so groups of sixteenths were drawn as eighths; the missing beams are now completed from each note's value. Every screen and the iPads get it without an update of theirs.
• Back to Song Tempo Now: Transport ▸ Back to Song Tempo Now, the SONG TEMPO button on the Performance page and a badge on the playing setlist row — a song playing at a matched tempo drifts back to its own from the next bar line, over the row's Back to Song Tempo length or the show's Back to tempo default (Setlist inspector, 8 bars). A Stop forgets the matched tempo: the next Play is the song at its own tempo and key.
• The crossfade fader rests where the last crossfade left it and never launches the next song from the same press that just finished one. A launch from rest takes a deliberate move — a tenth of the way along; let go short of it and the thumb springs back — and a MIDI fader also a moment and a half after the last crossfade; the row says "Move further" or "Wait a moment" meanwhile.
• The menu bar after an update: if the menus come up empty after an update installs itself, the app rebuilds them and notes it in Diagnostics' log — tell us if you see it.

In 1.0 (596)

• Tempo and pitch per song: Song inspector ▸ Tempo and Transpose play a song faster or slower and in another key; the stems are conformed in the background (File ▸ Setlist ▸ Prepare Show… does every song before a show) and an unprepared song plays stretched live at once. Per track and per region: Follows tempo, Follows key and its own transpose — the drums keep their pitch. The iPads' charts and MusicXML parts read in the played key; a PDF part says what key is sounding.
• Crossfade between chained songs: the next song starts on the ending song's bar line a few bars, beats or a part before its end and is live at once — drag song B over song A on the setlist strip to make one, or set it on the row. Match tempo (♩ = ♩) plays the next song at the ending song's tempo and Back to Song Tempo drifts it back over 2 … 32 bars. Next Song while playing crossfades too (LIVE X, a mode with its own length — right-click it). The band's iPads switch in the middle of the X; the Mac's windows follow at the same moment. ⌘Z takes back setlist edits.
• A manual crossfade fader: on the Performance page, and in the control bar once switched on in Customize Control Bar. Grab the mix during a crossfade and it is yours — hold it, push it through, or double-click to let it finish on its own; move it with no crossfade running and the next song launches on the next line, held where your hand is. A MIDI fader or knob learnt as Crossfade Fader (Key Commands) takes over softly and alternates like a DJ's crossfader.
• BarBeatCue Satellite on the iPhone: one app for iPad and iPhone; the stage screen fits a hand. Pinch to zoom a score — on the iPad too.
• BarBeatCue Display, the Apple TV app: a Screen is a player (the TV button in the Players list) and shows the prompter, chords + lyrics, the chart or the giant readout on any TV with an Apple TV behind it — a band 1.5 × an iPad's, Hide band, a Lead for a TV without a game mode. Through TestFlight for Apple TV soon.
• Chords spelled by the key: a transposed chord keeps its function in the song's key (D7/F♯, not G♭7).
• The LCD no longer freezes while a song's stems are being conformed in the background.
• License: BarBeatCue ▸ License… and Settings › License are in place — the beta stays free until 1.0.

In 1.0 (571)

• The score page reads in playing order: on a MusicXML part the line a jump lands in is drawn right under the line being read, the scroll reaches it as the jump fires, and nothing moves at the landing.
• Fade curves: every fade has a ring on its curve — drag it to bend the fade (up louder, down softer) and sideways to size it; In curve / Out curve in the Region inspector, a curve box beside each song fade.
• Crossfades between regions: drag a fade handle or the Fade tool across the join of two regions and they cross-fade (equal power, or equal gain for a cut inside one take); the X's edges size it, its ring bends it, ⌥-drag moves it; right-click for the type or Remove Crossfade. Fades never snap.
• The show's timecode: Setlist inspector ▸ Timecode — Each song's own, Unique starts (every hour, or 30 / 20 / 15 / 10 min — a desk cued by code tells the songs apart), or Continuous (one running code over the set); the LCD, LTC / MTC out and the iPads follow; the preflight warns of songs sharing a code or longer than their spacing.
• Following timecode finds the song: incoming code in another song's stretch opens that song and locks to it; Setlist inspector ▸ Sync In sets one Sync In for the whole show.
• File ▸ Export ▸ LTC Audio…: this song, every song as a file each, or the set as one file — code for outside gear, with the count-ins as pre-roll.
• Ableton as the master on this Mac: Setlist inspector ▸ Sync In ▸ Ableton on this Mac… makes the "BarBeatCue Rig" audio device (your interface + BlackHole 2ch), sets the show to follow Ableton's LTC on it, and exports the clips for an Ableton track. Three lines tell you what to set in Ableton.
• A player's display per song, and by action: Players list ▸ Display per song (the chart on one song, the lyrics on the next); a new Stage Display action switches a player's — or everyone's — display at a bar and back.
• The Performance page's figures: right-click them to choose and order what it shows — time, left, tempo, signature, timecode, and the set clocks.
• Tap Tempo (⌥T, or a mapped MIDI note; the tap button in the control bar; Tap in the New Song window): four taps set a click-only song's tempo — stopped, the whole song; playing, from the next bar line. Not in performance mode.

In 1.0 (560)

• A message to the band: Band ▸ Message… (⌥M) or the speech bubble in the control bar — type a line or pick a preset ("Skip the bridge", "One more chorus"…), to everyone or to one player; it shows big on every iPad and on the Stage pane's tiles until you clear it (⌥⇧M, the MSG cell, or after a number of bars), or the player taps it away. The presets are the show's own.
• Set clocks: the time of day, the time since the set started, the time left in the set and a curfew countdown (typed in the Setlist inspector; orange at ten minutes, red past it) — optional cells on the iPad's band and the LCD, off by default. Transport ▸ Reset Set Clock starts over.
• A note per song: for one player or for everyone, typed in the Players list or the Song inspector; the iPad shows it at the song's start and on a tap on the band.
• File ▸ Setlist ▸ Export Set Sheet… and Print…: the songs with number, title, key, tempo, length, parts, end action and notes; choose the columns, the type size (up to Giant), the paper and a page per song.
• The look of every display, per player: a face (Plain, Rounded, Mono, Real Book — a handwritten chart face), a colour for the lyrics and one for the chords from a palette of eight, Neon brightness, the background (Dark, Black for an LED wall, Light), the current line as Highlight, Bar or None, the reading line at the centre or the upper third, lines of context, alignment, all caps, and Mirror for a glass teleprompter. From the Players list or the iPad's band menu ▸ Text style.
• A colour per lyric line: the Lyrics list's Colour column or the lane's right-click; a harmony or a second singer's line in its own colour on every display.
• Chords for your instrument: a player's Chord key — B♭, E♭, F or a capo fret — shows the chart and the chords + lyrics transposed; or Nashville numbers, from the relative major (the common way) or the song's key. The Song inspector has a Key row; the band names the reading.
• The band fits: when the cells asked for are more than the width holds, the optional ones give way first and three dots say so; Manual mode's buttons stay on screen.

In 1.0 (548)

• The next part is announced: from two bars before it the song / part cell names what comes — the next part in the LCD's blue, a jump in orange, a stop in red — flashing once a beat, twice a beat in the last bar; the Performance page and the iPad band say the same. The cell is wider, so a long name is not cut.
• At End ▸ Stop comes in three: Stop, Stop and Go to Next Song, Stop and Go to Song… — for a part and for a song's end; and a song's end can Continue to Song…, a gapless chain into any song of the set.
• The file names are BarBeatCue's: .bbcsetlist, .bbcsong and .bbckeys. A show saved by an earlier build opens as before and is renamed on its first save (the old file kept in Backups).
• File ▸ Setlist ▸ Clean Up Show… lists every file in the show folder that no song uses — a check each — and moves the ticked ones to the Trash.
• Lyrics size from the iPad: pinch the lyrics or the chart, or Larger / Smaller text in the band menu; the size is saved with the player in the show and the Mac's Players list follows.
• A long break counts down on the lyrics display ("3 bars", "2 bars", "1 bar"), counting whole silent bars only.
• Jump marks on a MusicXML score: the orange line where a jump leaves and the mark where it lands, as on a PDF; and the MusicXML page scrolls evenly — it eases by the music's time, not by the notes' spacing.
• Fades: the handles show on hover or when there is a fade, smaller; the pointer is a rising curve on a fade-in and a falling one on a fade-out, and stays through the drag.
• The editor: a region dragged onto another cuts the other to make room (as a dropped copy did); a chord, a lyric line or a part dragged into the next ends where the next begins; a split region's left half trims again; a new song opens fitted; New Setlist… starts with "Song 1"; the MusicXML alignment is a Start box and a Measure · At table; ⌘V works in the New Song dialog; ? and the help pane's ✕ act at once, and Help ▸ Help & Tips.

In 1.0 (517)

• The stage page shows the state of the keys it answers: a strip under the big readout says CYCLE with its bars, GUIDE, each key slot (⌃1 …) with its tracks muted or soloed, and the Quantize value; a word flashes when it changes. Settings › Display › Performance keys ▸ Transport only locks the cycle, the guide and the key slots on stage as well (off by default).
• Typing chords is quicker: c-7 is Cm7, cM7 Cmaj7, c° Cdim, c+ Caug; a whole stretch at once — C G | Am F lays two bars, the chords of a bar on even beats (- holds, % repeats the bar before); Tab goes one bar on, Shift-Tab one back; and the chords of the song's key are listed under the box — ↓ or the pointer lights one, ↩ or a click puts it in.
• Stream Deck profiles for the XL, the 15-key and the Mini: Parts, Prev / Next Song, Play / Stop, Vamp, Click, Cycle, Cancel Jump, MIDI Panic and Stop All in the corner. Download them at barbeatcue.live/streamdeck/.
• The stage page's arrange scrolls when there are more tracks than fit: every track a lane you can read, the wheel moves them, the meters of the outputs stay put; it opens on the selected track and brings a track whose mute changed into view.
• Several regions across tracks: select regions on different tracks and drag one onto another track — all of them go the same number of tracks, each playing its own file; ⌥-drag copies them; one that would pass the first or last track keeps them all on their own tracks and says why; Esc puts everything back.

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• Show preflight: every song of the setlist is checked when the show opens and again a second after a change — the files, the stems' rate against the device, the outputs within the interface, the plug-ins, the MIDI ports, the actions' outputs, the players' scores (a part the show names nowhere is noted), flagged annotation marks and the beta's expiry. The Setlist inspector's last row says the result; click it, or File ▸ Setlist ▸ Preflight…, for the window: a row per finding, red for what stops the show, orange for a warning, with a Show or Fix button where one exists. A banner on the window says it in one line. On the stage page it opens read-only.

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• Quantize per song: a song can have its own Quantize (right-click the Quantize cell: This Song / The Show's Default); the cell reads THIS SONG while the song's own is in force, and a song without one follows the show's default.
• The iPad remote's Vamp button has plays: a tap vamps or ends the vamp as before, a long press lists ∞, 2, 3, 4 and 8 plays; the button reads the play in force ("VAMP 2 of 4").
• Chords typed in lower case are capitalised when you enter them: c → C, gm7 → Gm7, bb → Bb, c/e → C/E, n.c. → N.C.
• The control bar keeps the cells you switch on: the LCD's Chord and Sync In cells fold into the » only after the mode buttons have.
• Fixes: a region dragged to another track and put back with ⎋ keeps its selection; a locked part, action, region or tempo point dragged says why; a drag pressed right after a double-click no longer lives on the new thing's entry; a region edit made while a jump into another song waits no longer cancels the jump; a song removed from the setlist at the moment the music chains into it is still followed by the screen.
• Song ▸ Detect Tempo… makes the tempo map follow a recording made without a click: it listens to the drums (or any tracks, or a group, together), finds the beats and puts a tempo on every bar — bar 1 on the music's first downbeat —, so the click, the charts, the iPads and MTC / LTC follow the band. The sheet offers the double or the half, moves bar 1, and plays eight beats with the click to check. A Beats row under the tempo lane shows what it heard: drag a bar line onto another beat, delete a false beat, double-click to add a missed one, or tap beats in with Tab in Tap to Place.
• Detect Tempo hears a steady song as one tempo: a recording made to a click comes out as its exact tempo (124, not 123.996) with bar 1 where the song has it, even through intros and sections where the drums play the off-beats; it reads every drum track together by default.

In 1.0 (480)

• Scores stay sharp at any size: a score shown in the Stage pane, a tile or the Score pane is re-rendered at the size it is drawn when the pane grows — no more blown-up small pictures.
• Return on the update window presses Install Update.

In 1.0 (472)

• Updates from inside the app: BarBeatCue ▸ Check for Updates…, and a look once a day by itself — never on the stage page or while the music plays (Settings › General switches the daily look off).
• Help ▸ Send Feedback… opens a mail to support with your versions, the Diagnostics log and the latest crash report attached.
• A beta stops starting 60 days after it was built; from two weeks before, the app says so at launch.

What BarBeatCue does

• Setlists of songs, chained gapless or stopping between songs; multitrack stems played sample-accurate.
• A DAW-style editor: tracks and groups, regions, fades, tempo and signature changes, parts, chords, lyrics, action markers.
• Click, count-in and a spoken guide, routed to any output of your interface.
• Sync out (MTC, MIDI Clock, LTC) and chase in (LTC, MTC); OSC and MIDI remote control, with your own key commands.
• Plug-ins (Audio Units) on tracks and FX channels.
• A stage display on every iPad (BarBeatCue Satellite): chord charts, lyrics, PDF scores that turn themselves.

Known limits of the beta

• The crossfade between chained songs is not built yet.
• The iPad app is on TestFlight only.