The arranger

The whole song at a glance, every track a row and every bar a column, to see its shape and move around it.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

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Iron Circuit on iPad, its four tracks stacked in the score and the arranger open under them, a row per track with the bars each one plays, bar numbers along the top. — The arranger under the score, a row per track.

On this page

Opening the arranger
Reading the arranger
Moving around the song
A track's voices

The arranger shows the song from above: each track is a row, time runs from left to right, and a block shows where the track plays. It is where you see a song’s shape (the verse, the chorus, where the drums come in) and the quickest way to get from one part to another.

Opening the arranger

The arranger is one of the bottom panel’s views. Tap the bottom panel button in the top bar (a rectangle filled at its bottom)Click Bottom Panel in the toolbar, then Arranger down the panel’s left side. Drag the line at the panel’s top to make it taller or shorter.

Reading the arranger

Along the top, the bar numbers, and the names of the score’s sections where it has some.
At the left, each track’s icon and name; a muted track is greyed.
In each row, a block where the track has music, with a short line for each note at its pitch: you see a riff climb, a bass walk, a drum fill. A silent stretch is left empty.
A clip is a solid block with its name.

Moving around the song

TapClick a bar in a track’s row and the score’s cursor goes there, on that track. Without the unlock, tappingclicking a track’s name goes to that track.

Drag to scroll through the song, and pinch to zoom in or out, from a quarter to four times the width.

Scroll to move through the song, and hold ⌘ while you scroll to zoom in or out, from a quarter to four times the width.

A track's voices

Included with the unlock · What the unlock adds

With the unlock, tapclick a track’s name to open it into its voices, a row each (▸ turns to ▾), and again to close it. A clip lives on one voice, so this is where you see and move clips written on a second voice.