The editor

Find your way around a score: the top bar, the tools, the tracks, the bottom panel and the playback bar.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

Your device

A guitar score open in Reflow on iPad, writing tab, the top bar, the tools at the left, the joystick, the tools' categories, the keypad and the playback bar at the bottom. — A score open on iPad, writing tab.

On this page

The top bar
The tools
The tracks
The bottom panel
The playback bar
How the score is shown

A score fills the screen, and everything else floats over it or sits at its edges. On an iPhone held upright, the controls are arranged differently: see On iPhone.

The top bar

The top bar has two groups of buttons.

At the left:

✕ closes the score, once it is saved; beside it, the saved state (see Saving).
Undo and Redo: each undoes or redoes one change.

At the right:

ⓘ Document Info: the title, artist and credits (see Starting a score).
Export: the score as Guitar Pro, MusicXML, MIDI, audio, PDF or a picture, or printed.
The bottom panel (a rectangle filled at its bottom) shows or hides the panel below the score.
The eye: how the score is shown (below).

The window’s toolbar holds the stack, which opens the Library, and at its right Bottom Panel, Export and Layout (the eye: how the score is shown, below). Undo, Redo, Document Info and the rest are in the menus: Edit, Score, Note and Effect.

The tools

The tool selector, at the left of the score, chooses what a tapclick on the score does:

Select (the arrow): pick notes, bars and the rest of the score to change or move them.
Edit (the pencil): write. A cursor shows on the tab, and the tools for writing show at the bottom.
Measure (the grid): select whole bars, to insert, delete, copy or change them.
Design (the ruler): move the score’s systems and staves on the page. It is part of the unlock.

Under the tools, ? opens this help in your browser, at the page for what’s on screen: the category open at the bottom, or else the tool you’re using. The tool selector is at the left of the score with the iPhone on its side; held upright, ? is at the end of the input panel’s first row, after Paste (see On iPhone).

Help › Reflow Documentation (⌘?) opens this help.

In Edit, and in Select with something selected, Cut, Copy and Paste sit under the tools.

Double-tap a staff to start writing there: Reflow switches to Edit.

Double-click a staff to start writing there, or choose a tool in View › Tool.

In Edit, the tools’ categories line the bottom of the score: Rhythm, Dynamics, Articulation, Effect, Harmonic, Beat, Attach and Note. Choose one and its buttons open above it. The keypad at the bottom right types frets and durations, and the joystick at the bottom left moves the cursor.On the Mac, type frets on the keyboard and move with the arrows; every button is also a menu item, and holding the pointer over one shows its item and its key.

Writing tab on iPad: the Note category open above the categories, its Slur, Grace, Bend, Pre-Bend and Tremolo buttons. — The Note category open, in Edit.

The tracks

The tracks run down the left edge, one icon each; the one you are writing on is lit. TapClick a track to go to it. The button at the top of the column widens it to show each track’s name, its sound, its volume and its S (solo) and M (mute) buttons, and + to add a track.

The bottom panel

The bottom panel opens under the score. The buttons down its left side choose what it shows:

Arranger: every track and bar at a glance, to move around the song.
Piano: a keyboard, to hear or write notes.
Fretboard (on a string track) or Drumpad (on a drum track): to write by touching a fret or a drum.

Drag the line at its top to make it taller or shorter.

The playback bar

At the bottom right, the playback bar plays the score: Go to Beginning, Play, and Loop, which repeats the bars you choose. ‹ opens the rest: the metronome, the playback speed, the speed trainer, the count-in, following the cursor, and a MIDI keyboard (on an iPhone held upright, the metronome, the count-in, following the cursor and the MIDI keyboard are in More). The space bar plays and stops.

The eye in the top barLayout (the eye) in the toolbar, or the View menu, changes how the score is shown on screen, not the score itself:

Layout: Page, Fit to Screen (the score laid out for the screen, below), Continuous Scroll (systems one after another, no page breaks) or Horizontal (one long line).
Fit Page Width: the page as wide as the window (greyed in Fit to Screen).
Multitrack: every track stacked, or only the one you are on.
Gray Out Inactive Voices: the voices you aren’t writing on, dimmed.
Score Theme: the score’s colours on screen; printing and exports always use the classic black on white.
Score Style…: the score’s fonts, sizes and spacing.

Fit to Screen is how a score opens on iPhone, and on iPad in a narrow window (Split View or Slide Over): the score is laid out again for the screen, at a size you can read, with as many bars on each line as fit (never more than the score has), and it scrolls up and down only. Pinch to make the notation bigger or smaller: when you lift your fingers the bars flow again, and the size is kept for every score on this device. Turning the device lays the score out again for the new width. It is a way of showing the score only: the file keeps its own page, bars per line and margins, and printing, PDF and image export always use the page. Pick Page in the eye to see the page as printed; a Default View Mode chosen in Settings is the one scores open in.