Gestures
What a tap, a double tap, a touch and hold, a drag and a pinch do on iPad and iPhone, and the keys of a hardware keyboard.
Available on iPad and iPhone.
Your device
On this page
On the score
| Gesture | What it does |
|---|---|
| Drag with one finger | Scroll the score |
| Pinch | Zoom in or out (in Page – Fit Width, the page keeps the screen’s width and scrolls up and down; in Fit to Screen, the notation’s size, the bars flowing again when you lift your fingers) |
| Tap | In Edit, put the cursor there; with the Select tool, select what is there; tap the empty paper to select nothing |
| Double-tap | Go into Edit with the cursor there, or out of it; on a text, edit the text |
| Touch and hold, then drag | Draw a selection box from the empty paper, or move what is selected |
| Drag a loop marker | Move the start or the end of the loop |
While you touch and hold, then drag, the Magnifier shows what is under your finger (Settings › Display › Magnifier on Drag).
With the tools
| Tool | Tap | Touch and hold, then drag |
|---|---|---|
| Edit | The cursor goes there | Select the beats you drag across |
| Select | Select a note, a rest, a slur, a text | A selection box; or move the selection |
| Measure | Select a bar | Touch and hold another bar to add it to the selection |
| Design (the unlock) | Select a system | Drag a system or a handle of the layout to move it |
With the Apple Pencil on iPad, a stroke on the score selects at once, without the touch and hold: the finger scrolls, the Pencil selects.
With a keyboard
With a keyboard connected to the iPad or the iPhone, the score answers to these keys:
| Keys | What they do |
|---|---|
| ← → ↑ ↓ | Move the cursor a beat or a string |
| ⌥← ⌥→ | A whole bar back or on |
| ⌘← ⌘→ | The first or the last bar of the score |
| ⇧← ⇧→ | Select as the cursor moves |
| 0 to 9 | In Edit, a fret; with the Select tool, 1 to 7 choose the duration |
| X | A dead note |
| ⌫ | Delete the note at the cursor, or what is selected |
| − + | Make the beat shorter or longer |
| , | Dot the beat |
| / | Split the beat |
| ↩ | Start a new line of the score at this bar |
| Space | Play and stop |