Tracks

Add a track for each instrument, put them in order, mix them, and choose which ones the score shows.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

A score holds one track for each instrument: a guitar, a bass, a drum kit, a keyboard. Each track has its own notes, its own sound and its own place in the mix. There are three kinds:

• Tablature, for fretted instruments: guitars, basses, banjo and ukulele. Each has its tuning, and Reflow writes the standard staff above the tab.
• Standard, for everything written on a staff alone: a keyboard, on one staff or on two (the grand staff).
• Drums, a drum kit on a percussion staff.

The tracks

• its name;
• its sound, the instrument it plays (see Instruments and SoundFonts);
• buttons for its Tuning (a tablature track), its Drum Mapping (a drum track) and its Track Settings (the gear);
• its volume, a slider, and its pan, the short slider beside it: drag it left or right to place the track in the stereo image;
• S (solo), to hear this track alone, and M (mute), to silence it. Solo several tracks to hear them together.

Adding a track

TapClick + at the top of the tracks and choose an instrument:

• Tablature: Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electric Guitar (7 strings), Electric Bass, Electric Bass (5 and 6 strings), Banjo, Banjo (5 strings) or Ukulele;
• Standard: Keyboard, or Keyboard (Grand Staff);
• Drumkit.

The new track comes last, with the score’s bars, empty. Without the unlock, a score has two tracks at most; the unlock takes the limit away.

Order, delete and rename

With the tracks widened, tapclick the pencil at the top. Each track gets arrows, to move it up or down, and a red −, to delete it with its notes. A score keeps one track at least. The check mark ends the editing.

To rename a track, tapdouble-click its name, type the new one and press Return.

Which tracks the score shows

A score can show one track or several stacked, each on its own staves. To add a track to what the score shows or take it away, touch and holdShift-click it: a track the score doesn’t show is greyed in the list. Its notes stay, and it still plays. The eye’s Multitrack shows every track, or the one you are on alone.

Track Settings

The gear opens Track Settings, for that track:

• Name and Short Name: the track’s name in Reflow, and the short one a Guitar Pro or MusicXML export gives the part beside it.
• Color: the track’s colour in the tracks, the arranger and its clips. Auto takes it from the score’s palette.
• Voice Settings, for each of the four voices: the stems’ direction (Auto, Up or Down), on a grand staff the staff the voice is written on, Horizontal Beams, the beams’ and the rests’ height, and whether the voice, its dynamics and its rests are shown.

Apply keeps the changes, Cancel leaves the track as it was. The tray at the top right saves these settings in your Library, to give another track the same ones. On the Mac, with the unlock, Track Settings also chooses the track’s Audio Unit and its effects: see Audio Units.