Moving around
Move the cursor from beat to beat and string to string, jump a bar, and see under your finger.
Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.
In Edit, the cursor is where the next fret goes: one string of one beat. It moves beat by beat across the bar and string by string up and down the tab.
Moving the cursor
- TapClick the tab where you want to write: the cursor goes to that string and beat.
- Left and right go to the previous or the next beat. Right past the last beat of the bar goes to the next bar, and past the score’s last bar adds a bar.
- Up and down go to the string above or below. Past the top string, the cursor comes back on the bottom one.
Scroll the score with a fingerthe trackpad or the mouse and pinch to zoom; the cursor stays where it is, and the score follows it as you write.
The joystick and the arrows
Available on iPad and iPhone.
At the bottom left on iPad (in the input panel on iPhone), the joystick moves the cursor: slide your thumb on it towards where you want to go, and the cursor steps one beat or one string for each short distance it travels, with a light tap of the haptics at each step. Slide further for more steps; let go and it springs back to the middle.
The arrows, a cross of four buttons, do the same one press at a time. Which of the two shows is yours to choose:
- On iPhone, Joystick under them switches between the joystick and the arrows.
- In Settings › Editing (from the document browser): Portrait Cursor Control and Landscape Cursor Control, Joystick or D-Pad (the arrows) for each, and Joystick Sensitivity, Low, Medium or High: how far you push before the cursor moves, and how fast it goes.
The iPad starts with the joystick both ways; the iPhone with the joystick upright and the arrows on its side.
Jumping by bar
Turn on Alt on the keypad, and left and right go a whole bar at a time: right to the first beat of the next bar, left to the first beat of this bar, then of the one before. Turn Alt off to go beat by beat again.
⇧ on the keypad makes the arrows and the joystick select as they move, from where the cursor was (see Selecting and editing).
- ⌥← and ⌥→: a whole bar at a time, to the first beat of the bar.
- ⌘← and ⌘→: the first bar or the last bar of the score.
- With ⇧ as well, the arrows select as they move (see Selecting and editing).
The Magnifier
Available on iPad and iPhone.
When you press and drag on the score (to draw a selection, or move a note, a handle or a system), a round loupe shows what is under your finger, twice the size, just above it. It follows the finger and goes when you lift it.
To work without it, turn off Magnifier on Drag in Settings › Display.