Song settings

The gear button in a song's header opens its settings. Everything here is optional apart from the title.

About the song

Title, description, written by and date first written describe the song; the ⓘ button in the header shows them to anyone.

Version is the song's own number, 0.0.1 to begin with. When stems change, the page offers to bump it (patch, minor or major). The version goes into the names of downloaded mixes, so a file says which revision it came from. Last updated is kept for you.

Tempo, key and time signature

These are entered as changes, each with a start position, so a song that speeds up or modulates is described exactly. The first change usually starts at the beginning. With a tempo and a time signature in place, positions can be shown and typed in bars, and the timeline shows a lane for whatever changes during the song.

Detect chords transcribes the tonal stems and reads a chord per bar (it needs the tempo and time signature first, and takes a little while); Draft chart with AI then turns the chords into sections, a progression per section and a chart written the way your other charts are, which you can save as the song's sections and chart, with a check before anything is replaced. Scan stems listens to the loaded stems again and fills these in when they are empty, or offers to replace what is there. It reads the key per section when the song has sections (every half minute otherwise), so a song that moves through keys gets a key change where each begins; the song's key then reads "C major (also A♭ major, F major)", and the timeline's key lane shows each where it begins; click a key (or a tempo or time-signature marker) on the timeline to jump there. Add, move or remove key rows below to override what it heard. Ask AI to check sends the mix to a model for a second opinion, useful for songs in three, six or seven, or with a tempo change; it names the key changes it hears as well, each with its time.

When the song has a score (a MusicXML file, or a PDF or image marked as notation on the Attachments tab), the score goes to the model with the mix, and the chart's key signatures and chord symbols decide the keys while the recording places each change in time. Scan stems then goes straight to the AI on such a song (the stems are only scanned when it cannot answer, say while the mix is still rendering), and an upload sets the song's keys from the score once the mix is ready. The surest way to get a song's keys right is to attach its chart.

Sections

A section has a numeral (I, II, III …), a name (Intro, Verse, Chorus …) and a start position. Sections show as a row above the stems; the numeral is what you see, and the name appears on hover. Detect sends the mix to a model that listens and marks where each section begins, naming them the way your other songs do; when the song has a score attached, the chart's rehearsal marks and section words lead. A song with no sections gets them at once; one that has some is shown the answer first, with Use these to replace them.

Start and end markers

If the audio has silence before the first bar, set where bar 1 starts so the bars readout lines up. An end marker trims silence at the end of the timeline.

Frame rate

The frame rate used by the timecode readout, matching your DAW project.

Credits

Credits names the people on the song by role: Artists (who performs it; the line under the song's title, which otherwise shows the account's name), Composers (the "Written by" line) and Producers. Type a name and press Enter, or pick one you have used before: every name goes into the account's artist directory, so the same act on twenty songs is one entry, and a name typed with different capitals finds the existing one. Credits save as you add and remove them. In account settings, Default artist for new songs picks the artist every new song starts credited to, handy for a band's own account. Manage artists (from account settings or the credits) opens the directory: whether each artist is a solo artist (with their own email) or a band or group (with the people in it, what they do and an email), plus website and notes, and, for owners and admins, an Invite to account button beside anyone with an email who is not a member yet. A song can have several of each, a hip-hop collaboration for instance, and a soundtrack project's artists are simply everyone credited on its songs.

Demo recordings

Upload a phone recording or a rough bounce as a demo (most audio formats are accepted and converted to MP3 for playback; up to 12 per song). Demos play in the song page's Demos view: a Stems / Demos switch above the player shows one or the other, and a song with demos but no stems opens on the demos. Anyone can listen or download them there; remove one here.

No AI

Some artists' contracts rule out any AI touching their work. Do not use AI in the song's settings (or the project's, which covers all its songs) switches every AI feature off for it: no chart drafts, no AI checks, no transcription. Tempo and key detection, which is plain signal processing in your browser, still works.

Stage

A song is at one of four stages: Writing (the idea, its demos, lyrics and a chart), Arranging (stems to play along with and build on), Mixing (the engineer's mixes for the band's feedback) or Finished. Left to itself a song is Writing until a stem makes it Arranging and a mix makes it Mixing; set the stage by hand under Options when the song is somewhere else, or choose Finished when it is done, which files it under Finished Songs on the project page. Nothing else changes with the stage except what opens first: the song page opens on the mixes at Mixing and Finished, the demos at Writing and the stems at Arranging, and the project page plays the newest mix or the stems mixed down to match. Everything stays editable at every stage.

Private

A song is public by default: anyone with its address can open it. Make private limits it to members of the account and to people with a viewing link (see Downloads and sharing). A song in a private project is private already.

Deleting a song

At the bottom of the settings panel. This removes the stems and everything else on the song and cannot be undone.