AfinarHelp · article 8 of 9
Practice tools and shortcuts
Tuner, metronome, reading modes, page turns, and every key.
Tuner
T, or the tuner in the rail’s footer. It reads your live signal, pluck and tune, no clip-on needed. Guitar, bass, and chromatic modes.
Metronome
M. Tap tempo, meters, subdivisions. The click keeps running with the popover closed, the icon shows it, and it is never printed into your take: the click is for your ears, the take stays clean.
Slow down and loop
Both live with the backing track: pitch-locked slowdown and A–B looping. See Backing tracks.
Reading modes
Four ways to lay a chart on the screen: Fit page (the whole page), Fit width (bigger notation, continuous scroll), Two pages (spreads, like paper on a stand), and Half pages (one page as two enlarged halves). Margins are trimmed automatically, and scrolling snaps so a staff is never cut in half.
Page turns
A Bluetooth page-turn pedal works out of the box. So do the arrow keys and Page Up / Page Down.
Keyboard shortcuts
Bare keys, the way players expect them, also listed in the Practice menu.
| Key | What it does |
|---|---|
| Space | Play / pause the music. Also stops a rolling take. |
| R | Record, and stop. |
| T | Tuner. |
| M | Metronome. |
| L | Go home. The song stops and the score goes back to the top. |
| ⌘F | Search your scores (from the home). |
| ⌘↩ | Listen back. |
| ⌘, | Settings. |
| ⌘L | The address bar, while browsing. |
| ⌘[ / ⌘] | Back / forward within a site. |
| ← → / PgUp PgDn | Turn pages. |
Two manners worth knowing: typing in any text field always wins, keys never fire while you type. And on a web tab, Space belongs to the page (it’s the tab’s own play control); the other keys still work mid-song.