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Navigate the timeline and keyboard shortcuts

Click anywhere on the timeline to jump there, zoom with the buttons or slider, and press Space to play or pause. The view follows the playhead until you scroll away.

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Moving around

  • Click the timeline, a chord, a lyric word or a square in the chord grid to jump there.
  • Drag the progress bar in the footer.
  • Back to start returns to the beginning.

Zoom

Use Zoom out, Zoom in or the zoom slider. Zoom in to place a loop precisely or to see syllable timing; zoom out for the whole song.

Following the playhead

By default the view scrolls with the music. The tracking button switches between smooth Follow and Paged, which turns a page at a time. If you scroll by hand, following pauses; choose Show current playhead to catch up.

Keyboard shortcuts

KeyAction
SpacePlay or pause
←Back 10 seconds
→Forward 10 seconds
Shift + ←Back to the start
EscClear your loops (or deselect a selected take)
← / → with a take selectedNudge the take slightly earlier or later
Cmd/Ctrl + ZUndo moving a take

Shortcuts don’t act while you’re typing in a field, while you hold Cmd, Ctrl or Alt, or before the song’s audio is ready.

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