When playing back your chord sequence on the Create page, the chords do not scroll so you can’t see what is playing if there are more than 6 or 8 chords in the sequence. Please add an auto-scroll feature to all playback pages as in the Arrange page.
Let me expand on this issue: If you hear an issue during playback on the Arrange page, you need to go back to the Create page to fix it. To fix it on the Create page, you need to find the measure where the problem exists. On a long sequence this is challenging. As pointed out by myself and others, the scroll bar functionality for the Main Track on the Create page is extremely difficult to use on an iPad. Here are some suggestions that would help in addition to auto-scrolling: 1) The Main Track position should be synchronized on all pages. Then, if you stop playback on the Arrange page to fix an issue and go to the Create page, the chord that is causing the problem would be visible there. 2) Include measure numbers on the Main Track on all pages. Then, if you’re lucky enough to get the scroll bar to work, you can see where to scroll to. 3) Expand testing and demonstrations beyond sequences that contain more than 4-6 chords. If you use Scaler to compose a piece of any considerable length, you run into issues with the UI that are trivial with 4 chords, but turn into a major headache with even 40 chords.
There are some good ideas here. I also find it fiddly to create a whole song in the arrange page. Scenes help a little but its the sheer length of the list of chords on the main track and the awkward scroll bar that drive me crazy.
I’d love an autoscroll that stays where it was when you stop play. I’d also like a scroll gesture, maybe three finger swipe or something that would scroll stuff and also a two finger pinch thing to shrink and expand things. At present whenever I try to navigate around there is a 50/50 chance of me accidentally moving a chord instead. The undo button gets lots of use. I’d also love a way to work on a Scene in isolation so the other stuff is hidden.
I’m hoping this stuff will improve in a future update but for now I tend to split my songs into three or more instances of S3 (e.g. Verse, Chorus, Bridge) and just mute the instances I am not working on. It’s clunky but it keeps the chord lists short and managable. My other way is to just move stuff into the DAW earlier. It depends how settled I think the chord progression is.
My two takeaways here which we have been discussing internally is an auto-scroll and a position indicator on the main page so you know where you are. That later is coming in 3.3 and then we could potentially sync all timelines which again would improve things. We’ve come a long way but agree there’s a few areas for improvements.
Thanks for listening and your commitment to address your users’ concerns.