Version 2024-04-2628 April 2024* Replaced Settings > Audio & MIDI > Audio Options > Play Two Recordings Together with Play Recordings Together, which can select up to 8 recordings to play together. You can change this setting to play different combinations of recordings for different situations, like adding a drum track only when a drummer is not available. If you add the Master Volume item to your layout, you can also adjust a volume slider for each recording. Any of the recordings can be MIDI sound files (previously you could only play one MIDI sound file at a time) and can have MIDI data files attached (previously you could only play one MIDI data file at a time). Audio recordings can be mono or stereo. To start playing multiple recordings, you can use the single Recording button, the recording controls or the Start Recording app control action; the multiple recording buttons will only play individual recordings. When Play Recordings Together is set, Settings > General > Defaults > Recording will be ignored.
* Added Settings > Audio & MIDI > Recording Position Labels. These labels will appear in the Play Recordings Together picker for easy reference, and will appear in the recording buttons in your layouts instead of the recording names if you also turn on Show Labels In Recording Buttons. You can use these settings to show simplified names like "Click Track" and "Drum Track" on all your songs instead of song-specific names like "Freebird click -2" and "Proud Mary click track."
* Added Settings > Audio & MIDI > Cross Fade Recordings. If you set a number of seconds here, then play a recording while a previous recording is still playing, the two recordings will cross fade over the duration you set. This will work between recordings attached to the same song, or between recordings from different songs if you turn on Settings > Audio & MIDI > Continue Audio When Changing Songs.
• Renamed the Master Volume layout item to Volume Controls.
• Added a slider for the video volume to the Volume Controls layout item.
• Added a setting for Set List Stats to the layout details edit page, to show the set list duration and song count in the top toolbar of the set list view.
• Fixed a problem where a break couldn't be selected when the song list contains MIDI buttons, the main layout area does not and the App Controls are set to send MIDI on song selection.
• Updated Settings > Appearance > Hide Parentheses in Chord Lines to ignore parentheses in non-chord lines.
• Fixed a problem where the new recording wouldn't play if you played a recording from the single recording button or recording controls, then selected a different recording from the multiple recording buttons without pausing first.
• Updated the recording waveforms to redraw when changing layouts, and to fill an area wider than 1024 pixels.
• Updated the MIDI Learn function to match incoming data to a device regardless of its port name as long as it is the only device using the same channel.
• Updated the MIDI Learn function to add new rows as control change messages are received, so you can capture more than one control change at a time for the same device.
• Fixed a problem that disabled the Copy button initially on the transaction edit page.
• Added Settings > Live Sharing > Share Actions > Follow Account Syncing, to start a sync on the following devices whenever the lead device syncs. If all your devices are connected to the Internet, you can use this to automatically update the following devices when you edit data on the lead device.
• Restored the automatic refresh of the set list view after syncing..
Version 2024-01-1214 January 2024• When selecting a song linked to the next song in the set list, highlighted the link icon between the two songs.
• Stopped capitalizing the contents of the Lyrics field when previewing lyrics from the song edit page.
• Stopped aligning chords within bar lines in the Lyrics field.
• Disabled the annotations button for Added Data users who don't have personal annotations turned on.
• Fixed incorrect scroll positions when scrolling from remote control when the document viewer is displayed on an external screen but not the main screen.
• Updated the app control trigger picker to allow removing settings that were added in an earlier app version but are no longer available in the current app version.
• Removed an inconsequential keychain error that appears the first time you log into the app.
• Fixed the Help > Utilities > Update Stage Plots function.
• Moved Auto-Scroll Song List to the Settings > Advanced page.
• Turned off Settings > Advanced > Use Old Full-Screen Toggle. You can turn this on for a little longer, but if you are still opening full-screen documents over a split view layout, we recommend switching to a different layout before this option is finally removed.
• Fixed a too-large bounding box on the Notes and Contacts lists on stage plots..
Version 2023-11-1112 November 2023• Reduced power usage to improve battery life if you lock your device from the set list view after playing a recording.
• Hid the Cover Top Toolbar option for the document viewer in layouts where the document viewer is not layered on top.
• Updated the Reset Text Size button in the document toolbar to immediately revert to the shared text size rather than the default text size if you are using personal text sizes.
• Updated the document annotation function to save automatically if you edit annotations and then leave the app without saving.
• Stopped a long press on a document toolbar button from triggering the lyrics highlighting function.
• Fixed a problem that sometimes disabled layout buttons that weren't overlapped by the document toolbar or didn't disable layout buttons that were overlapped by the document toolbar.
• Stopped triggering the chord divider line when clicking the area of the document toolbar that overlaps it.
• Stopped hiding the song list on song selection on Song List On Top layouts when song second selection actions are defined. In that case, the song list will hide on song second selection instead.
• Stopped triggering a double-tap gesture to close a full-screen document viewer while annotating the document.
• Stopped triggering a swipe gesture while pinch-zooming lyrics or chords.
• Fixed the incorrect placement of the marker if adding a marker to a document while the document is zoomed.
• Fixed a layout sizing issue on phones with a home button in landscape orientation.
• Fixed overlapping top toolbar buttons on smaller phones after rotating.
• Restored the ability to close the document viewer with a double-tap when opened from an edit page.
• Stopped labeling layouts as scaled in the Layouts list if they match the current device size but in the other orientation.
• Fixed a problem with the Select Next Song On Song Completion function when the song completion is determined by the song duration and no app control actions are set to Song Completion..
Version 2023-09-1011 September 2023* Added Move After Song and Swap With Song functions to the song options button on the set list Edit Songs page.
* Added a popup menu to the tempo button in the set list view containing options to increase or decrease the current tempo by one bpm, set a new tempo by tapping the button five times, save the new tempo or reset the button to the saved tempo. You can increase, decrease or tap a new tempo while the existing tempo is playing, but the playback might not transition smoothly to the new tempo, so these functions aren't meant to be used while performing.
* Added a Tap Tempo app control action that you can trigger from a screen gesture or a remote control button. If you trigger this action five times in a row, the tempo button will start playing at the corresponding tempo. You do not need to select the Tap Tempo function from the button options first, but if you want to save the new tempo you can do that from the button options.
* Added Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Follow MIDI Beat Clock. If you turn this on, and send MIDI Beat Clock messages from another device, the tempo button will flash or play click sounds as it would if you were playing the local tempo. This function will ignore the saved tempo for the current song, and will work with songs that don't have any saved tempo. This function will also ignore subdivision settings for the current song. The external device must send a Start message at the beginning of the Beat Clock messages and a Stop message at the end.
• Improved the synchronization between outgoing MIDI messages, the tempo button flash and the click sound when using Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Send MIDI Beat Clock with Settings > Advanced > Use New MIDI Beat Clock.
* Added some default event settings to the event category edit pages. If you populate these, then set a new event to that category, the default settings will load onto that event page. The Current User setting means the event will be assigned only to the user who is creating the event, which is useful for "unavailable" events. You can override the category defaults after they load, and loading category defaults will not override event settings you have already entered.
* Added a Share page to the checklist menu to print or email a checklist.
* Added a Show As Roman Numerals option to the document tools menu. If you turn this on, chords you have entered into the Chords and Lyrics fields will be converted to Roman numerals when displayed. For this setting to work, you must have filled in the Key field on the song edit page. Major and minor keys are supported, but not other modes. The transpose buttons will be disabled while showing Roman numerals. This setting will remain on for all songs, until you turn it off by selecting Show Chord Names in the document tools menu.
! Changed the chord coloring and transposing functions to stop recognizing chords that are placed on the same line as lyrics text and not bracketed. This avoids problems with misidentifying chords. If you want to display chords within lyrics lines, you can put square brackets around them and set Settings > Appearance > Bracketed Chords to Inline.
! Added Settings > General > Defaults > Second Recording, which appears when Settings > Audio & MIDI > Audio Options > Play Two Recordings Together is on. You can use this to specify any two recording positions to play together, instead of only playing the current and next recording together. When you play a recording other than the default recording, a second recording will not play.
• Split Settings > Audio & MIDI > Audio Options > Delay Audio into separate settings for Delay Recording 1, Delay Recording 2 and Delay Tempo. You can now set these individually to synchronize multiple audio outputs or synchronize audio with outgoing MIDI data..
Version 2023-07-0709 July 2023! Moved the Settings button from the main menu inside each project to the Accounts list under each account name, to make it more clear that settings are saved per account rather than per project.
! Moved the layout actions to the Remote Control settings page and renamed that page to App Control. This change lets you set layout actions like Send MIDI on Song Selection at the device level rather than the layout level so the functionality remains consistent if you switch layouts. However, a few actions remain at the layout level: auto-selecting the next song on Song Completion, which you can set on a layout's Edit Details page; hiding the song list on Song Selection, which you can set in the options popup on the Edit Song List page; and showing or hiding the document viewer on Song Selection, which you can set in the options popup on the Edit Document Viewer page.
* Added a Song Auto-Selection option to the app control settings. When a song is automatically selected by the completion of the previous song, any actions set to Song Selection or Song Auto-Selection will be triggered, but when a song is manually selected, only actions set to Song Selection will be triggered. You can use this in conjunction with the Select Next Song on Song Completion ... Only Between Linked Songs option to set up different behaviors for linked songs versus manually selected songs.
! Replaced Layout MIDI Presets with Pinned MIDI Presets. To make a MIDI preset available from any song, insead of attaching it to a layout, you can now edit the preset and turn on Pinned To All Songs. Pinned presets will appear in your layouts in alphabetical order, and will be available regardless of which layout you are using.
* Added a Pinned To All Songs setting on the document and recording edit pages. Like pinned MIDI presets, pinned documents (including videos) and recordings will be available from any song. You can select pinned items from the Multiple Document Buttons, Multiple Recording Buttons or Multiple MIDI Buttons layout items, from app control actions or from automation tracks.
○ Changed the assignment of app control actions to allow selecting multiple triggers of the same type. For example, you could set Next Song to a foot switch up arrow and right arrow to use with either of two foot switches that send different messages.
○ Separated the Show/Hide Chords app control actions into Show/Hide Chords Field and Show/Hide Bracketed Chords so that you can control these functions separately if needed. You can also assign these functions to the same options to trigger them together as before.
○ Added layout actions for some additional controls, and removed a few that were redundant.
○ Added an Active / All option to the top of the app control Actions list so you can easily see the actions you have configured.
○ Added a small sync icon next to the items on the Settings pages that are synced across your devices. Items without this icon are specific to the current device.
○ Renamed the Settings > General Settings page to Settings > General.
○ Added a One Number For Linked Songs setting to the song list layout options and the set list share options. When used with the Song Number option, this gives a number only to the first song in a group of linked songs.
○ Restored the ability to add formatting to ChordPro-positioned chords, but only if the formatting is contained entirely within the square brackets. Formatting that extends beyond the square brackets will not be applied to the chord. This means you can explicitly apply formatting to chords if you wish, but you don't need to worry about excluding the chords when adding formatting to the surrounding lyrics.
○ Restored the display of the event pay to users without editing access but with full finance access..
Version 2023-03-2124 March 2023- Updated the Follow Song Selections live sharing action to work when the lead device isn't using the current app version.
- Fixed some problems with paging through lyrics markers..
Version 2023-01-1315 January 2023- Added a Lyrics Line Number remote control action, to highlight a line of lyrics from an incoming song select or program change message. If you use a program change message, bank numbers will be ignored.
- Rearranged some of the actions on the Settings > Remote Control page and combined the MIDI Song Number and MIDI Program Number actions into a single Song Number action.
- Enabled the Save Text Size and Reset Text Size buttons in the document tools menu for Added Data users without personal lyrics font sizes enabled when the song has no lyrics and without personal chords font sizes enabled when the song has no chords.
- Disabled the Lyrics Font Sizes, Chords Font Sizes and Notes Font Sizes options by default on the Settings > Account Sync page when the corresponding Lyrics, Chords and Notes options are disabled.
- Allowed the text of the +1 and +2 variations of a multi-line custom field to be resized by pinching.
- Fixed a problem that showed the recording controls as disabled when moving from a song with no recordings to a song with recordings.
- Updated the Start Tempo remote control action to do nothing if the tempo for the current song is already playing.
- Updated the Start Recording and Start Tempo layout actions to do nothing if the recording or tempo for the current song is already playing.
- Updated the Start/Stop Tempo layout action to start the tempo for the new song if it is still running for the previous song.
- Updated the automation controls to start recordings and videos, update auto-scroll positions and send MIDI presets if you scroll into an area affected by these events. Previously, scrolling an automation track would only change the playback time.
- Fixed a problem that left out the End event when recording a new automation track.
- Eliminated an unnecessary reloading of the automation waveform when the automation controls and automation button are both in the layout.
- Updated the Next/Previous Marker functions to scroll to the line above the marked line only when that consists only of chords.
- Updated the Live Sharing function to stop ignoring consecutive identical remote control messages.
- Since documents and recordings can now be attached to multiple items, removed the single item name from the Repertoire > Documents and Repertoire > Recordings lists and instead added all the item names to the bottom of the document and recording edit pages.
- Enabled the Include In iCalendar Feed setting by default for new event categories..
Version 2022-11-0407 November 2022- Added an Import Chords button below the Chords and Personal Chords fields on the song edit page. You can use this to search for the song's title and artist in the JustChords.com database. If BandHelper finds a match, it will automatically insert the chords, where you can transpose or customize them if needed. JustChords.com is a new companion website to BandHelper and is currently being populated by BandHelper users who have volunteered to help.
- Updated to support dynamic window sizing in Stage Manager. If you change the window size in the set list view, BandHelper will load the last layout used with the new window size if one exists, or scale the current layout if its Scalable option is on, or show an alert asking you to select a layout for the new window size. Layouts created for a device's full screen size will automatically be treated as scalable when using Stage Manager on that device. To avoid letterboxing and pillarboxing, you can create a new layout based on an existing layout with the Copy For This Size button on the existing layout's Edit Details page, but we recommend only doing this for your most-used layouts and window sizes to avoid creating an unwieldy number of layouts.
- Added a live Window Size display to the Help > About page so you can size a window to a previously used size and use layouts that you've created for that size.
- Updated the document preview on the song, event, contact and transaction edit pages to open more smoothly and close by double-tapping the middle of the document.
- Fixed a problem that opened an empty MIDI preset edit page when clicking the name of a preset attached to another preset.
- Fixed a problem that sometimes displayed items in a hierarchical checklist in the wrong order.
- Fixed a crash that could happen after deleting an item from a checklist and then rearranging the remaining items..
Version 2022-08-2628 August 2022- Fixed a problem that sometimes caused the login information to get mixed up when you have multiple accounts on the same device.
- Updated the document and recording functionality to allow attaching the same document or recording to multiple items. As when attaching a tag or MIDI preset, the Add Documents and Add Recordings buttons now open a picker window of existing documents or reordings, plus an Add button to add a new document or recording. You can also add documents or recordings from the Repertoire > Documents and Repertoire > Recordings list, then attach them to items later. And if you remove a document or recording from an item and it is still attached to a different item, it will no longer be deleted from your account.
- Changed the document and recording edit pages to allow editing their projects directly. This makes it possible to have a song in multiple projects, with one document that only appears in one project and another document that only appears in another project. When you add a song to a new project, that song's documents will automatically be added to the project. When you remove a song from a project, that song's documents will automatically be removed from the project, unless they are also attached to another song that is still in that project.
- Improved the workflow for viewing set lists on an Apple Watch..
Version 2022-07-0103 July 2022- Updated the chord transpose function to automatically space beats and bar lines if you write chord charts into the Chords field using dashes (-) for beats and pipes (|) for bar lines, and don't add any custom formatting.
- Updated MIDI presets to not send the Raw MIDI data when the Raw MIDI device is deactivated.
- Updated MIDI presets to delete the Raw MIDI data when the Raw MIDI device is deleted.
- Updated the warning message that appears when deleting a MIDI device to specify how many program changes, control changes and raw MIDI fields will be deleted along with the device.
- Restored the missing Rating display in the set list view and the set list share functions.
- Stopped removing spaces from the start and end of a field when syncing edits from another device.
- Updated the top and bottom hotspots on the document viewer to span the full width of the document viewer, as shown in the tutorials.
- Fixed a problem with the Next Page/Marker or Song remote control action on iOS 9-10.
- Fixed smart list filters that match to a specific song rating.
- Prevented a crash if an automation track tries to highlight a line number beyond the number of lines currently in the lyrics..
Version 4.3.1217 April 2022- Fixed a problem that made events on the automation track edit page unclickable.
- Fixed the missing custom fields in the song list layout options.
- Fixed the filter by number of attachments options on smart lists when sorting by a different field.
- Fixed the sort by frequency performed option on smart lists.
- Fixed a problem that ignored the saved value when editing Settings > Audio & MIDI > MIDI Options > MIDI Preset Order.
- Fixed problems setting a field's text to bold when the iOS Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Bold Text is on.
- Sped up the lyrics highlighting function toward the bottom of a long lyrics text.
- Inverted the document marker color when Settings > Documents Are Inverted is on.
- Added the Public setting on the custom field edit page for songs and contacts..
Version 4.3.725 January 2022- Added an Include All Projects filter to the set list Add Songs popup. If you select that filter, you will see songs from all the active projects you are assigned to. If you add a song from a different project, the song will be added to the current project when you save the set list.
- Added an Include All Projects filter to the Quick Add popup in the set list view. If you select that filter, you will see songs from all the active projects you are assigned to. If you add a song from a different project and Settings > General Settings > Save Quick Added Songs is on, the song will be added to the current project when you leave the set list.
- Fixed a problem that could crash the app on older devices when performing batch operations like loading default layouts or updating old document formatting.
- Fixed a problem that left the top toolbar buttons temporarily disabled after adding a new account on a phone.
- Fixed a potential doubling of the MIDI tempo when playing the tempo for a song without stopping the tempo from the previous song.
- Added a check to try avoiding a situation where a three-fingered tap triggers a pinch gesture and resizes the lyrics unintentionally.
- Renamed the Roll Back button on the Settings > Account Sync page to History to match the website..
Version 4.2.1308 June 2021- Fixed a freeze on launch when the app only contains one database and that database uses the light color theme.
- Fixed a crash when selecting a MIDI preset from the MIDI button popup or from an automation track..
Version 4.1.2326 October 2020- Added built-in support for second-generation Flic buttons. Instead of using the Flic app, you can now click Settings > Remote Control > Connect Second-Gen Flic Button, then click and hold the button until it connects. Then you can select an action, click Flic Button Messages and assign the action to the Click, Double-Click or Hold gesture. (Requires iOS 12 or later.)
- Reduced the latency of the new MIDI beat clock code when Low-Latency Tempos is turned on..
Version 4.1.2205 October 2020- Added new MIDI Beat Clock code that should be more accurate than the previous code. If you experience a problem with the new code, you can turn off Help > Utilities > Use New MIDI Beat Clock, then contact us so we can address it.
- Fixed a crash when leaving the set list view when Settings > Tempo & Pitch > Send Tempo to Ableton Link is turned on.
- Updated Settings > Audio & MIDI > Audio Options > Play First Two Recordings Together to play the selected and next recording together when Settings > General Settings > Defaults > Recording is set to any value above 1.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the document viewer from appearing on following devices with screen sharing unless the document viewer was rotated.
- Fixed a problem that prevented auto-scrolling from starting when opening a full-screen document and starting auto-scrolling from the same layout action.
- Hid custom fields that aren't assigned to the current user from layouts. This allows one layout to include several custom fields in the same location, and each custom field will only appear to the users it's assigned to.
- Removed a limitation that excluded color from copied and pasted text that contained color and bold or italic.
- Updated the text formatting buttons to update more quickly when moving the cursor in the text field.
- Fixed a problem where clicking a text formatting button before typing text, when the cursor is at the end of the text field, would reset the formatting buttons when you start typing.
- Fixed overlapping label text on custom fields in layouts..
