The Song Form editor, the bar you're playing, recordings in the background

New

• Song Form editor: in place of the step list, line the bars up on the score and mark repeat signs, 1st and 2nd endings, D.C., D.S., Coda and Fine on them, and the playing order is worked out for you. The bars and repeats read at import are already in. A Song Form made with the old step list plays as before; Edit Song Form reads the score again and sets it up afresh.
• Tempo and meter changes, rit. and accel., fermatas and pickups: mark them on their bars and the metronome and the page turns follow, a fermata held for as many beats as you choose.
• The bar you’re playing is marked on the score in Song Form practice, filling beat by beat, along with the marks from the editor.
• Count-in in tempo: Start in Song Form practice now counts in at the song’s own meter and tempo. After a pause it comes back in at the top of the bar.
• Page turns in Simple practice: tap the left or right of the screen, or swipe, to turn one page. A seek bar jumps to any page, and an iPad in landscape shows two pages side by side.
• The screen stays on while the metronome or Song Form practice is playing.
• Recordings in the background: recording and playback carry on with the screen locked or in another app. While playing, pause and skip from the lock screen and Control Center.
• Recovered recordings: if the app is closed mid-recording (force quit, a crash, a flat battery), what was recorded comes back the next time you open the Recordings tab.
• The recording clock runs smoothly, to the hundredth of a second.

Fixed

• A burst of metronome clicks after coming back from another app. Leaving the app now stops the metronome and pauses Song Form practice where it is.
• A recording kept playing through the speaker after unplugging headphones. Unplugging them, or a Bluetooth connection dropping, now stops recording playback, the metronome and Song Form practice.