The Bleepin' HUD

The title of the currently viewed songs is displayed prominently in the center of the Menubar Thingamajig. This area is referred to as the Heads-Up Display (aka the thing that tells ya stuff) & can provide information that needs to be readily available.

To choose a different display, simply slide your finger to the left or right on iOS or iPadOS. On a Mac, you can use a mouse or trackpad scrolling gesture, or right-click to choose the mode using a context menu. The standard display, the song title, appears on the far left of options. Slide to the right to reveal the following:

What You're Playin' Right Now

This is the default heads-up display which simply displays the song currently being viewed. Groundbreaking, we know.

Tap on this heads-up display to bring up the Quick Pick — Find Your Jam screen to quickly find, view & add a song to your set.

Song & Set/Book (The Full Story)

The song title is the primary text with the title of the set being secondary. If no set is selected, the name of the current book appears. It's like reading a tiny book about your tiny book.

Tap on this heads-up display to bring up the Quick Pick — Find Your Jam screen to quickly find, view & add a song to your set.

Current Song & What's Comin' Next

The current song title is the primary text with the next song in the set displayed below. If no song is next in the set, the phrase "No Upcoming Song" appears instead. Awkward! If the next song's key & capo are known, it is displayed in parenthesis after the next song's title.

Tap on this heads-up display to bring up the Quick Pick — Find Your Jam screen to quickly find, view & add a song to your set.

The Clock (aka Your New Best Friend)

When performing for a limited amount of time, it's totes useful to keep track of how long you've been noodlin' around on a song or set. The timer heads-up display provides two timers which start when the play button is tapped in the middle, or if an action like autoscroll or backing track playback begins. The timer on the left shows the time spent on the current song which automatically resets when you switch to another song. The timer on the right shows the time spent on the set.

Each timer is independent & can reset at any time. To reset, tap on the time. If you are in timer mode, the time is reset to 0:00. If you are in countdown mode, the time is reset to the duration of the song or set, or to 0:00 if no duration is available.

To change the mode of each timer, tap on it once to reset & then tap again to toggle between timer & countdown modes. The arrow on the edge of the timer will indicate the direction of the count.

Each timer will appear as white text as long as counting is within range. If the time is outside of the desired range, the text will appear red. This happens when the time becomes negative, or when the time exceeds the duration of the song or set. Yikes!

Hear That? Audio Playback Controls

This heads-up display provides a play/pause/stop button as well as a playback scrubber that not only displays the current playback position of the audio track, but also allows you to tap or drag to select a different part of the track to play. Since the heads-up display area of the menubar is configured by swiping, be sure to tap & hold before scrubbing to a different playback position. Don't be that person who messes it up.

Tap on the button to the right of the playback scrubber to adjust master volume. If you are using an audio track imported into your OnSong Media Library, you can also customize the playback volume & pan settings for that track. We're basically your personal sound engineer now.

Tap on the button on the far right to alter audio routing. This will open the built-in Audio Routing menu in iOS. Feel free to pretend you know what you're doin'.

Memory Utilization (aka Is This Thing Melting?)

During a live performance it may be important to monitor how many resources OnSong is consuming. This view displays how much memory OnSong is consuming on the left, as well as the amount of free memory on the right. As more memory is used by OnSong, these numbers may increase as other apps are removed from memory. Don't worry, we're not hogging YOUR stuff... probably.