2024-03-15
2024-03-17
• Fixed the following of page positions set by an automation track on the lead device.
• Updated the Send Pinned MIDI 1-10 layout actions to run before the Send MIDI and Send MIDI 1-10 layout actions.
• Added Song Completion as a trigger for the Send Pinned MIDI 1-10 layout actions.
• Added Song Second Selection as a trigger for the Stop Recording and Stop Tempo layout actions.
2024-02-23
2024-02-25
• Fixed the automation track paste function.
• Fixed a problem that hid the top toolbar when clicking the Sync button from the set list view.
2024-02-18
2024-02-19
• Fixed a problem that generated database errors after skipping some app version updates. If this already happened to you, you can click Help > Utilities > Update Database Version to apply the missing updates.
2024-01-26
2024-02-03
• Added the list of currently configured app control triggers to the App Control Status window (formerly the Remote Control Status window).
• Added help tips about in-app help.
• Updated document buttons in the layout song list to access personal lyrics added by an Added Data user when the song has no shared lyrics.
• Updated some setting names and moved some complicated settings to the Settings > Advanced page.
• Tweaked the sync icon to make the up/down arrows more clear.
2023-11-11
2023-11-12
• 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.
2023-10-30
2023-10-31
• Fixed a problem when clicking the "got it" button in a help tip.
2023-10-06
2023-10-08
* Replaced the document tools menu with a document toolbar that includes the same functions, plus some functions that are triggered by invisible hotspots, to make those functions easier to find. The new toolbar will remain open until you close it, so you can more easily access the same functions repeatedly if needed. It also incorporates the annotation tools, with a more streamlined design than the old annotation toolbar.
• Changed the help tips that appear for some functions to display repeatedly until you click the "got it" button. This gives new users more chance to read these before dismissing them. You can make all the help tips appear again by clicking Help > Utilities > Reset Help Tips.
• Updated the chord recognition function to evaluate the content in parentheses if a line consists only of content in parentheses.
• Updated the chord recognition function to use square brackets if they are included in the Chords field. (Square brackets are typically only used in the Lyrics field.)
• Eliminated a visual flash and the interruption of audio playback when rotating a phone.
• Stopped reloading the song when editing a song from the set list view when a recording loop position or speed is set.
• Stopped forcing a document to Fit To Height when viewing full-screen when the device orientation matches the document orientation. This allows you to see the current page and part of the next page on long displays. You can still turn on Fit To Height manually from the document toolbar to see only one complete page at a time. When you use Fit To Height, the up/down hotspots and the Previous/Next Screen app control actions will move a whole page at a time, like the Previous/Next Page actions. When you use Fit To Width, the up/down hotspots and the Previous/Next Screen app control actions may move more or less than a whole page at a time depending on how much of the page fits on the screen.
• Updated the document viewer to preserve the scroll position when hiding and showing.
• Updated the document viewer to pause video playback when hiding.
• Fixed a problem where the document viewer would become hidden if switching from a layout with a full-screen viewer to a layout with an embedded viewer.
• Fixed a spacing issue when pinch-zooming lyrics when the lyrics end with a bracketed chord.
• Closed the Notes popup when changing songs to avoid problems showing it on subsequent songs.
• Eliminated a double flash of the tempo button when sending MIDI beat clock messages when another device on the network is also sending beat clock messages.
• Fixed an inescapable name validation error when a Read Only user leaves a song edit page for a smart copy.
• Sped up the loading of songs in the set list view.
• Sped up the loading of the Quick Add popup in the set list view.
• Added song colors to the Quick Add popup in the set list view.
• Applied BandHelper's custom font to the bottom toolbar fields in the set list view. This font is slightly narrower and will allow more text to fit in these fields.
• BandHelper now requires iOS 12 or newer.
2023-09-20
2023-09-21
• Fixed a crash on launch on iOS 12.
• Updated the Settings > Appearance > Hide Parentheses Within Unbracketed Chords function to not interfere with chord transposing.
2023-09-10
2023-09-11
* 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.
2023-08-16
2023-08-17
• Fixed a problem where empty lines in the Lyrics or Chords field would display instead of an attached document.
• Correctly showed unused Shares fields on the event edit page as empty instead of 0.
• Restored the sending of pinned MIDI presets before song MIDI presets when sending both from the same app control action.
• In the Settings > App Control > Actions > Common list, added Start Auto-Scroll and replaced Start/Stop Automation with Start Automation.
2023-07-21
2023-07-24
• Fixed a crash when launching the app when Settings > Advanced > Simplify List Loading is on and the app only has one account and one project added.
• Fixed a crash when sending pinned MIDI presets from a layout that contains the Multiple MIDI Buttons item and a song that contains enough MIDI presets to make that button scroll and no MIDI presets are pinned.
• Stopped MIDI buttons in song lists from showing pinned MIDI presets twice.
• Updated the document, recording and MIDI buttons in song lists to be active if only pinned items are available for a song.
• Updated the Settings > App Control page to correctly save the Speak Text field.
2023-06-16
2023-06-19
○ Added a text background color button to the text formatting toolbar for the Lyrics, Chords and Notes fields. You can use this to highlight words or lines with a background color rather than changing the text color.
○ Rearranged the fields on the event edit page to make it more intuitive that users must be selected.
○ Added a Bass Drum tempo click sound.
○ Updated the display of bracketed chords to ignore bold, italic or underline applied to the surrounding text, but to use the color of the surrounding text if no chords color is set.
○ Updated the set list sort and shuffle functions to keep linked songs together (groups of linked songs will be sorted according to the first song in the group).
○ Updated the recording player to no longer trigger a Song Completion action for recordings shorter than one second.
○ Updated the Events list to show the end date of a two-day event with no end time set.
○ Updated the Copy to Devices Manually switch to trigger a file upload if you turn it off when the file exists on the local device but not on the server.
○ Fixed a problem that collapsed the preview height on the set list share pages when changing multiple options on iPhone models with home buttons.
○ Fixed a problem that prevented turning on the personal sync settings for font sizes without turning on the settings for their associated fields.
○ Turned on Follow Set List Selections and Follow Set List Changes on the Settings > Live Sharing page by default on new installations.
○ Reversed the display of the Rating popups to make it more intuitive that 5 is the best rating and 1 is the worst.
○ Fixed missing line endings from the email message text when emailing a set list from macOS.
○ Moved most of the items on the Help > Utilities page to a new Settings > Advanced page.
2023-05-19
2023-05-22
* Added Shares fields after the Pay field on the event edit page. You can use these fields if different band members will earn different amounts for an event. The pay that band members see on the event pages and in email notifications depends on their settings: users with full finance access will see the contents of the Pay field, followed by the contents of their own Share field if you have entered different shares, while users with personal finance access will see only the contents of their own Share field if you have entered different shares, or nothing if you are using the default shares. This matches the previous functionality if you don't use the new Shares fields. If you later add a transaction and load its values from an event using the Defaults button on the transaction edit page, the Shares entries will copy from the event to the transaction.
• Limited the column resizing to keep a minimum width of each column, and removed the shortcuts to hide the left or right column.
• Fixed a problem that made screen sharing followers not auto-connect correctly on their first attempt.
• Increased the compression in transmitted screen images to make the screen sharing function more responsive.
• Cropped URLs in custom fields to their domain names when displayed in a song list.
• Fixed a crash when viewing the last song in a set list when the layout includes a +2 field.
• Fixed incorrectly placed checkmarks when adding a new song from the song picker, or when selecting existing songs and then changing the search values.
• If the same song is in a set list multiple times and you remove one of them, stopped changing the others to "Missing Song."
• Fixed a problem that caused tags in smart copies to not save or inherit correctly.
• Fixed a problem that prevented users with Added Data editing access from saving the Personal Transpose setting.
• Fixed a problem that added the wrong performer to a stage plot after selecting a performer from the list.
• Stopped showing sync conflict messages for the Date Updated field.
2023-05-05
2023-05-08
- Added two Include Contacts checkboxes to the event edit page to send event confirmation or cancellation notifications to the event contacts as well as the users in your account. This option will send a simplified version of the notification messages to all the contacts attached to the event. The notifications will only be sent by email and will not include the Pay field, Notes field, custom fields or documents. Although BandHelper does not manage the client side of the booking process, you can use this option to provide an extra level of confirmation with your clients after you book a gig.
- Added an Invoices page to the Finance module. You can use this to generate invoices for clients and keep track of whether they have been paid. For more info, see the Sending and Tracking Invoices section in the Tracking Finances tutorial.
- Moved the contact info shown on stage plots from the account level to the project level. This allows you to use different contact info on stage plots for different projects. You can now edit the contact info on the website from the Account > Projects > Edit pages, or in the apps from the Stage Plots > Contact Info page as before. If you previously entered contact info at the account level, it has been copied to all your projects, but you can change it in each project now if needed. This contact info will also be used with the new Invoices functionality.
- When displaying a different document on the external display using the Doc +1 setting, stopped scrolling the external display to match the scroll position of the main display.
- Added an arrow symbol to the Title +1 and Title +2 fields in the set list view if the current song is linked to the next songs.
- Fixed a problem that caused the Move To Set buttons on the set list Edit Songs page to trigger the Move Multiple Items function.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the MIDI Program Number fields on the song edit page from saving.
- Fixed a crash when clicking the iTunes button on the recording edit page when Privacy & Security > Media & Apple Music > BandHelper is turned off in the iOS Settings app.
2023-04-24
2023-04-25
- Fixed a problem that removed line breaks from multi-line fields.
2023-04-18
2023-04-19
- Fixed a problem that prevented adding a new document or recording copied in from another app.
- Fixed a problem that added new documents or recordings twice when adding from phones.
- Removed an extraneous top toolbar from edit pages on phones.
2023-04-14
2023-04-16
- Added an option to visually link songs in a set list. On the set list's Edit Songs page, you can click Add a Link, then drag the link between two songs. Then those songs will appear with no border line and a small arrow between them when you view your set list. You can use this function to indicate medleys, or groups of songs that you want to perform with minimal gap between.
- Added an Only Between Linked Songs option for the Next Song action on the layout Edit Details page. Normally, the Song Completion will trigger the Next Song action unless there is a pause before the next song. With this option turned on, the Song Completion will only trigger the Next Song action if there is a link to the next song. You can use this function if you only want to auto-select within a few songs and don't want to add pauses after all your other songs.
- Added a Move Multiple Items button to the song options on the set list Edit Songs page. If you click this for an item, you can then click another item further down the list to select all the items in between, then click a final item to move the selected items after that item. (On-screen prompts will guide you through these steps.) You can use this function to move groups of items to different sets, but you can only select a group of items from within the same set.
- Added an export button to the song edit page, which opens the Share Songs page with just that song loaded. You can use this to print, email or save individual songs in PDF format without adding them to a set list.
- Updated the set list duration on the set list Edit Songs and Share Set List pages to display in "hh:mm" format instead of "hh:mm:ss".
- Updated the set durations on the set list Edit Songs page to display in "m minutes" format instead of "mm:ss".
- Updated the Auto-Accept Connections live sharing setting to revert to a manual acceptance when the following device isn't using a current app version.
- Updated the smart copy function to correctly inherit automation tracks and text sizes in new smart copies.
- Updated the play/pause button in the recording controls to offer to download a missing recording file if needed.
- Updated the recording controls to trigger an auto-sync after saving an in-app recording. However, the song reloads when the sync finishes, so if you want to play the new recording and it is not the first recording attached to the song, you will need to select it by long-pressing the play button.
- Updated the iTunes button on the recording edit page to request permission to access the media library if it hasn't been requested already.
- Added an error message if you try to make an in-app recording but have denied permission to access the microphone.
- Stopped showing a -999 "Cancelled" connection error if you cancel a sync.
- Stopped showing the app badge if the only in-app notifications are for inactive projects.
- Fixed a crash if you open a new automation track and click Save without adding any events.
- Fixed a problem that prevented updating to a new version of a document or recording copied in from another app.
- Removed the option to rename or replace an existing file when copying a file in from another app. The new file will now always replace the old file to simplify the workflow.
- Removed an extra toolbar in some picker windows when opened from the set list view.
- Added a Request Account Deletion button to the Help menu.
2023-03-21
2023-03-24
- 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.
2023-03-17
2023-03-19
- Added Settings > Live Sharing > Auto-Accept Connections to automatically accept connections from users viewing the same project. You will still see a brief notification when users connect. This new setting is on by default, but you can turn it off to manually accept connections as before.
- Changed the names displayed for live sharing devices from the device name to the user's name. If a user has multiple devices and you need to tell them apart, you can turn on Settings > Live Sharing > Show Device Name When Connecting to add the device name after the user's name.
- Updated the Follow Song Selections live sharing action to broadcast the song ID along with the song position. Then if the set list is not up to date on the lead or following devices, $site_name can still select the correct song as long as it is somewhere in the set list, or show a warning message if it isn't. With this functionality, the following devices could simply view a smart list containing all active songs, but then they wouldn't be able to see upcoming songs in the set list.
- Fixed the display of lyrics formatting in the first column when using a 2-column display.
- Updated the MIDI Learn function to support incoming control changes with the new ability to enter multiple control changes per device.
- Added Assign Song Select Numbers and Assign Incoming Programs to the Settings > Audio & MIDI page. Unless these settings are on, the MIDI Song Number and MIDI Program Number fields on the song edit page will be hidden. These fields are rarely used and often misunderstood, so these settings are off by default.
- Added a warning message if you try to import a recording from your media library but your media library permission is disabled.
- Removed an unnecessary warning about changing projects when adding a new set list.
- Rounded some in-app purchase prices to whole numbers for consistency with the other platforms.
2023-03-01
2023-03-02
- Fixed a problem that prevented a smart copy from inheriting changes to its original copy's automation tracks or font sizes.
- Restored the automatic inheriting of an original copy's automation track and font sizes when those values are cleared.
2023-02-27
2023-02-28
- Partially reverted the recent change allowing you to set fields in a smart copy to empty without inheriting the value from the original copy. The Color, Rating and Personal Transpose fields still work this way, but other fields again inherit from the original copy if you empty them.
- Adjusted some inherited smart copy values that were faded too much to read.
- Fixed a problem that deleted a document or recording when removing it from a song even if it was still attached to another song.
2022-10-28
2022-10-30
- Added a Follow Remote Control Messages option to the Settings > Live Sharing page. If you turn this on, foot switch (keyboard) and MIDI remote control messages will be forwarded from the lead device to the following devices, where they can trigger the same or different actions according to each device's remote control settings. With this option, you can control multiple devices from a single foot switch or MIDI button.
- Added remote control actions View Page/Marker 1-10 to jump to specific pages or markers from a remote control message.
- Added automatic background syncing if you make changes while offline, close the app, then go online later.
- Added validation when adding a file to ensure you have enough file storage space left in your account. You will start receiving warning messages when your available storage falls below 100 MB.
- Added checklists linked to future events to the main menu shortcuts.
- Added Settings > General Settings > External Display > Personal Fields. If you turn this off and set Content to Document or Doc +1, the external display will show shared lyrics, chords and document annotations when the main display is showing your personal fields.
- Added support for the Only Draw With Apple Pencil setting in the iOS Settings app in iOS 14+. When this is on and you annotate a document, only an Apple Pencil will draw on the document, so you can scroll the document by dragging with your finger. Otherwise you need to drag with two fingers to scroll while annotating. You will need to turn this setting off if you want to add annotations and you don't have your Apple Pencil with you.
- Added support for opening and closing the document annotation toolbar by double-tapping an Apple Pencil 2. This will be disabled if Double-Tap is set to Off in the iOS Settings app.
- Updated the document annotation function to remember the last-used tool (not including the whiteout or eraser tool) when leaving and returning to the set list view.
- Added a Search For Video function to the song edit page, and consolidated the four search options into a single row.
- Consolidated the Your Response options into a single row on the event edit page, and renamed the Move a User option to Change Another User's Response.
- Updated the Previous/Next Page or Song and Previous/Next Screen or Song remote control actions to immediately do the song change if the document viewer is hidden.
- Updated the Start Automation remote control action to do nothing, instead of stopping the automation, if the automation is already playing.
- Updated the song list buttons to skip their actions if you click a button from a song other than the selected song and the layout has a song selection action to perform the same action.
- Updated the set list Share Songs page to not split a line of chords and a following line of lyrics across a page break.
- Updated all lists to sort empty values at the bottom, even when sorting backwards.
- Fixed a problem that made new text annotations uneditable until closing and reopening the annotation function.
- Fixed a temporary misplacement of the document viewer after enabling its Cover Top Toolbar setting.
- Removed the Color option from the Title +1 and Title +2 fields in layouts, because those fields use the song colors instead.
- Removed the Portuguese translation since the volunteers for that language stopped several years ago.
2022-10-14
2022-10-16
- Ended support for iOS 9-10.
- Added a Use Project Name setting to the stage plot details page, to include the project name instead of the stage plot name on the stage plot. This is useful if you have several versions of a stage plot with different internal names, but want to include your band name on all of them.
- Added Key Repeat Interval and Delay Before Repeat settings to the Settings > Remote Control page, since the keyboard settings in the iOS Settings app no longer control these settings within BandHelper. You can use these to fine-tune the key repeat function on footswitches that send repeat messages. For AirDirect footswitches, you need to set these in the AirTurn app, then disconnect and reconnect the footswitch to load the settings.
- Fixed a problem that temporarily disabled foot switch input when viewing a document with text annotations.
- Fixed the loading of different layouts for different window sizes in split-screen mode.
- Updated breaks and pauses in a song list to trigger the Close Song List layout action when clicked.
- Updated the set list copy function to immediately update the song count and date updated, rather than waiting until the songs are edited.
- Stopped hiding the Notes field in a layout when the Hide Lyrics Field setting is on.
- Updated the Show/Hide Document Viewer remote control action to show the document for the current song if you change songs and call it without viewing the document for that song first.
- Updated the Expand to Full Screen button on the document viewer to keep the resize button within the bounds of the screen when the Cover Top Toolbar option is on.
- Enlarged the Options and Resize buttons on the song list and document viewer when editing a layout to make it easier to resize these items when they're pushed up to the edge of the screen.
- Hid the total time display and the speed up icon in the recording controls when displayed in an area too narrow to show them.
- Hid the undo and redo buttons in the annotation toolbar when displayed in an area too narrow to show them.
- Disabled the in-app recording button for Read Only users, and assigned in-app recordngs made by an Added Data user to only that user by default.
- Removed extra space above set lists with one set and smart lists with one section.
- Ignored non-standard line endings that Google recently added to lyrics in its search results.
- Stopped applying automatic spacing to the Chords field if none of the lines contain both a pipe and a dash.
2022-09-16
2022-09-18
- Added support for FLAC audio files.
- Added a Remove From Server option to the document, recording and file edit pages when you turn on the Copy to Devices Manually option for an item that already has a file uploaded. You can use this to remove a file from the server to reduce your online storage if you previously uploaded a file, then decided later to use manual distribution. If you have already uploaded a file and turned on Copy To Devices Manually, you can turn that option off, then on again, to show the Remove From Server option.
- When selecting a file for a new document or recording, removed the step of viewing files that have been copied into the app's data directory but not uploaded into your account. It's easier to select a file directly from your local device or cloud storage, so we recommend that workflow instead.
- Updated the document and recording buttons after manually downloading a missing file so you can view or play the file on the next click.
- Updated the Standard MIDI File button on the recording and MIDI preset edit pages to allow selecting an existing MIDI file.
- Disabled the Hide Lyrics Field option on the Notes viewer.
2022-08-26
2022-08-28
- 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.
2022-08-19
2022-08-21
- Added a Repeat Edits setting to the event edit page for repeated events, to indicate whether you want to apply edits to the current event only, or all following events. This setting is not set by default and is required, to ensure you get the result you want when saving.
- Added a warning message when you turn on the Require Response function for a repeated event when Repeat Edits is not set to This Event Only. This helps avoid inadvertently sending lots of event notifications to your users at once. Instead, you can set up your repeated events without turning on this option, then go back and turn it on for one event at a time using the This Event Only option.
- Changed the default Users value for new layouts -- either created manually or automatically when logging in from a new device -- to the current user instead of all users. This should make it easier to see which layouts are needed and who is using them, and gives users with Added Data permission a set of layouts they own and can edit. You can still share layouts with mulitple users by changing the Users value.
- Added support for editing layouts with a different screen size than the current device. Layouts with a different size will be letterboxed or pillarboxed on the current screen, with a visible border showing the limits of where you can position items. This makes it easier for more tech-savvy band members to help their bandmates customize their layouts.
- Allowed all users to view documents that aren't assigned to them, unless the users are set to Personal Finance Only, Personal Schedule Only or Event Contacts Only and the documents are in the corresponding modules.
- Removed the ability for users with Added Data editing access to move the Lyrics placeholder within the list of documents attached to a song.
- Changed the default Users value for documents added to an event to empty, so that users must be explicitly selected, like with the event itself.
- Fixed the song completion action that's triggered at the end of a video.
- Updated automation tracks to stop a recording that's still playing from a previous song when it's time to play a recording for the current song.
2022-08-12
2022-08-14
- Softened the graphic design by adding rounded corners and relying more on background colors instead of border lines to delineate content.
- Added more colors of layout background boxes.
- Added a Fit to Background Box button to the options popup for text field, multiple button and document viewer layout items. If you divide your layout with background boxes, you can use this option to neatly place items into the boxes.
- Added rounded corners to the document viewer when it is not touching the screen edges. You can move the document viewer slightly away from the screen edges for a softer, more spacious look, or place it directly against the screen edges for the maximum viewing area. The rounded corners are mainly visible when viewing attached documents. When viewing the built-in Lyrics field, you can place a background box under the document viewer. This is also a more attractive alternative to the Lyrics Solid Background setting.
- Updated newly installed More Controls layouts to use background boxes and More Controls and Split View layouts to use a rounded document viewer. This change is not applied to existing layouts.
- Fixed a problem where the last day of multi-day events didn't appear on the calendar. As before, the last day will not appear if the end time is before 4 am.
2022-08-03
2022-08-04
- Fixed a problem with dragging songs between sets on the set list edit songs page.
- Fixed a problem that made the top toolbar buttons disappear after saving or downloading changes from the set list view.
- Restored the buttons for importing documents from the photo library and recordings from the music library.
2022-07-01
2022-07-03
- 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.
2022-06-10
2022-06-12
- Updated the search field in file picker windows to be case-insensitive.
- Fixed the checklist copy function, which created invalid checklists in recent app versions.
- Fixed the set list picker in the smart list filter edit window when filtering songs included or not included in a set list.
- Removed the text suggestions from the toolbar above the on-screen keyboard when editing the Lyrics, Chords and Notes fields to make room for the music symbol shortcuts.
- Added the music symbol shortcuts to the personal Lyrics, Chords and Notes fields.
- Fixed a problem that closed any popup window when switching to another app from the set list view.
- Fixed a problem that made the chord coloring function skip A#, E#, Ab and Eb chords with some font settings.
- Applied the delay from Settings > Audio & MIDI > MIDI Options > Send MIDI Presets Together ... with Delay Between when sending multiple MIDI presets attached to a parent preset.
- Hide the extraneous "Title" heading in the Utilities window on iOS 15.5.
2022-05-24
2022-05-25
- Fixed a problem that temporarily reset some user settings when installing a new app version.
2022-05-20
2022-05-22
- Changed the app version numbering from semantic versioning (e.g., 4.3.9) to calendar versioning (e.g., 2022-05-12). With this system, it's easier to see how old a version is and easier to compare versions across platforms. This also allows more flexibility in releasing new features as soon as they're available rather than waiting to bundle them into large "feature releases."
- Restored the options for adding the Artist +1 and Artist +2 fields to the bottom toolbar of a layout.
- Added a Personal Fields setting to the set list share pages so you can decide whether to include your personal fields or revert to the shared fields when sharing songs. That includes the Personal Transpose fields, so this setting replaces the Personal Transpose setting that was added recently.
- Updated the set list view to not display layout items beyond the edges of the screen if they have been somehow saved that way.
- Fixed incorrectly aligned smart copies in the song list when showing the song numbers.
- Lightened the red and orange and darkened the yellow text colors for better contrast across all platforms and color themes.
- Lightened the green and added a dark green text color.
- Fixed a problem saving italic formatting.
- Fixed a problem displaying underline formatting nested inside of color formatting.
- Retained color formatting when copying and pasting text from within the app. (Text copied from outside the app will only retain its color formatting for colors that are available in the app's formatting tools.)
- Preserved markers when copying and pasting lyrics from within the app. However, custom marker names will be changed to generic names like Marker 1, Marker 2, etc. due to the limitations of copying custom formatting. You can rename the markers after pasting if needed.
- Turned on all the live sharing "Follow" settings by default when adding an account.
- Added a warning if you add a MIDI Song Number or MIDI Program Number to a song that is already used in another song.
- Reset the Copy to Account state when stopping with a validation error to avoid getting stuck on the edit page.
- Fixed an endless initial sync when adding a new account after viewing an existing account.
4.3.13
2022-05-09
- Added a Personal Transpose setting to the set list Share Songs page so you can optionally apply your personal transpose settings when sharing songs.
- Fixed a problem that caused iOS to shut down the app when moved to the background from an edit page with unsaved changes.
- Fixed the empty Finance > Totals chart for users set to Personal Finance Only.
- Hid the fund totals for funds not assigned to users set to Personal Finance Only.
- Fixed a crash when copying MIDI presets between accounts when the preset includes invalid values or a 128 value with 1-128 numbering.
- Removed a delay when viewing a set list in accounts with many events.
- Fixed mismatched song selections in a smart list when the account contains empty songs.
- Fixed the Lyrics, Chords and Notes filters in smart lists.
- Fixed the Unrated and Date Updated filters on the song list.
- Fixed sorting by tags in the song list and song picker.
- Fixed searching for capitalized Unicode characters in lists.
- Fixed the main menu shortcuts for undated checklists.
- Fixed a crash when playing, stopping, then playing the same recording when using the old audio engine.
- Removed the ability to dismiss a picker popup by any method other than clicking the Cancel button after selecting any items in the picker.
- Restored the sorting of projects by name when no sort order has been entered.
- Turned on the Use Autocomplete and Copy Values settings by default for new custom fields.
4.3.12
2022-04-17
- 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.
4.3.10
2022-03-31
- Fixed a problem that prevented user settings changed on another device from syncing to an iOS or macOS device.
- Fixed the empty notifications window.
- Fixed the date filters on the list and shortcut pages to include the current day.
- Fixed the auto-complete function for custom fields.
- Fixed the set list sort and shuffle functions.
- Removed some unuseful options from the set list sort function.
- Restored the ability to add annotations to a song with no document or lyrics.
- Fixed a crash when double-tapping the left third of the document viewer for a song with no document or lyrics.
- Fixed a problem that left the tempo playing when starting a tempo and then selecting a song with no tempo while the Start/Stop Tempo layout action was set to Song Selection.
- Fixed the Defaults button for a new transaction, which drew from the oldest instead of the newest event.
- Removed an error message that incorrectly appeared when customizing the user shares of a transaction.
- Hid the Add an Event button on the Schedule > Calendar page for read-only users on phones.
- Stopped highlighting the search button in the History window when no search was entered.
4.3.9
2022-03-25
- Sped up the updating of old database files to the new format, and added a popup message every 30 seconds to confirm the progress when updating a large database.
- Fixed a problem that sometimes showed an extra account labeled as "(dev)" in the Accounts list. If you see this, you can click its Settings > General Settings button and click the trash icon to remove it. You can then go to Settings > Account Sync in your real account and click Reset Local Data to make sure everything has been saved correctly there.
- Fixed a problem where events on the first or last day of the calendar sometimes didn't appear on the calendar.
- Fixed an "account not found" error when adding an account whose display name contains a comma.
4.3.8
2022-03-21
- Rebuilt the underlying database functionality for faster performance and less memory usage. The first time you launch the app, each of your accounts will be listed with an Update button. You can click that to update your local database file to the new format. This only affects the data downloaded to your device, not your data on the server. The first time you open an updated database, it will appear at the Basic account level, but as soon as the app syncs it will update to your actual account level.
- Added Settings > Appearance > Lyrics Size Override to override all the saved lyric sizes on a particular device. You will not be able to save individual lyric sizes while this is set above or below 100%.
- Restored the Lyrics, Chords and Notes switches that were hidden from the set list Share Songs page.
- Sped up the display of lyrics on the set list Share Songs page.
- Changed declined events to appear in the same faded style as cancelled events.
- Correctly updated the end date for repeated events when the end date is the same as the start date (you can also leave the end date empty for single-day events).
- Updated the repeat options on the event edit page if you change the start date after setting a repeat type.
- Updated the Add Document popup on the event edit page to default to the same users as the event.
- Updated the song search to ignore tags from other projects.
- Fixed a problem that hid upcoming set lists from the shortcuts if they were also manually marked as favorites.
- Updated smart lists to correctly keep smart copies grouped under their parent copies.
- Fixed the ability to search and sort smart lists by the MIDI program number.
- Fixed incorrect counts in smart lists sorted by the number of recordings or number of MIDI presets.
- Removed Lyrics and Chords from the smart list sort options.
- Rearranged the chord symbols above the on-screen keyboard so the less important symbols get cut off if there is not enough room to display them all.
- Updated the main menu set list and smart list shortcuts to show the list of available layouts if the last-used layout doesn't match the device's screen size.
- Updated the title shortcut in the set list view to scroll the new set list to the top after selecting a new set list.
- Changed the list shortcuts to initial letters when sorting the song picker by artist with more than 20 artists.
- Fixed the contact list and contact picker shortcut labels.
- Fixed the list shortcut labels when sorting MIDI presets by program changes or raw MIDI.
- Added an option to sort the MIDI preset list by the number of control changes.
- Fixed a problem on the smart list edit page where the wrong filter would be edited after rearranging the filters.
- Fixed a problem where the automation track wasn't restarted from the Reselect Current Song function when the automation button is in the song list.
- Fixed a problem with the Random button in the Quick Add popup where the selected song sometimes wouldn't be added.
- Updated the Add Songs and Quick Add functions to assign attached documents and recordings to the new project when adding a song from a different project.
- Stopped indenting smart copies in the Add Songs window when adding songs from a set list.
- Updated the Set List Songs remote control action to correctly update the set list's completed songs.
- Fixed the file dates in the Documents and Recordings lists for files that haven't been downloaded.
- Fixed a problem on the Document, Recording and File edit pages that prevented editing for files that haven't been downloaded.
- Fixed a crash when using the Previous Screen or Song remote control action when the lyrics field is hidden.
- Fixed problems setting a field's text to bold when the iOS Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Bold Text is on.
- Removed an unwanted margin in picker popovers on tablets in iOS 15.
- Fixed the empty date filters on the practice log Totals page.
4.3.7
2022-01-25
- 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.
4.3.6
2021-12-19
- Fixed a problem that prevented the pause name and details from appearing when swiping through songs in full-screen display.
- Fixed a problem that made the Next/Previous Screen remote control actions stop paging too soon in lyrics that contain markers.
- Fixed a problem that sometimes highlighted the wrong song in a smart list.
- Restored the automatic sizing of a document to one complete page when displayed full-screen in the same orientation as the device orientation.
- Updated song buttons that are stretched to an extreme aspect ratio and placed over the document viewer to use the semi-transparent background of other buttons placed over the document viewer rather than the opaque background of other stretched buttons.
- Fixed a problem that made the screen sharing image disappear when rotated 180 degrees.
- Updated the chord formatting on an external display to place bracketed chords above the lyrics by default if Settings > General Settings > External Display > Bracketed Chords isn't set.
- Stopped the new MIDI Beat Clock code from sending the beat clock to BandHelper's own input ports.
4.2.18
2021-08-29
- Fixed the reading of MIDI messages other than program and control changes when using MIDI Learn.
- Sped up the selection of a project from the Accounts list.
- Updated the Previous Page remote control action to go to the start of the current page instead of the start of the previous page if you have manually to the middle of a page
- When viewing lyrics without markers, updated the Previous Page and Next Page remote control actions to go to the same positions in the lyrics even if you scroll to other positions between these actions.
- Fixed a crash when copying a smart list.
- Fixed problems recording and clearing automation tracks on iPhones or iPods running iOS 12 or older.
4.1.23
2020-10-26
- 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.
4.1.22
2020-10-05
- 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.
4.1.21
2020-09-28
- Fixed the date and time pickers on iOS 14.
- Fixed a problem where a video didn't pause when selecting a different song or document in iOS 14.
- Fixed a problem that scrolled the wrong field into view when editing multi-line text fields on iOS 14.
- Fixed incorrect button colors in the Sync Status popover on iOS 14.
- Fixed the setting to hide bracketed chords on the Share Songs page.
- Fixed the Distsribute buttons on the Finance > Totals page to carry the amount to the transaction edit page.
- Fixed the currency display on the Finance > Totals page to show every number with two decimal places.
- Updated the list of layouts available from the Layout button in the bottom toolbar of the set list view after rotating the device or changing the window size.
- Updated the tempo and pitch buttons on the song edit page to update immediately after changing the values.
- Updated the horizontal swipe gesture on the Schedule > Calendar page to use the same speed and direction parameters as on the set list view.
- Disabled the Move a User button on the event edit page when the Require Response setting is off.
- Stopped fading items on the Files > Files list, because standalone files don't have an Active setting.
- BandHelper now requires iOS 9 or newer.
4.1.19
2020-08-10
- Fixed a problem that prevented adding markers to documents.
- Updated the full-screen toggle in the new document viewer to preserve on-the-fly transpose amounts.
- Fixed a problem that sometimes used the wrong enharmonic spelling for Bb/A# when transposing.
- Added a warning to the Settings > General Settings page if you edit the username there. You should only do that if you have updated your username on the website. If you are trying to log in as a different user, you will need to remove the account from the app, then add it again with the desired username.
4.1.18
2020-07-13
- Changed the title of the home screen from Projects to Accounts to make it more clear that the + button adds a new account.
- Shortened the set list share preview on phones to make it more clear that share settings are available below the preview.
- Fixed an empty date display on the main menu if a checklist is linked to multiple events.
- Fixed a sizing problem that made the last options in the Utilities menu inaccessible.
- Fixed a problem that showed dark text on a dark background in the date and time pickers on older iOS versions.
- Fixed a problem building the song usage cache with multiple projects.
4.1.17
2020-06-22
- Added a Mirror Image layout option to the document viewer for use with teleprompter devices.
- Started loading the correct document's zoom level on external displays when using the Doc+1 display option.
- Removed the endless progress indicator that appeared on external displays when using the Doc+1 display option without the Show Placeholder option and viewing a song with no document or lyrics.
- Fixed the unresponsive Paste and Clear options for automation tracks.
- Fixed a problem that selected the wrong songs when using the Quick Add button when Save Quick Added Songs was turned off.
- Fixed a crash when importing a recording from iTunes.
- Started updating the date updated field for songs when using the shortcut buttons in the Songs list.
4.1.16
2020-05-27
- Fixed a crash when closing a full-screen PDF document that was opened from the Big Set List layout.
- Fixed a problem that applied any formatting on the last character of the lyrics to the entire lyrics after pinch-zooming.
- Fixed a problem in iOS 13 that prevented dismissing a popover by tapping outside of it after changing a setting inside the popover.
4.1.14
2020-05-13
- Fixed a rounding error that sometimes caused the page number to be off when paging through lyrics.
- Fixed the positions of annotations and markers in a one-page document in a two-column layout.
- Fixed the recording play button after arming and disarming the in-app recording function without making a recording.
- Stopped simplifying the flat symbol in chord names in some situations where it isn't needed to maintain consistent spacing.
- Restored the confirmation message after submitting troubleshooting info or a screen shot to the help desk.
4.1.13
2020-05-03
- Restored the ability to add annotations to a song that doesn't have a document or lyrics.
- Restored the automatic closing of the document tools menu after selecting an item.
- Fixed a problem where the Auto-Download Files Smaller Than option wasn't always used. If you want to make sure you don't have any downloaded files larger than the limit you set here, you can go to Settings > Account Sync and click Remove Downloaded Files, then click Download Missing Files.
- Updated the spacing of text annotations in the share songs file to more closely match what you see in the set list view.
4.1.10
2020-04-18
- Fixed a problem that showed the "replace file" confirmation message behind the document edit popup window when importing a document from the popup window.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the set list view from loading the first time you open the app in iOS 13.
- Fixed a crash when clicking a text field on iOS 8.
- Added an explanatory alert if you try importing a file into this app from another app when no project is selected.
- Fixed the transfer of new data to the Apple Watch app, a crash on the Events page of the Apple Watch app and the display of smart copies in the Apple Watch app.
4.1.9
2020-04-09
- Added automatic selection of the project on the initial Projects list if you only have access to one project.
- Fixed a problem that sometimes prevented the home screen from loading correctly on macOS.
- Updated the macOS app to ignore a layout or stage plot file that is double-clicked when the app isn't running. The app must be running, with a project selected, to import a file.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the show view from loading the first time you open the app in iOS 13 or macOS.
- Fixed the pinch gesture to resize text annotations with the new document viewer, and eliminated the jumpiness when pinching or dragging with two fingers to scroll while annotating.
- Fixed a problem saving negative values with stepper controls in some languages.
- Started fading the rating field on smart copies if it's the same as the parent rating.
- Stopped saving filters in picker popups unless you close the filters while they are set.
- Restored the automatic closing of the document tools menu after selecting an item on iOS.
- Fixed the alignment between stage plot list text and icons on macOS.
- Hid the scroll indicators from the lists on macOS.
4.1.8
2020-03-25
- Turned off the Confirmed and Cancelled settings when copying an event.
- Fixed a problem that removed the color from text that was formatted with both color and underline.
- Fixed a problem that sometimes made the lyrics text disappear when transposing in a two-column presentation.
- Fixed a visual glitch with the Continue button on the login page and some edit pages in macOS.
4.1.7
2020-03-11
- Fixed a crash when playing recordings on iOS 8-9.
- Fixed the selection of SoundFont files on macOS.
4.1.6
2020-03-08
- Integrated with the iOS Control Center to pause, resume and skip around in recordings from there.
- Restored the title shortcuts on the Schedule > Calendar page for changing months.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the last title shortcut in the set list view from loading correctly.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the Next Song layout action from running on song completion if other actions were also set to run on song completion.
- Fixed some situations where settings access from the top toolbar buttons didn't save.
- Updated the Share Songs page to make URLs in custom fields and the Notes field clickable, like on the Share Set List page.
- Updated the duplicate name checks to only apply when adding or renaming an item. This means if you added an item with a duplicate name when that was allowed, you will still be able to update that item without being forced to rename it.
- Updated the remote control activity log to show incoming key names as well as key codes.
- Removed the Invert PDF Colors setting, because it was not compatible with the newly added Mac frameworks.
- Removed the document buttons, which overlapped the address buttons, from the schedule shortcuts on the main menu.
4.1.5
2020-02-27
- Fixed a problem that hid document annotations.
4.1.4
2020-02-25
- Added an Unrated filter to the Repertoire > Songs list to show only the songs that haven't been rated by the current user.
- Fixed a problem with filtering by an exact rating value in a smart list.
- Fixed several problems with transposing lyrics while using a 2-column presentation.
- Fixed a problem with the Rollback function that prevented the rolled back value from downloading to the device that rolled it back.
- Fixed a crash when editing the song list options in a layout when the options include a custom field that no longer exists.
- Fixed a potential crash when navigating between pages.
- Removed unwanted headings from smart copies in the set list Add Songs window.
- Updated the Repertoire > Layouts page and the Layout button in the set list view to include layouts that don't have the current screen size but do have the current screen orientation and are scalable.
- Updated the projects list to include a link to the settings section for an account if you have added an account that has no projects you can access. This allows you to sync that account, or remove it from your device.
- Updated third-party windows (for Bluetooth MIDI, AirDirect AirTurn and Ableton Link settings) to match the app color theme.
4.1.3
2020-02-11
- Restored the ability to zoom the set list share preview.
- Fixed a crash when clicking the Copy to Clipboard button on the set list share page when the Titles Only, One Column Per Set option is selected.
- Updated the Start Recording and Start Tempo layout actions to start the recording or tempo for a newly selected song even if the audio for the previous song is still playing via the Continue Audio When Changing Songs setting.
- Added the new Pink and Brown colors to the smart list filters.
- Updated the count at the top of the home screen to show the number of projects instead of the number of accounts.
4.1.2
2020-02-06
- Reverted to the older document viewer version unless the new Invert PDF Colors setting is turned on.
- Restored the behavior of Active switches defaulting to On when creating new items.
4.1.1
2020-02-05
- Fixed a problem that prevented dates from displaying if they were saved from the GMT time zone.
- Mapped the left/right swipe gestures to the next/previous song actions by default for newly created layouts.
- Fixed a problem that prevented swipe and multi-touch tap layout actions from running when viewing a break or a pause.
- Stopped scrolling sets of multiple layout buttons if their visible area is large enough that scrolling isn't needed.
- Restored the ability to auto-scroll a JPEG document.
- Fixed a problem that saved document zoom levels inconsistently in iOS 13.
- Fixed a problem that prevented document markers from displaying in iOS 13.
4.1
2020-02-03
Version 4.1 is a major update with usability improvements, new features and bug fixes. Here are the biggest changes, but you can visit the Release Notes page of the BandHelper website for more:
- Streamlined the menu navigation. The Account and Project menus are now combined into a single menu when the app first launches, and shortcuts to set lists, events, checklists, etc. now appear on the main menu instead of the module menus.
- Simplified the process of setting up shortcuts. To take full advantage of the new main menu design, you can designate items as favorites by navigating to a list like Repertoire > Set Lists or Checklists > Checklists and clicking the star icon for an item. It will then appear on the main menu for quick access.
- Streamlined the selection of layouts for the set list view. Previously, selecting a set list or smart list from the menus would show list of layouts to view the set list or smart list with. Now, this shows a View button that opens the set list or smart list with your default layout, plus a More Layout Options button that shows the complete list.
- Made set list view "title shortcuts" more flexible. Previously, clicking the title in the set list view would show a list of the five most recently used set lists and five most recently used smart lists, which you could then switch to without leaving the set list view. You can now control which set lists and smart lists appear in this popup by navigating to Repertoire > Set Lists or Repertoire > Smart Lists and clicking the triangle icon for an item.
- Renamed the Device Linking functionality to Live Sharing and renamed the Remote Control portion of this function to Share Actions.
- Added color buttons to the Repertoire > Songs list to quickly set song colors from the list.
- Added Settings > Appearance > Invert PDF Colors to display PDFs as light text on a dark background. This is only available in iOS 13 and later, and currently can only show the first page of a PDF, so you should not enable it if you're viewing multi-page documents.
- Added a song rating function. You can click the rating icon in the Repertoire > Songs list and rate the song from 1-5. Then you can sort the list by rating, or add a smart list sorted by rating, or sort the Add Songs popup by rating when editing a set list.
- Added a Presentation setting under the Lyrics field on the song edit page, with options for Default, 1 Column and 2 Columns. This allows you to display most of your lyrics with a one-column presentation but override a few to use a two-column presentation, or vice-versa.
- Changed the horizontal swipe in the set list view to a configurable layout action. This means you can use swipe gestures to trigger other actions, like next/previous document or next/previous MIDI preset, instead of changing songs.
4.0.19
2019-12-22
- Restored the automatic enabling of Bluetooth footswitch input when viewing a set list.
- Displayed the username on the Finance > Totals page for users who don't have a display name entered.
4.0.17
2019-12-02
- Fixed a problem that made the document button overlap another button in song lists in the set list view.
4.0.16
2019-11-27
- Fixed the recording speed control. You will now hear a slight hiccup the first time you change the recording speed after opening the set list view. This is a tradeoff for reduced recording playback latency.
- Fixed a problem that could play the two recordings out of sync if playing two recordings simultaneously with a mixture of pitch-shifted and non-pitch-shifted recordings.
- Stopped playing tempo beat clicks at the same time as subdivision clicks, to avoid a doubling up of sound on the beats.
- Improved the accuracy of tempo downbeat clicks.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the MIDI Activity Log from clearing immediately after clicking the Clear Log button.
4.0.15
2019-11-22
- Fixed a crash when viewing a song containing an SMF file used for audio playback.
4.0.14
2019-11-21
- Fixed a problem loading the next recording after playing a recording to the end.
4.0.13
2019-11-19
- Fixed a problem that skipped some note messages when playing a Standard MIDI File.
- Improved the accuracy of tempo subdivision timing.
- Reduced the start time when playing a recording. If you're syncing audio with MIDI and this alters the timing you've set up, you can add the time back (typically about .1 seconds) with Settings > Audio & MIDI > Delay Audio.
- Added a way to adjust the timing for multiple events in an automation track. When you edit an automation track and change the time for an event, you can now turn on the Offset Following Events option, and the same change in timing will be applied to all the events after the one you're editing.
- Reorganized the keyboard remote control settings to show every supported key as a separate option. This provides full compatibility with the AirTurn BT200S-6.
- Updated the AirDirect support for compatibility with the AirTurn BT200S-4 and BT200S-6 in mode 1.
- Increased the clickable area around a song numbering button.
- Updated the Personal Transpose function to work with full-screen lyrics opened from a Big Set List layout.
- Added a more visible color for the table reordering control in popup windows in iOS 13 when the app color theme doesn't match the system color theme.
- Corrected the text color in action sheets in iOS 13 with dark mode.
- Updated the Send MIDI Order setting if it contains fewer than the five possible values.
4.0.12
2019-10-30
- Fixed a problem that overlayed one layout on top another when rotating from the show view on a phone.
- Fixed a problem that caused the auto-scroll countdown timer to behave erratically in iOS 12 after transposing the chords.
- Updated the set list shortcuts to show a list of available layouts if the last-used layout has been deleted.
- Updated the Utilities popup to save changes when dismissing with a swipe on iOS 13.
- Improved the alignment of help tips in iOS 13.
4.0.11
2019-10-25
- Fixed a problem that could result in a blank screen on iOS 13.
4.0.10
2019-10-23
- Fixed problems with the positioning of the top toolbar on iPhones when rotating.
- Fixed a crash when clicking the delete button on the file category edit page.
- Fixed a crash when clicking the MIDI or Device Linking buttons in the top toolbar on phones running iOS 12 and older.
- Fixed a problem that hid the right column on a tablet after deleting a smart list.
- Improved the positioning of buttons and sizing of fields on a notched display in landscape orientation.
- Added a Continue button on the checklist details edit page when adding a new checklist on a tablet to make the workflow more clear.
4.0.9
2019-10-16
- Fixed problems with the positioning of the top toolbar on iPhones when rotating or waking the device from sleep.
- Fixed a problem that displayed the Bluetooth MIDI options behind the MIDI Status window on iPhones.
- Worked around a problem that reverted the lyrics to a default font when toggling fulll-screen display on iOS 13.
- Fixed a problem that disabled the document button in a list-only layout after opening a full-screen document, then rotating to a layout that includes the document viewer, then rotating back again.
4.0.8
2019-10-09
- Fixed a crash with the Continue buttons in the playlist import and rollback windows.
- Fixed issues with date and time picker colors and spacing in iOS 13.
- Stopped moving set lists to the archive folders until after their end date if they are linked to multi-day events.
4.0.7
2019-10-03
- Added a default value for Settings > Appearance > Color Theme, to avoid an issue with layouts not appearing on iOS 13 if it is not set.
4.0.6
2019-10-01
- Added an "iOS" option to Settings > Appearance > Color Theme to match the iOS Dark Mode setting. The original Light and Dark options work independently of the iOS setting.
- In iOS 13, made popup windows non-modal until you edit some data in the window. This means you can swipe to dismiss a popup window if it has no unsaved changes, but when it has unsaved changes, you must click Save or Cancel.
- Added set list and category colors to Repertoire, Schedule and Contacts shortcut items.
- Stopped a repeated loop of sync attempts if you make changes in the app, then sync manually, while connected to an unreliable or disconnected wi-fi network.
- Fixed the Save Text Size tool for the Notes field in the set list view.
- Faded the document tools button after selecting a tool.
- Fixed a problem that left the Goal picker on the screen on the Practice Log Totals page on iPhones.
- Stopped showing the starting pitch button as enabled if no pitch is set.
4.0.5
2019-09-02
- Added Scroll Set List Up and Select and Scroll Set List Down and Select remote control actions to scroll the set list and select the song that then appears at the top of the list. This allows stepping through the song list in large and small increments (with the Next/Previous Song actions) without touching the device screen.
- Added a landscape orientation option to the set list share songs page. You can use this if your songs use landscape documents. If you use landscape orientation and some songs contain portrait documents, or vice versa, documents with the non-matching orientation will be rotated 90 degrees in the output.
- Updated the checklist copy function so that if the original checklist was linked to an event, and you link the new copy to a different event when copying it, any due dates for the checklist's items will be adjusted to maintain the same time interval from the item to the event.
- Added support for backslashes in the Lyrics and Chords fields.
- Updated the warning if you enter more than 14 lines of text into the Chords field to only appear once during a batch of song edits.
4.0.4
2019-08-20
- Rearranged the shortcuts on the Repertoire menu to first show set lists for upcoming events, then manually selected set lists, then manually selected smart lists.
- Automatically disabled Bluetooth remote control input when launching the app and when leaving the set list view, to avoid conflicting with text entry.
- Fixed a problem that caused the tempo clicks to get out of sync when using a downbeat sound and starting a new tempo without stopping the previous tempo.
- Fixed a problem that regenerated all the repeat events when editing an event in the app that was originally added on the website.
4.0.3
2019-07-17
- Stopped the recording and tempo playback when switching from one song edit page to another.
- Fixed a problem that added unnecesary decimal places to tempo values when syncing.
- Fixed problems sorting a smart list by frequency performed.
- Automatically disabled Bluetooth remote control input when leaving the set list view, to avoid conflicting with text entry.
- Updated the shortcuts on the Repertoire menu to prompt for a layout if no layout has ever been selected.
- Limited repeating events to 52 repeats. If you enter a repeat count or end date that would generate more than 52 events, the repeats will not be created and your repeat settings will not be saved.
- Updated the Quick Add button to select the song if it's already in the set list, instead of adding it again.
- Updated the help text for the Quick Add button when viewing a smart list.
4.0.2
2019-06-26
- Added the Quick Add button to smart lists, which provides a way to search for songs in a smart list. The Quick Add button will jump to the selected song if it's in the smart list, and will do nothing if the selected song is not in the smart list.
- Updated the set list details edit page to allow Personal Schedule Only users to link set lists to events, but only events they are participating in.
- Fixed the label and alignment options on the Notes Viewer layout item, and removed the Color option since note colors can be set at the song level.
- Removed an unwanted activity indicator that appears when transposing lyrics, then expanding them to full-screen, when the lyrics contain no formatting.
- Fixed a problem where adding annotations directly to a song would remove documents attached to the song if no documents were assigned to the user adding the annotations.
4.0.1
2019-06-03
- Stopped the Confirmed and Cancelled checkboxes from mirroring across a series of repeated events.
- Fixed a problem that hid the Chords field after changing a layout to use centered lyrics.
- Fixed a problem that removed the lyrics alignment when transposing in the set list view.
4.0
2019-05-20
BandHelper 4.0 is a major update. Please visit the Release Notes page on our website for complete details. Here are some highlights:
- Added a Plus account level. Plus accounts are priced between Basic and Pro accounts, and include the Repertoire, Schedule and Contacts modules.
- Added new Checklists, Files and Practice Log modules to Pro accounts.
- Added in-app help. You can now long-click any title on the settings pages, or any toolbar button, to show a brief description of its functionality.
- Updated the design of the edit pages.
- Added personal transpose settings to the song edit page.
- Added support for multiple SoundFont files for SMF playback.
- Replaced the Send Reminders option on the event edit page with separate Send Email Reminders and Send SMS Reminders options.
- Added an Include All Projects filter to the Schedule > Events page.
- Added repeat options to the event edit page.
- Added a ChordPro tools button ("[C]") to the lyrics field on the song edit page.
- In the file picker window when adding a recording to a song, added an iTunes button so you can select a recording from your iTunes music library.
3.3.24
2013-09-11
- Fixed a problem that removed the lyrics placeholder when an added-only user edits a song.
- Fixed the Clear Log buttons on the MIDI Status and Remote Control Status pages on phones.
3.3.23
2019-03-12
- Added padding to the list pages to prevent the text labels from overlapping the buttons.
- Rearranged some fields on the event and contact edit pages.
- Stopped showing the Move a User button on the event edit page for Read Only, Added Only or Personal Schedule Only users.
- Fixed a problem that could cause a picker to save incorrectly if you have items with the same names in different projects.
- Fixed a problem that prevented adding inputs to a stage plot.
- Fixed a problem that prevented jumping to document markers after adding a marker at the very top of the document.
- Updated the preview buttons in the Documents, Recordings and MIDI Presets lists to be clickable for inactive items.
- Stopped sending paired MIDI presets from the Repertoire > MIDI Presets page. The MIDI buttons on this page will only send the actual preset to avoid ambiguity.
- Stopped scaling layouts that were set to be scalable but don't include the required sizing info. If you encounter a layout that won't scale, you can resave it from the original device to add the missing info.
- Updated the Ableton Link library to avoid crashes with the previous version.
3.3.22
2019-02-27
- Restored the 90% overlap when paging through lyrics with the hotspots or remote control.
- Fixed a problem that disabled MIDI input in the set list view when editing a MIDI preset in a popup.
- Used the new user display names and sort values on the transaction edit and totals pages.
- Disabled the Active switch on the contact edit page for Added Only users.
- Added the Notes button to the Contacts, Events and Transactions lists, for items that have notes.
- Rearranged some fields on the song edit page.
- Removed the slash from the 0 character in the main font to be more distinct from the 8 character.
3.3.21
2019-02-18
- Fixed the sending of MIDI Song Select messages from layouts that contain only the set list.
- Fixed the size of the program change and control change fields on the MIDI preset edit page.
- Fixed problems sorting and selecting set lists when sorting the list of set lists by ascending date.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the on-screen keyboard appearing for an email message when remote control is enabled.
- Added the abbreviated day name to dates on the Schedule > Events page.
3.3.20
2019-02-04
- Added Settings > Audio & MIDI > Input Channel to select a channel for in-app recording when using multi-route audio.
- Added Settings > General Settings > External Display > Show Placeholder for Empty Songs to hide the song title for empty songs when showing only the document viewer on an external display.
- Worked around a potential crash when system audio resources don't load correctly.
3.3.19
2019-01-24
- Worked around a problem in iOS 12 that disabled the remote control functionality after tapping a document viewer displaying a photo or placeholder text.
- Fixed a permissions error when copying a file into BandHelper from the Files app.
- Stopped scrolling the external display to mirror the main display when the external display is showing a video.
- Added custom labels for items in the Instruments category on stage plots.
3.3.18
2019-01-14
- Fixed a problem that failed to auto-save changes to a set list's songs when leaving the app from the set list songs edit page.
- Fixed a problem using pickers in the right column when the keyboard is open from the search field in the left column.
- Updated the Previous Screen or Song remote control action to jump the last screen of the previous song.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the pause name from appearing when the first item in a set list was a pause.
- Stopped applying the chord color to H chords if German Chord Names is off.
- Fixed a problem that could interrupt a current device linking connection when changing the device linking settings.
- Updated the Apple Watch app to return to or remain at the set list songs page when changing set lists in the phone app.
- Updated the import functions to ignore a .txt extension added to a file from another platform.
- Updated the import functions to show an error instead of crashing in the case of a permissions error.
- Updated the "included in" list at the bottom of the song edit page to show only set lists from the current project.
- Updated the Reset Text Size button to save no text size instead of the default text size, so the shared text size will be used if personal syncing of text sizes is turned on.
3.3.17
2018-12-13
- Fixed a problem that prevented event acceptance responses from saving correctly from read-only users.
- Improved the spacing of columns on shared set lists.
- Fixed a problem with viewing set lists on an Apple Watch.
3.3.16
2018-11-30
- Fixed a crash in Basic accounts when opening the Repertoire menu if any set lists have a start or end time or contact info entered but no date.
- Removed a duplicate operation from the sync process for faster syncs, and to fix a problem that cleared the list of set lists after editing a set list.
- Updated popup windows to truncate long titles rather than obscuring the Save and Cancel buttons.
3.3.15
2018-11-19
- Added shortcuts for the most-used items to the module menus. The Repertoire menu shows set lists for upcoming events, plus any set list or smart list for which you select the Add to Favorites option. The Schedule menu shows upcoming events. The Contacts menu shows unfinished actions. The Finance menu shows a button to add a transaction. You can control the number of shortcuts that appear from Settings > Appearance > Menu Shortcuts, or set these values to 0 to hide the shortcuts.
- Added a Scalable option to the layout details edit page. If you turn this on, the layout will be available on devices with different screen sizes, and will scale to fit the different screen sizes. This allows you to maintain a single layout for use across different device models. However, due to variations in screen aspect ratios, the layout might not use the full width or height of some screens. Layouts will still only be available on devices turned to the same orientation.
- Added options when copying a layout from a different screen size to either scale to fit the current device, or keep the original sizing as before. This makes it easy to use a layout from a different device as a starting point, while still allowing you to adjust the sizing to perfectly fit the current device.
- Updated the Share Songs function to support multiple pages per song (for multi-page documents or long lyrics). Also updated the footer to include the date updated of the document instead of the song for songs that display an attached document.
- Added options to the smart list filters for whether a song is included or not included in a given set list. This allows you to create a smart list containing all the songs not in a set list, or a smart list containing all the songs in both of two set lists, for example.
- Added a Move a User button to the event edit page so users with edit access can manually move invited users between the Accepted, Declined and No Response groups.
- Updated all the user lists to sort by the new Sort Order field and display the new Role field that was added in the website, and to display the full name instead of the username if one has been entered.
- Replaced the + button at the top of the calendar page on phones with an Add an Event button below the calendar, which automatically sets the event to the currently displayed date.
- Added help tips that appear the first time a new user enters a potentially confusing workflow. These won't appear for current users unless they click Help > Reset Help Tips.
- Changed the alert that appears when attempting to view a set list or smart list when no layouts are available, to offer to install a default set immediately.
- Fixed a problem that scrolled the text down slightly when opening full-screen lyrics from split view layouts on iOS 12. This also fixes problems with auto-scrolling starting incorrectly in some situations.
- Added the manual save button to the smart list edit page.
- Stopped applying the default text color to chords if Settings > Appearance > Chords Color is empty.
3.3.14
2018-11-12
- Added options to the automation buttons to copy and paste automation tracks between songs.
- Updated the automation track edit window to select the last-played event if you stop an automation track before it finishes and then edit it.
- Added disclosure indicators and indents to make the automation track edit window easier to read.
- In the list of set lists, and the "Included in" section on the song edit page, hid set lists linked to events that don't include the current user if the user is set to Personal Schedule Only.
- Added Settings > General Settings > Maps App to allow using Google Maps instead of Apple Maps for directions to a contact address.
- Updated the song list options popup in the layout editor to show in a faded style any custom fields that are only assigned to other users.
- Updated the layering of layout items to allow placing the recording controls on top of the document viewer.
- Updated the installation routine to make newly generated layouts available to all users, to minimize the need for other users installing later to generate more layouts.
- Fixed a problem that caused the lyrics to not start at the top position when opening full-screen lyrics from a layout action.
- Fixed incorrect text colors in alerts in the dark color theme on iOS 9.
3.3.13
2018-11-04
- Updated the interface and the default layouts for the new iPad Pro models.
- Fixed a problem that hid the Save and Cancel buttons from popup windows on phones.
- Fixed a problem that introduced blank rows into the Set List Buttons and Set List Fields sections of the song list options window.
- Fixed a problem that moved the lyrics down when editing a song from the set list view while a recording is playing and the auto-scroll is in the pre-roll phase.
- Fixed a problem that disabled the pagination functions when opening the same document twice in a row from a set list only layout.
3.3.12
2018-10-29
- Made the MIDI presets listed on the song edit and MIDI preset edit page clickable so you can edit attached presets in a popup window.
- Made the contacts listed on the event edit page clickable so you can edit attached contacts in a popup window.
- Added a button to the event edit page to view the set list, if the event is attached to a set list.
- Fixed a problem that scrolled the text down slightly when opening full-screen lyrics on iOS 12.
- Fixed a problem that skipped the auto-scroll pre-roll when viewing a document with a saved zoom position.
- Fixed a bug that allowed set lists, transactions and funds to be assigned to multiple projects.
- Fixed a problem that displayed the keyboard and picker done buttons inconsistently on phones.
- Improved the handling of items dragged outside the expected areas in the set list songs edit page.
3.3.11
2018-10-22
- Fixed a problem that temporarily cleared the lyrics display after editing a song from the set list view.
- Fixed a problem that cleared the edit page when using the manual save button and encountering a validation error.
- Worked around a data size limit when syncing to an Apple Watch.
3.3.10
2018-10-15
- Grouped the items in the module menus to highlight the most important pages for typical users.
- Updated the Edit Layout button in the set list view to include a list of available layouts, which you can select to change layouts without leaving the set list view. If your layouts don't include the Edit Layout button, you can add it from Repertoire > Layouts > [layout name] > Edit Details > Bottom Toolbar Buttons.
- Set a default layout for both landscape and portrait when loading default layouts, so a layout is ready if you rotate your device in the set list view.
- Updated the interface and the default layouts for all iPhone X models. If you have already added the app on an iPhone X and have not customized your layouts, you can delete the iPhone X layouts and then click Help > Utilities > Load Default Layouts to reload them with the updated sizing.
- Updated the auto-scrolling function so that if you manually scroll while the pre-roll is running, the auto-scroll movements will begin immediately. If Settings > General Settings > Auto-Scroll > Recalculate Speed If Overridden is on, the auto-scroll time will remain the same and the scroll speed will be reduced; if off, the auto-scroll time will be reduced and the scroll speed will remain the same.
- Increased the precision of saved text sizes to avoid a slight shift when pinch-zooming and then saving a text size.
- Fixed a problem where keys 5-9 sent from a Bluetooth keyboard didn't appear in text editing fields when remote control input was enabled.
- Fixed a crash when playing a starting pitch after changing your Settings > General Settings > German Chord Names from another device.
- Fixed a problem that positioned the top toolbar incorrectly when rotating the device in the set list view and share pages.
- Improved the spacing around cell buttons.
3.3.9
2018-10-07
- Fixed a problem where the MIDI engine wouldn't fully stop and would then generate duplicate messages when restarting.
- Improved the retention of the lyrics scroll position when toggling in and out of full-screen display.
- Fixed a problem with sorting the list of set lists by anything other than Date.
- Fixed a problem that moved the form out of view when editing a stage plot item.
- Fixed a problem that reversed the rotation of a stage plot item when editing it.
- Updated the Starting Pitch picker to use German-style names if Settings > General Settings > German Chord Names is on.
- Faded bottom toolbar fields when you move another item over them while editing a layout, to indicate that they will be inactive if covered.
3.3.8
2018-10-03
- Updated the document viewer to better handle 2-column layouts. When you view documents, or lyrics containing markers, manual scrolling will be disabled, and the up/down hotspots will move to the next page or marker. When you view lyrics containing markers, only the current marked section and the next marked section will appear in the two columns. (Markers in lyrics requires iOS 10 or later.)
- Updated the chord coloring function to include the square brackets when viewing ChordPro-formatted chords with Settings > Appearance > Bracketed Chords set to Inline.
- Updated the Schedule > Calendar page to reload the last-viewed month after editing an event on a split-view device.
- Sped up the search function in the Quick Add popup.
- Eliminated a brief appearance of the on-screen keyboard when launching the app or closing a popover.
- Fixed the Select and Cancel buttons in popovers on the song edit page when remote control input is enabled.
- Fixed a crash when adding performers to a stage plot on a phone.
3.3.7
2018-09-20
- Optimized for iOS 12.
- Fixed a problem that selected the wrong performer when adding a performer to a stage plot.
- Fixedaproblem where pasted text initially appeared with the system font and color until the page reloaded.
- Separated the list filters in the main lists versus the picker windows so a value saved in one doesn't load into the other.
- Gave more space to multi-line field labels on the edit pages.
- Fixed a problem where the back button sometimes required two clicks after certain add or delete operations.
- Fixed a problem where the back button sometimes got out of sync with the page when clicking it very quickly.
- Fixed a problem where the recording timers showed 0:00 for two seconds before proceeding to 0:02.
- Closed the keyboard when leaving the app while editing a page, to avoid incorrect page sizing when returning to the app.
3.3.6
2018-09-07
- Updated the email buttons on the Events list to open a new message in a popup window, like other email buttons in the app, instead of switching to the Mail app.
- Added a manual Save button to the stage plot layout page.
- Restored the missing Rotate icon on stage plot items.
- Fixed a problem that made stage plot items uneditable after using the Revert button.
- Fixed a crash when clicking the document button in a long Songs list after editing a song.
3.3.5
2018-08-31
- Updated the attachment lists to allow modifying attachments based on the user's edit access level instead of the user assignments for the attached items. This means users with All Data access can now edit, reposition and remove attachments that aren't assigned to them. Also, the lists no longer allow users with Added Only access to attach items they didn't add.
- Added View Document, Start/Stop Recording and Send MIDI remote control actions. These actions simulate pressing the corresponding button on the screen, and select either the default item or the last-selected item for each button. The Send MIDI remote control action also follows the Send MIDI Presets Together setting.
- Updated the Send Layout MIDI layout action to send all the layout MIDI presets, not just the first one, and added a Send Layout MIDI remote control action that works the same way.
- Updated the automation tracks to record and play back Send Layout MIDI actions.
- Added a Date Updated search filter and sort field in the Repertoire > Songs list, and a sort field in the set list Add Songs window.
- Added a Date Updated filter and sort field on the smart list edit page.
- Updated the counts at the top of the list pages to show the number of matching items when filtering. Also, fixed the empty list that displayed after resetting the filters on the Set Lists list.
- Updated the manual save button to reload the page when adding a new item so the document attachment buttons will be available.
- Fixed the auto-capitalization for the Lyrics and Personal Chords fields. Lyrics should only auto-capitalize sentences, and Personal Chords should auto-capitalize all words.
- Fixed a crash when a user with Added Only access attempts to set up paired MIDI presets.
- Fixed a problem that disabled ChordPro and OnSong files in the file browser when OnSong is installed on the same device.
- Fixed some invisible text colors in the file import and export windows.
- Removed the Browse button that appeared between clicking an import button and the opening of the file browser.
- Removed an extra dash in the song details when a song only includes tags that are not assigned to the current project.
3.3.4
2018-08-15
- Ignored leading or trailing spaces entered in the login info on the Settings > General Settings page.
- Updated the date and future filters on list pages to be inclusive of the item date.
- Updated the song edit button in the set list view to appear for Added Data users.
- Fixed a problem that prevented the event acceptance options from saving for Personal Schedule Only users.
- Fixed a problem that corrupted SMF playback with data from the previously played file.
- Updated the sync function to include an attached Standard MIDI File when manually downloading a recording, and to always download Standard MIDI Files attached to MIDI presets.
- Fixed a problem that could remove all the downloaded documents when adding a document from the device.
3.3.3
2018-07-17
- Allowed users with Added Dataeditaccesstoedit personal text sizes, document annotations and document zoom levels.
- Allowed users with the Personal Schedule Only or Personal Finance Only settingstoaddcustomfields and edit the custom fields they added on the event and transaction edit pages.
- Showed the complete user list on the event view page when the event doesn't require acceptance, even if the user viewing it has the Personal Schedule Only setting.
- Updated the document edit popup to require that users be explicitly set when adding a document to an event or transaction. Other documents are still visible to all users by default.
- Updated the transaction edit page to only allow selecting one recipient for distributions.
- Fixed a problem that made text annotations unmoveable.
- Improved the spacing of multiple buttons laid out horizontally.
- Added a Print button to the document edit page. You can only print PDF or JPG files from this page, and annotations will not be included.
- Updated smart lists sorted by tags to sort secondarily by the tag names if the tag sort orders are the same.
- Removed the check that prohibits adding multiple layouts with the same name.
- Reset the elapsed time in the recording controls after changing songs while a recording is playing and then pausing the recording.
- Fixed a crash when clicking the Random Song button in a set list with only one song.
- Changed some important words in the German translation: tag = Schlagwört, break = Pause, pause = Einschub.
3.3.2
2018-06-29
- Fixed a problem that only showed one multi-day event at a time on the Schedule > Calendar page on phones.
- Added the new manual save button to the set list Edit Songs page.
- Added the lyric line highlights to the external display when showing only the lyrics on the external display.
3.3.1
2018-06-16
- Fixed a problem that sometimes displayed lyrics with the wrong font.
- Fixed a problem that played tempo downbeat sounds on the wrong beat.
- Fixed erratic playback when starting a tempo without stopping the previous tempo. In this situation, the app now waits a half second for the audio buffers to reset before starting the new tempo.
- Improved the sizing of multiple MIDI, recording, document, app and marker buttons when laid out horizontally.
- Added the missing resize button to the Multiple App Buttons layout item.
- Added the bottom toolbar buttons to newly created default layouts.
- Disabled the share options for empty set lists.
3.3
2018-06-11
MAJOR NEW FEATURES
- Added a function for sharing songs. From the set list or smart list menu, you can now select either Share Set List to share the list as before, or select Share Songs to share all the songs in the list.
- Added options for sharing set lists.
- Added options for randomizing set lists.
- Added options for playing Standard MIDI Files.
- Added support for Flic buttons.
- Replaced the Read-Only setting with an Edit Access setting, with options for None, Added Data and All Data.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
- Included annotations with emailed or printed documents when sent from the new song sharing page.
- Moved the document email and export buttons to the document edit page,andaddedthe same buttons to the recording edit page.
- Added separate email and export buttons to the layout edit and stage plot edit pages.
- Added a manual save button to the bottom toolbar on edit pages.
- Made stage plots viewable by read-only users.
- Added Settings > Audio & MIDI > Fade Out Recordings.
- Added skip forward and skip back buttons to the second row of the recording controls layout item.
- Updated the play/pause button in the recording controls to play the recording from the new song after changing songs with Settings > Audio & MIDI > Continue Audio When Changing Songs.
- Updated the next/previous buttons in the recording controls to update the Multiple Recording Buttons to show the current recording.
- Organized the set list list with undated set lists in the first section, future set lists in the second section and a submenu for each past year in the third section.
- Added a color field to the set list details edit page, to help organize set lists.
- Changed the shortcut menu that appears when clicking the title in the set list view. Instead of showing a list of all set lists when viewing a set list or the list of all smart lists when viewing a smart list, the menu now shows a list of the five most recently viewed set lists and the five most recently viewed smart lists.
- Added a Preceding Break Duration setting to the Set Name edit page.
- Added a Toolbar Buttons section to the layout Edit Details page, so you can hide toolbar buttons you aren't using, or show the bottom toolbar even if you haven't added any fields to it.
- Added a layout edit button to the bottom toolbar of the set list view, for editing the current layout without leaving the set list view.
- Updated the Multiple Document, Recording, MIDI, Marker and App Buttons layout items to have resizeable content.
- Updated the Master Volume layout item to include separate volume sliders for recording, tempo, pitch and video.
- Added a long-press gesture to the play/pause button of the recording controls to select a different recording.
- Added a long-press gesture to the pitch button to select a different pitch.
- Changed the button icons in song layouts to maintain their aspect ratio rather than stretching.
- Made links in custom fields clickable in the set list view and event view.
- Added a Multi-Line option for custom fields.
- Added the Notes field as an option when sharing a set list.
- Renamed the Bluetooth/USB Keyboard Status window to Remote Control Status, and added remote control activity from MIDI devices to its Activity Log.
- Added a Clear Formatting button (X icon) to the formatting toolbar on the song edit page.
- Added a Search for Chords button to the song edit page.
- Updated the chord transpose functions to only transpose bracketed chords if any chords are bracketed.
Plus more updates and bug fixes ... please see the Support > Release Notes page on the BandHelper website for more details.
3.2.10
2018-02-27
- Fixed a problem that made the recording controls unresponsive in the Repertoire > Songs list.
- Updated Settings > Audio & MIDI > Receive MIDI In Background to enable background MIDI when using the MIDI Learn button on the MIDI preset edit page.
- When changing the projects of a song that has smart copies, the documents and recordings attached to all the smart copies are now correctly updated.
- Fixed a problem that created empty items in the Repertoire > Documents list when changing the projects of songs that use the Lyrics or Chords fields.
- Fixed incorrect formatting when adding text that looks like partial HTML tags into the Lyrics or Chords fields.
- Updated the borders around popup menus to have consistent widths.
- Fixed incorrect field sizing on edit pages when changing between different window sizes on a split-screen tablet.
- Saved edits when changing between different window sizes on a split-screen tablet or rotating a phablet.