Maestro Pro
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Getting Started
- What Maestro Pro is
- Your first minute
- Open the sample score
- Find free scores with Search Scores
- What the Free plan includes
Your Library
- Supported file types
- Import a score
- Import a PDF score
- Import MusicXML files
- Import MIDI and karaoke files
- Import several files at once
- Drag files onto the window
- Import from another app's share sheet
- Import a whole folder
- Link a folder to the library
- Start a blank score
- Lyrics with Backing
- Keep your library in iCloud
- Set-lists for rehearsals and gigs
- Band-in-a-Box files
Playing a Score
- Play, pause and skip
- Start from any bar
- Playback keys on a Mac
- Slow down or speed up without changing pitch
- Tempo and Custom Tempo
- Tap the tempo
- Loop a hard passage
- Count In and Lead-in Bars
- Use the metronome
- Transpose for your instrument
- Set your instrument
- Automatic page turning
- Notes and bars that light up
- The Inspector
Plans and licences
Plans and pricing
- The Free plan
- The Performer plan
- The Professional plan
- Which plan do I need?
- Buy Professional on this website
- Website or in-app: which is cheaper?
- Prices and currencies
- Manage a subscription bought in the app
Licences and keys
- Enter your licence key in the app
- Recover a lost licence key
- Use your licence on up to 3 devices
- Remove a device from your licence
- If you have more than one licence key
- My licence key is not working
Install with TestFlight
Refunds and cancellation
- The 14-day money-back guarantee
- How to request a refund or cancel
- Refunds for subscriptions bought in the app
- When can I get a refund?
- Cancelling after the 14 days
- Cancel a yearly licence
- Cancel a monthly licence
Education and schools
Practise
Tuner & Wait for Me
- Open the tuner
- Read the tuner display
- Play a reference note
- Change the tuning pitch (A = 440 Hz)
- Tune a B flat or E flat instrument
- What is Wait for Me?
- The steady-note trainer
Record & Review
Scales & Arpeggios
Annotating
Sound and words
Backing Tracks & Sound
- Add a backing track
- Add more than one backing track
- Track switches and levels
- The first track keeps time
- Match Key and Tempo to a track
- Reduce vocals on a track
- Play along with Apple Music
- The built-in instrument
- Equaliser and key changes
Lyrics & Karaoke
- Add a lyrics file
- Show lyrics instead of music
- Animate syllables
- Lyrics typeface, size and blur
- Lyrics-only items
- Lyrics in seconds or in bars
- Karaoke MIDI (.kar) files
- CD+Graphics karaoke (.cdg)
- Find lyrics and singers online
- Duets and singers
Write and keep
Writing & Editing Music
- Open the score editor
- The nine editor modes
- Notes mode: add and move notes
- Rests mode
- Marks mode: accidentals, ties and articulations
- Dynamics mode
- Bars mode: repeats, adding and deleting bars
- Form mode: endings, jumps and tempo marks
- Medley mode: copy, cut and paste bars
- Erase mode
- Draw mode
- Edit a score that came from a PDF
- Stop a resting hand changing notes
Version History & GitHub
- Save a version
- Start a branch to try an idea
- Roll back to an earlier version
- Merge a branch
- Resolve merge clashes
- Connect a score to GitHub
- Where your GitHub token is kept
Share, Export & Print
- Export as MusicXML
- Export as PDF
- Print a score
- The Share menu
- Save to Files, AirDrop, email or message
- Get a video of a score
Together
Play Together
- Start a Play Together session
- Join a session
- Local Network permission
- Nudge for wireless speakers and headphones
- Using Play Together in lessons and rehearsals
Settings and help
Keyboard Shortcuts
Settings & Accessibility
- Light, dark or system appearance
- Highlight colour
- Customise every colour
- Defaults that any score can override
- Provide feedback from the app
Troubleshooting
- A PDF plays the wrong number of beats
- Wait for Me or the tuner cannot hear me
- It hears the wrong octave
- Notes in a PDF look wrongly read
- A backing track starts late or early
- Band-in-a-Box files will not open
- Import does nothing or a file is greyed out
- Jazz tunes need the internet
- An overfull bar in the editor
Your devices and privacy
Devices and compatibility
- iPhone requirements
- iPhone Duo
- iPad requirements
- Mac requirements
- Apple Pencil
- Optional extras the app can use