Maestro Pro
Playing a Score
The bar at the bottom controls playback; the toolbar and the Inspector change how it looks and sounds.
Playback controls
Play and Pause, skip back and forward by bar, and a progress bar you can drag. The counter shows the bar, beat and time.
Tap the music to jump there. On a Mac, Space plays and pauses, the arrow keys skip bars, Return goes to the start and K turns the metronome on or off.
Practice Speed slows a piece down or speeds it up without changing the pitch. Type any percentage from 10 to 400 in the box, or use the slider (50 to 150).
The tempo is the score's own (from its printed metronome mark) unless you set one: typing a BPM, tapping it or matching a backing track makes it your own, and the Custom Tempo switch under the tempo goes back to the score's. Tap Tempo: tap the tempo (the note and number beside the metronome) and a pad opens with a big Tap key. Tap it in time with the beat; the tempo appears from the second tap and updates with every tap, and a few more make it steadier. It is set as you tap. With a keyboard, the space bar taps while the key is focused. The same pad is under Tempo in the Inspector.
Loop: in the Inspector, Loop plays the bars you choose over and over, to practise a hard passage. On a Mac or with a keyboard, [ slows the practice speed and ] speeds it up.
Count In plays a bar of clicks before the music. Lead-in Bars sets how many bars of introduction come before bar 1, so a backing track with an intro lines up. The Metronome clicks on every beat.