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#31

Repertoire Help / Chord color

Last post by MattG - June 30, 2026, 12:34:05 AM

All of my songs have color-coded chords for verses/chorus/breaks etc. When I see them in the app, not all are displaying the color I've chosen—most are yellow-and some are a mix of up to three colors.

I use this to help maintain position within the song, so when it's not correct it's a pita.

Any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong?

#32

Repertoire Help / PageFlip Butterfly and Mac des...

Last post by jholland1825 - June 29, 2026, 03:46:36 PM

I've been trying to get this to work this afternoon. The butterfly works fine on iOS with my phone and I assume it will work fine with my iPad, but using it on my Mac has been problematic. I've set it up according to the instructions and it doesn't seem to work even though the up and down arrow actions Reflect in The app control status window. If you click in the activity log, it will go line by line. The butterfly also works in other Mac apps. What I did notice is that in the app, if I go to a song and try to scroll using the up and down arrow keys, the physical ones on the Mac keyboard. It doesn't work. So my assumption is that if that doesn't work, the page turner never will because it just emulates a keyboard. Anyone know what's going on?

thx

#33

Repertoire Help / Re: Extract Chords from ChordP...

Last post by arlo - June 29, 2026, 10:24:42 AM

No, ChordPro doesn't indicate the timing of the chords, and I don't think a plain dump of chord names without any timing info would be useful.

#34

Repertoire Help / Re: ChordPro Import Questions

Last post by arlo - June 29, 2026, 10:21:20 AM

The batch import worked (mostly) but all the section labels are missing from the {start_of_verse}/{end_of_verse} and {start_of_chorus}/{start_of_chorus}.

To use ChordPro environment directives, you can go to Repertoire > Text Styles and add a text style for Verse, Chorus, Bridge and Comment and set the corresponding ChordPro Style for each. Then import your ChordPro files. If you already imported the files, you can delete the newly created songs using the date filter and the batch delete function on the Repertoire > Songs page of the website, then import them again.

Transposing from a sharps key to a flats key (ie from E to F) produces some wrong chords.

BandHelper adds sharps when transposing up and flats when transposing down. So to transpose from E to F and get flats, you can transpose up an extra half step to F#, then back down to F.

#35

Repertoire Help / Extract Chords from ChordPro

Last post by thekenner - June 29, 2026, 09:17:15 AM

Is it possible to populate the Chords section from the chords in a ChordPro song? Just take everything in square brackets [] and add them to the Chords section? That would be really helpful.

#36

Repertoire Help / ChordPro Import Questions

Last post by thekenner - June 29, 2026, 09:13:55 AM

I'm new to BandHelper and have over 500 songs in Chordpro format that I'll be importing.  The batch import worked (mostly) but all the section labels are missing from the {start_of_verse}/{end_of_verse} and {start_of_chorus}/{start_of_chorus}.  I understand that I can add them all back in manually with #  Heading, but for 500 songs that's a bit arduous.  Am I missing something?

The transpose is also doing some odd things. Transposing from a sharps key to a flats key (ie from E to F) produces some wrong chords.  Instead of Bb I get A#. I tried setting the personal transpose setting to flats, but nothing changed.  What am I missing?

#37

Repertoire Help / Re: Orphaned Songs

Last post by arlo - June 28, 2026, 09:37:37 AM

Songs that are not in any projects will appear with a gray background on the Repertoire > Songs page of the website in every project.

#38

Repertoire Help / Orphaned Songs

Last post by Papa John - June 28, 2026, 05:11:39 AM

How can I find songs that are not associated with any projects?

#39

MIDI Help / Re: Assigning the MIDI Preset ...

Last post by arlo - June 22, 2026, 09:51:56 PM

I don't think you should have separate MIDI presets for the two Loopy setups. With either of the solutions I suggested, you can put the MIDI messages for both setups into the same preset.

#40

MIDI Help / Re: Assigning the MIDI Preset ...

Last post by cba - June 22, 2026, 01:49:31 PM

Hi again, 

I've had a look at it all again and it does work as I hoped.  However, the multiple midi button is more messy than I need and it would be great to be able to put a couple of midi buttons on the screen with each one assigned to a different midi preset.