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#51
Repertoire Help / Re: Resize "pause" texts & aut...
Last post by honeytownevents - February 03, 2026, 12:20:16 PMQuote from: arlo on February 03, 2026, 09:20:32 AMNo, you can't resize the "Pause" text.
For your second question, are you asking about making BandHelper automatically step through the songs in your set list? If so, please see:
https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/attaching_recordings.html#auto_advance
Regarding the Pause text size, As you can see in the attached photo the text can quite difficult to read. Often its announcements and important notes for our vocalists & emcees that they previously could see in the setlist view when allowed Ipads on stage.
Regarding automation/setlist auto scroll, We only want to automate the pauses, So the information in the pause populates on our musicians lyric prompters.
I've located and successfully tested the Auto scroll feature for the songs/setlist entirely but again we do not want the songs in the list to auto scroll since we have midi program changes that send upon song selection and do not want to lyrics to auto scroll prematurely if someone needs a drink, tuning, etc. and the count in may be notably delayed behind the auto scroll cutting off the top of the lyrics/charts.
#52
Finance Help / Re: Splitting a Fee Between Ba...
Last post by arlo - February 03, 2026, 09:42:38 AMYes, the event shares must add up to the total income amount. However, you can leave the shares empty and then everyone will just see the total amount. That can be free text, so you could write something like "$400, minus $20 expenses and $20 savings".
Another option if you don't want your bandmates to think about anything other than their final earnings is to enter their shares as 90 each and your share as 130 (90 income + 20 expenses + 20 savings), then pay the expenses and savings out of your income (select only yourself in the Shared By field). And then the savings will all be attributed to you, so when you eventually spend the savings, you would need to set only yourself in the Shared By field in the Expense or Withdrawal transaction to balance that out.
I would do the first option in a band that has a stable membership with transparency about the finances and a generally equal share of income and expenses, and the second option in a band that has rotating members who don't know what the other members are earning and the leader is acting like a business owner with the band members as subcontractors.
Another option if you don't want your bandmates to think about anything other than their final earnings is to enter their shares as 90 each and your share as 130 (90 income + 20 expenses + 20 savings), then pay the expenses and savings out of your income (select only yourself in the Shared By field). And then the savings will all be attributed to you, so when you eventually spend the savings, you would need to set only yourself in the Shared By field in the Expense or Withdrawal transaction to balance that out.
I would do the first option in a band that has a stable membership with transparency about the finances and a generally equal share of income and expenses, and the second option in a band that has rotating members who don't know what the other members are earning and the leader is acting like a business owner with the band members as subcontractors.
#53
Repertoire Help / Re: Resize "pause" texts & aut...
Last post by arlo - February 03, 2026, 09:20:32 AMNo, you can't resize the "Pause" text.
For your second question, are you asking about making BandHelper automatically step through the songs in your set list? If so, please see:
https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/attaching_recordings.html#auto_advance
For your second question, are you asking about making BandHelper automatically step through the songs in your set list? If so, please see:
https://www.bandhelper.com/tutorials/attaching_recordings.html#auto_advance
#54
Finance Help / Re: Invoice not showing the co...
Last post by SoundOfTheCrowd - February 03, 2026, 09:18:04 AMFor invoice numbers, I'd look for the ability to customise the front part (as in SOTC for my band) and then have sequential numbers starting from a number I specify, so the first invoice could be SOTC1051 and the next one could be SOTC1052.
As for currency symbol, it's not likely that I'd use more than one, but it's possible (euros and pounds for example), but just having a default would solve the problem I think.
Thanks again
Mick.
As for currency symbol, it's not likely that I'd use more than one, but it's possible (euros and pounds for example), but just having a default would solve the problem I think.
Thanks again
Mick.
#55
Finance Help / Re: Splitting a Fee Between Ba...
Last post by SoundOfTheCrowd - February 03, 2026, 09:13:27 AMThanks Arlo
So how do I represent that in the Event? The full amount would be 400 - do I put that in the Event shares as £100 each, even though each band member only gets £90?
So how do I represent that in the Event? The full amount would be 400 - do I put that in the Event shares as £100 each, even though each band member only gets £90?
#56
Repertoire Help / Re: white border on black pdf ...
Last post by honeytownevents - February 02, 2026, 11:18:55 PMQuote from: arlo on September 21, 2020, 02:23:43 PMOn iOS, this shouldn't happen because the document viewer can't invert the document colors. On Android, if you created documents with inverted colors and then you turn off the color inverting in BandHelper and you get a white border around the black document, you can turn on Help > Utilities > PDFs are Already Inverted.
I just ran into this issue tonight myself. The document image displays the intended black background on PC and Ipad devices. but Inverts to White backround on Iphone's I've tested with the three various spare iphones that live in my lyric prompters as well and my personal Iphone 15 all of which display white backrounds on one single document image but are correct on all others.
Edit: Adding a slight contrasting fade to the parameter of the image made the backround remain black on all devices.
#57
Repertoire Help / Re: Notes question
Last post by arlo - February 02, 2026, 08:46:22 PMNo, users control their own personal sync settings.
#58
Repertoire Help / Re: Trying to use BandHelper t...
Last post by honeytownevents - February 02, 2026, 07:51:14 PMQuote from: Dazzathedrummer on May 18, 2022, 10:28:11 AMThanks Arlo.
Does that mean I need a preset for every patch?
Hey hopefully you've got this sorted at this point but if not im happy to help! Ive got my SPD-SX Pro fully mapped and automated to follow the song selection on the bandhelper setlist
basically you need three fundamental things on bandhelper for this to work.
Midi device - SPD-SX - Default ch.10 confirm if youre in 0-127 or 1-128 mode.
Midi Presets - Every single SPD-SX "kit"/bandhelper song will need its own midi preset and program change numbers entered.
SPD-SX midi program changes all begin with 32 in box 1, box two is 0 for the first 0-127 kits but however needs to be a 1 instead for kits 128-200. Box 3 is the kit number personal examples: 32-0-000 equals kit 1, And 32-1-0 = kit 129
The preset then has to be assigned to a song in bandhelper so its a good idea to save the preset by song name so its easy to find in the midi/preset menu
From there you will have to make a couple changes in the settings menu on the device you're using so that the change happens upon song selection but you can test each preset for functionality by tapping the midi icon next to the preset name.
#59
Repertoire Help / Resize "pause" texts & auto-sc...
Last post by honeytownevents - February 02, 2026, 07:29:44 PMIs there any way to resize pauses so they display larger?
It would also be great if there was a way that you could automate these pause starts without using the "auto-scoll song list" feature as I wish to keep that disabled for my use case. so i guess im looking for a "auto scroll pauses" so it starts after the previous song.
It would also be great if there was a way that you could automate these pause starts without using the "auto-scoll song list" feature as I wish to keep that disabled for my use case. so i guess im looking for a "auto scroll pauses" so it starts after the previous song.
#60
Repertoire Help / Re: Set names in layouts?
Last post by honeytownevents - February 02, 2026, 07:25:52 PMQuote from: arlo on October 21, 2025, 09:35:57 AMResizing the pause details text is on my wish list and I'll add a vote for you. In the meantime, you could just set up some songs to use as pauses and put the text into the Lyrics field.
found this comment in the search. We switched from Ipads on stands to lyric prompters and my Vocalists & Emcees are having a very difficult time reading the Pause text infomation. Any updates or possible estimate when we may see this as well as selecting an auto-scroll function for the pauses independently from the "auto scroll song list" would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!