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User Manual

Actions

You can set OnSong to perform different actions when certain events occur such as a screen tap or foot pedal press. The following options are displayed for selection within the settings screen.

  • None no action is performed.
  • Capo Up increases the capo for the song by one fret.
  • Capo Down decreases the capo for the song by one fret.
  • Scroll Up scrolls the song up. If using a foot pedal, performing this action once the top of a song is reached will navigate to the previous song in the set.
  • Scroll Down scrolls the song down. If using a foot pedal, performing this action once the bottom of a song is reached will navigate to the next song in the set.
  • Next Song navigates to the next song in the set.
  • Previous Song navigates to the previous song in the set.
  • Next Slide advances to the next slide when projecting lyrics.
  • Previous Slide advances to the previous slide when projecting lyrics.
  • Show/Hide Menubar toggles the menubar on and off for a full screen view.
  • Show Songs List displays the song menu. When using non-keyboard input such as MIDI, this action will also hide the songs menu.
  • Scroll Faster decreases the duration of the song by 30 seconds which causes autoscroll to speed up.
  • Scroll Slower increases the duration of the song by 30 seconds which causes the autoscroll to slow down.
  • Toggle Audio play, pause or stop the backing track associated to the song.
  • Toggle Autoscroll starts or pauses the autoscroll.
  • Toggle Capo turns the capo on or off.
  • Toggle Low Light Mode turns low light mode on and off. When on, the background of the song is black with white foreground text.
  • Toggle Metronome turns the metronome on and off.
  • Toggle MIDI Start/Stop sends the MIDI start or stop command.
  • Mute Metronome mutes the metronome, allowing it to continue to keep time and optionally blink the menubar. This is great to use for practice to see if the beat can be maintained without click reinforcement.
  • Tap For Tempo use to change the tempo of the current song. This should not be used on high latency foot pedals like the AirTurn BT-105 since they are designed to forgive accidental foot taps or double entry.
  • Tempo Up increase the tempo of the song by 1 BPM.
  • Tempo Down decreases the tempo of the song by 1 BPM.
  • Transpose Up transposes the song up by one half step including enharmonic variations.
  • Transpose Down transposes the song up down one half step including enharmonic variations.
  • Volume Up increases the master volume of the device by 5%.
  • Volume Down decreases the master volume of the device by 5%.
  • Blackout Lyrics blacks out the lyrics for lyrics project by hiding lyrics and removing the background.
  • Clear Lyrics shows or hides the lyrics during lyrics project while retaining the background image or video.
  • Playback Pitch plays the pitch of the song for a cappella groups. This can be configured using the Metadata Editor of the Song Editor.
  • Shift Up shifts to the next gear in the configured gears.
  • Shift Down shifts to the previous gear in the configured gears.
  • Unshift shifts to the first gear in the configured gears.
OnSong 2023 — Last Updated on October 23, 2014