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; after three taps the tempo appears, and a few more make it steadier. Press Use to set it. 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.