Reordering Songs in a List - works great!

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I will be starting to play the Assisted Living circuit on Monday. I created a song list and am pleasantly surprised that I can reorder it to fit the gig. My guitarist can just click Next after we are done with a tune. He likes to have the chords in front of him. We work from a shared list. I can reorder anything up to the start of the gig. Looks good and works great!

I have a minor feature request that plagues both of us. I don’t know if it can be fixed. I have to carefully select which finger to use to click the tiny Next song. I can’t use a calloused finger because it doesn’t work on an iPad. I think the ring finger on my right hand is the least calloused finger. It would be nice if that Next Song area was larger during performances. I also have a wireless foot pedal that I should figure out how to use to go to the next song.

M65 Guitar, fiddle, mandolin - Wyoming

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It’s a great performance tool. My only issue is that I can’t use apps to equalize the sound. Other apps like Spotify have a pathway that allows an EQ to be in the signal chain before the audio output. I wish Strum Machine could do that.

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In the future we’ll add touch gestures so that you’ll be able to (for example) do a big swipe in the middle of the screen and go to the next/previous song. Also, once we have customizable keyboard shortcuts (perhaps later this year… sooner than touch gestures in any case) you’ll be able to map one of your foot pedals to a “next song” command.

The signal chain issue is probably not fixable – apps like Spotify are fundamentally different, because they “hand off” a single audio stream to the OS for playback, whereas Strum Machine is playing hundreds of sounds a minute so it has to use a more “direct” means of playback, which is probably why it’s bypassing your EQ, @JimJacobson. Might add EQ directly to Strum Machine someday, though.

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I understand. That makes sense. I have a workaround for EQ that works good. Thanks for the explanation.

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Learn to use your foot pedal. You’ll be happy you did. It’s not hard to set up

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