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Create a song with parts, put a sound on a channel, play and switch parts.

This walkthrough takes you from an empty app to a song with three parts playing. The first time, with no song yet, REDKEYS opens straight in EDIT SETLIST.

1. Create the song

  1. Tap the song name at the top of the stage and choose Edit. (The first time, EDIT SETLIST is already open.)
  2. Choose + New song. The new song opens on the Info tab.
  3. In Title, type the song name.
  4. In Key, tap the key and choose Major or Minor. The key comes first: every part starts in it.
  5. In Tempo, type the tempo or tap it with Tap.
The SETLIST list opened from the song name, with the songs, their parts, tempo and key, and the Edit button at the top.
The song name opens the setlist; Edit opens EDIT SETLIST.

2. Create the parts

  1. Open the Parts & form tab.
  2. Tap + Intro. The part is created and selected.
  3. Tap Add to form. It goes into Form, the order you play.
  4. Repeat with + Verse and + Chorus (or + Custom… for another name). The same part can go into the Form more than once.
  5. Choose Save: Saved on this device shows. Then Done.

3. Put a sound on a channel

  1. On the stage, after the channels, tap the dashed + Channel box. In the Phone layout it is in the Mixer view.
  2. The sound list opens for the new channel. Use Search or pick a category, and tap a sound.
  3. The channel takes the sound’s name and a colour. Edit, at the top of the channel, opens its sounds and the Sounds, Macros, MIDI, Audio and Channel tabs.

A new channel listens to All devices on MIDI channel 1 (the Ch 1 next to Edit). If your keyboard sends on another channel, open Edit › MIDI, tap Learn and play a note on the keyboard.

4. Play and switch parts

  1. Play the keyboard. The sound comes out and the chord shows in CHORD, at the top.
  2. In the parts bar at the bottom, tap Verse. The switch is instant and does not cut the notes you are holding.
  3. On a computer, the ← and → arrow keys walk through the parts. So does a pedal or a controller button once it is mapped with MIDI Learn.
  4. Changed a channel’s level in this part and want to keep it? Tap Store, at the end of the parts bar.
The stage in the Phone layout: the Mixer, Playback, Drums and Drone bar on the left, four channels with Edit, fader and MUTE, and the parts bar with Intro, Verse 1, Pre-Chorus and Chorus and Store at
The parts bar at the bottom: one tap switches parts.

Next: build the whole setlist, turn sounds on and off per part and map your pedal.

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