EDIT menu

First, let’s take a look at EDIT menu, this is where you can find customization of tines and change instruments.

1. Tine Layout option

Tine Layout and highlights

Tine Layout window has a list of tines with pitches in letter notation, same as what you see in the player.

Below each pitch has a checkbox. Checked box means that tine is highlighted (like you do it when sticking decal on a tine). Unchecking the box to remove its highlighted color.

Tine customization

You can alter the amount of spaces between tines, value can be changed from 0 to 20. Try it yourself to see whether a no-gap or a spaced-gap layout suits your style better!

Playable tines’ height can be changed from 30 to 100. This is especially good if you are on mobile and need some more space for the falling notes~

Oh, here you can also see the current number of tines in this window (read-only). Use this to check if your physical kalimba has enough tines or not.

Tine colors

Change Colors section provide you with full customization over tine and note colors.

• DEFAULT: Color for unmarked (not highlighted) tines.
• TREBLE: Color of notes belonging to the first part of this sheet.
• BASS: Color of notes belonging to the second part of this sheet.
• MARKED: Color for marked (highlighted) tines.

Restore defaults

Everyone messes up at least once and doesn’t know what to do to revert it back... “You calling upon me?” – says the RESTORE DEFAULTS button. It’s here at your service when you prefer our default settings over your customization... we’re glad!

After the changes, make sure to press that APPLY button to apply them to Sheet Player~

2. Instruments option

This option allows you to change the sound when a tine plays. We offer 3 instruments at the moment and planning to add more if it’s really that necessary:

• Kalimba 1 – this might sound a bit too awesome so it should be at top position.
• Kalimba 2 – this sound like a real kalimba, so it’s the default selection.
• Piano – blame those who told me kalimba is thumb piano we added it with a wild ambition to allow pianists to compose on our platform!

INFO menu

Here you can find more information about the sheet, like what Key Signature and Tempo is it currently at, and they’re editable!

1. Transpose...

This shows the sheet’s current Key Signature and how many sharps/flats it has AND you can use this to transpose the current sheet to any keys/by any intervals you want.

Note: It’s recommended to learn some music theory about Key Signature and Interval to fully make use of this feature.

Transpose by Key

The first things you see here are the 3 options – 3 directions to transpose by Key.

• Closest – Sheet Player will intelligently transpose to the closest Key possible according to your selection of Key Signature.
• For example: You have a B major kalimba but the current sheet is in C major. Simply select B major / G# minor and click Transpose. The Player will immediately decrease all tines down by 1 semitones (half steps) for you to have a B major sheet
• Up – Sheet Player transposes up by the difference between current Key and your chosen Key.
• Down – Sheet Player transposes down by the difference between current Key and your chosen Key.

Below those 3 options is a dropdown showing the sheet’s current Key Signature. Clicking on it allows you to choose a destination Key from 14 others (28 if you want to put it correctly for both major and minor scales).

Transpose by Interval

To transpose by interval, you first need to tick the By Interval checkbox.

Unlike transposition by Key, this one only has 2 directions: Up and Down.

Select your direction, then select the interval you want to move the sheet to, then click Transpose. You must have some music theory learned to understand what interval suits your use case. We add to the right of Interval name the number of semitones (half steps) it’s going to change to help you remember these better~

2. Tempo...

You can customize the current sheet’s Tempo (BPM – Beats Per Minute) using this option.

Current BPM indicates the current number of beats per minute. You can change this value between 40 and 200.

Beat type is actually the type of note the above BPM value is calculated into.

Say if you want to play this sheet at 76 quarter notes per minute, then type in 76 for Current BPM, and select Quarter Note icon for Beat type, click OK and it’s set!

3. Help option

Take you to our knowledge base’s with how-to posts about Sheet Player.

VIEW menu

Customizes how you see Sheet Player.

1. Show Grid (toggle)

Toggle this option to show/hide grid lines if you find them annoying. These grid lines are used to show how many smaller parts Sheet Player can divide a measure up to – particularly useful when composing.

2. Zoom

Select from a list of percentages to zoom in/out the Sheet Player’s measure area – particularly useful when composing, again, but you can use this to make those notes shorter/longer~

3. Fit To Screen

Choose this option to tell your browser to scroll so that it shows from the Toolbar only. We hope this is a life saver for mobile users!

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That’s it for Sheet Player’s Toolbar! We’re planning on adding more features here when they’re ready. So stay tuned!