User Manual

Chords

The chord section determines the default behavior and interface options for the Style Preferences Menu Chords tab. You can make changes in the following sections:

Key

The key section lets you determine if theoretical keys can be displayed, allowing for keys that are not in the ordinary music theory set of keys. You can also change the transpose control used in the style preferences menu and whether transposition is enabled by default.

Capo

This section allows you to set up default settings for the capo behavior.

Transposing Instrument

This section allows you to determine a transposing instrument which is used to transpose the music to instruments not using concert pitch. Options include: Off (Default), B♭, E♭, F, or G.

Formatting

This section lets you determine how chords are formatted with position, chord style, split chords, and decoration.

Typography

This section is used to determine how the typography of the chord are handled.

Advanced

This section provided more advanced settings.

2026.3 — Last Updated on October 24, 2026