Here’s what’s new on Soundslice this week:

Automatic rhythm counts

Our new “Rhythm counts” feature automatically displays rhythm counts above your music. You can quickly toggle them on and off in the player settings:

Like our existing pitch names feature, this is handy for beginner students who are still learning to read music.

We’ve found that several of our teacher customers have been adding this sort of thing manually, by inserting text into their notation. No need to do that anymore! Just let the system take care of it automatically.

Each beat, according to the bottom number of the time signature, is marked with a number. Inner subdivisions use a “+”. Further subdivisions use the “1 e + a 2 e + a” tradition:

If you’re a paying customer, you can use this feature on any music you view sitewide, and you can turn it on by default for any slice you’ve created.

For more, see the new help page.

Quick soloing of multitrack stems

We’ve improved our multitrack stems feature to support soloing a stem with a single click. Just click the stem name to solo it:

We’ve also improved the interface to remember each stem’s volume and solo status if you deactivate stems and activate them again in the same player session. (Previously they all reset to 100% volume.)

Quick video jumps via double-tap

You can now double-tap the left or right edge of a video to go backward or forward 10 seconds, respectively.

Note this doesn’t work on YouTube videos, because they don’t offer a way to customize that functionality in YouTube embeds. But for Soundslice-hosted videos, or Vimeo or Wistia videos, you’re good to go.

Reorder your lists

We’ve gotten a fair bit of feedback that people want to be able to reorder their lists, so we’ve added a quick way to do that. Go to your practice homepage, then change the ordering at the upper right of the Lists section by clicking “Sort by.”

The options are:

• List creation date
• List creation date (oldest first)
• List name (a to z)
• List name (z to a)
• Number of slices (low to high)
• Number of slices (high to low)

From then on, we’ll use your preferred ordering on both the practice homepage and the main Soundslice homepage (the Overview).

Better drag-to-select in our editor

We’ve made a big usability improvement to the way selection works in our editor — specifically the method of selection by dragging across your music.

Previously, if your drag happened to start directly on a note or rest, we would interpret that as “move the note or rest up/down” instead of a selection. That was pretty annoying. We now do the right thing and interpret it as a drag-selection if your drag moves in a horizontal direction. (Of course, you can still drag notes and rests up/down.)