Showing/hiding parts and notations
In Soundslice, you can hide the parts of notation and tablature that you don’t want to see.
Say you have four-part choral music, and you only want to see one part. Or maybe you’re reading a guitar transcription and you want to hide the tablature to focus on standard notation. In either case, you can focus your practice by hiding the bits that you don’t want to see.
This functionality is split across two sections in the Settings menu.
The Appearance section
In the Appearance section, you can toggle the display of various types of notations:
- Notation
- Tabs — includes a “Stems” button to toggle stemmed tablature
- Chords — includes a “Names only” button to hide diagrams
- Lyrics
- Sticking
- Fingerings
- Pitch names
- Colors
- Bar numbers
- Empty staves
- Repeats
- Title
- Part names
Note that some of these aren’t visible by default, unless you click “Advanced.”
You’ll only see buttons for the notations that are actually used in the music you’re looking at. So if your slice doesn’t have any drum sticking, you won’t see the Sticking option.
The Instruments section
In the Instruments section, you can quickly toggle the display and sound of specific instruments.
For each instrument, you can do the following:
- Focus — aka “Solo.” Click the instrument name to focus it. This visually hides all other instruments. If synthetic playback is active, it also mutes all other instruments.
- Hide — visually hides this instrument’s notation.
- Mute — mutes this instrument in synthetic playback.
Click the at far right to display two more per-instrument options:
- Instrument-specific volume when in synthetic playback.
- Instrument-specific sound when in synthetic playback.
If your slice only contains one instrument, then we’ll completely hide the Instruments section — because it would essentially be useless.
If your slice has a real recording, you’ll also see a way to switch between the real recording and synth playback:
For more on this, see Switching the audio source.
Can I use Focus for multiple instruments at the same time?
Yes.
Is it possible to hide literally everything?
Yes. Not sure why you’d want to do this, but: you do you.
Why don’t I see the “Instruments” menu?
We automatically hide the “Instruments” menu if there’s only a single instrument, because there wouldn’t be any point to showing/hiding it.
Lyrics-only view
Something special happens if you hide everything except lyrics. It’s called lyrics-only view, and you can read more here.
Chord-chart view
Something special happens if you hide everything except chords. It’s called chord-chart view, and you can read more here.
Can Soundslice save my current visibility settings?
Yes! If you’re logged in and have a paid Soundslice account, we’ll automatically save the Appearance and Instruments settings so your practice environment will be preserved next time you view that slice.