Preferences

Preferences can be accessed in the app from the menu at the top right, on almost every screen in the app:

The preferences window then opens:

General

• Language lets you change the app language.
• Font lets you adjust the writing style used in all LiveSet scores, for displaying chords and symbols in general. Some fonts are very traditional (e.g. Finale Maestro), while others have a strong jazz real book style (Finale Jazz); you can choose at any time according to your preferences.
• Highlight structure applies colour to structural elements in the display. Typically, the following elements are coloured red:
  • Repeat bar lines
  • Numbered alternate endings
  • The segno and coda symbols
  • Names of named sections or references to named sections
• Colorize parts applies even more colour to named-section symbols, making them even easier to distinguish visually.
• Enlarge chords lets you increase the overall size of chords in scores (zoom).
• Lyrics font lets you adjust the writing style used for lyrics.
• Include song key adds the overall key of the song at the top right of the first page of scores.
• Instrument lets you choose the default instrument used to listen to chords when you tap them.
• Metronome type lets you select the visual metronome display mode: light flashes, a swinging marker at the top or bottom, or display of the beats in a bar, at the top or bottom.
• Audio transposition lets you adjust the algorithm used for transposing audio files (pitch shifting). By default, an algorithm that optimises the quality of the result is used, but on some lower-performance devices, you may need to switch to a less resource-intensive mode, "Performance" mode.

Chords

All the configuration options in this section are designed to personalise how certain types of chords are displayed in standard scores or lyrics that include chords.

In particular:

• Nashville notation enables numerical chord notation using the Nashville Number System (see the theory here). In this mode, chord notes are therefore replaced with numbers.
• Available only with Nashville notation, Minor keys as degree 1 lets you switch between two conventions in Nashville notation. When this option is disabled, in a song in A minor, the A minor chord will be written as 6- or 6m (because the notation remains in the relative key of C major). However, if this option is enabled, the chord will be notated as 1- or 1m. 
• Postfix # and b defines whether a chord with a raised 9th is displayed as or
• Uncomfortable accepted (Cb, B#...) - by default, LiveSet "simplifies" chords such as Cb, B#, E# or Fb by writing them respectively as B, C, F or E. However, depending on the key of the app, this may be theoretically incorrect, and some instrumentalists prefer strict notation. This option asks LiveSet to use theoretically correct notation for these chords.
• German mnemonics (B/H). In Germanic chord notation, B corresponds to Bb and H to B natural. This option takes that difference into account.

Edit mode

• Use the pencil tilt angle is used in freehand drawing annotation mode. This option lets you use the angle at which you hold the stylus to choose the current tool, provided your device supports it (typically, switching between the pencil and highlighting). Holding the stylus very flat activates highlighting, while holding it normally like a pencil activates the pencil.
• Disable chord suggestion prevents LiveSet from suggesting possible chords in edit mode.

Show Time mode

• Preroll bars (metronome) lets you configure how many beat bars are played when you tap the metronome button in Show Time mode. As a reminder, if you keep your finger pressed on the button, the metronome stays active continuously. This option only applies to a short press. By reducing the number of bars below 1, you can choose "∞" (the infinity symbol), which disables the preroll and always enables the metronome continuously in Show Time mode. 
• Page turner pedal launches the small setup assistant for a page-turn pedal. When you choose this button, LiveSet will ask you to press the "next page" key and then the "previous page" key on your pedal in turn, so it can memorise its controls.

The page-turn pedal can then be used in Show Time mode, as well as when displaying any score that contains multiple pages.