Drum Charter
Text-based drum chart editor
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What's New in Drum Charter
2.4
October 28, 2026
Version 2.4 - Hands-Free on Stage Turn pages with your feet, open your setlist with one tap, and find every error at a glance. ON STAGE * Turn Pages Hands-Free Page through long charts with the arrow or page keys - and with Bluetooth page turners, which work right away. In staff notation a new page always starts at a whole system. * MIDI Foot Pedals Pedals like the iRig BlueBoard are learned, not hard-wired: tap Assign, press the switch. Next and previous page, next and previous song, start/stop. Your e-drum never turns a page, and the pedal's switches never count as hits. * Your Setlist, One Tap Away The new Setlist button opens the folder of the song you're working on as a playlist. Confirm the folder once - from then on it opens right away, even after a restart. * A Panel You Can Read on a Dark Stage Solid, high-contrast and collapsible. It shows which MIDI devices are connected - you see at once whether your drum kit is there. Settings are clear switches. * A Cleaner Grid Repeat counts read as ×3, section headers lose their brackets, and lines like [120 BPM] no longer appear on stage. EDITOR * Everything One Tap Away Concert, Setlist, Practice and Export sit in a bar above the editor (the toolbar on the Mac). The palette is for input only - and the iPhone now has all of it, including flam, ghost note, tambourine and time signature. * Text Size in the Editor Pinch with two fingers on iPhone and iPad, Cmd+ / Cmd− / Cmd+0 on the Mac. * Errors That Say Where Every message names the bar, the line and the beat - like "Bar 12, cymbal line, on 4+" - and says how to fix it. Tap ERRORS in the playback bar for the list. * Starts Where You Write The cursor starts in the first bar. If opening a file tidies it up (bar numbers, repeat counts), a short notice says so. * Mac Settings in their own window, tidier menus, and the palette can be hidden (Ctrl+Cmd+S). GETTING STARTED * New to Drum Charter? A short card with three steps and an example song that shows sections, flams, ghost notes, triplets, repeats and staff notation. PRACTICE MODE * Speaks English like the rest of the app, and shows which MIDI devices are connected. FIXES * Practice Mode no longer crashes when a hit lands just before the first beat of the loop. * The first section header is no longer missing from the Concert grid and the text export when the chart starts with a tempo line. * "Play from Beginning" played from the cursor - it is now called "Play from Cursor". * On the Mac, the sidebar button above the palette now shows and hides it. * The user guide has been brought up to date. All existing charts work unchanged. Settings preserved across updates. iPhone (iOS 15+), iPad (iPadOS 15+), Mac (macOS 12+). iCloud sync across all devices.
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