Basics
Anytune is a music player with a rich set of awesome additional features made for learning and practicing your songs.
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Some common actions:
Find a song: | You can browse content in the music library of your device by songs, playlists, artists and albums.![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tap the “Songs” button on the iPad or the on the iPhone/iPod to reveal these categories. |
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Play a Song: | Tap the item to import it. Tap ![]() ![]() |
Change the tempo:(time-stretch) | Tap ![]() ![]() |
Change the pitch: (pitch-shift) |
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Go to the next/previous Song: | Tap ![]() ![]() |
Adjust Volume: | Use the devices physical volume buttons or on screen slider |
Use AirPlay: | AirPlay ![]() ![]() |
Anytune is a powerful app with many features. This document describes all of these features and can be used for reference or to quickly understand all the capabilities of Anytune.
Scroll Slider
You can drag the slider or give it a spin. Touch the slider then drag your finger for fine precision adjustments. Touch and flick the slider to spin the slider and make a large adjustment. The value is displayed on the slider. Tap buttons on either side of the slider to step up or down in increments.
Reset a slider value: | Double tap the middle of the slider to toggle between default and previously set value. |
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This slider is used throughout the App. Controls glow blue when activated or selected.
BPM
The song’s beats per minute (BPM) is displayed in the song info on the Song Info / Nav bar. The BPM value in the iTunes song Info if it exists. Otherwise, the BPM value is estimated as the song is imported. The displayed value changes as you change the tempo.
You can also override the value by editing the song’s meta data in Anytune or reload a value saved in the song file.
Override the BPM value: | Tap the ![]() |
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Modes
Select a mode to display controls used for a specific task.
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Play | Basic controls for navigation and adjusting tempo and pitch |
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Loop1 | Creation and adjusting loops |
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LiveMix1 | Gain, balance, and LiveMix mixing |
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EQ | FineTouch EQ controls for pinpointing your instrument Audiomarks Manage and navigate to Audio and Loopmarks |
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Audiomarks1 | Manage and navigate to Audio and Loopmarks/td> |
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Lyrics | View lyrics or textual scores. |
1 – The Loop, LiveMix and Audiomark modes are only required on the iPhone version. These controls can be toggled on and off from the Play mode on the iPad version.
Tap the desired mode on the mode selector bar to change modes on the iPad.
Tap  to reveal the Mode selector on the iPhone. Tap the desired mode button to change the mode. The current mode is displayed in the button.
Settings
Anytune saves settings for each song. The song settings or meta data includes tempo, pitch, marks, loops, BPM, notes, gain, pan, EQ settings, … . Settings for an individual song or your entire library can be exported to an Anytune config file (<file>.atcfg).
Anytune’s system settings provide ways to modify Anytune’s global behaviour. Some song settings such as gain can be maintained across songs using the “Global” system settings.
Help
If you have questions or are having problems there are several ways to get help.
Tap  to show the help menu and options including in-app access to:
Forums and FAQs
Tutorial videos on our YouTube Channel
send a message to Email Support
Note: Sending an Email from within Anytune will include version and hardware information.
Toggle Help bubbles

controls while the help bubbles are visible. Tap 

Contact Us
If you have a problem, question or suggestion about Anytune please contact us! We are always happy to hear from you.
Tutorial videos are found on our YouTube Channel
Troubleshooting
If you are having a serious issue please try these trouble shooting steps.
Toggle Help bubbles: | Tap ![]() ![]() |
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Status Icons
Status icons are displayed in the zoomed view indicating which features or settings are enabled:
Navigation
There are two waveform views. A full song view with a draggable playhead and a larger zoomed view that shows a detailed section of the track centered on the playhead location in a scroll view.
Use the following buttons for additional navigation functions:
Pro – This is a Pro and HQ feature.