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MANUAL · 12 · SYNC

Play together in a SYNC room

Create a room and invite people, and every device in the room plays the same beat, following the conductor's start, stop, and settings. Use it when a band, a wind ensemble, or a group lesson practices together.

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How SYNC works

In SYNC, the person who creates a room is the conductor. When the conductor presses START, every device in the room starts at the same moment with the conductor's settings (BPM, time signature, tracks, and so on). Stopping stops everyone.

  • You need to sign in and have a username to create or join a room. If you have not chosen a username yet, you are asked to choose one first (4–64 characters: letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores. You can change it later in the account settings)
  • Rooms stay until you delete them. Create a room for each group or lesson and join it each time you practice
  • Up to 30 devices can be in one room
  • The number of rooms you can create depends on your plan. The limit and how many you have are shown under the room list

Open SYNC from "SYNC (play together across devices)" in the menu. If you choose SYNC in "Customize footer" in the menu, a button also appears in the bar at the bottom, and SYNC opens as a panel above it (it is hidden at first).

Create a room and invite people

  1. 01Open SYNC and press "Create a new room"
  2. 02Name the room and press "Create a room". You enter the room, and the SYNC room bar appears at the bottom of the screen
  3. 03Press "Invite" on the bar, search for people by username (3 characters or more), and press "Invite"

Only the conductor and invited people can join a room. Invited people get a notification in the bell at the top right, and the room also appears under Rooms you joined in their room list. The notification shows the room name, and pressing it opens the SYNC room list. Press "Join" there to enter the room. Copy the room ID by pressing it next to the room name on the bar.

MENUThe bell at the top right of the header
TRY ITPress the bell and try opening notifications and marking them all as read

Play together

The conductor plays as usual with START / STOP (Space). If you change settings such as the BPM and start again, the new settings reach everyone.

When members enter a room, their devices show "It will play when the conductor starts" and wait. If the conductor is already playing, they join in time with the beat. While the room is stopped, the play button on members' devices is dimmed and shows WAITING (pressing it shows a notice to wait for the conductor). While the room is playing, members can use the play button to stop and restart only their own device.

SCREENAt the bottom of the screen while you are in a room
TRY ITSwitch between the conductor's and a member's view, and try inviting (search for "sax"), the participant list, the adjustment, and the menu
Tuesday group
Conductor: conductor_aoi

The conductor (with a crown) is at the left end of the bar, followed by the participants' avatars. People who are not in the room are dimmed, and people who are playing have a dot. If someone joins from several devices with the same account, each device gets its own avatar, numbered (1, 2, ...) in the order they joined. Press the avatars to open the participant list; the conductor can remove participants from there. Removed people cannot join until they are invited again.

Devices align their clocks over the internet. On the conductor's device, playing through the built-in speaker or a wired speaker, rather than Bluetooth speakers or earphones, keeps it closer to the other devices.

Adjust the timing

If a member's device sounds later (earlier) than the conductor, press "Adjustment" on the bar and increase (decrease) "Play earlier". It changes in 5 ms steps within ±500 ms. "Reset to 0" puts it back.

The adjustment is kept on that device for each room and is used again when you rejoin. Adjust it when you use devices that delay the sound, such as Bluetooth earphones. The conductor's device has no adjustment (the conductor's sound is the reference).

Manage rooms in the list

MODALMenu › SYNC (play together across devices)
TRY ITTry joining, leaving, renaming, deleting, and creating rooms (no real rooms change)
SYNC

SYNC rooms

Create a room for each group. Rooms stay until you delete them. When the conductor is in, every device in the room plays the same beat.

Rooms you created

  • Tuesday groupIn room4 participants · 3 in the room
  • Thursday private lesson1 participants

Rooms you joined

  • Wind ensemble sectionalConductor sensei_tanaka

You can create up to 3 rooms (2 now).

Opening SYNC shows the room list, split into rooms you created and rooms you joined (including rooms you were invited to). While you are in a room, you can also open it from "All rooms" in the ⋯ menu on the bar.

  • Join / Leave: "Join" takes you into the room. The room you are in is marked [In room], and "Leave" takes you out
  • Rename: change the name in place from the ⋯ menu of a room you created
  • Delete: delete a room you created from its ⋯ menu. Everyone leaves the room, and it cannot be undone
  • Leave group: choose it from the ⋯ menu of a room you joined to remove it from your list

Leaving a room does not delete it; you can rejoin from the list anytime. Reloading the page also takes you out of the room (rejoin from the list). When the conductor leaves, playback stops for everyone in the room. Hiding the SYNC button in the display settings does not take you out of the room.

If you join from another device with the same account, that device becomes a member (participants can also join from several devices with the same account). To move the conductor role, press "Make this device the conductor" in the ⋯ menu on the bar of the device you want to use.

Open with a key

No key is assigned to opening / closing the SYNC room list at first. You can assign any key with "Help › Customize Shortcuts" in the menu (see the "Keyboard shortcuts" chapter). To start and stop in a room, the conductor's playback key (Space) works as is.