User Manual

Chords

The chord section determines the default behavior and interface options for the Style Preferences Menu Chords tab. You can make changes in the following sections:

Key

The key section allows you to set up a default chord style to display chords as well as settings for chord display. In addition, you can determine if theoretical keys can be displayed allowing for keys that are not in the ordinary music theory set of keys. You can also change the transpose control used in the style preferences menu.

Capo

This section allows you to set up default settings for the capo behavior.

Transposing Instrument

This section allows you to determine a transposing instrument which is used to transpose the music to instruments not using concert pitch. Options include: Off (Default), B♭, E♭, F, or G.

Formatting

This section lets you to determine how chords are formatted with position and style.

Typography

This section is used to determine how the typography of the chord are handled.

Advanced

This section provided more advanced settings.

OnSong 2026 — Last Updated on December 16, 2025