Lead vocals and their keys

Every song in a setlist can name its lead vocals. If they sing the song in a different key, you set that vocal key once, and wherever they are assigned, the song plays in it. Everyone else keeps the standard key, the key written in the song.

You only ever pick the lead vocals. With a vocal key for the song, it is shown in that key. Without one, it plays in the standard key. The song itself never changes.

So a second copy of a song for another key is no longer needed. Set the vocal key and keep one song. Duplicating makes sense when the copy should differ in more than the key, see Duplicating a song.

Lead vocals and their keys are part of every plan, and a vocal key does not count against the free song limit.

Names per folder

Lead vocals are names in a list, and every folder has its own list. Songs without a folder share one list. When you move a song to another folder, the names it uses move into that folder's list with it.

Assigning lead vocals in a setlist

Lead vocals are assigned per setlist entry, so the same song can have one name in this week's set and another in next week's. Three ways to assign:

The lead vocals badge in the song header, the first badge, showing a microphone while nobody is assigned.
The chip on the setlist row, in the setlist editor.
Several songs at once. Long press a song in the setlist to select it, select the others, and choose Assign lead vocals. With songs from several folders, pick a name under each folder, or one under All songs for all of them, then tap Assign.

The picker lists the names of the song's folder. Standard key at the top means no lead vocals. Add name at the end adds a name to the folder's list and assigns it. Its dialog also offers the key for this song. The setlist row and the setlist navigator show the name, and the key badge shows the key that plays.

Setting a vocal key

A vocal key is the key the lead vocals sing a song in. There are two ways to set it.

From the name dialog. In the lead vocals picker, tap Edit and then the name, or long press the name. The dialog holds the name and the key for this song. The standard key comes first and keeps the song as written, then the other keys.

From the transpose wheel. Beside the wheel, Standard with the standard key comes first, then every name of the song's list. A name with a vocal key carries a key badge. Tap a name and the song is shown in that key, with the wheel centered on it. Nothing is written until you tap Confirm, and Confirm sets the key of whatever is selected beside the wheel:

With a name selected, Confirm sets its vocal key. The song text stays as written.
With Standard selected, Confirm transposes the song itself, as it always did, and every vocal key stays where it is.
In a setlist, Confirm also makes the selected name the lead vocals of the entry, and confirming Standard takes the lead vocals off.

Switching between Standard and a name always moves the wheel to that key, so what you confirm is what you see. Edit at the end of the row opens the lead vocals picker, where you can add a name without leaving the wheel.

A vocal key has its own capo. Set the capo while the song is shown in a vocal key and it belongs to that key, see Performing.

To remove a vocal key, pick the row marked STANDARD on the wheel, or choose the standard key in the name dialog.

A song without a key can have lead vocals, but no vocal key.

The editor always works on the standard key. If the song has vocal keys, a note at the top shows how many.

In the library

When a song has vocal keys, their count and a chevron sit on its key badge. Tap it to open one row per name with its key. A tap on a row opens the song in that key, and the row's add button or a drag puts the song into the setlist with those lead vocals already assigned.

Search finds a song by its lead vocals names, so typing a name lists the songs with a vocal key for it.

The lead vocals badge of a library song opens Show in a vocal key, which shows the song in the vocal key of any name without assigning anyone. The view lasts until you open another song.

Renaming and deleting a name

The name dialog renames a name for every song and setlist that uses it. Delete in the same dialog first shows how many setlist songs lose the name and how many vocal keys are deleted. The songs stay in their setlists and play in the standard key again.

Exports follow the lead vocals:

PDF shows the song in the vocal key of the shown lead vocals, with their name in the header and, if you choose, that key's capo.
Running order and copied text name the lead vocals after the key.
ChordPro files always carry the standard key. Names and vocal keys never go into a .cho file.
SONGUIDE files carry the lead vocals with their vocal keys and capos. Importing one adds the names and vocal keys to the songs it adds or updates, and a shared setlist arrives with its lead vocals assigned. A song you keep as it is gets none. Updating a song of yours from a shared song or folder also removes the vocal keys the received song does not have. Where a song of yours would gain, change or lose a vocal key, the review shows it, and Show differences keeps your key for each name, see Importing a SONGUIDE file.

Import and export has the details for each format.