Sound Effects
A doorbell, a gunshot, thunder, a phone ringing — the cued sounds a production needs live in this tab beside the musical numbers, because they are the same thing to organize: an audio file (or a link to one), the scene it belongs to and notes on it.
- Adding one: Press Add Song and set the Category field to Sound Effect. The dialog's title, buttons and placeholders follow your choice
- Telling them apart: Sound effects carry a speaker icon and a "Sound Effect" badge; songs look exactly as they always have
- Showing one list: The Show filter above the list switches between Everything, Songs and Sound Effects, with a count beside each. With a list filtered, the Add button adds to that list
- Sheet music: Offered for songs only — a sound effect has no score. Everything else (audio playback, extra tracks, scene and character assignment, notes and tasks) works the same for both
- Scene grouping: Sound effects group by scene alongside the songs, so a scene's music and its effects are read together
More in Sound & Music Tab
- Sound & Music Tab: Adding Songs — Add songs manually or generate them with AI:
- Sound & Music Tab: Audio Playback — Songs with uploaded audio files include a built-in music player with practice features:
- Sound & Music Tab: Additional Tracks — A song can hold multiple audio versions beyond its primary file — perfect for the guide vocal and performance track pairs that come with licensed show kits:
- Sound & Music Tab: AI Song Generation — Use AI to automatically generate a song list for your show:
- Sound & Music Tab: Song Organization — Songs are automatically organized by scene:
- Sound & Music Tab: Merging Duplicate Songs — Licensed show kits ship several audio files per number — guide vocal, accompaniment, performance track — and uploading them creates one song per file, so the same number appears several times. Merge…
- Sound & Music Tab: Assigning Songs to Scenes — A song only shows up in scene, rehearsal and readiness views once it belongs to a scene. Assign to Scenes handles the whole list at once, whether the songs are new or were assigned to the wrong scene…
- Sound & Music Tab: Character Assignment — Assign characters to songs to track who performs each number:
- Sound & Music Tab: Sheet Music — Upload and view sheet music for each song:
- Sound & Music Tab: Song Notes — Add and share notes on individual songs:
Related features
- Sound & Music — Songs and sound effects attached to scenes, with audio playback, accompaniment and rehearsal tracks, sheet music, character assignment and per-song notes.
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