Manual

What it does

A one-minute tour of what Feelism does. Setup videos are next. Playing a video connects to YouTube.

Setup videos

Play them in order. Playing a video connects to YouTube. Videos 1 and 2 are in English. Videos 3 and 4 are in Japanese.

1. 1. Connecting the gear

2. 2. Software setup

3. 3. Transpose and transposing instruments

4. 4. Settings while playing

Start

• What Feelism does

  Your sound goes in, the band answers, and the mix comes back in your headphones. Add tunes from Forum.

• Your first session

  From install until you hear the band.

• Play with the built-in keyboard

  Try the accompaniment from the keyboard inside the app.

Connect

• Connect your PC and audio interface

  Connect the PC, audio interface, instrument, and headphones.

• A real setup (Studio 24c)

  Photos of a real rig. The first cable, with an electric bass.

• Wind instruments

  A mic or pickup into the audio interface input.

• String instruments with a pickup

  A guitar or bass cable into the instrument input.

• Keyboard (digital piano)

  Send line audio, or connect the keys as performance data.

• Vocals

  Sing or scat into a microphone.

• MIDI keyboard

  Connect a keyboard labeled MIDI as the performance input.

Play

• Find a tune

  Pick by title, genre, feel, or composer.

• Play and stop

  How to start and stop the band, and how to set the count, tempo, and start bar.

• Feel and meter

  Choose the feel and the number of beats in a bar separately.

• Fills

  Turn fills on or off, and choose the answering instrument and the chorus they start.

• Mix, levels, and reverb

  Levels, parts, return, and reverb on the Mix screen.

• Self-mix and latency

  How your sound is mixed back into the headphones, how that differs from Direct Monitor, and how to turn it off when it feels late.

• Transpose

  The difference between moving the whole band and a transposing instrument that only changes how the chart looks.

• Double-time

  Manual and automatic double-time. The tempo stays; the feel gets finer.

• Chord edits

  Rewrite chords on the chart for yourself. They stay until you clear them.

• Record

  Record you and the band to a file.

• Shortcuts

  Space, Esc, and the other keys inside the app.

Bring in tunes

• Forum

  Find a practice pack on Forum and bring it into Find a tune.

• Your own charts

  Bring a MusicXML file on your computer into the app without Forum.

Share tunes

• Write MusicXML

  How to export MusicXML Feelism can read, and which chords, beats, and feel to include.

• Publish a pack

  Bundle a practice pack and post it on Forum.

When something's wrong

• No sound

  How to tell input, return, and output apart when you hear nothing.

• It feels late

  How to reduce delay. Turn Self-mix off, and how to choose a device.

• The band doesn't follow

  Sound is arriving, but the band is not playing along.

• You hear yourself twice

  Your sound is doubled. How the return paths overlap, and how to turn one off.

Billing and data

• License key

  How to paste a license key and check that it is still valid.

• Cancel and payment

  Cancel or change the card on the payment page. You can keep playing through the end of the period.

• Paid tunes and the lock

  What plays without paying, and how a locked tune looks.

• Data folder

  Where Feelism keeps its folder on this PC, and what is inside.

Glossary

• Glossary

  Words that show up on screen and in this manual.