# Artist Retreat

Creative space for lyrics, setlists, bios, and press copy, plus the songwriting tools.

Artist Retreat is your creative workspace. It holds documents — Lyrics Only, Lyrics & Chords, Setlist, Lead Sheet, Biography, Press Release, Website Copy, Notes and Other, plus Photo, Video and Document files — each with version history, and it's home to the Songwriting Tools.

## Adding photos, videos and files

In a Photo, Video or Document, drag files from Finder onto the Media Files box, or click the box to choose them in your Mac's Open window (several at once, from any drive your Mac can see, including iCloud Drive, or Google Drive if its Mac app is installed). A Photo also has "Take a Photo", which works with any camera your Mac offers. A Video has no camera button: Studio in Social Hub records video, and its Show in Finder (after Use This) shows the clip on your Mac. The text documents have a Reference Images box for photos of handwritten lyrics or notes: drop them on it, click "Choose images", or take one with "Take a Photo".

## Built-in songwriting tools

- Chord Chart — look up any chord and see and hear it: Play Chord strums the guitar shape on a steel-string acoustic guitar or plays the chord on a grand piano
- Chord Finder — tap notes on the on-screen piano or fretboard (or play a MIDI keyboard) and identify the chord, with its other names under "Also could be..."
- Keys & Transposition — Theory Reference (Circle of 5ths, Intervals, Nashville Numbers, Alt Tunings), Scales & Keys, Transpose, Capo Chart, Modulation
- Song Building — Chord Progressions by genre and Song Structure planning
- Lyricist's Toolkit — Rhymes, Thesaurus & Definitions, Mood Explorer, Writing Sparks
- BPM & Metronome — the BPM Calculator and the Metronome on one page, sharing one tempo; the Metronome accents the beats and has Swing 8ths and Swing 16ths, with a Swing amount from 50% (straight) to 75% (66% is a triplet shuffle)
- Lead Sheet — a lead-sheet editor with auto-accompaniment playback, MIDI import/export, and printing

## Optional password lock

Some artists treat their lyric drafts and creative notes as deeply personal. Settings → Security lets you set a separate password just for the Artist Retreat section, on top of any app-wide password. Keeps prying eyes (or curious bandmates on a shared machine) out.

## Related articles

- [Producer's Pad](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/producers-pad.md): Track each song's production status, track by track, from writing to final master.
- [Songwriting Tools](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/songwriting-tools.md): Chord tools, keys and scales with the theory reference, chord progressions, rhymes and a thesaurus, BPM & Metronome, and the Lead Sheet editor.

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- From the MusicLaunch Help Center (Production & Recording). The same guide is built into the app under Help.
- Web page: https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/artists-corner/
- All guides: https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/llms.txt
- Support: hello@musiclaunchapp.com