Documentation

Everything, written down.

Searchable, linkable and free to read without an account. If something here does not answer your question, that is a gap in the manual and we want to hear about it.

Getting started

Install and activate

Set up on macOS, Windows or Linux and enter your licence key.

Choose an audio device

Buffer size, sample rate, and what to do about xruns.

Your first pattern

Enter notes, set the tempo, and hear something in five minutes.

Moving from another DAW

Where the familiar things live, and what is deliberately different.

Pattern editor

Entering notes

Keyboard layout, octaves, and the record modes.

Effect columns

Per-row commands for volume, pan, pitch and retrigger.

Selections and transforms

Transpose, humanise, interpolate and reverse across a block.

Patterns on the timeline

Arranging, cloning, and where a pattern copy stops being a copy.

Mixer and effects

The channel strip

Filters, gate, compressor and the four-band EQ.

Groups and sends

Bus routing, and how latency compensation is handled.

The master chain

Limiter, drive, and metering that agrees with your exports.

Hosting plugins

Scanning VST3 and AudioUnit, and what to do about a crash.

Sampler and instruments

Loading and slicing

Transient and bar slicing, and pitch-locked playback.

Keyzones and layers

Mapping a multisample across the keyboard.

Modulation

Envelopes, LFOs and assignable destinations.

The synth

Two oscillators, filter, and the modulation matrix.

Account and licensing

Licence keys

Activation, transferring machines, and offline activation.

Marketplace purchases

Installing, updating and reinstalling what you bought.

Updates and versions

What the update plan covers, and how to stay on an older build.

Refunds

The fourteen-day window and how to start a return.

Reference

Keyboard shortcuts.

The ones worth memorising first. The full list ships with the program under Help, and it is printable.

Transport

Play or stop

Space

Toggle record

Shift

Play from cursor

Enter

Toggle loop

L

Editing

Duplicate selection

CtrlD

Interpolate

CtrlI

Transpose semitone

F2/F3

Humanise

CtrlShiftH

Navigation

Next track

Tab

Previous or next pattern

Ctrl←→

Jump one beat

PageUp

Go to row

CtrlG