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Clip Editor

MIDI Clip Editor

Top Toolbar

Top Toolbar

  • Ghost clip: pick another clip to be displayed alongside the current one. "Switch to ghost clip" will swap the two.
  • Automation: toggle visibility of the clip automation area.
  • Undo / Redo: undo edits; long press for Redo.

Grid Options

  • Audition notes: enable to hear selected notes.
    • If transport is stopped, notes play in sequence at the current tempo — useful to preview a melody without playing the whole clip.
    • Tap on the keyboard on the left to hear a single note.

Scale Mode

  • None: notes can be moved freely on any row.
  • Highlight: notes in the project or track key will be colored; moving notes will keep them in key.
  • Show only notes in key: only rows in key are shown; moving notes will keep them in key.

Grid background: optionally use a light background.

Notes Editor

Top Bar

  • Grid size: used to quantize, split to grid, and align notes when moving.
  • Chord selector: select one or more notes → tap the note/chord name at center → select a type and inversion.
  • Clip length.

Selecting Notes

  • Tap on a single note.
  • Long press and drag to select multiple notes.
  • Tap on the keyboard on the left to select all notes of a pitch.
  • Double-tap to select all notes.
  • Double-tap on the ruler to select all notes that intersect the playhead.

Moving Notes

  • By dragging.
  • Or with the arrow buttons (toggle visibility with the four-arrows button).

Change note length by dragging the handle on the right of the note.

Toolbar (left to right)

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  1. Plus — add notes
  2. Brush — add several notes on the same pitch; length is determined by grid size
  3. Step input recording — record one step at a time via MIDI or on-screen keyboard
  4. Duplicate selected notes
  5. Copy selected notes
  6. Paste selected notes at the playhead position
    • Move the playhead by tapping or dragging the beat numbers bar
    • Paste notes velocity (long press on the paste button): applies the velocity of copied notes repeatedly. For example, copying two notes (100 and 80) and pasting velocity onto 5 notes results in: 100, 80, 100, 80, 100.
  7. Trash — delete selected notes
  8. Change notes velocity
  9. Quantize notes
  10. Legato — extend notes up to the following ones
  11. Split note at playhead — select notes, move the playhead, then tap Split
  12. Split notes to grid — select notes, choose a grid value, tap Split; notes will be split at every grid intersection

Loop Markers

Set start and end points to loop a portion of a clip.

Crop the part delimited by the loop markers by tapping the crop button.

Step Input Recording

Enables step-by-step note entry via MIDI keyboard.

Advancing the Step

  • Entering a note via MIDI keyboard automatically advances to the next step.
  • Disable auto-advance by deselecting the advance button — this allows multiple notes to be inserted in the same step.
  • Use the advance button to manually advance (i.e. insert a rest/pause).
  • Alternatively, tap on the editor to manually select a step.

Toggling Steps

Toggle a step (note) by pressing a key on the MIDI keyboard. Each note can be turned on or off by hitting the corresponding key.

MIDI Controller Navigation

  • Enter step editor via the Enter command inside the clip editor.
  • Navigate steps via Left / Right commands.
  • Toggle the step by hitting a key on the MIDI keyboard.

Automation

Pick a parameter to automate. Available parameters:

  • Volume or pan of a track
  • MIDI pitch bend, program change, or controllers
  • Any track plugin parameter

Points snap to the grid (set at the top of the clip editor). Disable by setting grid to "off".

Select points by long press and dragging, or tap individual points.

Automation Toolbar

  • Plus — add a single point
  • Brush — tap and move to add multiple points
  • Trash — delete selected points
  • Curve switch — determines whether values are ramped or stepped. Parameters with on/off values or "Program Change" should typically not be ramped.

Audio Clip Editor

Use the audio editor to make destructive or non-destructive edits to audio material inside a clip.

  • Select audio
    Select a region of the waveform to target edit operations.

Toolbar

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  • Copy / Paste
    Copy the selected region and paste it at the playhead or current insertion point.

  • Crop
    Keep only the selected audio and remove everything outside the selection.

  • Erase (replace with silence)
    Remove the selected content while preserving timing by replacing it with silence.

  • Gain
    Open a dB slider to raise or lower level. Applies to the selected region; if nothing is selected, applies to the loop range or the entire clip.

  • Fade in
    Apply a volume ramp from silence to full level at the start of the selected region.

  • Fade out
    Apply a volume ramp from full level to silence at the end of the selected region.

  • Normalize
    Adjust the selected audio gain to raise overall level while preventing clipping.

  • Flip (reverse)
    Reverse playback direction of the selected audio region.

  • Change pitch
    Shift the pitch of selected audio up or down.

  • Stretch
    Time-stretch selected audio to make it longer or shorter.

  • Split into clips
    Split the current audio content into multiple clips based on the current selection/split point. The resulting clips will be inserted into a new track.

  • Automatic preview of selected audio
    The editor can automatically audition the selected region when it changes.

    • Turn this off by tapping the speaker button speaker button in the top-left corner.
    • Trigger preview manually with the play button button on the top-right corner.