Search Commands
Press Ctrl+K and type part of a command’s name to find it and run it, with its menu and keys beside it.
Presets and Reset in every plugin
Save presets of your own for any plugin, there in every project. Reset sets every control back to where it started.
Play an instrument from a guitar
Choose Guitar as a track’s MIDI input and play any instrument from your guitar, one note at a time, with slides played legato.
A narrow mixer
One button makes every channel slim, with its inserts’ power buttons, sends, pan and fader still in reach.
Track numbers
Each track’s number in its header and on its mixer channel, in the order they’re on screen.
Folders into folders
A folder track plays into another folder track, as bus tracks do.
Retrospective Record
Played something good without recording? Press Ctrl+Num * and what you just played lands on the armed track, right where you played it.
The History
Undo, Redo and History sit in the top bar. The History window lists your edits: go back to any of them, or undo one alone.
Note chase
A note already held where playback starts, or where the loop comes round, sounds there.
Sessions in tabs
Keep several sessions open, each in a tab in the title bar, and switch with Ctrl+Tab. The sessions you aren’t working in play nothing and keep their unsaved changes.
Luminosity
Pick a delivery target: Streaming, Apple Music, EBU R 128, ATSC A/85 or your own. Luminosity says in words where the cue stands and shows its loudness bar by bar.
Mix versions
Queue alternate mixes in the Export drawer, such as one without the vocals and one without the drums, and export them all in one go.
Export at another sample rate
Pick 44.1 to 192 kHz in the Export drawer, whatever rate the session runs at.
Bolide
A built-in percussion synth for kicks, toms, snares, hats, bells and hits, with a 16-step sequencer that follows the session.
Shape a whole container
Give a MIDI container fades, a level, dynamics and a transposition. Alt+D makes linked copies that change together.
Crossfades and audio edits
Crossfades take a length and a curve. The audio editor splits and glues, and every channel has a polarity key.
Free warp
Set warp markers and drag the audio onto the grid. The pitch stays.
One MIDI input per track
Set a track to hear one keyboard or controller alone.
The Performance window
Click the load meter to see the load over time, late blocks, each core’s share and the heaviest channels.
Your own shortcuts
Change the keys of any command in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts.
Count-in
One or two bars before a take, from a standstill. Notes played into it are kept as a pickup.
Bar starts, caught
A click on the ruler lands on the bar’s start, and with the magnet on the playhead follows the grid everywhere.
Hit points and timecode
A hit lane above the bars holds the moments in the picture. The transport counts down to the next one.
Loop recording and comping
Every pass becomes a take. Click the best part of each, and the parts play as one comp.
Melodyne in the arrangement
ARA 2 plugins play the track’s clips themselves and follow every move, cut and undo.
Patch delays, measured
How late each Kontakt patch plays is measured once, silently, and made up for on its track.
Stems with their reverb
The mixdown and any stems in one pass, each with its own share of the send and return effects.
Projects from other DAWs
Open a DAWproject from Bitwig, Studio One or Cubase: its tracks and folders, notes, audio, sends and VST3 plugins come in.
Templates and track presets
Save a track with its instrument, effects and mixer settings, or a whole setup as a template.
Versions and autosave
Ctrl+Alt+S saves the next numbered version. Autosave keeps the 10 newest copies.
Automation
Touch, Latch and Write for volume, pan, mute, sends and any plugin control. The Morph orb records its path too.
A touch surface
On a touch screen: keys, wheels, articulations, eight faders at a time, an XY pad for Quantum Entanglement and every shortcut as a pad, without ever taking focus.
Latency compensation
Tracks, folder buses, sends and master inserts all meet in time, in playback and in exports.
One hall for the orchestra
Stage seats every section in one stereo concert hall. Each stem keeps its own hall tail.
One instrument, many tracks
MIDI tracks share one Kontakt instance, each on its own MIDI channel and stereo return, with its own Prism map.
The selected track, at the left
The inspector holds the selected track’s routing, inserts, sends and fader, with the mixer closed.
See where each channel plays
An arrow under each channel’s name, and the selected channel’s path through its folders outlined up to the master.
Outboard gear and hardware synths
Hardware effects in insert slots and external instruments on tracks, their round trip measured and made up for.
Updates from inside the app
A new version downloads while you work, installs, and opens your session again.
CLAP plugins
CLAP instruments and effects load beside VST3. A plugin that comes in both is listed once, as the one you choose.