Timeline & clips
Quick steps
- Add tracks from the track header menu; arm for recording, mute/solo from the header or mixer.
- Drag audio from Library → Samples onto a track; enable Auto-stretch in Settings if you want tempo sync on import.
- Double-click a MIDI clip to open the Piano roll (bottom panel).
- Right-click clips for render, freeze, linked copies, stem separation, and audio-to-MIDI.
Details
The arrange view is the centre of the window — a scrolling, zoomable grid with bar ruler, track headers, and a moving playhead.
Recording & editing
- Arm a track, press Record on the transport — clips grow live on the timeline.
- Edit / Select / Slice tools, rubber-band multi-select, duplicate, reverse, and slice from the timeline toolbar.
- Automation lanes — right-click a control → Create automation track; lanes appear under the track.
Comping
Loop-record into take lanes, pick the best regions, then flatten the comp.
Ripple edit
- Ctrl+Shift+I — insert a bar at the playhead
- Ctrl+Shift+Backspace — delete a bar and close the gap
Render clip to new track
Right-click any MIDI clip, audio clip, or group summary → Render clip to new track to bake the full FX chain into a new audio clip below.