Tracks and clips

Track types

The DAW has two track types:

• Audio track - holds audio clips dragged from your gallery, uploaded files, or AI Music generations
• MIDI track - holds MIDI notes you draw or import. Click a MIDI clip to open the Piano Roll for editing.

Add a track by clicking the + Add Track button above the timeline and choosing Audio or MIDI.

Adding clips

You have four ways to get a clip onto an audio track:

1. Drag from My Gallery - your previously-generated songs
2. Drag from Samples / SFX - curated content
3. AI Music tab - generate a new track inline and it lands on a track
4. Library upload - the up-arrow icon above the search picks files from your computer, uploads them to your gallery, and drops them on the next available track

Drop position respects the Snap setting. Default snap is 1 beat. Toggle Snap off to drop at any time position.

Moving clips

• Drag horizontally to reposition. Snap applies if it is on.
• Drag between tracks to move a clip from one track to another. The track must be of the same type (audio cannot move to a MIDI track).
• Hold Shift while dragging to bypass snap temporarily.

Trimming and splitting

• Drag the right edge of a clip to shorten or extend it. Extending past the original length loops the source audio.
• Drag the left edge to trim the start.
• Right-click a clip for the context menu - split, duplicate, delete, rename, change color.
• Shift + S while a clip is selected splits it at the playhead position.

The transport bar

The time display to the right of transport shows current position in bars (1.1.1 means bar 1, beat 1, sub-beat 1) and clock time (00:00:00).

For a full walkthrough of recording a mic or instrument, see Recording live audio.

Snap and zoom

Above the timeline there is a control bar:

• Zoom slider (10 to 400 percent) plus zoom-in / zoom-out / fit-to-view (F) buttons. Higher zoom shows more detail per second.
• Snap toggle - turns grid snap on or off. The dropdown next to it picks the snap value (1 bar, 1/2 bar, 1 beat, 1/2 beat, 1/4 beat).

A blue playhead line marks the current playback position. Click anywhere on the ruler to jump the playhead.

Loop region

To loop a section of your timeline, drag the loop region handles in the ruler. The shaded area is the loop. Click the Loop transport button to toggle whether playback follows the loop.

Track header controls

Each track has its own header with:

• Track name - click to rename
• Volume slider - 0 to 100, where 75 is unity (0 dB, no change). Above 75 is boost, up to +12 dB at the top of travel. The tinted zone on the fader shows you where that line is.
• Lock - freezes this track's level so a stray drag cannot move it
• Pan slider - left / right balance
• M - mute
• S - solo (only soloed tracks play)
• R - record-arm
• A - automation lane (volume / pan envelopes)

Working with MIDI

When you add a MIDI track, double-click any MIDI clip to open the Piano Roll modal. Inside:

• Draw notes on the grid
• Set velocity in the lane below
• Quantize to 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, or 1/32 notes
• Import or export MIDI files (top-left and top-right buttons)

Close the modal with the X or by clicking outside it. Edits commit when you click Apply.

Turn a stem into MIDI

Select an audio clip of a melodic part (bass, keys, guitar, or a vocal line) and use To MIDI to detect its notes and place them on a new MIDI track, ready to edit in the piano roll or re-voice with a different instrument. Note detection loads the first time you use it. Drums and other unpitched material are skipped, since there is no pitch to detect.

Saving your arrangement

The DAW auto-saves to local storage every 30 seconds, and you can click Save at any time to persist the project to your account. See Getting started for the full save flow.

Where to go next

• Effects and rack - shape your sound
• Export and render - render the final mix