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Learn to play.

Synths, samplers, effects, MIDI and sound editing, with sound driving everything else. Patch a sound in a minute and keep going.

6 tutorials8 demosevery one stands alone
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Tutorials

Pick something to make.

Make sound and fix it: patch a synth you can play, clean up a field recording, turn a creak into a whoosh, tidy a podcast, make a voice sound like an old radio and write a synth line in the piano roll. Pick any of them, in any order.

Your synth's panel: Cutoff, Resonance, Attack and Release knobs above a two-octave keyboard.
First stepsFirst hour12 min

Patch a synth you can play

A synth with a saw oscillator, a filter and an envelope, played from keys on screen, with its own panel of four knobs that can open in a window.

  1. Start an oscillator
  2. Add a filter and speakers
  3. Wire up keys and an envelope
  4. Build its panel
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
A field recording of water drips after the clean-up, with each edit listed in the Stack.
First steps8 min

Clean up a field recording

Your recording with the steady background noise turned down, the rumble gone, the bumps at the start trimmed off and a gentle fade at the end, saved as a new sound file.

  1. Drop in your recording
  2. Clean the noise
  3. Cut the rumble
  4. Trim, fade and save
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
The finished whoosh: it rises out of silence to the loud part, and the plate reverb rings on after it.
First steps8 min

Turn a creak into a whoosh

A swelling whoosh for a film or a game, made from any short sound, such as a creak, a scrape or a drawer sliding shut, saved as a sound file.

  1. Play it backward
  2. Stretch it
  3. Add a plate reverb
  4. Fade it in
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
A voice recording after the tidy: a cut, a trim and Normalize to -16 LUFS in the Stack.
Getting going12 min

Tidy a podcast episode

A spoken recording with the long pauses and stumbles cut, harsh S sounds softened, the level evened out and set to -16 LUFS, the usual loudness for podcasts.

  1. Cut the pauses
  2. Soften the S sounds
  3. Even out the level
  4. Set the loudness
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
The band pass curve in the viewport: the voice keeps only a band in the middle, the sound of a small radio.
First steps8 min

Make a voice sound like an old radio

Any voice recording turned thin, crunchy and boxed in, like a voice from a small old radio, saved as a sound file.

  1. Keep only the middle
  2. Add some crunch
  3. Put it in a small speaker
  4. Squeeze it and save
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
The piano roll: the loop's notes, their velocities, and five controller lanes under them.
Getting going12 min

Draw your own bass line in the piano roll

Your own looping bass line in place of the demo's, with a filter sweep drawn under it, playing a synth you shape from its panel.

  1. Open the demo
  2. Clear it and draw notes
  3. Draw a filter sweep
  4. Shape the synth
Starts from the Midi Clip Synth demoRead the tutorial →
Demos

Pull these apart.

Open any of them from Help > Browse Demos in the app, watch it run, and change whatever you like.

Synth control panel
Beat pattern lab
Live key detectMixing consoleSound design studio
Vintage synth panel
Spectrogram terrainAudio reactive particles
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Go deeper

Guides and ideas.

Guides, under Help in the app

Audioin the app
Audio editingin the app
MIDIin the app
Plugin hostingin the app
Ableton Livein the app
Channel datain the app

Things to make

Synths→Sampling→Effects→Analysis→MIDI→Plugins→Ableton Live→Sound editing→Sound to picture→

Elsewhere

The Play page→Your first hour→The reference→Get help→

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