The sequencer is the four connected panels you write in: the track list, the
Read guide →The compose toolbar sits above the note grid in every melodic editor. It is a
Read guide →Next-note suggestions show a set of rated, plain-language options for the next
Read guide →The FlowPad is a three-by-three grid, laid out like the numpad on your
Read guide →A phrase contour is a shape you draw over the piano roll to tell the melody
Read guide →Lock and reroll protects the notes you want to keep and regenerates everything
Read guide →The Circle is the second view in the theory panel, the classic two-ring wheel.
Read guide →When you generate a melody with the Composed style, or a pad with the
Read guide →When several tracks crowd the same frequencies the mix turns muddy: the bass
Read guide →There are two ways to lay out a song, and they work on the same tracks and
Read guide →The Generate page lays down a whole arrangement, melody, bass, drums and pad,
Read guide →A generated track follows another track and writes its own part from it, again
Read guide →A [generated track](generated-tracks.md) writes its own part by following
Read guide →KiwiSynth can make its own notes: the arpeggiator, the motif generator and
Read guide →Most effects apply to a whole track or a whole section. Note effects apply to
Read guide →Automation draws a parameter's value across a section instead of leaving it
Read guide →Critique tells you, note by note, why a section sounds the way it does. Run it
Read guide →The audio clip editor puts pre-recorded audio on a track: vocals, recorded
Read guide →A drum track is a step sequencer: a grid of on and off buttons. Each row is one
Read guide →A guitar track is not a piano roll. You write chord symbols and a strumming
Read guide →The strings editor is for violin, viola, cello and string ensemble parts. It is
Read guide →The wind editor is for trumpet, saxophone, flute, clarinet and similar
Read guide →Kiwisonic ships with built-in instruments, so there is nothing to install
Read guide →KiwiSynth is the built-in synthesizer. Where the [Electric Piano](ep.md) and
Read guide →A warm FM electric piano inspired by the Rhodes. A bright bell transient at the
Read guide →A fully synthesized Roland TR-808 drum machine. Each sound is built from
Read guide →A Roland TR-909 built the way the original was. The kick, snare, toms and
Read guide →The mixer is where you balance the song: how loud each track is, where it sits
Read guide →Every track has a built-in effect chain. The effects run in the native audio
Read guide →Most effects act on one track. The master bus chain acts on the whole mix at
Read guide →Shape category, section-level.
Read guide →Shape category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Character category, section-level.
Read guide →Shape category, section-level.
Read guide →Shape category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Shape category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Color category, section-level.
Read guide →Color category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Color category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Color category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Space category, section-level.
Read guide →Space category, section-level.
Read guide →Color category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Color category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Space category, section-level.
Read guide →Space category, section-level.
Read guide →Color category, instrument-level.
Read guide →Character category, section-level.
Read guide →Character category, section-level.
Read guide →This gets you from an empty chord strip to a verse and a chorus that sound
Read guide →This walks a drum pattern from an empty grid to something you would keep. It
Read guide →This takes a fresh guitar track through to a verse and chorus that sound like
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