This page covers the four main areas of the Kiwisonic sequencer: the Arrangement, Track List, Melody Editor, and Mixer. It also shows a typical songwriting work
Read guide →The compose toolbar sits above the note grid in every melodic editor (Piano, Wind, Strings). It's a four-icon row that drives pattern generation. Pick one of th
Read guide →Next-note suggestions show you a set of rated, plain-language options for the next note — right at your insert cursor on the piano roll. Hover one to hear it, c
Read guide →The FlowPad is a 3x3 grid — like the numpad on your keyboard — showing the chords in your key, color-coded by how naturally they follow what you just played. Pr
Read guide →The phrase contour is a hand-drawn shape — a spline curve laid over the piano roll — that tells the melody generator the arc you want the line to follow. You dr
Read guide →Lock & Reroll lets you protect specific notes in a pattern and regenerate the rest. It works in the piano roll and all melodic editors (wind, strings, bass).
Read guide →The Circle is the second view in the theory panel — the classic two-ring wheel. The outer ring holds the twelve major chords, the inner ring holds each one's re
Read guide →When you generate a melody with the Composed style or a pad with the Background source, Kiwisonic doesn't treat the section in isolation — it reads your whole s
Read guide →When several tracks crowd the same frequencies, the mix turns muddy — the bass and a
Read guide →A generated track follows another track and writes its own part from it — automatically, and
Read guide →A [generated track](generated-tracks.md) writes its own part by following another track. A short
Read guide →KiwiSynth can make its own notes — its arpeggiator, motif generator, and scripts all play
Read guide →Most of Kiwisonic's effects apply to a whole track or a whole section. Note effects are different — they apply to one note. A single sustained chord that gets a
Read guide →Automation lets you draw a parameter's value across a section instead of leaving it static. A reverb that opens up into the chorus, a filter sweep that builds f
Read guide →Critique tells you, per note, why the section sounds the way it does. Run it on a passage that "feels off" and it marks the notes that don't fit — with a label
Read guide →The Audio Clip Editor lets you drop pre-recorded audio (WAV, AIFF, FLAC, OGG) directly onto a track and place it on the section's timeline. Useful for adding vo
Read guide →This page explains how drum tracks work in Kiwisonic.
Read guide →This page explains how guitar tracks work in Kiwisonic. All guitar-specific terminology is explained as it appears.
Read guide →This page explains how bowed string tracks work in Kiwisonic. The strings editor is designed for violin, viola, cello, and string ensemble parts. All terminolog
Read guide →This page explains how wind instrument tracks work in Kiwisonic. The wind editor is designed for trumpet, saxophone, flute, clarinet, and similar instruments. A
Read guide →Kiwisonic ships with built-in instruments so you can start writing straight away — nothing to install. There are two kinds:
Read guide →KiwiSynth is Kiwisonic's built-in synthesizer. Where the [Electric Piano](ep.md) and the drum machines have a fixed sound, KiwiSynth is fully editable — and it
Read guide →A warm FM electric piano inspired by the Rhodes. A bright "bell" transient at the start of each note settles into a clean, sustained body — the classic electric
Read guide →A fully synthesized Roland TR-808 drum machine. Each drum sound is built from scratch using the same techniques as the original hardware — sine waves, noise bur
Read guide →A fully synthesized Roland TR-909 drum machine. Like the [TR-808](tr-808.md), every sound is generated from scratch rather than sampled — but the 909 is tuned f
Read guide →The Mixer is where you balance your song: set how loud each track is, place it
Read guide →Every track in Kiwisonic has a built-in effect chain. Effects are processed in order by the native audio engine for low-latency playback.
Read guide →Most effects in Kiwisonic act on a single track. Master bus effects act on the whole mix at once — every track summed together — so they are the place for glue
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