KiwiSynth

KiwiSynth is the built-in synthesizer. Where the Electric Piano and the drum machines have a fixed sound, KiwiSynth is fully editable, and it ships with a library of ready-made presets so you do not have to build a sound from scratch unless you want to.

Picking a preset

Open the instrument navigator with the instrument button in any melodic track editor and look for entries named KiwiSynth. Presets are organised by category: bass, lead, pad, pluck, keys, organ, strings, guitar and more. Pluck presets have their own heading rather than sitting under Guitar, because a synth pluck is a short, decaying sound with no sustain, not a guitar.

Selecting a preset loads its sound and leaves the editor closed, so you can keep writing without being interrupted. Open the editor later, only if you want to change the patch.

Starting from scratch

The navigator also lists a new, blank synth with no preset loaded. Picking it opens the editor straight away, because a blank synth only makes sense once you start shaping it.

Editing a sound

When a track is using KiwiSynth, a gear button appears next to the instrument button and opens the KiwiSynth editor. Adjust the controls and play notes to hear the changes as you make them, then close the window.

Your edits are saved with the project and attached to that track, so the sound comes back as you left it. Each track keeps its own KiwiSynth state, and editing one track's synth never changes another's.

Glide between notes is part of the preset rather than a separate switch. If you want portamento, choose a preset that has it or set it up in the editor, and the synth follows the note overlap from your sequence automatically.