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iCloud Integration keeps your projects, presets, and settings in sync across every Mac signed in to the same Apple ID. Sign in on each Mac and Gridshift keeps the following in sync automatically:
  • Projects — your .gsp project bundles, including embedded audio, version history, and the project’s comment list.
  • Effect Presets — see Presets.
  • Monitor Profiles — see Monitor Profiles.
  • Plugin Categories — see Plugin Categories.
  • Sample Library annotations — your favorites, tags, collections, play mode and sampler settings, detected BPM and key, hand-placed transient markers, manual tempo corrections, and the Trash. See Sample Library.
  • Controller Profiles, ducking curves, and saved parts — the shapes and maps you build once and reuse.
  • Keyboard shortcuts, MIDI bindings, and sidebar favorites — the customizations that follow you from one Mac to the next.
Sample audio is the one thing that stays on this Mac until you ask otherwise — see Back up sample audio.

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CloudKit project sync

Alongside the files, Gridshift publishes a lightweight CloudKit projection of every project in your iCloud library, whether or not it’s currently open — its name, description, tempo, track list, and artwork thumbnail; a record per saved version; and its comment list — so the iOS Companion can browse and play your work from a handful of small records instead of downloading the whole bundle. The companion reads your sample library from the same projection — identities, collections, and a waveform drawing per sample — and writes favorites, tags, collection changes, and deletions back. Project sync is on by default; the switch is under Gridshift → Settings → Library.
Bounce audio is its own record type, uploaded separately, and the companion only fetches one when someone presses play — browsing the project list never pulls audio.

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Back up sample audio

A project is a few megabytes; a sample library is routinely hundreds of gigabytes. So sample audio has a switch of its own, and it starts off. Both switches below live under Gridshift → Settings → Library, in the iCloud section; each shows its status on the line beneath it. The small copy is the whole sample as mono AAC at 64 kbps — roughly 1.5 % of a stereo CD-rate original. It is what a second Mac and the iOS Companion browse and audition with, so the phone plays your library without ever downloading a full file. MIDI patterns go up without one, and are never offloaded either: they are already smaller than a copy would be.
Optimize Mac storage deletes local sample files. It only removes a file that is already backed up and not in use, and never while the transport is playing — but switching it back off does not bring them back. They return one at a time, as you use them — or ahead of time: select samples in the library, right-click, and choose Download from iCloud.

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Gridshift folder in iCloud Drive

Projects, presets, and the rest of the reusable pieces live as files in iCloud Drive. Open Finder and navigate to iCloud Drive → Gridshift to see:
Saving (⌘S) and the Open Project… file picker both default to the Projects folder. You can organize it any way you like — Gridshift watches the folder and updates the project browser automatically when files arrive from another Mac.

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Download progress

When you open a project that isn’t on your Mac yet, Gridshift shows a Downloading from iCloud… indicator with progress while the bundle is fetched. Once it’s local, loading continues straight into the project. Large projects with embedded audio may take a few seconds on the first open.
Last modified on October 3, 2026