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Walk through the setup

Click Continue on each of the three pages: plugins, samples, iCloud. Skip Setup closes it at any point; everything it asks is also in Settings.

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Scan your plugins

Click Scan for Plugins on the first page. Gridshift finds the Audio Unit instruments and effects installed on your Mac and reports how many of each it found; then click Continue.

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Bring in your samples

Click Import Samples and MIDI Files… and pick a folder. Gridshift copies its samples and patterns into its own library, and the folders inside become tags. Leave Smart sample search ticked to find sounds by description, then click Continue.

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Choose what syncs to iCloud

Leave Sync projects on to see your projects, their versions and comments in the iPhone and iPad app. Turn on Sync samples to upload every sample so your other Macs and the iPhone can play them, then click Done.

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Good to know

  • Every choice is the same switch as in Settings. Change any of them later under Gridshift → Settings → Library (Settings).
  • Skip Setup ends it for good. Escape does the same. A page’s choices apply when you move on from it, so skipping leaves the current page and the ones after it as they were.
  • The Smart Search download starts when you click Continue. It is a one-time 170 MB download that keeps running after the setup closes, and after a quit. See Smart Search.
  • Sync samples spends your iCloud storage. The page says how much your library would upload before you switch it on; a small copy of each sound stays on this Mac. See iCloud.
  • Gridshift follows the macOS appearance. It has no light or dark setting of its own; choose Light, Dark or Auto in System Settings → Appearance.
  • The setup shows once. A launch that quits halfway through it shows it again; an install that already has scanned plugins never shows it.
  • Settings, tags and collections sync to your other Macs whatever you choose on the third page. The two switches add projects and sample audio.
  • Sync projects starts on, Sync samples starts off.
  • The third page has a link to the TestFlight invite for Gridshift for iPhone and iPad (iPhone and iPad).
  • Crash reports are not asked about here. After a crash, a banner asks, with Always send; the same switch is in Settings → Privacy.
  • To rescan plugins later, run Command Palette → Scan All Plugins, or Scan for New Plugins for only the ones installed since.
Last modified on October 22, 2026