Start
- Make a whole track from scratch: Your First Track
- Find a command by name: Command Palette
- Find the Gridshift name for an Ableton, FL or Logic feature: Coming from Another DAW
Sounds and beats
- Find a kick and put it on a track: Find Samples
- Find samples that sound alike: Find Samples
- Search samples by description: Smart Search
- Swap a sample while the song plays: Sample Library
- Load an instrument: Load Instruments and Effects
- Swap instrument presets during playback: Instrument Presets
- Import Serum or Vital presets: Import Presets
- Stamp a MIDI pattern onto a track: Patterns
- Add an arpeggiator or chord generator: MIDI Effects
- Play a sample across the keys: Sampler
- Chop a loop into slices: Slices
Record
- Record notes live: Record MIDI
- Enter notes step by step: Step Entry
- Keep what I just played without recording: MIDI Capture
- Play from the computer keyboard: Play with the Keyboard
- Record a microphone or guitar: Record Audio
- Count in before recording: Metronome
- Record the sound of another app: App Audio Capture
Edit
- Open a clip to edit its notes: Focus Mode
- Draw, move and resize notes: Piano Roll
- Keep notes in the key: Pitch Snap
- Draw velocities: Dynamics Mode
- Split a song into stems: Stems
- Turn audio into MIDI: Audio to MIDI
- Make a reverse reverb swell: Reverse Reverb
Timing
- Quantize notes: Quantize
- Add swing: Groove
- Stretch a loop to the project tempo: Time Stretching
- Fix a sample detected at half or double tempo: Tempo and Beat Grid
Arrange
- Add tracks: Tracks
- Group tracks: Groups
- Duplicate clips that stay in sync: Linked Clips
- Loop a section: Loop and Locators
- Mark song sections: Loop and Locators
- Change the tempo or key: Tempo, Key and Time Signature
Mix and export
- Make the low end mono: Track Mix
- Clip or limit a track: Track Mix
- Share one reverb between tracks: Sends and Returns
- Duck the bass under the kick: Ducking
- Feed a plugin’s sidechain: Sidechain
- Automate a parameter: Automation
- Export the song as WAV: Bounce and Export
- Freeze a track to audio: Bounce and Export
Projects and library
- Save a version and compare it by ear: Versions
- Leave a comment on the song: Comments
- Start every project from my template: Default Project
- Sort samples into collections: Organize Samples
Set up
- Lower the latency while I play: Settings
- Give a command its own key: Custom Shortcuts
- Map a knob to a parameter (MIDI Learn): MIDI Bindings
- Switch between speakers and headphones: Monitor Profiles
- Sync projects to iCloud: iCloud
- Connect Claude or ChatGPT: Install
Fix a problem
- Hear nothing: No Sound
- Hear a delay while playing: Latency While Playing
- Hear gaps after stretching: Gaps After Stretching
- Get more than one pass from a capture: Capture Keeps One Pass
- Load a plugin that won’t load: Plugin Won’t Load
- Find missing samples: Missing Samples
- Know what does not sync: What Doesn’t Sync
- Know what assistants can’t do: What Assistants Can’t Do