How-to guides¶

Task-focused recipes for the user-facing app. Each solves one real problem and assumes you've done Your first track.

Recording and takes¶

Record MIDI and audio — arm, record, punch, loop-record.
Comp, promote, and clean up takes — pick the best of several loop-recorded passes.

Arrange with the Session view — the clip-launch grid, and moving a jam into the song.
Add insert effects and balance a mix — the mixer, effect chains, and levels.
Route to a bus and set up a shared reverb send — aux sends and submix groups.
Automate a parameter — keyframes, curves, and when to use an LFO or MIDI-learn instead.
Zoom and navigate the timeline — multi-axis zoom, scrollbars, marquee, and presets.
Link clips to edit them together — shared patterns, so one edit updates every repeat.
Change time signature mid-song — meter changes at any bar, without moving your notes.

Play real drums with a DrumKit — a sampled, multi-pad kit on one track, edited in the step grid.

Generate a clip's notes from code — script a clip's notes in Common Lisp or Python, then generate or live-drive them.

Export the mix, a range, a track, or stems — offline audio bounces from the File menu.
Browse content and pin favorites — the browser sidebar.
Version your project with git — history, branches, and sharing.

Driving Gloopy from code?

Every operation here is also scriptable — see Control & scripting and its gRPC / OSC references.