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Record MIDI and audio

Task: capture a live performance — MIDI from a keyboard, or audio from an input — onto a track. Assumes you've done Your first track.

Record MIDI

  1. Select an instrument track (click its header). MIDI records into the selected instrument track; if none is selected, it goes to the first one.
  2. Play some notes to check you're being heard — the track's live-MIDI LED pulses green when notes arrive.
  3. Press the toolbar Record button (or set a Loop region first to loop-record — see below). Recording starts.
  4. Play. Press Stop (or Record again) to finish — your performance becomes a clip on that track.

No keyboard? Draw instead

You don't need to record to make MIDI — click notes into the STEPS grid or PIANO roll in the editor. Recording is for playing a part in live.

Record audio

Audio tracks capture from your audio input.

  1. Add an audio source (or an empty audio track), then arm it: click the red ● button in the track header. Arm every audio track you want to capture — Record captures all armed audio tracks at once.
  2. Press the toolbar Record. Gloopy opens a 24-bit take file per armed track.
  3. Press Stop to finish; the recording lands as an audio clip on the track.

Punch in and out

To re-record just a section, set a punch region: Alt-drag across the arrangement ruler to mark the in/out range (it shows as a red brace). Recording only writes inside that range. Alt-double-click the ruler clears it.

Loop-record and stack takes

Turn on Loop (toolbar) with a region set, then Record. Each time the loop wraps, Gloopy keeps the previous pass as a muted take and starts a fresh one — so you can play a phrase several times and choose the best after. Comping those takes is its own recipe → Comp, promote, and clean up takes.

Count-in, monitoring, and record format

A metronome count-in, input monitoring, and the record format (WAV/FLAC) are set through the control API rather than a desktop control — arm and monitoring options live on the recording RPCs. The Metro toolbar button toggles the click itself.

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