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2. The window

The Timeline view with the example project

A tour in motion (the video above cycles the real screens: Timeline → Clip Launcher → Mixer → Drum Rack → device chain → command palette → Node view, with a song rendered by Nebula underneath). A note on how these are made: the pictures and GIFs in this manual are the app's own renders — its window output cannot be screen-recorded in every environment (see §19), so the "video" is a tour of real screens rather than a live capture.

Area What it is
Top bar Menus (File, Edit, View, Options, Help), the transport, tempo, the metronome, and the view buttons
Left panel The browser: instruments, effects, samples, the Content Library, your projects
Middle The current view: Timeline, Clip Launcher, Mixer or Node
Bottom panel The detail cards for whatever is selected: instrument, devices/FX, note effects, analyser, mastering, automation, log
Bottom strip The help line ("point at anything to see what it does") and the startup time

The three main views, cycling

Every control has a help line: hover it and the bottom strip explains it. If something is ever unclear, that is the fastest answer.

Updated 2026-11-02

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