Head Chef 1 User Guide
Index
Every control, menu command, message and term in this guide, with the sections that explain it.
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- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- (Control Surface)
- Connect your hardware · Control surfaces
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · What the surface controls
- Workflows · Use an AI assistant
- + Built-in Effect
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- + Drop plugin or synth here to create track
- Tracks · From a context menu or a button
- + Effect
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- + Insert above
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- + Mix Win
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · Arrange and Mix are two views of one session
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Mixing · Open the Mix view and the Mix Window
- + New Jam
- Interface overview · Studio and Jam are two places to work
- The workspace · Studio and Jam
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- + Plugin
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Plugins · Add a plugin from a channel
- + Region Ed
- The workspace · The toolbar
- MIDI and instruments · Edit notes in the piano roll
- + Return
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- + Section
- Jam Console · Build a song from sections
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- + Third-party Plugin
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Plugins · Add a plugin from a channel
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- + Track
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- -2.5 dB
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the pan depth
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- -3.0 dB (Default)
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the pan depth
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- -4.5 dB
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the pan depth
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- -6.0 dB (Linear)
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the pan depth
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- 0 dB
- Jam Console · Set overall volume
- 1 Bar
- Transport and navigation · Count in before recording
- Recording audio · Use a count-in
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- 1/16
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- 1/32
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- 1/4
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- 1/8
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- 16-bit PCM
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample format
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- 176.4 kHz
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample rate
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- 192 kHz
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- 192.0 kHz
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample rate
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- 2 Bars
- Transport and navigation · Count in before recording
- Recording audio · Use a count-in
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- 24-bit PCM
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample format
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- 32 and 64 sample buffers minimize monitoring latency but increase real-time CPU load.
- Connect your hardware · Choose a buffer size
- Recording audio · Latency
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- 32-bit float
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample format
- Rendering your mix · Choose dither
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- 32-bit PCM
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample format
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- 4 Bars
- Transport and navigation · Count in before recording
- Recording audio · Use a count-in
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- 44.1 kHz
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample rate
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- 48 kHz
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- 48.0 kHz
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample rate
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- 88.2 kHz
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample rate
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- 92,693 BPM
- The workspace · Language and number formats
- 96 kHz
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- 96.0 kHz
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample rate
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- [ Keep change ]
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- What's new in Head Chef 1 · Jam
- [ Revert ]
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- What's new in Head Chef 1 · Jam
A
- A mix render is already running.
- Rendering your mix · If a render does not start
- A mix render is already running. Wait for it or cancel it first.
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- A plugin stopped responding. Save your session, then press Play to restore its saved sound, or remove it.
- Plugins · If a plugin stops
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- A plugin stopped. Press Play to restore its saved sound, or remove it.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- A session can hold up to 16384 MIDI notes.
- Troubleshooting · Performance and memory
- Absolute Grid
- Editing audio · Grid options
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- ACTIVE
- Transport and navigation · Count in before recording
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Active channel insert slots
- Plugins · Add a plugin from a channel
- Add Effect Return
- The workspace · The menus
- Tracks · From the Track menu
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Menu reference · Track
- Add Folder
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Add Instrument
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Add drums
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Other ways to start
- Tracks · From the Track menu
- MIDI and instruments · Add an instrument track
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Menu reference · Track
- Add Instrument Track
- The workspace · The menus
- Tracks · From the Track menu
- Tracks · From a context menu or a button
- MIDI and instruments · Add an instrument track
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Menu reference · Track header
- Menu reference · Empty space in Arrange and Mix
- Add Instrument Track…
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Tracks · From a context menu or a button
- Add marker
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Add Mono Audio Track
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Tracks · From the Track menu
- Tracks · From a context menu or a button
- Recording audio · Before you record
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Track header
- Menu reference · Empty space in Arrange and Mix
- Add or record musical material before saving this Jam.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Add or record musical material before using this Jam in Studio.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Add Plugin
- Plugins · Add a plugin from a channel
- Add send
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Add to Studio session →
- Jam Console · Use a jam in Studio
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Add Track
- The workspace · The menus
- Tracks · From the Track menu
- Tracks · Name and color tracks
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Recording audio · Before you record
- MIDI and instruments · Add an instrument track
- Mixing · Use channel presets
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Mouse and trackpad · Click
- Mouse and trackpad · Mix channel strips
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Menu reference · Track header
- Menu reference · Empty space in Arrange and Mix
- Add Track…
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The toolbar
- The workspace · Use the More menu
- Tracks · From the Add Track dialog
- Plugins · Drag plugins onto tracks
- Mouse and trackpad · Plugins from the Plugin Browser
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Added instrument
- The workspace · The status bar
- Additional plugin folder
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Settings reference · Plugin folders
- AIFF
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Air Pad
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- All
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- All Channels (Omni)
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Settings reference · MIDI keyboard settings
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- All Connected Keyboards (Auto)
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Connect your hardware · Use more than one keyboard
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Settings reference · MIDI keyboard settings
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- All controls
- MIDI and instruments · Browse and shape Mini Bar sounds
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- All Notes Off
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Connect your hardware · Sustain, pitch bend and other controls
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- All supported sessions
- Sessions · Open a session
- Importing audio and projects · Open a project from another music app
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- File formats · Projects from other music apps
- Allow Head Chef to use the microphone in System Settings, refresh inputs, then press Record again.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Allowed
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Already at the earliest retained roll.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Amp
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Amp and Tuner
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Recording audio · Record another take over the song
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- An earlier recording is ready to recover. Keep it in this session or dismiss it.
- Recording audio · Where takes are stored
- ANALOG MAGIC
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Analysing audio…
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Anchor
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- Apply
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · Choose a buffer size
- Connect your hardware · Read the latency line
- Connect your hardware · Headphones and speakers
- Transport and navigation · Repeat a section
- MIDI and instruments · Change the clip length
- Tempo and session settings · Open Session Settings
- Tempo and session settings · Set the tempo
- Tempo and session settings · Set the time signature
- Tempo and session settings · An assumed time signature
- Tempo and session settings · Move a tempo change
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the pan depth
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Apply or cancel the open ARA edit before continuing.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Apply point
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- ARA 2
- Glossary
- Arcade Kit
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Arm
- Tracks · Read the track header
- Tracks · Arm
- Tracks · Arm a track for recording
- Recording audio · Arm the track
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Mouse and trackpad · Mix channel strips
- Arm one empty mono audio track to record a take.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Arrange
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · Switch between Arrange and Mix
- The workspace · The toolbar
- The workspace · The menus
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Arrange Letter Shortcuts (A–Z)
- How Head Chef works · Selection and keyboard focus
- The workspace · The menus
- Editing audio · Letter shortcuts
- Coming from another music app · Single keys in Arrange
- Keyboard shortcuts · Turn the Arrange letter shortcuts on or off
- Keyboard shortcuts · Arrange Letter Shortcuts (A–Z)
- Menu reference · Edit
- Menu reference · View
- Menu reference · Options
- Settings reference · Options menu
- Arrange Mix Layer
- The workspace · The menus
- Mixing · Mix in Arrange
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- assumed
- Tempo and session settings · An assumed time signature
- AUDIO
- Mixing · Read a channel strip
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Mouse and trackpad · Plugins from the Plugin Browser
- Audio Engine
- How Head Chef works · One history for the whole session
- Menu reference · Settings
- Audio Engine…
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · What a session holds
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Recording audio · Give Head Chef microphone access
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording audio · Latency
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Mixing · Main
- Menu reference · Settings
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Audio import failed. Try the files again.
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Audio interface
- Glossary
- Audio output unavailable
- Transport and navigation · Play the chef's hat sound
- Audio tracks…
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- audio.exportSources
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- audio.exportTracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Auto
- Recording audio · Before you record
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Recording audio · Record another take over the song
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Plugins · Hear an input and record a dry take
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Automation
- Plugins · Tune, compare and save sounds
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- AUX RETURN
- Mixing · Read a channel strip
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
B
- Back to Edit
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Back to Jam
- Jam Console · Open Jam
- Jam Console · Save and manage jams
- BACKING BAND
- Jam Console · Find your way around the Console
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- BAND
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Bar
- Tempo and session settings · Move a tempo change
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Bars
- MIDI and instruments · Change the clip length
- BARS | BEATS | TICKS
- How Head Chef works · Clock formats
- Transport and navigation · Read the clock
- Bars|Beats
- Transport and navigation · Set the time display
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Bass
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Bass note
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Beat
- Tempo and session settings · Move a tempo change
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Below loudness gate
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Best
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- File formats · Drag and drop: every supported format
- Bip
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Bit depth
- Glossary
- Blocked
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Blocked. Allow Head Chef in System Settings
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Bring into Jam
- Jam Console · Explore Studio material in Jam
- Broad Section
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Broadcast Wave (BWF)
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Browse
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- Browse…
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Buffer Size
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- Glossary
- Build song
- Jam Console · Build a song from sections
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Byp
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- Bypass
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Glossary
- Bypass Clip Gain
- Editing audio · Add fades
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain badge
- Bypass strip
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
C
- Cancel
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Getting started · Create a session
- How Head Chef works · Preparing playback
- The workspace · The status bar
- Sessions · Create a session
- Sessions · Close a session
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- Transport and navigation · Rewind and forward
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Importing audio and projects · Save the result
- Recording audio · Cancel a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Editing audio · The cursor
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- MIDI and instruments · Change the clip length
- MIDI and instruments · Preparing playback
- Tempo and session settings · Open Session Settings
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Jam Console · Save and manage jams
- Jam Console · Use a jam in Studio
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Plugins · Play from another point
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Cancel import
- The workspace · The status bar
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Cancel Playback
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- Menu reference · Transport
- Cancel Recording Start
- Recording audio · Cancel a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Menu reference · Transport
- Cancel Render
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Troubleshooting · A session does not open
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Cannot open audio
- Sessions · Move, copy or back up a session
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Troubleshooting · A session does not open
- Cannot read plugin folder
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Cannot save audio
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Cannot save session
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Cannot trim before the timeline begins.
- Editing audio · Drag an edge
- Chain
- How Head Chef works · The signal path
- Mixing · Work in the Inspector
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Plugins · Add a plugin from a channel
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Plugins · Open plugin windows
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- Plugins · If a plugin stops
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Change instrument
- MIDI and instruments · Change the instrument on a track
- Change project sample rate
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Changes after rendering started are not included.
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Change…
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- MIDI and instruments · Change the instrument on a track
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Channel
- Glossary
- CHANNEL CONTROLS
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- CHANNEL INSERTS
- Plugins · Drag plugins onto tracks
- Channel preset…
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- Mixing · Use channel presets
- Channel strip
- Glossary
- Channels
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Char Press
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Character
- Mixing · Work in the Inspector
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Checking audio inputs
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Checking plugins
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Chicken Strip
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Chicken Strip…
- Mixing · Mix in Arrange
- Choose a non-empty clip range inside the source audio.
- Editing audio · Trim to the cursor
- Editing audio · Type the source range
- Choose a recording input for the armed track.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Choose an empty audio track for a new take.
- Tracks · Arm
- Choose an input to record.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Choose audio at the session rate of
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Choose files within the session's 128 source-channel limit.
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Choose Folder…
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Choose input…
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Tracks · Read the track header
- Recording audio · Give Head Chef microphone access
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Choose None for dither when rendering 32-bit float WAV.
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Choose Output…
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Choose return
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Chord
- Glossary
- CHORD SEQUENCE
- Jam Console · Find your way around the Console
- Jam Console · Try chords and explore harmony
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- CHORUS
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- CLAP
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- File formats · Plugins
- Clavinet
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Clean
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- Clear
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Clear search
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Click
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Transport and navigation · Turn on the metronome
- Click Level
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Click Mode
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- CLICK OFF
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- CLICK ON
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Click Record to get ready. Space or F12 starts the take.
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Clip
- Glossary
- CLIP EDITING
- Editing audio · Letter shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts · Turn the Arrange letter shortcuts on or off
- Clip Gain
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain badge
- Glossary
- Clip Gain Badges
- The workspace · The menus
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain badge
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Clip Gain Line
- The workspace · The menus
- Editing audio · Draw a gain line
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain line
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Clip is locked. Unlock the clip first.
- Editing audio · Lock or mute a clip
- CLIPPING
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Glossary
- Clips
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · The Tracks list and Clips list
- Mouse and trackpad · Tracks list and Clips list
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Clips cannot be nudged while Ripple mode is on.
- Editing audio · Nudge a clip
- Clock drift
- Glossary
- Clock drift warning
- Connect your hardware · Read the sample rate and clock line
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Clock locked
- Connect your hardware · Read the sample rate and clock line
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Close
- Getting started · Write a keys part
- The workspace · Show the Inspector and Editor
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Sessions · Close a session
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Recording audio · Choose the recording input
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Edit notes in the piano roll
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Type note values
- Mixing · Work in the Inspector
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Keyboard shortcuts · Open the Keyboard Shortcuts reference
- Menu reference · File
- Close a plugin window before opening another.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Coalesce
- Tracks · Consolidate a VCA master
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Color
- Tracks · From the Add Track dialog
- Colour
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- COMP
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- COMP 1
- Mixing · Mix in Arrange
- Compressor
- Glossary
- COMPRESSOR 1
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Concrete 80
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Connect
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Connect an audio output device, then press Play again.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Connected
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Workflows · Use a control surface
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- Container
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- CONTINUE IN STUDIO
- Jam Console · Use a jam in Studio
- Control Surface
- How Head Chef works · One history for the whole session
- Menu reference · Settings
- Glossary
- Control Surface…
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · What a session holds
- Connect your hardware · Control surfaces
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Workflows · Use a control surface
- Menu reference · Settings
- Settings reference · Control Surface
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- Controls
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- Mixing · Work in the Inspector
- Core Audio (CAF)
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- could not load
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Could not refresh audio devices.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Could not write the mix. Choose a writable folder
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Count-In
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Transport and navigation · Count in before recording
- Recording audio · Use a count-in
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Menu reference · Options
- Settings reference · Options menu
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Glossary
- Count-In Bars
- Transport and navigation · Count in before recording
- Recording audio · Use a count-in
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Create
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Start the session
- Sessions · Create a session
- Sessions · Other ways to start
- Tracks · From the Add Track dialog
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Create or open a session, then add a mono audio track.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Create Studio session →
- Sessions · Other ways to start
- Jam Console · Use a jam in Studio
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Crossfade
- Glossary
- Current Jam (separate idea)
- Jam Console · Explore Studio material in Jam
- Current Jam has unsaved changes. Choose Save, Discard changes, or Cancel.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Current take
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Custom
- MIDI and instruments · Choose a sound
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
D
- DAW & MIDI sessions
- Sessions · Open a session
- Deck ↗
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Default Recording Input Device
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Delay compensation
- Glossary
- Delete
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Jam Console · Save and manage jams
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Delete note
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Add, move, resize and delete notes
- Destination
- Jam Console · Explore Studio material in Jam
- Details
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Detect chords
- Jam Console · Explore harmony
- Detected chords
- Jam Console · Explore harmony
- Device Input
- Plugins · Tune, compare and save sounds
- Digital Brass
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Digital Kit
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Direct monitoring
- Glossary
- Disable
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Settings reference · Control Surface
- Disabled
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Disconnect input
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Disconnect MIDI input before playing the software keyboard.
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Dismiss
- The workspace · The status bar
- Sessions · Recover an interrupted take
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Recording audio · Where takes are stored
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Dither
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Choose dither
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Glossary
- Dock
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Menu reference · Window
- Don't Save
- Getting started · Create a session
- Sessions · Close a session
- Importing audio and projects · Save the result
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- DONE
- MIDI and instruments · Browse and shape Mini Bar sounds
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Workflows · Use a control surface
- Settings reference · Control Surface
- Double-click to add · Drag to move · Drag right edge to resize · Delete to remove · Q to quantize
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- Down
- Mixing · Audio and instrument tracks
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- down to raise
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Draw
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- MIDI and instruments · Add, move, resize and delete notes
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Mouse and trackpad · Piano roll
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- Drawbar
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Drum map
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Duplicate
- Jam Console · Save and manage jams
E
- Earlier recording available
- Sessions · Open a session
- Echo
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Echo Division
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Echo On
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Echo Sync
- How Head Chef works · Two kinds of time
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Echo Time
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Echo timing: session tempo map.
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Echo timing: session tempo.
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Edit
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Getting started · Undo a change
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- How Head Chef works
- How Head Chef works · One history for the whole session
- How Head Chef works · Many hands on one session
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Sessions · What a session holds
- Tracks · From a context menu or a button
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Editing audio · Lock or mute a clip
- Editing audio · Undo, redo and the edit history
- MIDI and instruments · Change the instrument on a track
- MIDI and instruments · Browse and shape Mini Bar sounds
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Change the clip length
- MIDI and instruments · Notes and the clip edges
- MIDI and instruments · Tips
- Tempo and session settings · Open Session Settings
- Mixing · Tips
- Plugins · Open plugin windows
- Plugins · Tips
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · What the surface controls
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · One shared session
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Stay in control
- Edit Folders…
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Settings reference · Plugin folders
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Edit history
- Glossary
- Edit mode
- Glossary
- Edit notes
- Tracks · Read the track header
- MIDI and instruments · Edit notes in the piano roll
- Edit with
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Edit with ARA…
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Edit ↓
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Edited dry
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Editor
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · The Mix view
- Interface overview · The selected track drives the screen
- Interface overview · When the window is smaller
- How Head Chef works · Edits never change your audio files
- How Head Chef works · Selection and keyboard focus
- The workspace · Show the Inspector and Editor
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Editing audio · Type the source range
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- MIDI and instruments · Edit notes in the piano roll
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Mouse and trackpad · Audio clip editor
- Effect
- Mixing · Work in the Inspector
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Mixing · Echo that follows tempo
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Effect Return
- Glossary
- Eight bars · 110 BPM · 4/4
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Electric Grand
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Empty
- The workspace · The Tracks list and Clips list
- Enable
- Connect your hardware · Control surfaces
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Workflows · Use a control surface
- Settings reference · Control Surface
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- Enable input
- Recording audio · Give Head Chef microphone access
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Enable input access, then try Record again.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- End
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- End sample
- Transport and navigation · Repeat a section
- EQ
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Mixing · Mix in Arrange
- Glossary
- Erase
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- MIDI and instruments · Add, move, resize and delete notes
- Mouse and trackpad · Piano roll
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- Escape
- Jam Console · Set overall volume
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Escape cancels · Release to keep the edit
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- Evolve
- Jam Console · Same or evolving passes
- Explore in Jam…
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · Studio and Jam are two places to work
- How Head Chef works · Studio and Jam
- The workspace · The edit toolbar
- Jam Console · Explore Studio material in Jam
- Coming from another music app · What is different by design
- Explore selected chord
- Jam Console · Explore harmony
- Explore ›
- Jam Console · Explore harmony
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Export Audio
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Export MIDI
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Export MIDI Tracks…
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- File formats · Individual MIDI track output
- Export Tracks as Audio…
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
F
- Fade
- Glossary
- Fade In / Fade Out / Crossfade Clip
- Editing audio · Add fades
- Fader
- Glossary
- Fast
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- File formats · Drag and drop: every supported format
- Fifths
- Jam Console · Explore harmony
- File
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Open a session
- Getting started · Save your work
- Getting started · Mix and export
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- How Head Chef works · The signal path
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Sessions · Create a session
- Sessions · Open a session
- Sessions · Save Session
- Sessions · Save Session As
- Sessions · Close a session
- Sessions · Move, copy or back up a session
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Importing audio and projects · Open a MIDI file
- Importing audio and projects · Open a project from another music app
- Importing audio and projects · Save the result
- Recording audio · Before you record
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- MIDI and instruments · Open a MIDI file
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Coming from another music app · Moving your projects in
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Head Chef sessions
- File formats · Import Audio window
- File formats · MIDI files
- File formats · Projects from other music apps
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- File type
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Filter discovered plugins…
- Plugins · Add a plugin from a channel
- Find a sound
- MIDI and instruments · Browse and shape Mini Bar sounds
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Find paths
- Jam Console · Explore harmony
- Finish or cancel the current gesture before rendering the mix.
- Rendering your mix · If a render does not start
- Finish or cancel the current gesture before saving or rendering.
- Sessions · When you cannot save
- Finish Recording
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Menu reference · Transport
- Finish recording before changing the armed track.
- Tracks · Arm
- Finish the touched fader before changing mute or solo.
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- Finishing
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Finishing recording…
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Finishing take
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Finishing…
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- First
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Fit
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Transport and navigation · Zoom and fit
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- MIDI and instruments · Type note values
- Mouse and trackpad · Audio clip editor
- Fit Audio
- Transport and navigation · Zoom and fit
- Menu reference · View
- Fit Selected Clip
- Transport and navigation · Zoom and fit
- Editing audio · Keep the cursor in view
- Keyboard shortcuts · More keys in Arrange
- Menu reference · View
- Fit Session
- Transport and navigation · Zoom and fit
- Menu reference · View
- Fit Studio tempo
- How Head Chef works · Studio and Jam
- Jam Console · Use a jam in Studio
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- FLAC (Lossless)
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Floating Transport
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Transport and navigation · Rewind and forward
- Menu reference · Window
- Focused Bass
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Folder
- Glossary
- FOLDER BUS
- Tracks · Folders, groups and VCA masters
- Workflows · Use an AI assistant
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Folders…
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Settings reference · Plugin folders
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Follow chords
- Jam Console · Build a song from sections
- FREE
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The edit toolbar
- Editing audio · Choose an edit mode
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- Free mode
- Glossary
- From preset…
- Mixing · Use channel presets
- FX
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- FX BUS
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Mouse and trackpad · Plugins from the Plugin Browser
G
- Gain / dB
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain badge
- Gain point
- Glossary
- Glass Keys
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Good
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- File formats · Drag and drop: every supported format
- GR
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- GRAPHIC EQ
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- GRID
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The edit toolbar
- Editing audio · Choose an edit mode
- Editing audio · Grid options
- Editing audio · Set the grid and nudge values
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- Glossary
- Grid mode
- Glossary
- Group
- Glossary
- Guitar
- Jam Console · Jam Along
H
- Head Chef
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Head Chef 1 User Guide
- Interface overview · Find your way back
- The workspace · The menus
- Keyboard shortcuts · Open the Keyboard Shortcuts reference
- Menu reference · Help
- Troubleshooting · Get help
- Head Chef sessions
- Sessions · Open a session
- Headroom
- Glossary
- Held
- Jam Console · Hold what you like
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Help
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · Find your way back
- The workspace · The menus
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Coming from another music app · Keyboard habits that carry over
- Keyboard shortcuts · Open the Keyboard Shortcuts reference
- Troubleshooting · Get help
- Hold
- Jam Console · Hold what you like
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Hold style
- Jam Console · Hold what you like
- Hold tempo
- Jam Console · Hold what you like
- Hold vibe
- Jam Console · Hold what you like
- Hz or use the import sample-rate options.
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
I
- Import
- Interface overview · When the window is smaller
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Import Audio
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · When the window is smaller
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Menu reference · File
- Import Audio…
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Sessions · Other ways to start
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Coming from another music app · Moving your projects in
- Menu reference · File
- File formats · Import Audio window
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Import Media Options
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- File formats · Import Audio window
- Importing audio
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- IN / dB
- Mixing · Mix in Arrange
- in Audio MIDI Setup, then press Play again.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Initial Tempo / BPM
- Tempo and session settings · Songs with a tempo map
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Input
- Connect your hardware · Read the latency line
- Recording audio · Before you record
- Recording audio · Choose the recording input
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Recording audio · Record another take over the song
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Recording audio · Latency
- Plugins · Hear an input and record a dry take
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Mouse and trackpad · Mix channel strips
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Input clipped. Reduce the interface input gain.
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Input Drive
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- Input monitoring
- Glossary
- Input ready
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Input unavailable
- Tracks · Read the track header
- Recording audio · Choose the recording input
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Insert
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Glossary
- Inserts
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Inspector
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · When the window is smaller
- How Head Chef works · Selection and keyboard focus
- The workspace · Show the Inspector and Editor
- The workspace · The toolbar
- MIDI and instruments · Choose a sound
- Mixing · Work in the Inspector
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Glossary
- INST
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Mouse and trackpad · Plugins from the Plugin Browser
- INSTRUMENT
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- MIDI and instruments · Change the instrument on a track
- MIDI and instruments · Open an instrument's editor
- Mixing · Read a channel strip
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Instrument track
- Glossary
- Instruments are being prepared. Wait for preparation to finish or cancel it before playing.
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- Integrated loudness
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Interface direct monitoring
- Recording audio · Monitoring
J
- Jam
- Glossary
- JAM ALONG
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Jam Console · Find your way around the Console
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- What's new in Head Chef 1 · Jam
- Jam Console
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- Glossary
- Jam could not be saved. Your changes are still here.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Jam ↗
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · Studio and Jam are two places to work
- How Head Chef works · Studio and Jam
- The workspace · Studio and Jam
- The workspace · The toolbar
- The workspace · Use the More menu
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Jam Console · Open Jam
- Jam Console · Use the Jam Window
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Jumbo
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · What each height shows
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · Track header
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
K
- Keep
- Jam Console · Set overall volume
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Keep 4/4
- Tempo and session settings · An assumed time signature
- Keep Jam timing
- How Head Chef works · Studio and Jam
- Jam Console · Use a jam in Studio
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Keep open
- Recording audio · Where takes are stored
- Keep or dismiss the recovered take before recording again.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Keep samples at project rate
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- File formats · Import Audio window
- Keep take
- Sessions · Recover an interrupted take
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Recording audio · Where takes are stored
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Keep this pass
- Jam Console · Same or evolving passes
- KEY
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- Keyboard focus
- Glossary
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Menu reference · Edit
- Keyboard Shortcuts…
- Interface overview · Find your way back
- The workspace · The menus
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Coming from another music app · Keyboard habits that carry over
- Keyboard shortcuts · Open the Keyboard Shortcuts reference
- Menu reference · Help
- Troubleshooting · Get help
- Keyboard Source
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Connect your hardware · Use more than one keyboard
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Settings reference · MIDI keyboard settings
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Kick play mode
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
L
- Large
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · Read the track header
- Tracks · What each height shows
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · Track header
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Latency
- Glossary
- Legato
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Length
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Change the clip length
- MIDI and instruments · Notes and the clip edges
- LENGTH / TICKS
- MIDI and instruments · Type note values
- Less than
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Less than 0.4 s
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
- Less than 3 s
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
- Letter keys
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The edit toolbar
- Editing audio · Letter shortcuts
- Keyboard shortcuts · Turn the Arrange letter shortcuts on or off
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- Level (dB)
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Level Meter Style
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Library
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- Linear
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- List
- Jam Console · Explore harmony
- Listen
- Jam Console · Try chords and explore harmony
- Jam Console · Save and manage jams
- Listen with backing
- Jam Console · Takes from an earlier idea
- Live Input
- Plugins · Tune, compare and save sounds
- Load
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Load preset file…
- Mixing · Use channel presets
- Locate
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Loop
- Transport and navigation · Repeat a section
- Loop Playback
- Transport and navigation · Repeat a section
- Loop section
- Jam Console · Build a song from sections
- Lossless audio
- Glossary
- Loudness
- Glossary
- Loudness range
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Loudness range is provisional for audio under 60 seconds.
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
M
- M4A / AAC
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Madre
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Change one part
- MADRE Chorus
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- MAGIC
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Main
- Jam Console · Set overall volume
- Main bus
- Glossary
- MAIN CLOCK
- Transport and navigation · Set the time display
- Mouse and trackpad · Toolbar and Floating Transport
- Make a start
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Mallet
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- map
- Tempo and session settings · Songs with a tempo map
- Markers
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- MASTER
- How Head Chef works · Sessions, tracks, clips and channels
- Jam Console · Set overall volume
- Mixing · Read a channel strip
- Mixing · The Main channel and headroom
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Match the session and input sample rates before recording.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Recording audio · Latency
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- MCP
- Glossary
- Medium
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · What each height shows
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · Track header
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Metronome
- Glossary
- METRONOME & COUNT-IN
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Metronome Click
- The workspace · The menus
- Transport and navigation · Turn on the metronome
- Menu reference · Options
- Settings reference · Options menu
- Mic
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Micro
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · What each height shows
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · Track header
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Microphone
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Microphone access
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
- Recording audio · Give Head Chef microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Microphone access is off. Allow Head Chef microphone access before recording.
- Recording audio · Give Head Chef microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Microphone.
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Mid
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- MIDI
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Sessions · What a session holds
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Jam Console · Play a MIDI instrument
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Settings reference · MIDI keyboard settings
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Glossary
- MIDI Channel
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Connect your hardware · Use more than one keyboard
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
- MIDI and instruments · Type note values
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Settings reference · MIDI keyboard settings
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Glossary
- MIDI clip length
- MIDI and instruments · Change the clip length
- MIDI clips: double-click to edit notes in the piano roll
- Interface overview · The selected track drives the screen
- MIDI input
- Connect your hardware · Control surfaces
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Workflows · Use a control surface
- Settings reference · Control Surface
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- MIDI input stopped. Refresh and reconnect it.
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- MIDI KEYBOARD INPUT
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- MIDI keyboard input buffer overflowed; held notes were released.
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- MIDI Keyboard…
- The workspace · Use the More menu
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- MIDI notes need a key from 0 to 127, velocity from 1 to 127, channel from 0 to 15, and a positive duration inside their clip.
- MIDI and instruments · Notes and the clip edges
- MIDI Off
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
- MIDI output
- Connect your hardware · Control surfaces
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Workflows · Use a control surface
- Settings reference · Control Surface
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- MIDI tracks…
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- MIDI · Sust
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- midi.export
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- midi.exportSources
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- midi.exportTracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- MIN : SEC . MS
- How Head Chef works · Clock formats
- Transport and navigation · Read the clock
- Min:Sec
- Transport and navigation · Set the time display
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Mini Bar
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Start the session
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- MIDI and instruments · Add an instrument track
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Mix
- Getting started · Mix and export
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · The Mix view
- The workspace · Switch between Arrange and Mix
- The workspace · The toolbar
- The workspace · The menus
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- Mixing · Open the Mix view and the Mix Window
- Mixing · Effect Returns
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Mix layer
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · Arrange and Mix are two views of one session
- The workspace · The edit toolbar
- Mixing · Mix in Arrange
- Mix rendered
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Mix Window
- Interface overview · Arrange and Mix are two views of one session
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Mixing · Open the Mix view and the Mix Window
- Menu reference · Window
- mix.cancelRender
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- mix.renderStatus
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Mixer Window
- The workspace · Use the More menu
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Monitor Level
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- MONITOR OFF
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- MONITOR ON
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Mono
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Mono audio track
- Getting started · Create a session
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Mono recording input
- Tracks · Read the track header
- Recording audio · Give Head Chef microphone access
- Recording audio · Choose the recording input
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Monochrome Cyan-Mint
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- More
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- Plugins · Hear an input and record a dry take
- More alternatives
- Jam Console · Try chords and explore harmony
- More ▾
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · When the window is smaller
- The workspace · Use the More menu
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Tracks · From the Add Track dialog
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Move
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Move down
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Move Tempo Change...
- Tempo and session settings · Move a tempo change
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Move up
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Movement
- Jam Console · Explore harmony
- MP3
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- Mute
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Glossary
- Mute monitor
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Mute send
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
N
- Name
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Native
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- New Jam
- Jam Console · Explore Studio material in Jam
- New Session
- Getting started · Create a session
- Menu reference · File
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- File formats · Settings files
- New Session…
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- Getting started · Create a session
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Create a session
- Recording audio · Before you record
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Menu reference · File
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Next
- Plugins · Open plugin windows
- No audio inputs found
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- No count-in
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- No input device is available.
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- No MIDI inputs are available. Connect a device and refresh.
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- No notes in this part
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- No previous roll is available.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- No sounds found.
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- No tracks
- Getting started · Create a session
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Noise shaped
- Rendering your mix · Choose dither
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Non-destructive editing
- Glossary
- None
- Rendering your mix · Choose dither
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Not requested yet. Head Chef asks the first time you enable an input.
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Not saved
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- NUDGE
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Editing audio · Set the grid and nudge values
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- Glossary
- Nylon Guitar
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
O
- Octet
- Getting started · Create a session
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- OFF
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Transport and navigation · Count in before recording
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Recording audio · Record another take over the song
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- MIDI and instruments · Add, move, resize and delete notes
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Mixing · Audio and instrument tracks
- Mixing · Effect Returns
- Mixing · Delay compensation
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Plugins · Hear an input and record a dry take
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Settings reference · MIDI keyboard settings
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- Ogg Vorbis
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- OK
- Editing audio · Move a clip
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- ON
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Settings reference · MIDI keyboard settings
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Open
- Getting started · Open a session
- Getting started · Add drums
- Interface overview · The Mix view
- Sessions · Open a session
- Tracks · Read the track header
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Importing audio and projects · Open a MIDI file
- Importing audio and projects · Open a project from another music app
- Recording audio · Monitoring
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Plugins · Drag plugins onto tracks
- Plugins · Add a plugin from a channel
- Plugins · Open plugin windows
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Open editable tracks →
- How Head Chef works · Studio and Jam
- Sessions · Other ways to start
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Jam Console · Use a jam in Studio
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- What's new in Head Chef 1 · Jam
- Open Editor
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Open full strip
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Open Multi-Window Studio Workspace
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Menu reference · Window
- Open Plugin Editor
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Open Plugin Window
- Plugins · Open plugin windows
- Open Session
- Importing audio and projects · Open a project from another music app
- File formats · Projects from other music apps
- Open Session…
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- Getting started · Open a session
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Open a session
- Sessions · Move, copy or back up a session
- Importing audio and projects · Open a MIDI file
- Importing audio and projects · Open a project from another music app
- MIDI and instruments · Open a MIDI file
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Coming from another music app · Moving your projects in
- Menu reference · File
- File formats · MIDI files
- File formats · Projects from other music apps
- Open Studio →
- Jam Console · Play a MIDI instrument
- Opened session
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Options
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- How Head Chef works · Selection and keyboard focus
- The workspace · The menus
- Transport and navigation · Scrub along the ruler
- Transport and navigation · Turn on the metronome
- Transport and navigation · Count in before recording
- Recording audio · Use a count-in
- Editing audio · Letter shortcuts
- Coming from another music app · Single keys in Arrange
- Keyboard shortcuts · Turn the Arrange letter shortcuts on or off
- Keyboard shortcuts · Arrange Letter Shortcuts (A–Z)
- Mouse and trackpad · Ruler and playhead
- Menu reference · Edit
- Original Time Stamp (0)
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- OUT
- MIDI and instruments · Browse and shape Mini Bar sounds
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Mixing · Audio and instrument tracks
- OUT / dB
- Mixing · Mix in Arrange
- Output
- Connect your hardware · Read the latency line
- Recording audio · Latency
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Plugins · Play and record with Amp and Tuner
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Output Device
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · Headphones and speakers
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Output folder
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
P
- Pan
- Glossary
- Pan Depth
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the pan depth
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Glossary
- Pass
- Glossary
- Pause
- The workspace · The menus
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- Menu reference · Transport
- Peak gain reduction
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Piano Roll
- MIDI and instruments · Edit notes in the piano roll
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- Glossary
- PITCH / MIDI KEY
- MIDI and instruments · Type note values
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- PLACE
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The edit toolbar
- Editing audio · Choose an edit mode
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- Place Audio Clip
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- Mouse and trackpad · Move and trim audio clips
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Place mode
- Glossary
- Place the playhead inside the clip bounds to fade to cursor.
- Editing audio · Add fades
- Placement
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Place…
- Editing audio · What each edit acts on
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- Editing audio · What happens at the clip boundaries
- Play
- The workspace · The menus
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- Transport and navigation · Rewind and forward
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Editing audio · The cursor
- Jam Console · Open Jam
- Jam Console · Set overall volume
- Plugins · Play from another point
- Menu reference · Transport
- Play & Rec
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Play keyboard
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Play from your Mac keyboard
- Play song
- Jam Console · Build a song from sections
- Play switches the device to the session rate when the device supports it.
- Connect your hardware · Read the sample rate and clock line
- Playback audio could not be read. Check disk access, then press Play or try moving the cursor again.
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- Playback could not start.
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- Playhead
- Glossary
- Plays Selected Track
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Plugin
- Glossary
- Plugin Browser
- The workspace · The menus
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Plugin folders contain too many files. Choose a more specific folder.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Plugin format
- Glossary
- Plugin search could not start. Try Rescan again.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Plugin window could not open
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Plugins
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The toolbar
- The workspace · Use the More menu
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Plugins…
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · Switch between Arrange and Mix
- Tracks · Plugins
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Mouse and trackpad · Track headers
- Menu reference · Track header
- Poly16
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Poly8
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- POSITION / TICKS
- MIDI and instruments · Type note values
- Preparing cursor…
- Editing audio · The cursor
- Preparing instruments…
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Preparing mix…
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Preparing playback…
- How Head Chef works · Preparing playback
- The workspace · The status bar
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- MIDI and instruments · Preparing playback
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- Preparing to record…
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Preset
- Glossary
- Preset…
- Interface overview · The Mix view
- Mixing · Read a channel strip
- Mixing · Use channel presets
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Press Space to record. Press Record again to leave readiness. F12 starts recording directly.
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Previous
- Plugins · Open plugin windows
- Previous roll
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Privacy & Security
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Processed track
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- PROCESSING
- Interface overview · The Mix view
- Mixing · Read a channel strip
- Mixing · Audio and instrument tracks
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Progression
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Project rate
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample rate
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- PTX / PTF / PTS sessions
- Sessions · Open a session
Q
R
- RATIO
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Read
- Tracks · Consolidate a VCA master
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Ready
- The workspace · The status bar
- Rec Only
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Recent sessions
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- Record
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Menu reference · Transport
- Record a mono take in an empty session. Create a new session and add an empty audio track.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Record arm
- Glossary
- Record Ready
- Recording audio · Cancel a take
- Menu reference · Transport
- Record ready · Press Space to record
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Recording
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Recording could not be saved. Check the session folder and available disk space, then try again.
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording stopped
- Recording audio · Where takes are stored
- Recording stopped because input arrived faster than it could be saved. Keep the recovered audio, then try again with less disk activity.
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording stopped because the click output failed or stopped delivering audio. Check the output, then prepare recording again.
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording stopped because the input clock changed or skipped. Check the interface, then try again.
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording stopped because the input contained invalid samples. Check the interface, then try again.
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording stopped because the input disconnected. Reconnect it, then try again.
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording stopped because the input rate changed. Match the input and session rates, then try again.
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording stopped because the interface could not deliver audio. Reconnect it, then try again.
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording stopped.
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording audio · Where takes are stored
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Recording. Press Space or Stop to finish.
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Recovery…
- Sessions · Recover an interrupted take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording audio · Where takes are stored
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Redo
- Getting started · Undo a change
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- How Head Chef works · One history for the whole session
- The workspace · The menus
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Editing audio · Undo, redo and the edit history
- Menu reference · Edit
- Reed
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Refresh
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Refresh Devices
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · Headphones and speakers
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Refresh inputs
- Recording audio · Give Head Chef microphone access
- Recording audio · Choose the recording input
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Refresh MIDI inputs
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Refresh Ports
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
- MIDI and instruments · Play from a MIDI keyboard
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Settings reference · Control Surface
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- Refresh Tracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Region Editor Window
- How Head Chef works · Selection and keyboard focus
- The workspace · Use the More menu
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Editing audio · Undo, redo and the edit history
- MIDI and instruments · Edit notes in the piano roll
- Mouse and trackpad · Audio clip editor
- Menu reference · Window
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- REL GRID
- Editing audio · Grid options
- Relative Grid
- Editing audio · Grid options
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- Remove
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Plugins · Add a plugin from a channel
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Rename
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Render
- Glossary
- Render cancelled
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Render failed
- Rendering your mix · If a render does not start
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- Render Mix
- Transport and navigation · Turn on the metronome
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Menu reference · File
- Render Mix…
- Getting started · Mix and export
- How Head Chef works · The signal path
- The workspace · The menus
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Menu reference · File
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Render Result
- The workspace · The status bar
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Rendered audio
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Rendering mix…
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Rendering…
- The workspace · The status bar
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- renderJob
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Repeat
- Jam Console · Build a song from sections
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Replace
- Jam Console · Try chords and explore harmony
- Resample imported audio to project rate
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- File formats · Import Audio window
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Rescan
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Plugins · Tips
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Reset Clip Gain to 0 dB
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain badge
- Reset Gain to 0.0 dB
- The workspace · The menus
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Menu reference · Track header
- Reset Pan to Center
- The workspace · The menus
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Menu reference · Track header
- Restore Original Audio
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Restricted on this Mac by a device policy.
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Troubleshooting · Microphone access
- Retained
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Retry blocked plugins
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Plugins · If a plugin stops
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Return to that idea
- Jam Console · Takes from an earlier idea
- Reverb
- Glossary
- Revert
- Jam Console · Set overall volume
- RIPPLE
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The edit toolbar
- Editing audio · Choose an edit mode
- Editing audio · Ripple Lock
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- RIPPLE LOCK
- Editing audio · Ripple Lock
- Ripple mode
- Glossary
- Ripple mode is locked. Command-click Ripple to unlock.
- Editing audio · Ripple Lock
- Ripple mode keeps single-clip tracks anchored at the session start.
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- Roll again
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Jam Console · Try chords and explore harmony
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- What's new in Head Chef 1 · Jam
- Roll an idea before holding a backing part.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Roll an idea first.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- ROOM
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Root
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Root bass
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Round-Trip
- Connect your hardware · Read the latency line
- Recording audio · Latency
- Rounded Grand
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Rubber Bass
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Ruler Coupled
- Transport and navigation · Set the time display
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Ruler Free
- Transport and navigation · Set the time display
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
S
- Same each pass
- Jam Console · Same or evolving passes
- Sample
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Sample 96,000
- The workspace · The status bar
- Transport and navigation · Read the clock
- Sample format
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample format
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Sample peak
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Sample position
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Sample rate
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Start the session
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Choose the sample rate
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Glossary
- Sample Rate Conflict & Import Options
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- File formats · Import Audio window
- Sample rate is fixed because audio clips keep their source sample rate.
- How Head Chef works · Edits never change your audio files
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Sample-rate conversion
- Glossary
- sampleRate
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- SAMPLES
- How Head Chef works · Clock formats
- Transport and navigation · Repeat a section
- Transport and navigation · Read the clock
- Transport and navigation · Set the time display
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- SAUCE
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Save
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Save your work
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Sessions · Save Session
- Sessions · Save Session As
- Sessions · Close a session
- Importing audio and projects · Save the result
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Save changes to this session?
- Getting started · Create a session
- Sessions · Close a session
- Importing audio and projects · Save the result
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Menu reference · File
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Save channel preset…
- Mixing · Use channel presets
- Save Jam
- Interface overview · Studio and Jam are two places to work
- The workspace · Studio and Jam
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Save and manage jams
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- What's new in Head Chef 1 · Jam
- Save Jam to keep these takes
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Save Session
- Getting started · Save your work
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Save Session
- Sessions · When you cannot save
- Recording audio · Before you record
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Menu reference · File
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Save Session As…
- Getting started · Save your work
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Save Session As
- Sessions · Move, copy or back up a session
- Importing audio and projects · Save the result
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Menu reference · File
- File formats · Head Chef sessions
- Save your session before recording.
- Recording audio · Before you record
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Save •
- Getting started · Save your work
- Sessions · Unsaved changes
- Saved
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Saved for future sessions
- Getting started · Create a session
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Saved session
- Sessions · Save Session
- Saved with this Jam
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Saved with warning
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Scanning…
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Scrub
- Glossary
- Search by key, action or category…
- Keyboard shortcuts · Open the Keyboard Shortcuts reference
- Search standard folders
- Plugins · Plugin folders and rescanning
- Settings reference · Plugin folders
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- SECOND CLOCK
- Transport and navigation · Set the time display
- Mouse and trackpad · Toolbar and Floating Transport
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- SECRET SAUCE
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Section
- Glossary
- Sections ›
- Jam Console · Build a song from sections
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Select
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- Mouse and trackpad · Piano roll
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- Select All
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Select an instrument track to play live
- Connect your hardware · The MIDI button and its panel
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Select ARA 2 editor
- Plugins · Edit audio with an ARA 2 editor
- Select at least one part or recording to print to tracks.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Select both a MIDI input and a MIDI output.
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- Selected channel · Lead Vocal
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Selected chord
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Selected keyboard is offline: switch to All Connected Keyboards (Auto) or reconnect it.
- Connect your hardware · Use more than one keyboard
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- Send
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Glossary
- Sends
- Interface overview · The Mix view
- Mixing · Read a channel strip
- Mixing · Work in the Inspector
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Mouse and trackpad · Mix channel strips
- Session
- Glossary
- Session Audio
- Tempo and session settings · Open Session Settings
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the pan depth
- Session name
- Getting started · Create a session
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Sessions · Save Session As
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Session Settings
- Menu reference · Settings
- Session Settings…
- Getting started · Create a session
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Sessions · Change session settings
- Importing audio and projects · Tips
- Recording audio · Latency
- Tempo and session settings · Open Session Settings
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Menu reference · Settings
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Set your output device to
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Settings
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Getting started · Create a session
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · What a session holds
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Sessions · Change session settings
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · Control surfaces
- Importing audio and projects · Tips
- Recording audio · Give Head Chef microphone access
- Recording audio · When a take stops on its own
- Recording audio · Latency
- Tempo and session settings · Open Session Settings
- Tempo and session settings · Choose the sample rate
- Mixing · Main
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Connect a control surface
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Workflows · Finish a project from another music app
- Workflows · Use a control surface
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Settings reference · Control Surface
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- Setup ↓
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Shape ›
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Jam Console · Hold what you like
- Jam Console · Same or evolving passes
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Shift
- Jam Console · Set overall volume
- Shorter All Tracks
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · View
- Shorter Selected Track
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · View
- Shorter Waveforms
- The workspace · Magnify waveforms
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Show Clip Gain Line
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain badge
- Signal path
- Glossary
- Silent Tune
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Plugins · Tune, compare and save sounds
- Small
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · What each height shows
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · Track header
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Small Section
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Snap
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Mouse and trackpad · Piano roll
- Settings reference · Piano roll
- Snap to Grid: Off
- Editing audio · Grid options
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- Snap to Grid: On
- Editing audio · Grid options
- Mouse and trackpad · Edit toolbar
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Settings reference · Edit toolbar
- Soft Bell
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Solo
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Glossary
- Solo in place
- Glossary
- Sound
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Start the session
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
- MIDI and instruments · Choose a sound
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Sound changes stop playback and return to the start.
- MIDI and instruments · The instrument panel in the Inspector
- Sound controls
- Plugins · Open plugin windows
- Sound previews are muted
- Transport and navigation · Play the chef's hat sound
- Sound Profile
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- SOUNDS
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Source
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Export individual MIDI tracks
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Source in
- How Head Chef works · Edits never change your audio files
- Source in / samples
- How Head Chef works · Edits never change your audio files
- Editing audio · Type the source range
- Source out
- How Head Chef works · Edits never change your audio files
- Source out / samples
- How Head Chef works · Edits never change your audio files
- Editing audio · Type the source range
- sourceRate
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Spill
- Tracks · Folders, groups and VCA masters
- Spill Folder
- Tracks · Folders, groups and VCA masters
- Spilling Folder
- Tracks · Folders, groups and VCA masters
- Standard MIDI (.mid)
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Start
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- Start a Jam
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- Jam Console · Open Jam
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Start Recording
- The workspace · The menus
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Menu reference · Transport
- Start sample
- Transport and navigation · Repeat a section
- Start with
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Start the session
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Steel Guitar
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Stem
- Glossary
- Stereo
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
- Stop
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Menu reference · Transport
- Stop input monitoring before preparing this playback position.
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- Stop playback and finish the current edit or render before recording.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Stop recording or cancel record readiness before changing the session.
- Tracks · Solo and mute
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- Strip
- Mixing · Work in the Inspector
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Mouse and trackpad · Plugins from the Plugin Browser
- Studio
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · Studio and Jam are two places to work
- How Head Chef works · Studio and Jam
- The workspace · Studio and Jam
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Jam Console · Open Jam
- Jam Console · Use the Jam Window
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Studio Grand
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Substance
- Getting started · Create a session
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Suspend
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Sustain pedal
- Glossary
- Sustain Pedal Down
- Connect your hardware · Sustain, pitch bend and other controls
- Sync Point
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- Editing audio · Sync points
- Glossary
- Synths
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- System Default Input
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- System Default Output
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · Headphones and speakers
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- System Settings
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Connect your hardware · If Head Chef does not see a device
T
- Tail
- Glossary
- Tail / seconds
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Rendering your mix · Set the tail
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Take
- Glossary
- Take recorded
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- TAKES IN THIS JAM
- Jam Console · Find your way around the Console
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Takes from an earlier idea
- Taller All Tracks
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · View
- Taller Selected Track
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · View
- Taller Waveforms
- The workspace · Magnify waveforms
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · View
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Tape Scrub Sound
- The workspace · The menus
- Transport and navigation · Scrub along the ruler
- Mouse and trackpad · Ruler and playhead
- Menu reference · Options
- Settings reference · Options menu
- File formats · Settings files
- Target Sample
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- Tempo
- Glossary
- Tempo / BPM
- Tempo and session settings · Set the tempo
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Tempo and Time Signature
- Tempo and session settings · Open Session Settings
- Tempo change
- Tempo and session settings · Move a tempo change
- Tempo map
- Glossary
- That file already exists. Choose a different name.
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- The ARA plugin is still analysing this clip. Wait for it to finish, then Apply.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- The audio device clock differs too much from the session rate. Check Audio MIDI Setup or choose another output, then press Play again.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- The audio device stopped. Reconnect it and press Play again.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- The audio engine configuration could not be applied.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- The current beat unit is kept. Choose another beat unit before changing the Time Signature numerator.
- Tempo and session settings · Set the time signature
- The MIDI input disconnected. Reconnect it and enable the control surface again.
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- The MIDI output disconnected. Reconnect it and enable the control surface again.
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- The MIDI ports could not be opened. Refresh the port list and select available ports.
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- The mix exceeds the range for integer WAV. Reduce the level or choose 32-bit float. No output file was published.
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- The mix is too long for a WAV file.
- Troubleshooting · Rendering
- The output buffer size changed. Stop, then press Play again.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- The output device changed. Stop, then press Play again.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- The output device has not switched to
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- The output device or its sample rate changed. Stop, then press Play again.
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- The plugin could not be scanned. Try again.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- The plugin folder could not be saved. Check the path and try again.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- The selected input is unavailable. Reconnect it or choose another input.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Troubleshooting · Recording
- The selected MIDI input disconnected. Reconnect it and try again.
- Troubleshooting · MIDI devices
- The session audio has changed. Restore its original media file.
- Sessions · Where your files live
- Troubleshooting · A session does not open
- The session changed. Read its current state and try again.
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- These holds do not fit a new starting point.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- This is not a valid Head Chef session.
- Sessions · Session limits
- Troubleshooting · A session does not open
- This output device does not support
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- This plugin has changed. Scan it again before using this sound.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
- This session can hold up to 128 source channels.
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- This session can hold up to four aux channels.
- Troubleshooting · Performance and memory
- This session document is too large to save.
- Sessions · Session limits
- This session document is too large.
- Sessions · Session limits
- Troubleshooting · A session does not open
- This session has no tracks yet
- Getting started · The welcome panel
- This session needs more prepared audio than can be kept at once. Shorten the session or use fewer instruments, then press Play again.
- Troubleshooting · Playback and performance
- This song did not store a Time Signature, so 4/4 is assumed.
- Tempo and session settings · An assumed time signature
- This tempo cannot be saved exactly. Shorten the decimal or choose another BPM value.
- Tempo and session settings · Set the tempo
- THRESH
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- THRESHOLD / dBFS
- Mixing · Shape the sound with Chicken Strip
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Tick
- Tempo and session settings · Move a tempo change
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Glossary
- TIME DISPLAY & RULER
- Transport and navigation · Set the time display
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Time Signature
- Tempo and session settings · Set the time signature
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Settings reference · Session Settings
- Glossary
- Timing
- Jam Console · Use a jam in Studio
- Tine
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Tiny
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · What each height shows
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Menu reference · Track header
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Toggle Mute
- The workspace · The menus
- Tracks · Solo and mute
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Menu reference · Track header
- Toggle Solo
- The workspace · The menus
- Tracks · Solo and mute
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Menu reference · Track header
- Touch this fader before moving it.
- Troubleshooting · Control surfaces and assistants
- TPDF
- Rendering your mix · Choose dither
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Track
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The menus
- Tracks · From the Track menu
- Recording audio · Before you record
- MIDI and instruments · Add an instrument track
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Glossary
- Track Actions
- The workspace · The menus
- Mouse and trackpad · Track headers
- Menu reference · Track header
- Track armed
- Recording audio · Arm the track
- Track Height
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Tracks · Use the track header context menu
- Menu reference · Track header
- Settings reference · View menu and the window layout
- Track Name
- Tracks · From the Add Track dialog
- Track output
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Track type
- Tracks · From the Add Track dialog
- trackExport.outputFrames
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- TRACKS
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · The selected track drives the screen
- Interface overview · When the window is smaller
- The workspace · The Tracks list and Clips list
- Tracks · What each height shows
- Tracks · Select tracks
- Tracks · Folders, groups and VCA masters
- Tracks · Consolidate a VCA master
- Editing audio · Select a track and its clip
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Mouse and trackpad · Tracks list and Clips list
- Mouse and trackpad · Plugins from the Plugin Browser
- Tracks exported
- Rendering your mix · Export individual tracks as audio
- Transfer could not be completed. Destination Session is unchanged.
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- Transport
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The menus
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Cancel a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Treble
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- TREMOLO
- MIDI and instruments · The Mini Bar panel at a glance
- Tri-Zone Studio (Emerald / Amber / Coral)
- Getting started · Choose your audio device
- Connect your hardware · The Audio Engine window
- Settings reference · Audio Engine
- Trim
- Glossary
- True peak
- Glossary
- True peak estimate (4×)
- Rendering your mix · Read loudness and peaks
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- TRY AN ALTERNATIVE
- Jam Console · Try chords and explore harmony
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Tuner
- Jam Console · Shape your input with Amp and Tuner
- Plugins · Tune, compare and save sounds
U
- Unavailable Audio Input
- Connect your hardware · Inputs and microphone access
- Unavailable Audio Output
- Connect your hardware · Headphones and speakers
- Troubleshooting · Sound and devices
- Undo
- Getting started · Undo a change
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- How Head Chef works
- How Head Chef works · One history for the whole session
- How Head Chef works · Many hands on one session
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Change track heights
- Sessions · What a session holds
- Transport and navigation · Mark places in your song
- Tracks · From a context menu or a button
- Importing audio and projects · Import audio files
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Editing audio · Lock or mute a clip
- Editing audio · Undo, redo and the edit history
- MIDI and instruments · Change the instrument on a track
- MIDI and instruments · Change the clip length
- MIDI and instruments · Notes and the clip edges
- MIDI and instruments · Tips
- Tempo and session settings · Open Session Settings
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Jam Console · Try chords and explore harmony
- Jam Console · Edit a chord or the whole progression
- Jam Console · Move the whole progression
- Mixing · Tips
- Plugins · Open plugin windows
- Plugins · Tips
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Draw a channel-volume ride
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · What the surface controls
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · One shared session
- Volume automation, control surfaces and assistants · Stay in control
- Menu reference · Edit
- Unsaved changes
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Unsupported or corrupted audio file. Choose a WAV, BWF, AIFF, FLAC, MP3, M4A/AAC, CAF or Ogg file.
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Up
- Mixing · Audio and instrument tracks
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- up to lower
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Use as Default
- Getting started · Create a session
- Sessions · What a session holds
- Sessions · The New Session window
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Use Playhead
- Editing audio · What each edit acts on
- Editing audio · Place a clip at an exact time
- Use preset
- Mixing · Use channel presets
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Use up to eight plugins on each channel.
- Troubleshooting · Plugins
V
- Variation
- Jam Console · Build a song from sections
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- Vary
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- VCA MASTER
- Tracks · Folders, groups and VCA masters
- Tracks · Consolidate a VCA master
- Workflows · Use an AI assistant
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Glossary
- VELOCITY
- MIDI and instruments · Type note values
- MIDI and instruments · Set velocity
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Glossary
- VELOCITY / 1–127
- MIDI and instruments · Set velocity
- View
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · The Mix view
- The workspace · Switch between Arrange and Mix
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · The Tracks list and Clips list
- The workspace · Change track heights
- The workspace · Magnify waveforms
- Transport and navigation · Zoom and fit
- Tracks · Change track heights
- Editing audio · Keep the cursor in view
- Editing audio · Use the badge
- Editing audio · Draw a gain line
- Mixing · Open the Mix view and the Mix Window
- Mixing · Mix in Arrange
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- Keyboard shortcuts · More keys in Arrange
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain badge
- Mouse and trackpad · Clip gain line
- Troubleshooting · Scan for plugins again
- Voltage 78
- Getting started · Create a session
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Voltage 80
- Getting started · Create a session
- Getting started · Add drums
- The workspace · The menus
- Sessions · Choose what a session starts with
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Workflows · Build a beat and a bass line
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Add Instrument
- Settings reference · New Session dialog
- Voltage Spaces
- Mixing · Build the processing chain
- Mixing · Send to an Effect Return
- Plugins · bitsnacks product panels
- Workflows · Mix a song from stems
- Coming from another music app · Concept map
- Menu reference · Track
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- VST3
- Plugins · Open the Plugin Browser
- File formats · Plugins
W
- Wait for earlier recordings to be checked before recording a new take.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Wait for microphone access to finish, then press Record again.
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Wait for the current audio import to finish, or cancel it.
- Troubleshooting · Saving and importing
- Wait for the mix render to finish, or cancel it before replacing this session.
- Sessions · Open a session
- Troubleshooting · A session does not open
- WAV
- Rendering your mix · Choose a file format
- Workflows · Prepare a mix for release
- Settings reference · Render Mix dialog
- File formats · Render Mix output
- Waveform
- Glossary
- Whole mix
- Rendering your mix · Render your mix
- Window
- Getting started · Open Head Chef
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- Interface overview · Arrange and Mix are two views of one session
- The workspace · The menus
- The workspace · Open separate windows
- Transport and navigation · Rewind and forward
- Editing audio · Undo, redo and the edit history
- MIDI and instruments · Edit notes in the piano roll
- Mixing · Open the Mix view and the Mix Window
- Mouse and trackpad · Audio clip editor
- Woodblock
- Transport and navigation · Adjust the click
- Settings reference · Metronome and time display
- Writing audio…
- Rendering your mix · Keep working while it renders
Y
- Your changes are lost if you don't save them.
- Sessions · Close a session
- Your jams
- Interface overview · Studio and Jam are two places to work
- The workspace · Studio and Jam
- Sessions · What a session holds
- Jam Console · Open Jam
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Save and manage jams
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
Z
- Zoom
- MIDI and instruments · The piano roll at a glance
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- MIDI and instruments · Type note values
- Mouse and trackpad · Audio clip editor
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Zoom In
- Transport and navigation · Zoom and fit
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- Menu reference · View
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
- Zoom Out
- Transport and navigation · Zoom and fit
- MIDI and instruments · Tools and snap
- Menu reference · View
- Menu reference · Menus you open from a button
#
- Ⅱ Pause
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- ↻ Loop
- Transport and navigation · Repeat a section
- ⏩ FF
- Transport and navigation · Rewind and forward
- ⏪ Rew
- Transport and navigation · Rewind and forward
- ⏺ Rec
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Transport and navigation · Record
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Record another take over the song
- Recording audio · Cancel a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- Recording audio · Messages before a take starts
- Workflows · Record a take to the click
- ■ Finish
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Recording states
- ■ Stop
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- Transport and navigation · Rewind and forward
- Transport and navigation · Record
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Cancel a take
- Editing audio · The cursor
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Plugins · Play from another point
- ■ STOP REC
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- ▶ PLAY
- Interface overview · Studio and Jam are two places to work
- The workspace · Studio and Jam
- Jam Console · Jam Along
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Jam Console · Roll a backing band
- Jam Console · Change one part
- Jam Console · Try chords and explore harmony
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- ▶ ROLL AN IDEA
- Jam Console · Start a new jam
- Jam Console · Explore Studio material in Jam
- Workflows · Sketch in Jam, finish in Studio
- ▷ Play
- Interface overview · The Arrange view
- The workspace · The toolbar
- Transport and navigation · Play, pause and stop
- ● REC
- Jam Console · Record an optional take
- Troubleshooting · Jam
- ● Record
- Recording audio · Record a take
- Recording audio · Recording states