Recorder (Audio In)

The Recorder turns your own audio into a playable instrument. Capture from a microphone or line input, or upload a file, and the resulting take behaves like a sample you can pitch across the keyboard, filter, and sequence — with tempo-matching tools on top.

Capturing a take

Audio In

The Audio In card is where capture happens. Choose your input source, set the input gain, and use the record transport to capture. Your browser will ask for microphone permission the first time; without it, no input is available.

You can also upload an existing audio file instead of recording one.

The take

Once captured, the Take card shows the recording as a waveform so you can see what you got, and lets you preview it before committing to it. Takes are saved with your track, so a recording made in one session is still there in the next.

Matching the tempo

A recording made without a click almost never lines up with the track's grid. The Recorder detects the take's onset and estimates its tempo, then length-fits it to a target number of beats.

Target beats

Set how many beats the take should occupy, snapped to bars or beats. The take is then fitted to that length so it loops in time with everything else.

Warp mode

Two ways to make a take fit:

• Repitch — speeds up or slows down the audio, which changes its pitch as well as its length. This is the classic sampler behaviour, and the artefacts are often desirable.
• Stretch — changes the length while preserving pitch. Better for material where the pitch matters, such as vocals or a melodic phrase.

Playing a take

Once a take is in place, the Recorder works like Simpler: the sample is pitched across the keyboard, runs through the shared low-pass filter with cutoff and resonance, and can be fed through the effects chain and sequenced in the note grid.