The canvas is the whole instrument. There are no hidden pages: every node you add sits on it, and every cable you draw is the sound’s real path.
Moving around
- Drag one finger on empty canvas to pan, and pinch to zoom, up to three times the normal size.
- Zoomed far out, the dots stop starting cables, so a drag anywhere moves a node. Zoom in to draw cables.
- A tap on empty canvas clears the selection.
Nodes
- Add a node with the + button beside the patch name. Every node is shown at once, in four columns: Sources, Modulation, Shape and Effects. A tap adds it in a free spot in view.
- Move a node by dragging its body. It lands on the nearest free spot of a grid, so nodes never sit on top of each other.
- Select a node with a tap. Its border turns orange, its cables come forward and the other nodes fade back.
- Open its popup by tapping it again. Several popups can be open at once; drag one by its header to put it anywhere.
- Insert a node that has no cables yet by dragging it onto a cable and holding it there. When the cable lights up, let go.
- Remove a node with the bin button in its popup. If it sat in the middle of a chain, the cables on either side are joined, so the sound keeps playing.
- Rename a node by tapping the title in its popup.
Popups
A node’s popup holds all of its controls. Along the header are the mute button, the ? help page, the four quick slots and the title.
- Double-tap any knob, fader or bar to put it back to its default.
- Double-tap and hold a control to show it on the node on the canvas, or to take it off again. Each node shows one small knob, which moves when something modulates it.
- Muting an effect, a Filter or a Pan bypasses it, so the sound passes through unchanged. Muting a source or an Amp silences it.
Pictures you can play
Every source and most effects draw a moving picture of the sound: an oscilloscope, a chord wheel, a wind chime, smoke, sand on a vibrating plate. The picture is a control too. Drag it sideways and up and down to move two settings at once, and double-tap it to reset them. The bars on its right and bottom edges are two more.
Undo, solo and the Macros bar
- Undo and redo cover every change: knobs, cables, nodes and loading a patch.
- Every Amp has a Solo button (S). Solo one and only its chain plays, through its effects; the rest of the canvas fades back. Solo is a listening aid and is never saved with a patch.
- The Macros bar along the bottom holds the eight macros. Select it to light up every macro cable with its amount.
Next: Cables and modulation