Your first project

You can make a short piece in Glob Studio with a single instrument and a few notes. This walkthrough uses the arrangement and piano roll. You can later add drum parts, effects and more tracks.

Open Studio#

Sign in to Glob Social and find Open Glob Studio, the waveform button on the canvas rail. The music tools appear only where music is enabled. On a smaller screen, the Studio controls fit into a row and the window fills the screen.

If you have used Studio in this browser before, it tries to reopen your latest complete browser save. Otherwise it starts with a demonstration project. Press Play to hear it, then Stop before starting your own piece. Your first press of Play also gives the browser permission to start sound.

Open the Project tab in the panel beside Studio. On a phone, use Library in the Studio controls to reach this panel. Choose New to start a project with one Analog Poly track and an eight-bar placement called New phrase. Studio saves the departing project in this browser before switching; if that local save fails, it keeps your current project open and shows the error.

Name the project and choose a pace#

In Project, edit Project name, then press Enter or click away. You can choose a Key below the name. This records a label for the project; choosing a key does not transpose your notes.

Set Tempo in the top bar. For example, type 100 for 100 beats per minute. Leave Time signature at 4/4 for this example. You can click either value to type, or adjust it with the keyboard. See the workspace for the details.

Write a phrase#

1. Choose Arrange in the Studio rail.
2. Double-click New phrase to open its Editor below the timeline.
3. Choose Draw in the top bar.
4. Click a few empty cells in the piano roll. Time runs from left to right; higher rows make higher notes.
5. Press Play. Use Pause to hold your position, or Stop to return to the start.

Click the piano keys to hear a pitch before placing it. Drag a note to move it. Drag its edge to change its length. Double-click a note to delete it. Undo reverses an edit.

The ordinary phrase has 32 sixteenth-note steps: two bars in 4/4. The eight-bar arrangement placement repeats that phrase. Several arrangement clips on the same track use the same notes. Use another track, or distinct launcher clips, when you want different musical material. Piano roll and arrangement explain this distinction in detail.

Choose a sound#

Select the track and choose Device in the bottom dock. Its instrument card shows the instrument selector and sound controls. Try Cutoff, Attack or Release while the phrase plays.

The Devices panel lists the factory instruments and selectable effects. Double-click an instrument to use it on the selected track, or drag it onto a track. Replacing an instrument keeps the notes. The Presets panel offers ready-made sounds; loading a preset can also replace the sound's effect chain.

To add another musical part, open Mixer view and use Add track. A project can contain up to 32 tracks. See instruments, drums and the mixer.

Keep the project#

Studio automatically keeps projects under My projects → On this device → Projects in this browser. Look for Saved in this browser. This copy belongs to the current browser and account.

Choose Save at the top of Project to save to Glob. The status says Saved to Glob when the saved version is ready. Audio preparation may run as part of that save; leave the browser open until it finishes. A local save and Save to Glob are separate actions. See projects.

When you need an audio file, use exporting audio. To let other people listen through Glob Social, follow publishing a track.

Closing Studio hides the editor and preserves your work. It also leaves intentional playback running. Press Stop first if you want silence, then use Close Glob Studio at the top right.