The Studio workspace

Glob Studio has a main view, a detail dock below it, a panel for projects and sounds, and floating controls above and beside the main view. Selecting a track decides which instrument and notes appear in the dock.

Switch views#

The Studio rail replaces the canvas rail while the editor is open.

On a phone, these controls sit in a row inside Studio. Library opens the project and sound panel there. On a wide screen that panel sits beside Studio.

Selecting another view changes what you see. In particular, changing from the clip launcher to Arrange does not itself stop launched clips. Read the clip launcher before switching between a performance and timeline playback.

Use the transport#

Closing the editor does not stop music. Use Stop before Close Glob Studio if that is what you want. The closed Studio button has an orange dot while audio is playing.

The metronome follows the time signature's beats, with an accent at the start of a bar. It is for listening while working and is not added to an exported song.

Tempo, meter and position#

Tempo accepts 50–220 bpm. Click the number to type a value; Enter or clicking away applies it and Escape cancels. Drag vertically, use the mouse wheel, or use the arrow keys to adjust it. Shift makes these adjustments finer. Home and End on the focused tempo control choose its minimum and maximum.

Time signature accepts a numerator from 1 to 32 over 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 or 32. Type 3/4, 6/8 or 7/8, for example. Enter or clicking away applies it; Escape cancels. Invalid input restores the previous value and shows a hint. The arrow keys change the numerator, and Shift with the arrows changes the denominator. A vertical drag also adjusts it.

Tempo always counts quarter notes. Changing the signature moves the bar lines; it does not stretch or move existing notes. A phrase that is two bars in 4/4 therefore need not occupy two bars in another signature.

Position uses bar.beat.sixteenth, beginning at 1.1.1. Click and type 5, 5.2 or 5.2.3 to jump to that position. Dots, colons or spaces can separate the numbers. You can also drag or nudge this control. The arrangement ruler offers another way to place the playhead.

Edit tools and history#

Select, Draw and Split change pointer actions in the arrangement and note editor. Select moves clips and notes. Draw creates a clip or note in empty space. Split cuts an existing clip or note. Each editor's page explains snapping and selection.

Undo and Redo are disabled when their histories are empty. A completed note drag or automation drag is one edit. When a shared field has changed elsewhere, an undo can leave that newer value alone; see projects.

The detail dock#

The dock has three choices:

• Device shows the selected track's instrument and effects.
• Mixer shows a compact mixer. This choice is hidden while the large Mixer view is open.
• Editor opens the selected phrase's piano or drum roll.

Click a track header to select it and show its devices. Double-click a clip to open its notes. Shift+Tab switches between clip editing and devices while Studio has focus. Ctrl+Alt+L, or Cmd+Alt+L on a Mac, hides or shows the dock.

Only Editor has a resizable height. Drag the divider above it, or focus that divider and press Up or Down. Device and Mixer use the same fixed card height. On a small window the dock fits the available space and scrolls.

The dock's status area reports save progress, playback problems and shared-edit conflicts. Read it when an action appears not to have worked.

The project and sound panel#

The panel has four tabs:

The top search finds effects and synth patches. On wide windows it sits in the centre; with less space it becomes a Search button. See presets and search.

Right-click tracks, clips, notes and devices for their actions. Text fields keep their text-editing behaviour. The shortcut reference lists the gestures shared across Studio.