Studio Orientation

Everything on the screen, and what it actually does.

The ground floor. By the end you can open the Studio, build an eight-bar idea and export it, without guessing what any button does.

Before you press record

Accounts, files and the vocabulary you need.

1. What a DAW is (and what it is not)
2. Your account, your library, your files
3. The language: track, region, bus and bounce
4. Saving, revisions and forks
5. Orientation check

The Studio window

A guided tour of every panel.

1. The transport, the timeline and the playhead
2. The track list and the arrangement area
3. Track controls: volume, pan, mute, solo and effects
4. BandLab Sounds: loops, one-shots and instruments
5. Zoom, snap and the grid
6. Keyboard shortcuts worth learning
7. Build an empty session

First sound to first export

A complete, tiny, finished thing.

1. Adding your first loop
2. Trimming, moving and copying regions
3. Bars, beats and thinking in eights
4. Build an eight-bar loop
5. Saving, downloading and publishing
6. Orientation final