Sound Mode

Mistakes happen. But you can learn from them. Sometimes you can even embrace them. If you don't want to, however, there's always undo.

Press on over the button and your last action will be undone. Press it again for the action before that. You can undo everything to the start of your session if needs be.

There's also a shortcut for this - just tilt or twist to the left and press to undo.

Decided you'd like to embrace that mistake after all? Press on over the button and the action you undid will be redone, as it were. You can redo everything you undo.

There's also a shortcut for this - just tilt or twist to the right and press to redo.

Same as the move tool anywhere else. Select it and grab with on to move things around, including timeline stuff.

Makes copies of stuff, saving you from creating something you want lots of from scratch a load of times. It also makes your creations more efficient in memory terms.

Select clone, hover over what you want to clone and grab it with on . Or press and hold on to change the imp tip to the clone icon and then grab with on

If you press or on while holding the clone, you can increase the number of clones. The extra clones are added in a different way depending on the button.

Press on for clone-to-clone, where the clones appear between the original and the clone. Move the controller to space and position the original and the clone.

Press on for clone-from-clone, where the extras appear beyond the first clone. Again, move the controller to space and position the clones.

Clone-to-clone and clone-from-clone are very powerful in sound mode, allowing you to create repeating patterns and rhythms really quickly.

If you start with clone-to-clone () and decide you actually want clone-from-clone () or vice-versa, just press the opposite button repeatedly till it goes the other way.

Sometimes you just need to get rid of something. Maybe you stamped it by mistake. Maybe it's in the wrong place. Or maybe you just don't like it anymore.

Select the delete tool and hover over the thing you want to trash. Notice something rather radical has happened to your imp. Don't panic.

Your imp is just letting you know you're about to delete something. We don't want you doing it accidentally, do we? Press on to delete the object.

You can also delete any time using on . If you delete accidentally don't worry - you can undo it. Just tilt to the left and press to undo and your object will reappear.

If you want to add specific notes to a piece, then you can use draw notes. Open the sound you want to work with and select the piano roll button at the top of the canvas.

Select draw notes and use on to add notes where you want them. You can make a note longer by holding and dragging to the right as you draw.

You can shortcut to piano roll view from any other view by tapping the bottom of and together while hovering over the canvas.

Use this to play instruments. Hover over an instrument and your imp prompts become musical notes. Start pressing buttons and you'll find yourself performing.

Some instruments have effects fields, coloured circles on the canvas, which change the sound as you move the imp over them. See more info on the effects fields button.

To change scale, tap the top of on the bottom of then choose a category with on to see the scales in it.

Choose a scale with on . To change key, tap the top of on the bottom of and choose one with on . When you switch key or scale, the notes on the imp change.

Eight notes isn't enough? Try tilting as you play. This changes the octave, giving you access to more notes. You can see the octave change on the bottom left of the screen.

If an instrument is set up for it, on will give you spiciness, which is like having an effects field on a button. Press it as a note is playing and it'll modify the sound.

Meanwhile on is volume reduction and will quieten the note down a bit. Both spiciness and volume reduction use the pressure sensitivity of the buttons.

Tap the tops of and together while hovering over the canvas to toggle you in and out of performance. Tap the bottoms together to switch to piano roll view.