Operation Manual

Click the [x] button on the top right of the window to hide the instrument dialog. Alternatively, you may click the
instrument button on the track header to toggle the visible state of the instrument preset window.
There are three special categories: <Custom>, <Instruments>, & <External Devices>.
<Custom>
This means that you have made your own custom virtual instrument.
Learn more about creating a custom virtual instrument patch.
<Instruments>
This category will show all available virtual instruments on your computer, including any external ones. The
bundled synthesizers include Acoustica Instruments, Impulse, MinimogueVA and VB3 Organ. VSTis are the only
supported type of plug-in. If you have a virtual synthesizer that is not showing up, you may have to edit your VST
Effect folders.
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coustica Instruments - This is a general MIDI synthesizer with additional banks of sample sounds.
Impulse - This is a polyphonic subtractive analog synthesizer.
MinimogueVA - This is an emulation of the popular MiniMoog™ synthesizer.
VB3 Organ - This is an emulation of the popular Hammond B3™ organ.
When you click on a virtual instrument, the window will expand and you will see the following:
Click on the preset column to select a preset.
Learn more about creating your own virtual instruments.
<External Devices>
This category will show all external MIDI outputs or sound card MIDI synthesizers. If you have an external
synthesizer connected via a MIDI interface, select the appropriate MIDI output interface. Please note that you will
not be able to render or burn the audio made by these synthesizers unless you record them to an audio track first!
MiniMoog™ is a trademark of Moog Music, Inc.
Hammond B3™ is a trademark of Hammond-Suzuki, Inc
Creating Your Own Virtual Instrument
You can make your own virtual instrument presets by layering multiple synthesizers, editing presets, setting key
range and more!
To create your own Virtual Instrument, click the Instrument button on a Virtual Instrument Track.
On the pop-up window, click the Show Details... button
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