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Atomik Rack tutorials
Learn Atomik Rack, the free and open-source desktop DAW, one short video at a time. Every tutorial comes with chapters you can jump to, a written step-by-step guide and the full transcript, so you can watch, skim or search.
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New to Atomik Rack? Watch these in order.
- A Tour of the Window A guided tour of the Atomik Rack window: the rack of devices, the transport bar, the arrangement and the shortcuts that open everything else. 2:00
- Make Your First Sound Add a Poly Synth, make a one-bar clip, write four notes in the piano roll and press play: your first sound in Atomik Rack in under two minutes. 1:49
- Play, Loop and Set the Tempo Control playback in Atomik Rack: play and stop, set a loop with the L and R flags, turn on the metronome and change the tempo and time signature. 1:50
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The plan so far: 49 more tutorials, in roughly this order.
- Open, save and explore example projects
- Add devices to the rack
- Device basics
- Cables and routing
- The piano roll
- Scales and chords
- Quantize
- Arrange a song
- Automation
- Markers and tempo changes
- Organise and freeze tracks
- The console
- Sends and returns
- Buses and VCAs
- The sampler
- The drum machine
- The loop slicer
- Step sequencer and arpeggiator
- Containers
- Tone effects
- Space effects
- Character and mastering
- Import audio
- Warp audio
- Audio to notes
- Record
- The browser
- Settings
- The start screen
- Patches
- Combine devices
- Macro banks
- The modulation matrix
- FM synthesis
- Drum generator
- Piano roll tools
- Loop stretching
- Rearrange a song
- The audio editor
- Automate everything
- Mix many tracks
- Snapshots
- Submix buses
- The factory library
- Mix check
- Dynamic EQ
- Reference lens
- Versions
- Delivery targets
Atomik Rack is made by the producer behind Atomik Circus. Hear the music