Nebula DAW manual

The Nebula DAW manual, from an empty window to a mastered album. It is also inside the app, under Help.

Getting started

From an empty window to a saved song: tracks, tempo, playing, recording, saving and undo.

The arrangement

Regions, tools, snap, editing, markers, sections, the tempo track, the clip launcher and scoring to picture.

The piano roll and MIDI

Drawing and editing notes, quantize, the score, controller lanes, articulations, drum maps and session players.

Recording several tracks

Arming and inputs, monitoring, count-in, punch recording, takes, Capture as Recording and edit groups.

Mixing

The channel strip, mixer views, sends, buses, groups, racks, mix scenes, meters, surround and the Control Room.

Bounce and export

Bouncing to a file, formats, stems, export ranges, albums and DDP, Bounce in Place and Process with Plug-in.

Claude in Nebula

Switching Claude on, setting what it may do area by area, asking it, comping with it and what it never does.

Key commands

Changing keys, key command presets, macros, screensets, the command palette and Quick Help.

Big sessions and the load meter

The load meter, buffer size, low latency monitoring, freeze, several cores and plug-ins that stop.

Automation

Showing and drawing automation lanes, automating plug-ins, automation modes and recording moves while playing.

Nebula's instruments

Instrument racks and Nebula's seven instruments: Sampler, Keys, Poly, Grid, Kick, Genesis and Drums.

MIDI effects and the arpeggiator

Nebula's MIDI effects, the arpeggiator and its tabs, baking and keyswitches.

Flex Time and Flex Pitch

Moving hits and notes in recorded audio, stretch modes, Smart Tempo, spectral editing and Varispeed.

Stems and Rebalance

Splitting a finished song into stems and turning one part up or down inside a mix.

Mastering

Loudness targets and metering, the mastering chain, reference tracks and the Mastering Assistant.

The Library and templates

Finding, rating and placing patterns, kits, samples and loops, and starting songs from templates.

The chord track and harmony

Writing and detecting chords, turning them into MIDI, the song's key and parts that follow the chords.

Track alternatives and screensets

Keeping several versions of a track's regions, screen layouts on number keys, and the appearance.

The Tuner, the Analyzer and Nebula's effects

Inserting Nebula's own effects, the plug-in bar, and what each processor's controls do.

Moving songs between DAWs

Importing and exporting DAWproject, AAF, MusicXML and MIDI files, and bringing in tracks and audio.

Modulators

LFOs, envelope followers, steps, note sources and macros that move a channel's controls.

Glossary

The one name Nebula uses for each thing, where two things could share a word.