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Quick start

This walkthrough takes a set of audio files to a finished bounce.

1. Create a project

File → New Project… (Cmd+N). An Audionaut project is saved as a .audium package — a folder that contains the project file and all audio media, so it moves between machines (and between the app and the command line) as one unit.

2. Import audio

Drag audio files into the arrangement — either from your system's file manager, or from Audionaut's own File Browser (View → Open File Browser), which starts in your Music folder and supports multi-selection.

Imported files land on a track. Files imported together become the channels of one track: an eight-stem export becomes one track with eight channels that always play in sync.

If automatic analysis is enabled (Settings → Analysis), Audionaut starts analysing new material in the background right away — this powers the Auto Edit features later.

3. Play

Press Space to start and stop playback. The header bar has the transport: play, stop, record, loop, the tempo, and the position display in bars and beats. Master volume and a level meter sit on the right.

4. Arrange

  • Drag clips along the timeline to move them.
  • Put the playhead where you want to cut and use Edit → Split (Cmd+E).
  • Select a time range and Create → Create Region… (Cmd+R) to name a section — named regions collect in the right-hand panel, ready to be placed again.
  • Cmd+D duplicates the selected clip.

See Editing for the full toolset, and Analysis and Auto Edit for letting Audionaut cut and arrange for you.

5. Export

File → Export Audio… (Cmd+Alt+B) renders the arrangement offline to a WAV file — choose sample rate, bit depth and channel count in the dialog. Details in Exporting audio.

Saving

Cmd+S saves; Audionaut also autosaves after edits, and if a project is changed on disk by something else (for example the command-line tool), the app reloads it automatically.