🎼 Arrangement View, Bounce & Warp

The Arrangement View displays your track in a classic timeline perspective running from left to right. This is where you lay out recorded tracks, assemble audio and MIDI clips, bounce instrument performances to ready-made audio files, and draw parameter automation.

1. Clip Operations and Timeline

• Tracks and Clips: Each track contains clips arranged along the bars. Clips display an audio waveform or a preview of MIDI notes.
• Basic Operations:
  • Split: Divides the selected clip at the time cursor location.
  • Resize / Trim: Dragging the clip edge shortens or lengthens its playback section.
  • Duplicate: Quickly copies clips along the timeline.
  • Mute: Temporarily disables playback of a specific clip without deleting it from the track.
  • Clip Gain: Independent volume adjustment of a single audio clip.
• Loop & Markers: The loop bar on the top timeline allows for continuous looping of a selected section of the track.

2. Bouncing Clips and Freezing Tracks (Bounce & Freeze)

Omni DAW features a dedicated Live & Background Clip Bounce engine:

A. MIDI to Audio Bounce (Freeze / Bounce Clip)

• Live and Background Rendering: You can render a selected MIDI clip (from a built-in synth or a VST3/CLAP/LV2/VST2 plugin) directly to a new .wav audio track.
• Tail Render: The engine automatically captures reverb and delay tails, preventing the sound from cutting off at the end of the clip.

B. Freezing Tracks (Freeze Track)

• Freezing temporarily disables CPU-heavy synthesizers and external VST3/CLAP/LV2/VST2 plugins, replacing them with a rendered audio buffer in the background.
• It frees up 100% of the CPU processing power without losing flexibility – you can freeze or unfreeze a track at any time and return to editing MIDI notes!

3. Fade Curve Selector (Crossfade)

Omni DAW is equipped with a cohesive smooth transition engine (Fade in / Fade out / Crossfade). At the edges of an audio clip, you can select one of 5 fade curve characters:

| Curve Type | Name / Shape | Application in Audio Processing | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Linear | Linear | Simple volume change. Ideal for sterile transitions of non-phase-correlated signals. | | Equal Power | Equal Power | Standard in audio mixing. Prevents an unwanted volume drop at the intersection point of two samples! | | S-Curve | S-Curve | Very gentle rise at the beginning and end, prevents clicks and signal pops. | | Exponential | Exponential | Fast drop and slow decay. Excellent for decaying percussive instruments. | | Logarithmic | Logarithmic | Rapid volume increase at the very beginning of the transition. |

4. Time Stretching Modes (Warp Modes)

Warp algorithms allow you to match the tempo of an audio loop to the project tempo without altering pitch, or to creatively time-stretch samples:

• Repitch: Classic tape stretching. Changing the tempo affects the pitch.
• Beats: An algorithm optimized for percussive material (preserves transients).
• Tones: Dedicated to monophonic instruments (bass, vocals, brass).
• Texture: Dedicated to dense textures and ambient pads.
• Complex: A higher-order algorithm for stretching full polyphonic mixes.

5. Parameter Automation Lanes

Each track in the Arrangement View has collapsible automation lanes, added from a list via the "+ Lane" button in the track header. Automatable parameters include: track volume, panning, and trim, built-in synth parameters, effect parameters (insert/master/return), VST3/CLAP/LV2/VST2 plugin parameters, and MIDI CC messages. Send Levels are not currently automatable via lanes — they are adjusted manually on the channel strip in the mixer.