8 Audiotool Tricks That Will Shock Any Audiotool Producers!

Number 6 will BEDAZZLE you! Professional Audiotool producers will NEVER reveal these tips!

#1 : Want to fix a melody but there’s too many copied? Ghost regions!

Regions with a chip on the top right.

Ever peeked into some professional’s tracks and query if you’ve missed anything from that Audiotool Basics tutorial on YouTube because there’s this familiar note block-thingy but with a chip on the top right?

Worry not! I, too, have made a fool of myself fixing every single note region when I had a better melody in mind. It was not until I encounter Unscalable Sky whence I then discover that you could hold Ctrl + Shift while copying a note region to make a ghost copy of itself! What does this do? It basically reflect all changes made to other associated ghost regions, a trick you’ll definitely need.

#2 : Hearing modified Machiniste samples is as easy as double clicking!

Dinner is ready! (Not the cat)

You dragged a sample into the machiniste and wonder how it sounds like after you turned up the pitch knob? Of course, me too: I’ve been dying to know what do cats’ meow sound like an octave higher. And I could time-efficiently find that out by double clicking the sample label on the Machiniste instead of creating a note track and click C-sharp on the piano roll, which takes approximately 3 more seconds.

Meow ~— ah yes, music to my ears.

#3 : No MIDI keyboard? No money to afford one? Use your keyboard!

That’s me about to hold down the G! (which coincidentally maps to the note G)

If you’re a NEET like me, you probably don’t have a MIDI keyboard. (I do, but let’s just assume that you don’t have one or don’t like to use one for some obscure reason). When wanting to try out your newly patched Pulverisateur or Heisenberg (or even Machiniste), instead of clicking on the piano roll, you can just smash that Caps Lock button and start jamming!

Audiotool has implemented keys on your keyboard to map with the piano roll! With A associated with the note C, W for C-sharp, S for D, E for E flat, D for G with 3 semitones below, and so on. You can even change your octaves using the 1–9 keys! And guess what? You can even change the velocity by using the bottom most row, from Z to ? with Z being the highest velocity.

#4 : Tired of clicking to lengthen your Machiniste pattern? Hold shift!

Seriously. Who has time to click from 16 up to 32 on that thing, right? No problem! The Audiotool developers have worked extra hard to implement this super useful feature: Just hold shift while you press the plus or minus button on the Machiniste and it’ll either double or halve the length!

Awesome, right? (Please share this article or I’ll be deded)

#5 : Open different loop sections with this one simple trick!

meow uwu

You know when you stretch that note region and you just want to open it but you’re zoomed in at the end of it? Just hold Shift and double click and the region will be opened where you’ve double clicked it. Nice and simple.

#6 : Copy and Paste

Oh. My. God. This literally changed my Audiotool life. I used to figuratively spend 48 hours just to get the same attack envelope length for 5 Heisenbergs because I want to mimic this massive pad and I have OCD for sounds to crescendo at the same time. This trick virtually eliminates all the BS I had to repeat to get the right sounds.

Not only this works with virtually any knob and parameter, it also works for Machiniste patterns and range! Try it out! Click a knob, press Ctrl + C. Then click another knob/parameters, press Ctrl + V.

I did not know this until Jordi mentioned it a few days back. Completely BLEW my mind. (Don’t worry, I’m okay now. I have health insurance and I didn’t literally mean it anyway.)

#7 : No inspiration? Randomize the Heisenberg!

Did you know that pressing R while selecting the Heisenberg will randomize the synth’s configuration? Great for exploring undiscovered sounds!

$8 : Explore the tracks that nobody cares about!

Yes, I have 925 followers. I am such an accomplishment.

Have you ever wondered what’s the track that you made but nobody cares about? Have you ever questioned the fundamental reasons why you (barely attempt to) produce music? Does it really matter, in the end? Well before that, you should definitely check out the stuff that I made that nobody cares about.

You can check the least popular track for any user by clicking that “POPULAR” button twice on their profile! It flips! Useful? Probably. Soften my part-aggresive, part-narcissist “artist” persona? Definitely.