Rendering & export
Turning performances into files — loops, clips, and finished pieces.
Rendering here is deliberately unexciting: the file you get is the performance you saw.
What renders
- A capture selection — the usual path. Select a range in the capture editor and press Render; you get a video clip of that performance, picture composited exactly as the canvas showed it, audio mixed with your lane settings.
- A loop — the same, with the loop toggle on (it’s on by default). The render is built to repeat seamlessly and lands on a pad as a loopable instrument.
- A single layer — one lane bounced by itself, either composited in the canvas frame (with transparency, for reuse in other tools) or at the layer’s original dimensions.
- A combined clip — two or more clips fused into one.
Where renders go
Onto pads, mostly. A render is less an export than a consolidation: the ten-pad jam becomes one clip, which is easier to play, layer, and re-chop.
Files live in your project and can always be revealed in Finder for use anywhere else. Settings → Storage shows where that is.
Loops that actually loop
Codecs round audio durations, so a loop that ends up 40 milliseconds long drifts audibly out of phase within a minute of cycling. Loop audio is rendered to a lossless sidecar with the exact duration the loop needs, so a rendered loop stays in phase for as long as you leave it running.
There’s nothing to configure here — it’s worth knowing only so you trust a rendered loop enough to build on it.
Frame rate
The project’s render frame rate is in Settings. It governs deterministic capture rendering, which decodes each frame rather than sampling the screen — which is why a render doesn’t drop frames when your machine is busy.
Fidelity
Worth restating from Core concepts: renders are driven by the same envelope math, the same layer ordering, and the same clock as live playback. A release tail you heard fades in the file. A clip that faded in over its attack fades in the render. The canvas layout you arranged is the layout you get. Enabled captions are baked in at the same clip-relative position.