Basics

File Operations

Action How
New patch Cmd+N
New performance File menu → New Performance
Open file Cmd+O
Save Cmd+S
Save As Cmd+Shift+S
Save all slots File menu → Save All

Patch Settings (toolbar)

  • Patch name — click to rename
  • Category — dropdown to set sound category
  • Voice mode — mono / legato / poly
  • Voice count — number of voices
  • Variations 1–8 / Init — click to switch variation
    • Right-click any variation button to copy its parameters to another variation or to Init
    • Non-Init variations also offer Set to Init (overwrites this variation with Init parameters)
    • Drag a variation button onto another to copy (asks for confirmation)

Morph Toolbar

Shown below the patch toolbar whenever a patch is loaded:

  • 4 Morph knobs — one per morph; each has a source selector below it to pick what drives it
  • Patch Level — master patch volume (knob)
  • Active/Mute — checkbox next to Patch Level toggles patch monitoring

Right-click a Morph knob to assign a MIDI CC to it (see MIDI CC Assignment).


Slots (A / B / C / D)

  • Click a slot button to make it active
  • Top indicator: keyboard status; bottom indicator: active status
  • Shift+click — toggle slot active; Ctrl+click — toggle slot keyboard

Performance Mode

Click Perf in the toolbar to switch between patch and performance mode.

  • Performance name — click to rename (max 16 chars)
  • BPM — click to set tempo (30–240)
  • Run — toggle master clock

Settings pane → Performance Settings also has:

  • Range Enable — turns KB Split on/off for the performance

Per-slot configuration is in the same section:

Column Meaning
Active Slot plays audio
Key Slot receives MIDI
Hold Slot holds notes when not key-active
Range MIDI note range (0–127) for this slot

Settings Pane (Cmd+,)

Editor Settings

  • Theme — editor color theme
  • Knob control — Knob Mode (relative/absolute) and drag Sensitivity
  • Cable rendering — Gravity, Opacity, Thickness
  • Hidden modules — show/hide hidden (not recognised by Clavia editor) modules in patch browser

The patch browser’s disk folder is set from the button in the Disk tab (see Patch Browser below), not from this pane.

Synth Settings (requires G2 connected)

  • Synth name
  • Memory Protect
  • MIDI channels — per slot (A/B/C/D) and global; each can be set to Off
  • MIDI settings — Local, Clock (off/send/recv/both), Program Change, CC (off/send/recv/both), Sysex channel (or All)
  • Tuning — Semi, Cents
  • Pedal — Polarity, Gain
  • Global Oct. — global octave shift (−2 to +2) with an Active toggle

Patch Settings

  • Arpeggiator — on/off, Time, Mode, Octaves
  • Vibrato — Source, Rate
  • Glide — Type, Time
  • Bend — on/off, Semitones
  • Octave Shift — −2 to +2

Patch Browser (Cmd+B)

Three tabs: Disk, Patches, Performances. With the Browser pane focused (and no text field active), / cycles between them.

Disk Tab

  • — navigate to parent folder
  • — open system folder picker
  • Search — filter files; Esc to clear
  • Click folder — navigate into it
  • Click .pch2 / .prf2 — load into active slot

Patches / Performances Tabs (G2 connected)

Patches and performances stored on the G2, grouped by bank.

Navigation

Action Result
Click bank header Collapse / expand bank
▶ / ▼ button (top-right) Expand all / collapse all banks
Click entry Load patch or performance
/ or focus search Jump to search
/ in search Move selection through visible entries
Enter Load selected (or first) entry
Esc Clear search

Search — auto-expands any bank with a matching result; restores previous collapse state when cleared.

Right-click a patch entry

Item Action
Store “name” here Write the current slot’s patch to this bank location
Delete (clear this location) Erase this location from the G2 bank

Right-click a bank header

Item Action
Store “name Submenu listing all locations — choose where to write
Clear all in bank Erase every location in this bank
Sort Submenu: By location · By name A–Z · By name Z–A · By category

Store is unavailable for performance banks unless the G2 is in Performance mode.


Resource Monitor

The toolbar shows real-time CPU and memory usage from the connected G2:

Indicator Meaning
VA cycles Voice-area DSP load
VA mem Voice-area RAM usage
FX cycles FX-area DSP load
FX mem FX-area internal memory

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