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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