The user guide

One page per part of Humus. New here? Getting started is the way in, and these pages are where it points when you want more.

1. Getting started - get Humus, the workspace, your first patch, saving and bouncing.
2. Concepts - categories, the five families and what the colours mean.
3. The Library & file browser - find, hear, rate, tag and load every file.
4. Performance capture - one button keeps the whole performance.
5. The timeline - tracks, clips, notes and automation.
6. The Metapad - snapshots of the patch, and a surface to morph between them.
7. MIDI & OSC - ports, learning controllers, clock, game pads.
8. Boards & sensors - a board on USB: sensors become knobs, the music lights LEDs.
9. Ableton Link - tempo shared with every Link app on the network.
10. Plugins - your plugins inside Humus, and Humus inside other music software.
11. AI tools - presets from words, a patch assistant, sounds from a sentence, a camera as a controller.

What each organism does lives with the organism: the ? on its bar opens its page.