The user guide

One page per part of Humus. New here? The course walks through all of it in eleven lessons; 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. Performance capture - one button keeps the whole performance.
4. The timeline - tracks, clips, notes and automation.
5. The Metapad - snapshots of the patch, and a surface to morph between them.
6. MIDI & OSC - ports, learning controllers, clock, game pads.
7. Boards & sensors - a board on USB: sensors become knobs, the music lights LEDs.
8. Ableton Link - tempo shared with every Link app on the network.
9. Plugins - your plugins inside Humus, and Humus inside other music software.
10. 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.