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Recording and takes

How recording works, what a take keeps, and where your recordings live.

Takes file under songs

Recording happens on a score, the tab, chart, or page you’re playing from, and every take files under its song, numbered and dated. There’s no loose pile of recordings to sort out later.

If you hit record on a web page you haven’t saved to your scores yet, Afinar offers Add & Record: one click saves the page as a score and starts the take.

What a take records

Two tracks of the same performance: your instrument, through the tone you’re monitoring, and the music, captured from the source. They’re lined up in time, with your setup’s delay corrected, so what you get back is you playing with the record, not a beat behind it.

Underneath the tone, Afinar always keeps a clean copy of your raw signal. You can change the sound later, a different amp, different effects, and the performance is still there. See Listen back.

Starting and stopping

Press R or the record button. On a chart with a backing track, the music starts with your take, after the count-in, if you’ve set one in the metronome. On a web tab, hit record and start the page’s player; the take carries whatever the page plays.

Stopping is always yours: the button, R, or Space. Afinar never decides a take is over for you.

The takes list

The rail lists this song’s takes, newest first: take number, length, the tone it was recorded through, and when. Click one to listen back. Delete on hover, there’s an undo, so no confirmation dialog slows you down. The keeper star, set in listen back, marks the one worth coming back to.

Where your recordings live

On your Mac, in a folder you can open from Settings (⌘,) → Reveal in Finder. There is no Afinar account, no cloud, no upload. Nothing leaves your machine unless you export it yourself.