Main Toolbar

The main toolbar contains global actions, such as saving and loading a project or opening the preferences window.

About Dialog

Clicking the Zrythm icon will show the About dialog, which contains information about authors and copyright.

Global Menus

Zrythm has the following global menus at the top of its interface.

Edit Menu

The Edit menu has various buttons and controls that are used often during editing and arranging.

The Editing chapter explains these controls in detail.

Project Menu

The Project menu contains various project-related actions such as saving, loading and exporting MIDI or audio.

Project Management

New Project

Create a new project.

Save

Save the current project at its current location.

Save As

Save the current project at a new location.

Load

Load a project.

Export

Export As

Export the project as audio or MIDI. See Audio & MIDI for more details.

Export Graph

Export the routing graph as an image or .dot graph. See Routing Graph for more details.

See also

For more information about projects, see the Projects chapter.

View Menu

The View menu contains controls to change the appearance of Zrythm and its various areas, such as zooming.

Zoom

Zoom In

Zooms in.

Zoom Out

Zooms out.

Original Size

Zooms back to the default zoom level.

Best Fit

Zooms in or out as much as required to show all of the events in the timeline.

Visibility Toggles

Toggle Left/Right/Bottom Panels

Toggles the panel’s visibility.

Toggle Timeline Visibility

Toggles the timeline’s visibility.

Help Menu

The Help menu contains links for reporting bugs, donating, chatting and other useful links.

Chat

Join the Zrythm chatroom on Matrix.

Manual

View the user manual.

News

Show the latest changelog.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Show all the available keyboard shortcuts.

Donate

Donate to Zrythm through LiberaPay.

Report a Bug

Opens the page to report a new bug.

Additional Controls

The main toolbar also contains the following widgets.

There are the following buttons next to the name of the current project.

Scripting Interface

Shows the scripting interface.

See also

See the Scripting section for more information.

Log Viewer

Displays the log, which gets updated real-time.

Preferences

Shows the preferences dialog.

See also

See the Preferences section for more information.

MIDI In

The MIDI In widget shows the MIDI activity of auto-connected MIDI devices and the live waveform display shows the audio waveform from the master output.