A MixPad project is your entire mix. It is all your tracks and all your clips.

Playing

To play a MixPad project move the play cursor to the position you would like to start from and tap the play button at the bottom left side of the screen. Tap the fast-forward and rewind buttons to search through your audio, or tap the Go to Start or Go to End buttons to quickly jump to the start or end of the selected track.

Saving and Loading

You can save your project as a .mpdp file with a data folder(same name as project file with a .ProjectData postfix) and then load it for use again later. When you save a MixPad project, all audio files are saved into the project's data folder. This means that if you want to move your project to a different computer or location, the things you need to save are the project file and associated data folder.

Timeline Modes

The timeline can be viewed in either minutes and seconds or in bars and beats. To toggle between the two, tap the timeline mode button located above the play controls and just right of the loop button.

Loop Play Mode

To loop a section of your MixPad project over and over, turn loop play mode on by tapping the loop mode button, located on the Controls tab toolbar (also found just above the Play button in the lower left corner of the MixPad window). Next, select the portion of your project you want to loop by tapping and dragging in the timeline area beneath the tracks. When you tap play and the cursor position is before the end of region, MixPad will play from current cursor position and once reaches the end of selected region, the selected region will loop as long as the loop play mode button is activated.

View Grid Lines

Using grid lines will help line up loops and pieces across several tracks. To turn on grid lines, tap the grid lines button to the right of the timeline mode button, just above the play controls. Note that if you change the BPM, you will have to reset the grid lines by turning them off and back on again.

Metronome

Playing a metronome during playback will help you align tracks with the master tempo of the mix. To toggle the metronome on and off tap the metronome button, located below the tracks in the lower left corner of the project window. Note that you may need to enable the metronome in the Options dialog on the Metronome tab before the metronome is available for use from the project window. See the Options ~ Metronome section of this manual for more information on metronome options.