Using Clip Joint

Settings and help

This page helps you with the parts of Clip Joint that sit outside the sound: the menu, tooltips, how the waveform scrolls, and what to do when an update is available. For the settings bar along the bottom of the window, see Output and delivery.

Open the menu and settings

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Menu and settings buttons. The two buttons in the presets bar that open everything outside the sound.

1. 1MenuAbout, licensing, tooltips, the manual, and the website.
2. 2SettingsHow the waveform scope scrolls.

Two buttons in the presets bar open everything on this page.

The menu button, beside the logo on the left, opens:

• About, which shows the version you are running.

• Your license state, License Status, and the activation actions. Activation and licensing covers these.

• Enable Tooltips, which turns every tooltip in Clip Joint on or off. Tooltips describe each knob, the settings-bar choices, each style in the Style menu, and the scroll options. Turn them off once you know the controls; the sound does not change.

• User Manual, which opens this manual, and Visit Website.

The settings button, at the right end of the bar, opens the settings overlay described below.

Change how the waveform scrolls

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The settings overlay. Display choices for the waveform scope. They never change the audio.

1. 1Scroll modePage, Continuous, or Infinite.
2. 2Scroll speedHow much time the scope shows. Dimmed in Infinite.

The settings overlay sets how the waveform scope moves. These are display choices only; they never change the audio.

Scroll mode has three options:

Option	What you see	Choose it when
Page	The trace fills the scope from left to right, then clears and starts a new page.	You want to look at one phrase at a time.
Continuous	New audio enters on the right and older audio scrolls off the left.	You want to watch the most recent few seconds as they pass.
Infinite	New audio enters on the right while the whole history so far is squeezed in to the left.	You want to see the shape of a whole song.

Scroll speed sets how much time the scope shows:

Speed	Page	Continuous
Slow	8 seconds	30 seconds
Medium	4 seconds	10 seconds
Fast	2 seconds	3 seconds

Infinite ignores the speed, so the control is dimmed while it is selected. Your speed comes back when you return to Page or Continuous.

Clip Joint remembers your choices for new instances, and each saved session restores the choices it was saved with.

Respond to an update

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An update is available. Clip Joint shows the new version without interrupting audio, and never installs it on its own.

1. 1VersionsThe version you are running and the new one, with a summary of what changed.
2. 2Your choiceDownload opens the portal, Skip This Version hides this version, and Ask Next Time closes the dialog.

When Clip Joint finds a newer compatible release, it shows the version you are running, the new version, and a summary of what changed. The check never interrupts audio. If you are offline or no newer release exists, nothing appears.

• Download opens the customer portal in your browser. Clip Joint never installs an update on its own.

• Skip This Version stops this version being offered on this computer. A later version can still be offered.

• Ask Next Time closes the dialog and offers the update again later.

Release builds offer only release versions. Beta builds can offer a newer beta or the release that follows it. With several Clip Joint instances open, the offer appears once.

Latency and bypass

Clip Joint reports its exact latency to your DAW on every setting, so delay compensation keeps it in time. Latency changes with Oversample, the Linear Phase / Minimum Phase filter choice, and when Low Protect is on. Output and delivery covers the details.