Record your own sounds.

What it is

The Recording Booth is a dedicated recording environment inside DAWG. You open it from the main menu, pick an instrument category, and start recording samples from your microphone. When you're done, save your recordings as a custom kit and use them in the main beat grid.

It's not a DAW-style multi-track recorder. It's a sample capture tool - record one sound at a time, build up a kit, then sequence it.

7 instrument tabs

The Recording Booth has a tab for each instrument category. Each tab has its own set of sample slots:

• Drums / Beat - 7 slots: Kick 1, Kick 2, Snare 1, Snare 2, Hat 1, Hat 2, Perc. Record your own kit from real objects, beatboxing, or anything that makes a sound. Needs at least a kick and snare to save as a valid kit.
• Bass - Record bass notes, sub hits, or 808-style sounds.
• Groove - Keys, chords, stabs. Record a piano chord, a rhodes lick, a pad swell.
• Synth - Record a synth line from another source, or make sounds with your voice.
• Vocal - Vocal chops, ad-libs, harmonies, spoken word.
• Guitar - Acoustic strums, electric riffs, single notes.
• Arp - Melodic phrases, arpeggiated patterns, plucked sequences.

How recording works

1. Pick a tab and slot. Select the instrument category and which sample slot to record into.
2. Tap REC. The booth captures audio from your mic with a real-time waveform display and VU meter.
3. Tap REC again to stop. Your recording appears in the slot, ready to preview.
4. Repeat for each slot. Build up a full kit one sample at a time.
5. Save your kit. Give it a name and it's available in the main beat grid as a custom preset.

Record your own drum kit

This is the headline feature. Tap a cup, slap a table, snap your fingers, stomp the floor - the Recording Booth captures it and maps it to the drum grid. Your kitchen becomes a drum machine.

Record at least a kick and a snare, save the kit, switch to the beat tab in the main grid, load your kit from the preset menu, and start sequencing with your own sounds. Every step on the grid triggers your recordings.

Mic input

The Recording Booth uses your device's microphone input. On a phone, that's the built-in mic. On a PC, it's whatever mic input your system is set to - built-in, USB mic, or an audio interface's XLR input.

For best results, use a quiet room and get close to the sound source. The booth has a VU meter so you can check levels before you commit to a recording.

Kit management

Saved kits appear in the preset dropdown in both the Recording Booth and the main beat grid. You can load, rename, and delete kits. Each kit stores all its sample slots, so switching kits swaps the entire sound set.