AfinarRecorder help · article 9 of 9
Where things live
Each thing the recorder does has a home, either a setting you can change or an article that explains it.
| Behavior | Where it lives | Help |
|---|---|---|
| The recorder window | No setting. The menu-bar icon shows and hides it, and the Dock icon shows it. It floats above your other apps and stays where you leave it. | Read more |
| Big and small | The button at the window’s top right switches to the mini view and back. Afinar remembers which one you used last. | Read more |
| Closing the window | Its ×, or Escape. A take, the metronome, Hear yourself, and Mute keep going. | Read more |
| Afinar in the Dock | The Settings tab, Show in Dock. It is on until you turn it off. | Read more |
| When Afinar listens | No setting. It listens only while its window is on screen, during setup, while Hear yourself is on, while an instrument is muted, and from Record to Stop. | Read more |
| Your input | The Record tab’s You card. Afinar remembers the input you chose last. | Read more |
| Hear yourself switching itself off | The Record tab’s You card, Hear yourself. It switches off after 10 quiet minutes, never during a take. | Read more |
| Settings during a take | No setting. Hear yourself, your input, Mute, your sound, and the app stay as they are until the take is saved. | Read more |
| The song’s app | The Record tab’s Your app card. You choose it, with Recent on top and Show All… for the rest. | Read more |
| Muting an instrument | The Record tab’s Your app card, Mute your instrument: Vocals, Drums, Bass, or Guitar & keys, one at a time. It stays as it is during a take. | Read more |
| Mute starting off | No setting. Nothing is muted when Afinar opens. | Read more |
| The song playing late while muted | No setting. A muted song reaches you about 140 to 150 milliseconds late. | Read more |
| Record on every tab | The Record bar at the bottom of every tab. | Read more |
| Record waiting for the song | No setting. A take starts with the chosen app’s first sound. | Read more |
| Stopping from any app | No setting. ⌃⌥⌘R stops a take, or right-click the menu-bar icon and choose Stop. | Read more |
| The mini view during a take | No setting. Record always turns the window into it, and Stop brings the full window back. | Read more |
| Hiding the recorder during a take | The mini view’s ×, or Escape. The take keeps going, and the menu-bar icon brings it back. | Read more |
| The menu-bar icon’s menu | Right-click or Control-click the icon. It holds Record or Stop, Settings…, Help, Send Feedback…, About Afinar, Check for Updates…, and Quit Afinar. | Read more |
| News by email | The first Take saved line asks once. Until you sign up, Get Afinar news by email in the Settings tab’s ··· menu asks again. | Read more |
| Video | The Video switch on the right of the Record bar. | Read more |
| Video starting off | No setting. Video is off each time Afinar opens, so the camera never comes on by itself. | Read more |
| Framing yourself | Turn Video on. Your live picture shows at the top of the Record tab. | Read more |
| When the camera runs | No setting. Outside a take, only while your picture is on screen, on the Record tab or in the mini view. During a take, it keeps running. | Read more |
| Which camera | The arrow beside the Video switch, when you have more than one camera. | Read more |
| Portrait video | The rotate button on your picture, fixed during a take. How sharp portrait is depends on the camera. | Read more |
| The note on every share and save | No setting. Every share or saved file asks you to make sure you’re allowed to use the music. | Read more |
| Saving your edits | No setting. Trim, balance, tone, and the name save as you make them. The player shows ✓ Saved. | Read more |
| Renaming a take | Click the name in the player, or Rename… in the Takes tab’s ··· menu. | Read more |
| A saved take’s tone | Its tone in the player, which opens Tone for this take. | Read more |
| The tone for your next take | The Tone tab. | Read more |
| Your instrument’s pedal | The Tone tab’s top card. Click the card to open the pedal. It keeps what you last set, with no presets. | Read more |
| Chorus, Delay, and Reverb | Knobs on each pedal. Bronze Bass has no Reverb. | Read more |
| Amp models | The Tone tab, Add a model, or the model card’s ··· menu to change or remove one. | Read more |
| A TONE3000 tone’s details and captures | Click the model’s picture or name in the Amp models list, or Details and models… in the model card’s ··· menu. | Read more |
| Switching a TONE3000 tone’s capture | The GAIN or CAPTURE knob on the model card, when the tone has more than one capture. | Read more |
| Your own NAM files | Add a NAM file… in the Amp models list’s Add a model menu. | Read more |
| Tuner | The Tuner tab. It listens only while the tab is on screen, and stops when you press Record. | Read more |
| The tuner’s reference pitch | The Tuner tab’s A4 button: 432, 440, or 442 Hz. | Read more |
| Metronome | The Metronome tab. It keeps playing across tabs, with the window closed, and during a take, and it’s never recorded. | Read more |
| Send feedback | The Settings tab, Send feedback, or Send Feedback… in the menu-bar icon’s menu. | Read more |
| The feedback invitation | No setting. One line after your fifth take, shown once. | Read more |
| First-run hints | No setting. Two hints on the Record tab until your first take. Their × closes them for good. | Read more |
| Usage data | The Settings tab, Send usage data. The first launch asks you to choose. | Read more |
| Open at login | The Settings tab, Open at login. It is off until you turn it on. | Read more |
| Appearance | The Settings tab, Appearance: Light, Dark, or Auto, which follows your Mac. | Read more |
| Where takes are kept | The Settings tab, Takes, shows the folder. Reveal in Finder opens it. | Read more |
| Quit, Help, and updates | The menu-bar icon’s right-click menu. | Read more |
| The Mac it needs | A Mac with Apple silicon, running macOS 26 or later. | Read more |