Producer's Pad is your production tracker. Add each song you're working on, set its production status, and break the work into tasks for each track — drums, bass, vocals, guitars, keys — so you can see at a glance what is recorded, what is being edited, and what is still waiting.
Songs and production status
- Writing — the idea, lyrics, and arrangement are still taking shape
- Pre-Production — demo, arrangement decisions, session planning
- Tracking — recording in progress
- Editing — comping and cleanup before the mix
- Mixing — sent to mix engineer
- Mastering — sent for mastering
- Done — final master delivered
Tasks for each track
Open a song and click Add Task to add one. Each task has a track (Drums, Bass, Lead VOX, BG VOX, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Keys, Synth, Strings, or one you name yourself), a phase (recording, comping, editing, pitch correction, mixing, mastering, review and more), a status (Not Started, In Progress, Done or Blocked), an optional assignee, and its own notes. In Edit Song, each task also has a priority (Low, Normal, High or Urgent), a due date and details. Tracks are listed in studio order: Drums, Bass, Lead VOX, BG VOX, guitars, Keys, Synth, Strings, then tracks you named, then General.
Editing a song
The pencil on a song opens Edit Song, which shows everything about the song on one screen: title, key, BPM, production status, folder, Album candidate, every track on it (even ones a filter hides on the list) and its production notes. Change anything, add a track with "Add track", or remove one (it asks first, and the track goes only when you save). One "Save changes" writes it all, and Cancel asks before throwing changes away. A value brought in by an import that the menus don't list, like a Kemper track, is kept as it is.
Staying organized
Each song can carry its key, BPM, production notes (about the whole song; each track has its own notes) and an Album candidate flag. Sort songs into folders, group the list by folder or status, and filter by track, phase, status, assignee or key to find what still needs doing.
Spark Plug ideas on a song
Link a Spark Plug idea to a song in Media Hub → Ideas. The song's card then shows "1 idea" or "3 ideas", and opening the song lists them under Ideas, each with its length and "Open in Media Hub" to play it there.
