User Guide

Throughline is a modular synthesizer for sound design, composition, and performance. The user guide on this site is shared with the plugin documentation so the instructions stay aligned across both surfaces.

Get Set Up

• Installation for macOS and Windows setup
• DAW Setup for host routing and transport sync
• Getting Started for your first patch

Patch Fundamentals

• Data Types and Conversion for audio, numbers, gates, MIDI, and explicit remapping
• Sound Sources for oscillators, wavetables, noise, and resonant bodies
• Filters and Effects for building an audio signal chain
• Modulation and Envelopes for envelopes, LFOs, shapes, and routing movement into a patch
• Polyphony and Voices for creating Zones and authoring one reusable voice

Creative Systems

• Sequencing and Clock for clocks, arpeggiation, and DAW sync
• MIDI Processing for routing, filtering, and transforming MIDI
• Pitch and Scales for pitch domains, quantizing, and sharing a key
• Math and Logic for scaling, remapping, and thresholds

Workflow

• Macros for performable controls and DAW automation
• Stereo and Panning for placement, width, and channel routing
• Inspecting Signals for monitors and meters while you build
• Groups and Frames for the beta status of structural organisation tools
• Keyboard Shortcuts for faster editing

Reference

• Node Reference for the full node library generated from the canonical catalog

Principles

• The guides are hand-written and versioned by Throughline minor release line.
• The node reference is generated from the canonical node catalog.
• The plugin ships only the documentation that matches its own version line.