Getting started
From the first start to your first saved project: sound out, how much of the app to show, and where everything lives.
The first start
When JamSesh opens for the first time, a short welcome tour checks that you can hear it.
- Under Sound comes out of, pick your speakers or headphones.
- Press ▶ Play a test sound. Heard it? Press I can hear it.
- Choose how much to show: Simple (the essentials: record, loop, play) or Advanced (everything: mixer, effects, controllers, plugins). You can change this any time.
- Press Start making music.
You can see the tour again any time: ? at the top right, then Welcome tour.
Finding your way around
The bar at the top holds everything you need all the time.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Studio Jam DJ | The three ways to play: arrange on a timeline, jam live (alone or with friends), mix tracks on decks. |
| File ▾ | New, open, save, save as and export. |
| ↶ ↷ | Undo and redo. Everything you change can be undone. |
| Mixer | Show or hide the mixer. |
| Pads | Show or hide the soundboard. |
| Controllers | MIDI keyboards, controllers, gamepads and mappings (Advanced). |
| Keys | Play an instrument with your computer keyboard. |
| Together | Make music together: host this project or join a session. |
| Out | The level of everything JamSesh plays. |
| Mode | Kids, Simple or Advanced. |
| ? | Help: tour, shortcuts, plugins, report a problem. |
| ⚙ | Audio device, sync and network, AI agents. |
Simple, Advanced and Kids
The Mode menu at the top right sets how much of JamSesh you see. Nothing is lost when you switch: hidden things keep working.
- Advanced shows everything.
- Simple hides effects (FX), automation, MIDI routing, controller mappings, headphone mixes, the pitch-correction slider and the four-deck DJ view.
- Kids turns the whole window into big pads and loop buttons with a capped volume. See Kids mode.
Sound in and out
Open ⚙ (audio device settings) to choose what JamSesh plays through and records from.
- Pick a Driver: Shared works with everything through Windows; Exclusive gives lower delay but takes the device for itself; ASIO is for audio interfaces that come with an ASIO driver.
- Choose the Output, and under Inputs press + Add input for each microphone or interface you record from.
- Set the Buffer: smaller is less delay, bigger is safer. Start with Default.
- Press Apply.
Clicks or gaps in the sound? A counter like 3 dropouts appears at the top. Choose a bigger buffer in ⚙.
Recordings late? Latency correction (ms) moves recordings back in time by that much.
Saving and opening
- File ▾ then Save (Ctrl+S) saves the project as a .jamsesh file. Its recordings and samples are kept in a folder next to it called <name> media: keep the two together.
- Open… (Ctrl+O) opens a JamSesh project, or a .dawproject from another DAW.
- If JamSesh closes before you saved, it offers a copy of your work the next time: Restore or Throw away.
Help and problems
- ? then Keyboard shortcuts lists every shortcut. See also Shortcuts.
- Something went wrong? ? then Report a problem (save diagnostics)… saves a file you can send us. It holds no songs, recordings or session codes.
- If your audio device disconnects, playback pauses and JamSesh reconnects by itself; Open settings takes you to ⚙.