Hello and thank you for purchasing Unify! You navigate around these pages by clicking colored links, just like any other web site. Most pages have a table of contents box in the upper-right corner, containing links you can click on to quickly reach different sections on that page. If you ever get lost, just click on the “UN” Unify logo which appears at the top-left corner of every page, to get right back to this start page.

This Unify manual site is under construction, and probably will be forever, as the software itself changes over time. RED LINKS like this indicate pages which aren't available yet, because we're still working on them. Please excuse us when things are outdated or missing. If you think there's something really important we need to know about, head to the PlugInGuru forums to let us know. Thank you!

Click here for a PDF version of this manual. Our thanks go to Unify user Paul Lemman for helping us create a much cleaner version. Note the PDF version of this manual will become out-of-date at times, as changes made to this web-based manual are not automatically propagated to the PDF.

Utilisateurs francophones: Cliquez ici pour une version PDF en français, grâce à M. Thierry Faverial en France, mais veuillez noter que c'est probablement obsolète. Les modifications les plus récentes peuvent ne pas être incluses.

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• Downloading and Installing Unify
  • Uninstalling Unify, should you need to
• Getting started with Unify
• Navigating Unify's graphical user interface
• Loading and playing patches
  • Safety features added in Unify v1.5
• Working with plug-ins
  • Built-in and bundled plug-ins
  • Scanning and using your own plug-ins
  • Defining subsets for quick access to your favorite plug-ins
• Problems and Solutions

• Tour of the layer-stack view
• Tutorial: Creating your first patch
• Basic patch recipes

• Using Macro Knobs
• Using MIDI
• DAW automation

• Built-in and Bundled plug-ins.

• Setting up Unify for live performance
• Changing patches with MIDI
• MIDI controller files

Basic topics

• Unify on Macintosh with Apple Silicon
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Adding and removing patch libraries
• Moving Unify's main data folder to a different drive
• Understanding Unify's CPU meters
• How Unify processes MIDI data
• Show MIDI view
• Using the Transport
• Using the Settings view

Intermediate topics

• Unify's files and folders
• Parameter paths reference
• Patch variations
• Key zones

Advanced topics

• How many layers can you have?
• Keeping Unify's patch database clean with scrub.xml
• Unify patch structure
• About .guru files
• OSC support in Unify

• Running Unify on Linux (unsupported)
• Migrating Unify and other audio apps from one PC to another