Settings
Open Settings with ⌘, or ⌥4. Changes apply at once and ⌘Z undoes them.
Crates
Section titled “Crates”Start tracks at the drop
Section titled “Start tracks at the drop”The Crates deck and the set planner’s audition deck start a track at its drop instead of the beginning. Off, they start at the beginning.
Show artwork
Section titled “Show artwork”Shows a track’s cover art on the Crates deck and in the now-playing bar. Off, only text shows.
Key source priority
Section titled “Key source priority”Selector Studio uses the first source that has a key for a track. Drag to reorder.
Key match
Section titled “Key match”Which keys count as mixing with the playing track (shown in blue). Strict: the same key and its relative major or minor (8A and 8B). Normal: also one step either way round the wheel (7A, 9A). Loose: also two steps up, an energy boost (10A), and a semitone up or down (3A, 1A).
Choices: Strict, Normal, Loose.
BPM & grid
Section titled “BPM & grid”Tempo and grid priority
Section titled “Tempo and grid priority”Selector Studio uses the first source that has a tempo and beat grid for a track. Drag to reorder.
Half or double time
Section titled “Half or double time”For a track that could be counted either way (about 78 to 88 BPM, or 156 to 176), which one Selector’s grid uses. A track with a kick on every beat of the faster tempo is always counted at it.
Choices: Prefer half time, Prefer double time.
Offer Beat grid
Section titled “Offer Beat grid”While the Beat grid add-on isn’t installed, a track with no tempo offers it in the Edit view and in Next. Off, it’s only under Add-ons.
Quality
Section titled “Quality”Selector Studio grades a file by its bit rate and by how much of the spectrum is really in the audio, so a lossy copy re-saved as lossless, or at a higher bit rate, is graded as what it is.
High from
Section titled “High from”Lossy files at or above this bit rate, with the full spectrum, are High.
Medium from
Section titled “Medium from”From here up to High is Medium; under it is Low.
Waveforms
Section titled “Waveforms”Colours
Section titled “Colours”Selector draws the low, mid and high bands in tones of one colour, so colour stays free for loops, cues and vocals. Rekordbox 3-band uses Rekordbox’s blue lows, amber mids and white highs. RGB colours each moment by its balance of lows (red), mids (green) and highs (blue), as Rekordbox’s RGB waveform does.
Choices: Selector, Rekordbox 3-band, RGB.
Bars are rounded bars on the beat. Dense draws a column for every pixel, as Rekordbox does. Continuous is one smooth, solid shape.
Choices: Bars, Dense, Continuous.
Mirrored
Section titled “Mirrored”Draws each waveform mirrored about a centre line. Off, it grows up from a baseline, as Rekordbox’s overview does.
Appearance
Section titled “Appearance”Choices: Light, Dark.
Density
Section titled “Density”Choices: Compact, Default, Comfortable.
Columns and panels
Section titled “Columns and panels”Reports
Section titled “Reports”Share usage and crash reports
Section titled “Share usage and crash reports”Shares which screens and commands you use, and any errors, stalls and crashes, with an anonymous install ID, so problems can be found and fixed. Track names and file paths are left out.
Library
Section titled “Library”Refresh library
Section titled “Refresh library”Works out beat grids, keys, waveforms, quality and energy again for every track not cut, in the background while you keep working. Your crates, reviews, cues, edits and sets stay.
Updates
Section titled “Updates”Check for updates
Section titled “Check for updates”Selector Studio looks for a newer version now and then and downloads it in the background. Update ready in the status bar then shows what’s new; Restart installs it, once no Sync, Save or Export is running.
Storage
Section titled “Storage”Selector Studio keeps its own copies of stems, audio cache, artwork, USB renders. Each has a Clear button and shows its size. Clears Selector Studio’s copies; your music files stay.
Add-ons
Section titled “Add-ons”Install, update and remove add-ons here. See Add-ons.