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User manual

The complete guide to Pulsark, as a PDF you can keep on the device you are making music on - iPhone, iPad or Mac. It is generated from the app itself, so its counts, control lists and shortcuts describe the build it is versioned against rather than an earlier one.

Cover of the Pulsark user manual, version Beta 1.0

Beta 1.0

Released
Covers app version
1.0
Length
104 pages, A4
File
PDF, 34 MB
Language
English
Download the manual

Opens as a download. On iPhone and iPad, Safari saves it to Files, where the Books app can also open it; on Mac it lands in Downloads.

What is in it

  • The Sample kit, the Editor, Loop Refix and the five play engines
  • The Record tab: the microphone, a line input or the master output as the source
  • The MOD strip: three LFOs, the filter envelope, velocity and the hard gate
  • Chromatic pad mode: one sample across the grid, with root, scale and octave
  • The 16-track sequencer: Grid, Orbit and Euclid, p-locks and trig conditions
  • Tracker: the same patterns as rows of notes, velocity, pan and commands
  • The 48-genre Generator - nine families, the Musical feel and Mix switches, templates - and the 24-parameter Randomator
  • The 16-strip mixer, the channel console - input, gate, dynamics, EQ, color, inserts, output - the send busses and the master chain
  • Every insert and send effect, the reverb algorithms and the dynamics models
  • Song mode and DAW export
  • Projects, sound banks, backing up, and the Samples and Recordings folders in the Files app
  • Both form factors, side by side - the iPad and Mac canvas and the compact iPhone UI
  • Running Pulsark standalone or as an AUv3 inside a host
  • Every keyboard shortcut
  • The full MIDI implementation: what Pulsark receives, sends and ignores

Versions

The manual is versioned separately from the app and is reissued when the app changes enough to need it. Older releases stay downloadable, so a link you were given with an earlier beta keeps working.

  • Beta 1.0Current · PDF, 34 MBDownload
Something missing?

If the manual does not answer your question, email post@vaagfabrikat.no - gaps in it get fixed in the next release. See also Support.

© 2026 VAAG Fabrikat AS. Pulsark is developed and published by VAAG Fabrikat and built for iOS, iPadOS and macOS.