Record audio and MIDI in Veena

You can record audio in Veena straight from your browser: vocals, guitar, a voice memo idea or any sound your microphone hears, with a count-in, loop recording and one-time calibration, plus MIDI from a keyboard. Every take lands as a real clip on your timeline, saved to your account, and CoProducer can build the rest of the song around it. It's free on every plan.

Record audio in Veena, step by step

1. Allow the microphone. The first time you record, your browser asks for permission; allow it for daw.veena.studio.
2. Press Record (the red button in the transport bar). The Record panel opens; choose Audio on its left. A blinking red box on the timeline shows where the take will land: at the playhead on the armed track, or across the loop if looping is on. Click another track to move it there, or drag the box.
3. Pick your input from the microphone menu. Open Calibrate once per setup and run Volume calibration and Latency calibration; switch on Monitoring to hear yourself.
4. Set a count-in. Open the metronome's options menu and choose Count-In: Off, 1 Bar or 2 Bar. Switch the metronome on if you want the click while you play.
5. Press Start recording. A countdown runs through the count-in, then your live waveform draws inside the red box as you perform.
6. Stop. Press the same button, now labelled Stop Recording. The take is a normal audio clip: trim it, move it, add Auto-Tune from its FX tab, or record again.

Loop recording: drag across the ruler to set a loop, then record. Each pass replaces the one before, and when you stop, Veena keeps the last complete pass.

Record MIDI

1. Press Record, then choose MIDI on the left of the Record panel and press Choose a sound.
2. The guided set-up walks you through Instrument, then Sound, then Record. Pick Melody, Drum Maker or MPC Sampler and a preset, and try it on the on-screen keyboard.
3. Record with a MIDI keyboard, or with your computer keyboard: A through ' play the notes, W through ] the sharps and flats, and Z and X change octave.

Every note lands in an editable clip; MIDI editing in the piano roll covers the rest.

Ask CoProducer to build around your take

About 1 in 4 first requests in Veena refer to the user's own audio: a recording, a demo, a loop or a voice memo. CoProducer measures the take (its tempo, its downbeat and where each syllable lands), sets the project tempo to match and writes every new part around your phrasing. Drag the clip into the CoProducer panel and ask:

• "Build a moody R&B beat around my vocal, and leave space where I sing."
• "Turn my humming into a cello line in the song's key."
• "Chop my guitar recording into a new groove for the chorus."

When CoProducer arranges the song, your recorded take stays in it. More on turning a voice into an instrument in writing a melody, and on structure in arranging a song.

Recording problems and fixes (as of September 2026)

• No input level: check the browser's microphone permission for daw.veena.studio and the input chosen in the Record panel.
• Takes land slightly late: run Latency calibration again after changing mic, interface or headphones.
• Too quiet or distorted: run Volume calibration, and back off the gain on your interface.
• Clicks or dropouts: raise the buffer size under Settings, then Audio Settings; it runs from 128 to 2048, and 512 is recommended.
• Veena asks for a bigger screen: make the browser window at least 1000 px wide and reload.

Recording in Veena works on Mac, Windows, Linux and Chromebook laptops in Chrome and other modern browsers. For the bigger picture, see the online recording studio page and voice to instrument; every capability is in the Veena help centre.