LUNA / CMusic User Guide Introduction   

LUNA is a state of the art, ultra-light music application, designed to compose & perform music of different styles and flavors.

LUNA does not have a complex feature set, in which you can get lost.

At the contrary, LUNA is an easy yet rock-solid musical tool.

It's our intention to extent LUNA's functionalities in the future, but without compromising on easiness or quality.

Regularly visit mutools.com to check for new and improved versions of LUNA!

LUNA's core feature set:

  • Audio Recording & Playback
  • MIDI Recording & Playback
  • Composition & Sequence Editing
  • Audio and MIDI VST Plugins
  • Powerful Audio and MIDI Routing
  • Audio Engine using 32 bit floats, all usable samplerates
  • Sample Accurate Sequencing
  • Multi Undo/Redo
  • Available for OSX as a Universal Binary
  • Available for Windows (ASIO)

About LUNA Free, CMusic and LUNA Unlimited

LUNA Free, CMusic and LUNA Unlimited work in the same way, except for these differences:

# VSTIsMultiTimbral VSTIs#Racks
LUNA Free4No8
CMusic8Yes16
LUNA UnlimitedUnlimitedYesUnlimited

Whenever this User Guide mentions "LUNA" in general, it's applicable to all 3 versions. When something is for a specific version, it's clearly indicated.

LUNA System Requirements

  • Windows: Me, NT, 2K, XP or higher + ASIO driver!
  • Apple: OSX 10.3.9 or higher. LUNA runs as a Universal Binary, thus on both Mac PPC as Mac Intel
  • At least 6 MB free disk space
Recommended:
  • CPU 500 Mhz or more
  • Graphics resolution 1024 x 768 or more
  • Good soundcard with good driver

Installation

1) Download / copy the LUNA package (.zip) to your harddisk
2) Unzip to a new folder
3) Doubleclick the application file

Platform Specific Notes

OSX

  • Whenever this user guide mentions "right-click", you can use control-click
  • Whenever this user guide mentions "control-click", you can use command-click

Windows

None.

Unlocking your LUNA Unlimited

When buying a User License for LUNA Unlimited, you receive a User Key via email.

On first run, LUNA Unlimited will prompt for your User Key.

The simplest way is to copy the key text (starting with < and ending with >) to the clipboard, and paste it into the User Key field.

This will unlock your LUNA Unlimited.

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