Capture ideas

Writing Room

Catch a melody or a line before it disappears, with the words written down for you.

Steps

1
Go to Writing Room and create a Scratch Pad. Choose the cloud folder it should live in — the full folder path is shown, and you can remember it as your default idea folder.
2
Press record and sing or speak your idea. Press again to stop. Newest takes appear at the top.
3
Play a take back with the scrub bar, and delete it if it wasn't the one.
4
Use Import Audio to bring in something you already have — either from your cloud drive, or straight from your library by searching the song title and picking a version.
5
Click Transcribe to turn the recording into text. The take's name is used in the file names.
6
Copy the text into lyrics or notes, then Save. A new draft file is written only when the lyrics or notes actually changed, named like Audit Log - Lyrics_v02_09-01-2026_18.49.txt using your local clock.
7
Use Promote on any draft to make it the main lyrics.txt or notes.txt for the session.
8
Use Download Mix to get a stereo file of the session as it sounds now, or Export to Library to save that mix into your drive and add it to your library as a song or a new version.
9
Use Import HotTake, or Create Scratch Pad from HotTake, to pull an existing HotTake recording into a Scratch Pad.

Recordings are 44.1 kHz, so they're clean enough to build on later.
Nothing is stored on our servers — takes go straight to your cloud folder.
Renaming a session renames its folder in your drive, and the rename is logged in the authorship trail.
Drafts, deletions, mixdowns and promotions all show up in the session's authorship trail at the bottom of the page.