Search Aden from any app

Open Aden's search over whatever you are doing, find tracks and files, launch apps or create something from selected text.

Press ⌃Space (Control+Space) in any app and Aden's search opens over it. Aden has to be running; sitting in the menu bar is enough.

Find anything

Type and press Enter. Search finds:

Teams, pages and screens of Aden.
Your team's tracks. Pick one to see its cover, status, linked folder and every action for it.
DAW projects, audio and MIDI anywhere on your computer. Inside a folder linked to a track it finds every file, so artwork and split sheets come up by name or by the track's title.
Music apps on your computer. Type "ableton" or "serato" to launch one.
Settings. Type "clear cache" and it opens Settings on that switch.

A cloud on a row means the file has a copy in Aden. Hover an audio file's icon to play it. Click "…" on a row, or press ⌘K on it, for its actions: open in your DAW, start or link a track, share, show in Finder, send it as a transfer.

With nothing typed, you see what you opened lately.

Search by voice

Press ⌃⇧Space to open it listening. Say what you are looking for and the words land in the search.

Create from selected text

Select words in any app: Notes, Mail, a browser.
Press ⌥⌘C (Ctrl+Alt+C on Windows).
Pick New track, Studio session, Todo or something else.

Aden opens quick create with the line filled in. Nothing is saved until you confirm. On a Mac this needs Accessibility permission the first time.

Ask Aden or message someone

Type a question and press Enter, or pick Ask Aden. Chat opens with your message sent.
Type a name for "Message" followed by that person.
With a page like SoundCloud open, search offers what you can do with it: ask for a review, save it as a reference, send it to a recent chat. Nothing goes out until you press send.

Change the shortcut

Go to Settings → General → Search shortcut, click the shortcut and press the keys you want. The shortcut for creating from text is under Create from selection.