Settings reference — NAMper Documentation

08.1Opening Settings

Tap the gear icon in the header of the Rig tab. That is the only way in, and the header only exists on that tab — from Loop, Sample, Perform or Control you go back to Rig first.

The top of the Settings sheet: the AUDIO INTERFACE card with Feedback guard switched on, the DSP load readout, the sample rate and buffer chips, the input trim slider, and the beginning of the CHANNEL NAMES card. — The top of the Settings sheet

The gear has company in that header row, and it is worth knowing what the neighbours do:

Item	Does
The NAMper wordmark	Opens the About sheet — version, credits and the tip jar. The only way in.
DSP load chip	Processor load as a percentage, — when stopped. Green under 60 %, amber to 85 %, red above.
Gear	Settings — this page.
KEY chip	The current key, or the word KEY when unset. Opens SET KEY.
Metronome chip	Tap to switch the click on and off; long-press for the SET TEMPO sheet. See the looper.
Tuning fork	Opens the tuner. See MIDI & control.
Power	Starts and stops the audio engine. Nothing makes a sound until it is on. See getting started.

08.2Audio interface

The AUDIO INTERFACE card is the longest one, and the only one whose settings need a relaunch to take effect. The first four rows are read-only: they tell you what NAMper actually got from iOS, which is the fastest way to find out why an interface is not behaving.

Row	Control	Default	What it does
Sample rate	Read-only	—	The rate the engine is actually running at, in kHz.
Inputs	Read-only	—	How many input channels the current route offers, up to eight.
Outputs	Read-only	—	How many output channels the current route offers.
Engine	Read-only	—	running or stopped.
Feedback guard	Switch	On	Mutes the output while the built-in mic plays through the phone's own speaker. Read this one properly.
DSP load	Readout + bar	—	Processor load, shown only while the engine runs.
Sample rate	Chips: Auto, 44.1k, 48k, 88.2k, 96k, 176.4k, 192k	Auto	Sets the engine rate; remembered per route. Changing it restarts the engine. More.
Input channels	Chips: Auto, 1…n	Auto	Caps how many input channels NAMper opens. Leave on Auto unless you have a reason.
Buffer	Chips: 64, 128, 256, 512	128	Block size, with a live frames · ms readout. The only latency control there is. More.
Input trim	One slider per input, −12…+24 dB	0 dB	Gain for interfaces without a gain knob. Play hard: the IN meter should reach its top third.
Use all interface outputs	Switch	Off	Opens every output pair, so a branch, a rig or the click can own its own pair. Stereo devices do not need it.

Audio changes need a relaunch

The chips and switches here take effect on the next engine start — some, like the sample rate, restart the engine themselves. If something looks stuck, power the engine off and on before assuming it is broken.

08.3Channel names

CHANNEL NAMES is a text field per input, each row prefixed In 1, In 2 and so on, with the placeholder Guitar, Vocal…. The footnote says what they are for: Input pickers show these names everywhere.

Name them once and those names appear in every input picker in the app — rig inputs, looper track sources, compressor sidechains, the input trim sliders. Channels you leave blank fall back to In <n>.

Worth two minutes

On a multichannel interface, Guitar and Vocal are much easier to pick correctly mid-soundcheck than In 3 and In 4.

08.4Appearance

Chips: System, Light, Dark. The default is System, and this is the one setting on the whole sheet that applies the instant you tap it.

NAMper is designed dark — the meters, the LEDs and the chain graphics are drawn for a dark stage. Light is there if you need it in daylight, but the app is at its most legible in the dark.

08.5Set

The SET card is read-only. It shows Tempo (as BPM, or — when nothing is set) and Key (such as Am, or —). It is a status readout, not a control.

The footnote points you at the real controls: Tempo: long-press the metronome. Key: the KEY button in the header.

Value	Set it from
Tempo	Long-press the metronome chip in the Rig header, or the tempo block in the Loop tab. The looper also detects it from your first loop, and selecting a backing track applies the song's tempo.
Key	The KEY chip in the Rig header. Selecting a backing track applies the song's key.

08.6Lyrics

One slider: teleprompter text size, from 16 to 34 pt, default 22 pt, with a live preview line reading This is how your lyrics will look.

Changing it re-aims the teleprompter live, so if the lyrics screen is open on another device or you come straight back to it, nothing has to be re-timed. Set it for the distance the phone actually sits from your face on a mic stand, not from the sofa. See lyrics and the teleprompter.

08.7Metronome

Row	Control	Default	What it does
Click level	Slider, −40…+6 dB	≈ −3 dB	How loud the click is.
Click output	Chips: Main, Out 3/4, Out 5/6…	Main	Which hardware output pair carries the click. Shown only when there is more than one pair; picking a non-main pair force-enables Use all interface outputs.

The card's footnote is the useful part: The click is mixed in AFTER the master FX chain — reverbs and limiters never touch it. Pick a separate output pair for in-ear monitoring.

That means your master reverb will not smear the click and your master limiter will not duck the band every time it ticks. Send it to its own pair and the drummer hears the click while front of house does not.

The click itself is switched on and off with the metronome chip in the Rig header, or the CLICK chip in the Loop tab — not from here.

08.8Prompts

Row	Control	Default	What it does
Show the support prompt	Switch	On	The sheet that explains NAMper is free and points at the tip jar. It reappears occasionally from the third launch onward; switch this off and it never returns.
Offer TONE3000 sign-in on launch	Switch	On	The sheet offering to connect your TONE3000 account so factory presets can download their real amp captures. It appears once per launch while you are signed out.
Replay the quick tour	Button	—	Runs the eight-step first-run tour again.

The quick tour is a spotlight over the live Rig tab, counted n/8, and it is hands-on rather than a slideshow: it walks you through turning the audio on (you really tap the power button), the amp card, the signal chain (you really tap a block), the block editor, presets, the other tabs and a closing step. Next, Skip step and End tour are always available, with Finish at the end. It runs on the Rig tab only.

08.9Reset

Two buttons, each behind a confirmation.

Button	Dialog	Confirm
Reset to factory presets	Delete ALL user presets? The four factory rigs come back.	Delete all user presets
Reset all settings	Reset every setting (audio, looper, MIDI map, appearance) to defaults? Presets and files stay. Restart the app afterwards.	Reset settings

The first one wipes your rig presets and restores the four factory rigs. The second leaves every preset and every file alone and only puts the settings back to their defaults.

Restart after a settings reset

The footnote reads Settings reset takes effect after an app restart., and it means it. Only the appearance change applies immediately — the audio settings need a relaunch before they are truly back at their defaults. Quit NAMper from the app switcher and open it again.

08.10Diagnostics

NAMper keeps a plain-text engine log recording interface routing and peaks. When one exists, this card offers Share engine log and Clear engine log; when it does not, it reads No engine log yet (it records interface routing and peaks).

Share engine log hands the file to the iOS share sheet — mail it, AirDrop it, or attach it to a support issue. It is the single most useful thing you can include in a bug report about an interface that will not open, a rate that gets refused or an engine that stops on its own, because it records what actually happened at the audio layer.

Clear engine log empties it. Do that immediately before reproducing a problem and the log you send contains that problem and nothing else.

08.11Not in Settings

Three things people look for here and do not find.

Trigger quantize

The QUANT knob and its grid chip live in the Sample tab header, not in Settings — even though both are global rather than per kit or per pad. See trigger quantize.

Tempo and key

Both are header chips on the Rig tab. Settings only reports them, in the SET card.

MIDI

There are no global MIDI settings at all: no channel selector, no program-change toggle, no clock sync. MIDI in NAMper is omni and always on — every channel is accepted, every source connects automatically, and the app publishes its own virtual destination named NAMper.

Nothing to configure

If a pedal is not doing anything, the problem is the mapping rather than a setting. Everything MIDI lives in the Control tab — see MIDI & control.