Make it playable

Touching Regions and mappings

Turn visual areas into playable controls without losing alignment.

Browse documentation

Start here

Create and edit

Make it playable

Test and perform

Trust and help

On this page

What makes something playable

Playability comes from a persisted Touching Region or a control owned by a native instrument, image-backed component preset, or Digital Touchpad. Pixels alone are never treated as sound.

Imported images and Note insertion create an ordinary full-frame region. A bundled System Element follows its reviewed full-frame or decorative policy.

Region shapes and anchors

  • Add rectangle or ellipse regions.
  • Trace one closed outline to create a simplified polygon region.
  • Anchor a region to the Canvas or to an Element, including Text.
  • Element-relative regions follow their parent as it moves, resizes, or rotates.
  • Set a clear name and accessibility label for each region.

Map the interaction

A region can hold one or more supported actions. Choose an available built-in or imported Sound and a valid note or named component. VMuse checks mappings before publication.