

More tips and shortcuts on Instagram! Follow to keep up with tips, and hear about deals and coupons! One or Many? You enabled “Insertion Follows Playback” by accident because its Key Command ‘N’ enables and disables it. It isn’t going back to where you had it anymore! Whether you quickly knew the solution or had to scratch your head for 5 minutes, this has almost certainly bothered you at one point. With your new track made, you hit spacebar and the insertion keeps staying where the audio is when you stop. It didn’t create the track but you just went ahead and pressed the Shortcut again, and it worked.


Let me frame the most common scenario for you: Well, a lot of the time we approach Shortcuts backwards and accidentally enable something with a Key Command. The just expand the functionality of the rest of your keyboard.** So why does this matter for this tutorial? **Special Keys do nothing when pressed by themselves. Shortcuts are not disabled by the ‘A Z’ symbol in your edit window. Shortcuts are combinations of Special Keys AND a letter or character on your keyboard that may also be used for a Key Command. Second they are enabled and disabled by the little ‘A Z’ symbol at the top right corner of your edit window.First they are a single key on your keyboard, usually a letter, that has a function in your edit window.This seems kind of silly but hear me out. To explain this let’s first make a distinction between Shortcuts and Key Commands. Shortcuts, Key Commands, And The Difference First let’s approach an issue involving shortcuts that causes more frustration with new Pro Tools users than they realize. So Mix Studios is bringing you 5 Useful Shortcuts in Pro Tools for you to add to your work flow.

That is why the pros will never click or search a menu for something they can quickly do with the strike of a couple keys. Or, get a prefabricated additional keyboard like HOTKEY MATRIX.Anybody who spends more than a day in a session or days editing audio knows that the more efficiently you work, the better your flow and focus on what you’re doing is. It is a bit of work, inclusive documenting everything, but it increases editing/mixing speed massively. Single keys, that are often needed in sequence, can be mapped directly next to each other, like "Copy Special All Automation" - "Repeat to fill Selection" - "Thin all", all depending on ones own workflow. You can assign shortcut sequences to a single key, like "Tab, Tab, Shift Tab, F" or "Select next Clip, Snap to Previous". "Ctrl Alt Start Shift L" will be a single key. Prerequisite : a list of unused shortcuts so the official ones are not affected.Īssign any shortcut, either complicated Pro Tools own ones (like Ctrl Alt Start Shift L) or personal shortcuts created with Autohotkey, to a second keyboard like expertkeys EK-128 or an X-Keys keyboard. The above are menu items, that do not have a shortcut assigned to it. WinMenuSelectItem, Pro Tools,, Edit, Automation, Coalesce Volume Automation to Clip Gain Edit, Automation, Coalesce Volume Automation to Clip Gain = Ctrl Shift Q WinMenuSelectItem, Pro Tools,, Edit, Automation, Thin All Edit, Automation, Thin all = Ctrl Shift T (this is just a remark, not code)
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the edit menu command "Thin all" to Ctrl Shift T with this code : It is not possible to change the original shortcuts in Pro Tools.īut with Autohotkey, you can assign unused shortcuts to your keyboard,Į.g.
