The standard use of option for ‘do to all’ and option shift for ‘do to selected’ can be extended when it comes to assigning inputs, outputs and bus assignments for track IO and sends by using the cascade function. Cascade Selected Inputs/outputs - Shift+Option+CMDįor anyone who is still setting up sessions assigning inputs and outputs track by track there is a quicker way. Rather than saying I’ll pick up from this line with a bar of pre-roll I just say I'll drop you in from where this ends, hit 6 and let them hear it. It is the first of these, pressing 6 to audition the pre-roll that I find I use most regularly. Using alphanumeric 6 7 8 and 9 you can audition just the pre-roll (6), the beginning of the Edit selection (7), the end of the Edit selection (8) and the post-roll (9). However if you've ever found yourself explaining to the singer where the drop in is and how much pre-roll you're going to give them, instead consider using Audition. Secondly setting pre and post roll is infinitely faster if instead of setting it in the pre and post roll fields In the toolbar you Option+click in the track playlist. Firstly toggling pre-roll on and off using CMD+K (Control+K on a PC) has to be under your fingertips as if you’re anything like me you will forget to switch pre-roll off before returning to regular playback duties (and vice-versa). Having the shortcuts associated with pre-roll really speeds up the process of dropping in. But assuming that you know the basics, things like the keystroke to toggle the Mix and Edit windows, how to return to the beginning of a session and how to drop a marker, which Pro Tools functions would professionals highlight as being particularly useful during a busy session or mix? Of course we can’t hope to create a definitive list but here are some of the suggestions which came back when we quizzed the audio professionals which constitute our team of contributors: Pro Tools keystrokes are of course a huge subject and if you're looking to learn some useful keystrokes the place to look these days isn't in a blog article, it's in the Keyboard Shortcuts window. So after having considered why keystrokes are useful beyond the basic bread and butter keystrokes which frankly you have to know to operate Pro Tools without it becoming painfully slow, which keystrokes do we find useful enough to credit a special mention in this article? Ten Shortcuts For Professionals There's little to be gained by memorising a keystroke for something you rarely or never do. After all, the point of a keystroke is to do something more quickly and inevitably the more often you perform a particular action the more time you save. Try it!Īn interesting aspect of customisable keystrokes is that the specifics of which key you press to quickly access a function is of lesser importance today than which function you find important enough for it to be beneficial to use a keystroke. Being able to search either by keystroke or by function in the Keyboard Shortcuts window is an easily accessible mine of useful information. Anyone who has tried to use the keyboard shortcuts PDF which is part of the Pro Tools documentation will know how that is to use. The first is that with the very efficient search functions introduced by the Keyboard Shortcuts window it is now possible to quickly find existing default keystrokes that you don't already know. There are some compelling reasons to check out the Keyboard Shortcuts window even if you have no intention of creating any custom keystrokes of your own. However there are more benefits to the introduction of the Keyboard Shortcuts Window than just avoiding learning Pro Tools keystrokes. If for example you are a Logic user you can bring your Logic shortcuts with you, an obvious benefit of this system. Being able to rely on Pro Tools keystrokes being the same regardless of the system you work on was a significant benefit to those people who had a thorough knowledge of Pro Tools keystrokes, forming as it did a common language in a similar way to the days of analogue mixers and tape.īeing able to remap keystrokes removes a barrier of entry to people who aren't familiar with those default Pro Tools keystrokes. In the days of tape an engineer could visit an unfamiliar studio and, while the details might change between studios, they would recognise the basic operation of the equipment in front of them. I must admit that I was a long time proponent of fixed keystrokes in Pro Tools. We've been able to customise the previously fixed Pro Tools keyboard shortcuts since Pro Tools 2022.4. Hit Control+Shift+K on a Mac or Start+Shift+K on a PC (provided you haven't already remapped that shortcut!) to open the Keyboard Shortcuts Window and create your own.
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