Keyboard Shortcuts
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Mastering keyboard shortcuts makes Cubase easier to use and is good for your health!
The Key Commands window allows you to define key combinations for your favourite Cubase commands.
Despite the well-designed user interfaces of modern DAWs, the repetitive moving, scrolling and clicking with a mouse can often feel clunky and sluggish, and in the long run can also cause problems with fingers, wrists, elbows and so on. While I’m the first to admit that defining and learning key commands doesn’t sound as exciting as, for example, getting to grips with a new soft synth (or even staying in on a Saturday night to wash your hair!), it’s something that will both make Cubase easier and quicker to use and help you to avoid suffering from mouse-related physical problems.
Right On Key
Frequently performed tasks such as project navigation — moving between windows or events, moving the playhead along the timeline, zooming in and out, or something more complex — can be made more efficient using Cubase’s key commands, providing you’re prepared to invest a little time in setting them up and practising using them. As an example of what key commands can offer, then, let’s learn how to ‘navigate’ using just the keys, and get there quicker.
While there are a lot of useful default key commands in the standard Cubase installation, there are also plenty of additional functions that can be assigned a shortcut via the Key Commands window, which is accessible via the File/Key Commands menu option. By default, access to this window does not have a keyboard shortcut assigned (existing key commands are shown to the right of an item within a menu), so I’ll use this as a basic illustration of how to define your own key commands.
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Tue 22 May 2012
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