Ke圜ue’s elegantly simple solution is to display an instant overview of currently available keyboard shortcuts – application-specific menu shortcuts as well as system-wide hotkeys and user-defined shortcut descriptions. However, productivity actually decreases when applications provide large numbers of shortcuts, in particular when the shortcuts are defined inconsistently across applications. The productivity paradox of keyboard shortcuts is that shortcuts were designed to increase productivity. All these plus a collection of system-wide shortcuts can be downloaded from Ergonis Software online. And since Ergonis is open to the sharing of such user created shortcut list, hopefully you’ll be able to do the same.”īesides the new shortcut descriptions for Pro Tools, similar add-ons are available for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Aided by Ke圜ue, I can refer to any shortcut I do not yet know and get right back to the music. This is what motivated me to build this list, so I could free myself of the theory and get pragmatic about my projects. The thing about shortcuts is that they not only speed up your editing and recording workflows, once they’re in your veins, they become an extension of your creativity. It’s like having a Shortcuts Assistant Engineer! Now I can confidently state that Pro Tools is an instrument that I play – if not with my eyes closed – with my ears wide open. Victor continues: “Ke圜ue to the rescue! Not only this app reads all of Pro Tools’ menu items shortcuts and displays them in a neat list, since version 6 it lets users define custom shortcut descriptions, blowing a multitude of Pro Tools’ shortcuts out in the open! No more digging through Pro Tools Shortcuts Guide or Reference in search for buried and less known shortcuts if you find a missing or undocumented shortcut just enter it in Ke圜ue, and the next time you fire it up – via a convenient press and hold of a key – it will sit right in front of you, so you can memorize it faster. But what if you do both plus MIDI edits and mixing, how do you go about learning 200 keyboard shortcuts?” asks Victor Figueiredo, mixing/recording engineer, and long time Brazilian Mac user. If you edit a lot, you probably live in Keyboard Focus mode. If you record a lot, the first ones to learn are for the transport (this is why Pro Tools users dig keyboards with num pads). “Having used Pro Tools for 15 years, I’ve managed to learn many shortcuts which I know by heart now. The new shortcut descriptions have been created by Victor Figueiredo, a fellow Ke圜ue user, who shares his set with the Ke圜ue community free of charge. Ke圜ue merges the additional shortcut descriptions with the shortcuts found in the menus to show the most comprehensive keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet ever. Starting with version 6, Ke圜ue supports user-definable custom shortcut descriptions to reveal these hidden commands. However, many applications offer further hidden shortcuts that are listed only in help documents or printed manuals. Previously, the application shortcuts shown by Ke圜ue were limited to those that appear in menus. Whenever the command key is kept pressed for a while, Ke圜ue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application. Ke圜ue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. The descriptions can be imported in Ke圜ue 6 to reveal 189 hidden keyboard shortcuts in Pro Tools. Hagenberg, Austria – Ergonis Software today published extended shortcut descriptions for Avid Technology’s Pro Tools.
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