Playback
Looping
⌘L sets the loop from the current marquee or clip selection. With the loop already on it moves the loop to a new selection rather than switching off; it switches off when there is nothing new to move to — nothing selected, or, in Focus Mode, the focused clip already looped. ⇧⌘L sets the loop and zooms to fit it.
Once the loop is on, ⌥⌘ and the arrow keys steer it without touching your selection. Left and right move it by one whole loop length, so a four-bar loop jumps four bars — the next phrase, and the one before it. Up and down double and halve it, anchored at the loop’s start.
These four keys only act while the loop is on, since a loop that is off is not drawn anywhere. Moving left stops at the first bar and keeps the loop’s length; halving stops at one beat.
With the transport stopped the edit cursor travels with the loop, and the view scrolls to keep the loop visible. Your clip and note selection is what stays untouched.
Locators
File operations
Open Other…, the disk picker, has no shortcut of its own.
Tracks
Inspector tabs
Each shortcut switches the Inspector to that tab, opening the Inspector if it’s hidden.⌘1 and ⌘2 change meaning while an Automation clip is open in
Focus Mode: there they switch the clip
between drawing the curve by hand and shaping it with an LFO. The other three tabs keep their keys
everywhere, and Escape leaves Focus Mode.Focus areas
View
Monitoring
Command Palette
⌘D marks a favorite in the Sample Library window too — one mark, one key, both places.
The recorder takes a bare function key, but every other key needs at least one of
⌃ ⌥ ⇧ ⌘ — a bare arrow is refused. A chord no menu can spell, such as one on the numeric keypad, still saves and still fires in the main window, the plugin windows, and the Projects and Sample Library windows; what you lose is the menu showing the key, and the Settings window and sheets. A chord another command already owns keeps Save disabled until you clear it.