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Run a command

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Enter a value

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Choose a sound by ear

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Switch between instruments, samples and presets

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Use it in the Sample Library

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Good to know

  • The palette lists the commands of the window you are in. From the arrangement that is over 300 commands, so nearly every control in the project window has one. From the Sample Library it is only that window’s own list, so a command never acts on a window you are not looking at.
  • Opened empty, it shows Recent and Favorites first, then All Commands. ⌘D on a highlighted row adds it to Favorites.
  • Any row can have its own key, even a group or a single sound. Highlight it and press ⌘S: Custom Shortcuts.
  • A value field turns orange while the value is out of range. Escape leaves it and keeps the old value.
  • A command that cannot be undone asks first, such as Delete Comment or Delete Plugin Category…. In that question Return cancels, as Escape does; the button that goes ahead takes a click.
  • Each command shows its group in gray after its name, as in Change Tempo Tempo & Key. The groups and every command in them: Palette Commands.
  • Return on a group opens it, and typing then searches only that group.
  • The palette learns which command you pick for which search and ranks it higher next time. Command Palette → Reset Command Palette Ranking forgets that.
  • A command that cannot run right now stays in the list and says why, for example No Comments with how to add one.
  • Rows in a sub-menu, such as one scale under Change Scale or one color under Set Track Color…, can be highlighted, run and given keys like any command.
  • A sample from an instrument list loads into the built-in Sampler. An instrument preset brings its instrument and its effects.
  • An instrument row is silent while you browse. It plays once it is loaded.
  • New Instrument Track… always creates a track. Its first row, Empty Instrument Track, is the plain ⇧⌘T.
  • A Sample Library command fired from another window opens the palette on that command and says why it cannot run.
  • In the Sample Library only Edit Sample or Instrument (⌥X) has a key; the window in front decides what it edits. The library window answers Space, ⌫ and ⌘D on its own.
  • ⌘L on a highlighted command binds it to a MIDI controller: MIDI Bindings.
The preview stops when you close the list.
Change Tempo (20–999 BPM), Set Volume, Set Pan, Set Stereo, Set Mono-Below, and in the Sample Library Add Tag to Sample. Commands such as Edit Comment or Move Comment take the text or number first, then the item it applies to.
Last modified on October 22, 2026