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- #How to set up hotkeys 2018 upgrade
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To change it I need to click on the hot key option and click on the little 'x' to remove the previous trigger and you will get the word Click. You will see that currently, it will trigger the macro if I use the keyboard shortcut Command+Alt+Control+s.
#How to set up hotkeys 2018 software
I now need to tell the macro software to trigger the macro when E9 is pressed. At last, I will be able to use Macros that I have created in Keyboard Maestro to do things not possible with normal shortcuts, like pressing the Strip button on the Strip Silence window.Īs I created my macro in Keyboard Maestro. As the keys have generic key combinations hard programmed on them with through the firmware, by setting a key to Empty, you can then assign it a new shortcut to act as a hotkey trigger for macro software, such as Keyboard Maestro.
#How to set up hotkeys 2018 pro
Version 3.1 of the Hotkey Matrix software, which has only just been released, now allows you to set a key to “empty.” This leaves the key unassigned to any Pro Tools command. Now I want that macro to be triggered by the E9 key on my Hotkey Matrix controller. Currently, I have a Keyboard Maestro macro that effectively presses the Strip button in the Strip Silence button, which I have configured to run when I use the keyboard shortcut Command+Alt+Control+s as there is no shortcut in Pro Tools that relates to clicking on the Strip button in the Strip Silence window in Pro Tools.
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Next, I want to change the next key (E9) to trigger a macro I have created in Keyboard Maestro. This opens a window in which you are asked to select which Pro Tools Menu item the shortcut you want to assign is in, in this case, Strip Silence is in the Edit menu so I select the Edit menu and click OK.Ĭlick OK on that window and you will see that the button has been relabelled Strip Silence in the HKM Customizer window. So I choose the Customize Key and click OK. On this occasion, I want to reassign the Strip Silence button to E8. More on this later.Ĭhoose a different key - This closes the dialog box and allows you to choose another key, it is effectively the Cancel option. Set key to no command (empty) - This is the way we can trigger a different macro say from an app like Keyboarborad Maestro. Set key to default command - This is really useful if you want to undo a keyboard assignment and return it to the default shortcut. This identifies which key you are re-programming and offers several options.Ĭustomize key - This will enable us to change the selected key to trigger one of the existing commands that have a main menu keyboard shortcuts. When you click on one of the squares, which represent the 12 user-configurable keys, the appropriate dialog box opens. To assign a new command, or to move an existing shortcut to a new key as in this case, click on the corresponding on-screen key in the HKM Customizer window.
#How to set up hotkeys 2018 windows
To get this functionality I will need to go into the Cherry Tools Designer app on a Windows computer to program the appropriate key to press the Enter key, or just use the Enter key on my normal keyboard. Press Enter to create the Fades - The Enter key was on my Version 2 Hotkey Matrix but it is one of the keys that was dropped in the rearrangements for version 3. This will require the Fade Dialogs button moving to one of the 12 user assignable buttons. Open Fades window - because I have multiple clips selected, this will actually open the Batch Fades window and will enable me to put fade-ins and outs on the clips created with Strip Silence. Strip the audio - this would need to trigger a macro I built in Keyboard Maestro to press the Strip button on the Strip Silence window as there isn't a Pro Tools shortcut for this. Open Strip Silence - this will need the existing Strip Silence button moving. To save as much mouse work as possible I created a 4 stage workflow in which I needed a button for each stage. To make the transitions as seamless as possible I wanted long fades on the in and out of each clip and the fades set back from the speech so that they happen whilst someone is speaking. When editing and mixing the podcast I chose to use Strip Silence to get rid of the audio from each of us when we are not talking. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how I set up 4 of these keys to handle a workflow that I use on the Pro Tools Expert podcast.
#How to set up hotkeys 2018 upgrade
Following my DIY Upgrade of my Hotkey Matrix Version 2 controller to Version 3, I now have 12 keys in the middle of the 144 key Hotkey Matrix controller that I can customise.