Quickeys and pro tools

Sometimes F12 may be mapped to turn up the volume on a laptop keyboard, or open the Dashboard. My hand permanently rests on my keyboard in this configuration. Save early, save often! Classes Start:. Start your audio engineering career in under 11 months! Request more info today. For my kensington mouse I do so by going to the kensington logo at the top right of the screen, and switching all the buttons to "do nothing" as I have here.

Make sure Quickeys is open and on. Open Protools. From this point on, everything else is within PT. Open the Batch Fades settings box match the settings to this pic, varying the fade type and size however you like. You are now ready to use my quickeys command set. Now I'll show you some basic commands I have setup. Why is this useful? Well if you're like me, you like to have as much screen space as you can when you're editing, so I like to make all that dissapear quickly.

Could I use the Window configurations within protools? Absolutely and it's probably faster then this is you're used to using that. However, I've had these commands minus the f-j sets for years and don't plan on changing. I've used these commands because digi hasn't used them yet. Two of the more useful ones are my delete fades and create click track.

The next step is to choose an unused key combination. Click on the New Shortcut icon in the toolbar at the top of the QuicKeys Editor window and a drop—down menu will appear. If this is your first Pro Tools shortcut, you will need to specify to QuicKeys that this shortcut should only work in Pro Tools QuicKeys describes this as setting the Scope of the shortcut.

Now you will see that Pro Tools has been added to the list of 'scopes' in the main QuicKeys Editor window. You can browse the Pro Tools menu structure from within QuicKeys and choose the item to assign to your key command. Now we can select the menu item we want to activate with this shortcut. You can type in the Menu names, as we did in System Preferences, but QuicKeys also has a clever system where you can show it which menu items you want. Click the Choose Menu button and a Select Menu window will appear, which directs you to select the desired Menu Items from the application menu bar.

QuicKeys also resolves the 'two different options with the same name' problem, as you are actually specifying which menu you are calling it from. Finally, you give your shortcut a name. The final task is to name the new shortcut so that is no longer an untitled shortcut.

You need to remember to Save the shortcut and close the Shortcut editor window before trying to use it in Pro tools. However, you don't need to close the main QuicKeys window or quit QuicKeys to check the shortcut. The real power of applications such as QuicKeys lies in the ability to record macros. These are sequences of actions that you want to be able to trigger from a single key command. As a single example, suppose you find you often want to select the AudioSuite Gain plug—in and get Pro Tools to add 6dB of gain.

Doing this the conventional way requires you to select your audio Region, open the plug—in from the AudioSuite menu, input the required amount of gain and click Process. Setting up a macro to do the same saves lots of time if you need to do this often. In practice, creating such a macro can be a little difficult because the plug—in windows in Pro Tools are not at all compliant and have been left unnamed, making it very difficult for QuicKeys to work with them. However, Pro Tools is obviously not the only uncooperative application in the world, and fortunately QuicKeys has a Record option to cover these sorts of situations.

In this case I double—clicked on the Gain dB field to highlight the data and typed 6. It would even be possible to add a QuicKeys User Dialog Box to enable you to enter the amount of gain you wanted in dB and then the Shortcut would process the selected Region with that amount, rather than a fixed 6dB, as in this example. When 'recording' your macro actions you need to be slow and positive and wait for each element to go green; this shows that QuicKeys has acknowledged where you are and what you plan to do.

What about being able to go one stage further and process a selected Region with a preset? With QuicKeys, it is possible to configure a macro to open the correct plug—in in this example I'm using Waves Renaissance EQ 6 and apply a preset, but it's much harder than you might expect!

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