Creating custom shortcuts in Pro Tools

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Creating custom shortcuts in Pro Tools

w/ Fab Dupont

4 min • 2015

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Keyboard shortcuts are essential to become a Pro Tools ninja. But sometimes there's one missing. Rest assured, your nightmare is now officially over, you can create your own!

In this video, Pro Tools expert Fab Dupont will show you how to create your own shortcuts so you can customize your set up even further. Watch this video to save yourself countless clicks & scrolls and crank your Pro Tools skills up another notch.

Shortcut creation doesn't just work on Pro Tools but with every program on a Mac!

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wire57 • Friday, December 8, 2017

This is nice to see, however, sorry, my machine is on Windows. So the procedures are different, and I'd need a "translation" from MacOS to Win 10. Sorry. Or is there already? Please if so, state link. Thankx.

guitardude • Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Amazing Thanks!!!

filch • Thursday, March 9, 2017

What about on menus with fly outs like Snap To Previous or Snap To Next? Dave

gseshleman • Friday, February 17, 2017

Great video!!! I've made a few custom shortcuts including the ones that Fab demonstrated in the video; but some shortcuts that I've made do not seem to work. So I have one question: is there any way to determine whether a key combination is already assigned to another command - a kind of reverse lookup?

jhonhiguera • Thursday, July 21, 2016

Amazing!!! Thanks!

danielteo • Thursday, May 5, 2016

Omg, finally, thanks Fab!

danielcompositor • Friday, April 8, 2016

i been trying to apply this shortcut thing it seems not to work i am on pro tools 10 with mavericks it won't do nothing after i assign the command?

seedee701 • Wednesday, December 23, 2015

great info, fab! color palette, I/O, save as so strange, we all need the same features, still avid is not hearing us. it been years i missed those... good to have a workaround! many thanx p.s. i do program launches (and much more) with a little app called spark

freewind1974 • Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Very nice! Creating shortcuts works only for the upper menu bar items, right? Is there a way for creating shortcuts for right-click menus also? For groups, clips, etc.? Thanks!

benlindell • Friday, December 18, 2015

@Mdwhitaker Sub-menu items you can set up the same way as regular menu items, just create a shortcut for "Separate Clip" and you'll be good.

Mdwhitaker • Friday, December 18, 2015

Thanks! How do you add shortcuts for menu items that have the little arrow in sub folder - such as, Separate Clip?

mike_strong • Monday, December 14, 2015

Hi Fab, I know this isn't the comment section of the MIXCHECK...because there isn't one! But if I may, I would really like to make a MixCheck request (because I totally dig your MixChecks)...can you please explain the mixing of "Where have you been" by Rihanna? As you once said it so eloquently: I have been pressing my ears againt my headphones for a while, trying to find out what tricks they used - especially the psycho-acoustic tricks! And I just can't figure it out! Please, Obi-Fab Kenobi! You're our only hope! :) Thanks!!!!