AutoHotKey - Great Sonar helper

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2014/04/17 12:00:24 (permalink)

AutoHotKey - Great Sonar helper

AutoHotKey is a free open source keystroke/mouse click macro editor that's very easy to use, powerful and quite useful with Sonar. Sonar of course has a great deal of keyboard shortcut flexibility, but it does have limitations. With AuoHotKey you can assign keystrokes to lengthy strings of keybaord and mouse actions. For example, maybe I often want to quantize a clip to eighth notes. Sonar lets you hit a keystroke to open the quantize dialog, but then you're back to clicking around. With AutoHotKey I have a single keystroke that includes opening the dialog, selecting 1/4 and hitting OK. If I needed I could program the macro to set other things in the dialog as well, because you can program in Tab key hits. You can even go crazy with it and write macros that actually open your own dialogs to gather variable parameter info, but I haven't taken it that far.... yet. My favorite thing about it is that editing your macros is all done from a basic text editor like Notepad.
 
I'm getting so much great help here from everyone that I was sitting here thinking how I could give back, and this is something that's indispensable to me that a lot of people might not know about.
 
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    lawajava
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    Re: AutoHotKey - Great Sonar helper 2014/04/17 22:22:49 (permalink)
    The Groove 3 tutorial on Mixing with Sonar X1 (still very relevant in material) actually has a whole section on that tool, and a walk through on setting up some things.

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    Re: AutoHotKey - Great Sonar helper 2014/04/18 10:56:10 (permalink)
    Thanks, Jim. I've meant to look into something like this for a while but never took the time to investigate the options.
     
     

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    Re: AutoHotKey - Great Sonar helper 2014/04/18 15:40:21 (permalink)
    I watched the X1 video and set Autokey for zoom like in the video. It's very helpful. Haven't got around to setting up other macros though.

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    Re: AutoHotKey - Great Sonar helper 2014/04/18 19:25:42 (permalink)
    Just downloaded...   It certainly looks interesting!

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    Re: AutoHotKey - Great Sonar helper 2014/04/19 10:24:13 (permalink)
    It's one of those utilities that's kind of a Swiss Army knife for windows.

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