Just learned about a couple of great shortcut keys

this may be old hat for many of you, but i just discovered a couple of really useful shortcuts that i am now using all the time in X1
 
first one is: Press "B" on your computer keyboard.  this will open/close the browser window on the right side of the screen. this is great, as when editing clips in the main track view window, this allows me to quickly enlarge the view. if i need a plugin or a loop or anything else in the browser, i just hit B, get the 'thing' i need, then hit B again and it's gone. sweet.
 
second one: Press "I" on your computer keyboard. this will open/close the track inspector pane on the far left of the screen. same benefit to me - more real estate for working on the main track view window when i want, and if i need to adjust audio/midi/prochannel settings, i just hit "I" and open up the inspector.
 
i know this isn't earth shattering news, but within X1, i am finding them to be realing useful for working around the new interface.
 
cheers
 
chez

And you probably know about D to show/hide the multidock, C to show/hide the control bar, and shift-B to show/hide the bus pane. I didn't know that last one until a few days ago - very handy.

Cheers, Peter.

And how half my shortcuts do not match what you may discover because I customized them int he key bindings section of preferences.

good post..little things are also big things..didnt know about the shift D

Don't forget Shift-D to maximize the MultiDock!

Haha couldn't help myself, but also, hopefully to help the OP know how much more can be done with key binding.

Mod Bod

Lanceindastudio


And how half my shortcuts do not match what you may discover because I customized them int he key bindings section of preferences.

Party pooper.

in X1 go to the Menus .................Help->Keyboard Shortcuts takes you straight to a comprehensive listing of all the keyboard shortcuts.

cakewalk have made it really easy to get to this information in the Help File.

ba_Midi has a bunch of files with a variety of shortcut presentations available on his website. See his signature.

shawn@trustmedia.tv


I compiled some of the most usefull shortcuts into a 4 page .pdf here:

http://www.trustmedia.tv/SONAR%20Keyboard%20Shorcuts.pdf

Thanks for sharing that.

Has anyone taken the time to create a comprehensive list of ALL the shortcut keys?  I didn't know about Shift-B until reading this thread.  It's not on the "comprehensive" list in the help.  I also noticed an error in the nudge shortcuts (8 & 9).  Ctrl-F6 and Ctrl-Shift-F6 are not on that list either.  I'm guessing that there are many more like that.

It would be really nice if Cakewalk supplied a complete and accurate list.  It would also be really nice if the Key Bindings in Preferences actually showed all the keys in use accurately as well.  That way people like us don't have to spend hours trying to set up a few keys for things, not being able to tell if you've just clobbered another binding, or if there already was a binding set up for what you want to do but not documented anywhere!

I reorganized them into a 7 page flip chart that I've laminated md keep at my workstation.

JazzSinger


Shortcuts are for experts.

So often I accidentally hit a key and then don't know what the heck happened.

pfft...shortcuts are for the lazy! :D  must be thae case, i am no expert and i use them
 
another one, a windows one for dual monitor display.. for an active window, windows+shift+left/right moves window to other monitor..

I would love to see a list showing the most used, maybe 50 of the most used shortcuts in the order of likelyhood you would use them

B and I I use a lot, but for someone who has just come across them they must seem like gold...for a lot of us there must still be gold yet to be found!

Shambler


I would love to see a list showing the most used, maybe 50 of the most used shortcuts in the order of likelyhood you would use them

B and I I use a lot, but for someone who has just come across them they must seem like gold...for a lot of us there must still be gold yet to be found!

Put a client that is paying by the hour next to you and you'll learn your shortcuts pretty fast.  The faster you can work and get the same quality, the more value you have.  You can look at it like this, the less time you spend navigating SONAR X1 with a hunt and click methodology, the more time you can spend working on how it sounds (at the same cost to the customer.)

Shambler

Put a client that is paying by the hour next to you and you'll learn your shortcuts pretty fast. The faster you can work and get the same quality, the more value you have. You can look at it like this, the less time you spend navigating SONAR X1 with a hunt and click methodology, the more time you can spend working on how it sounds (at the same cost to the customer.)

 
I am my client and my time is free

Unless you are independently wealthy and have all the "free" time you need, then it might even be more advantageous to learn the short cuts.