Dangerous Key Commands
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Rick Cornish
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Dangerous Key Commands
Has anyone else been tripped up when Bouncing to Disk (Control>J) by mistakenly hitting Command>J (Snip) instead and watch your track disappear?
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stubbsonic
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Re: Dangerous Key Commands
Not that specifically, but others. Does anyone else have an hysterical inner voice that shouts "COMMAND-Z!! COMMAND-Z!!" whenever something precious vanishes from sight? 
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Tesionman
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Re: Dangerous Key Commands
Me!Rick Cornish wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 3:38 pm Has anyone else been tripped up when Bouncing to Disk (Control>J) by mistakenly hitting Command>J (Snip) instead and watch your track disappear?
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Tritonemusic
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Re: Dangerous Key Commands
Guilty as charged.stubbsonic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 3:51 pm Not that specifically, but others. Does anyone else have an hysterical inner voice that shouts "COMMAND-Z!! COMMAND-Z!!" whenever something precious vanishes from sight?
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dix
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Re: Dangerous Key Commands
I always immediately change commands in DP that conflict with my brain. There's some downsides to changing DP's defaults, but this flexibility is especially useful to avoid mission-critical errors.
My pet DP key-command peeve is the Option modifier behavior for Soloing and Play Enabling. Option-click on Play-enable in Solo mode you solo the track (something useful I do constantly). Option-click on Play-enable while not in Solo mode you turn off all tracks, showing or hidden, in all folders in the entire project. And you can't Command-Z your way out of it. You have to immediately force quit DP (before auto-save kicks in) and open the project from the latest versions that had the correct Play-enabled state. ...sry. MN has numerous threads where I whine about this, but my pet needs to be fed when the subject comes up.
My pet DP key-command peeve is the Option modifier behavior for Soloing and Play Enabling. Option-click on Play-enable in Solo mode you solo the track (something useful I do constantly). Option-click on Play-enable while not in Solo mode you turn off all tracks, showing or hidden, in all folders in the entire project. And you can't Command-Z your way out of it. You have to immediately force quit DP (before auto-save kicks in) and open the project from the latest versions that had the correct Play-enabled state. ...sry. MN has numerous threads where I whine about this, but my pet needs to be fed when the subject comes up.
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mikehalloran
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Re: Dangerous Key Commands
Can't say I have but I never, ever BTD without saving first. Old habit from the bad old days when crashing during BTD was the first warning sign of a bad stick of RAM. In fact, the symptom was so reliable that, whenever it happened, I always found the bad stick.Rick Cornish wrote: ↑Fri Feb 12, 2021 3:38 pm Has anyone else been tripped up when Bouncing to Disk (Control>J) by mistakenly hitting Command>J (Snip) instead and watch your track disappear?
Old habits die hard.
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Rick Cornish
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Re: Dangerous Key Commands
Old habits die hard indeed. My first MIDI setup was a Syntech system with two C64s (one for sequencing, one for patch library). Got used to saving after EVERY operation.mikehalloran wrote:Can't say I have but I never, ever BTD without saving first. Old habit from the bad old days when crashing during BTD was the first warning sign of a bad stick of RAM. In fact, the symptom was so reliable that, whenever it happened, I always found the bad stick.
Old habits die hard.
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Rick Cornish
DP 11 on M2 Mac Studio (64mB mem. + 2tB int. SSD + two 2tB ext. SSDs, and Mac OS Sonoma). VIs from MOTU, Spectrasonics, NI, UVI, 8dio, Soniccouture, East West, Spitfire, Heavyocity, Vir2, and more; plus Waves 14, Brainworx, iZotope, Wavesfactory, Oeksound, Final Mix, JST, SPL, PSP, UVI, Valhalla DSP, and other FX plugs, Roland A-88, Apogee Quartet, iCON Platform Nano, Genelec 1032a and Westlake BBSM4 monitors, Gibson HR Fusion III. rickcornish.net
DP 11 on M2 Mac Studio (64mB mem. + 2tB int. SSD + two 2tB ext. SSDs, and Mac OS Sonoma). VIs from MOTU, Spectrasonics, NI, UVI, 8dio, Soniccouture, East West, Spitfire, Heavyocity, Vir2, and more; plus Waves 14, Brainworx, iZotope, Wavesfactory, Oeksound, Final Mix, JST, SPL, PSP, UVI, Valhalla DSP, and other FX plugs, Roland A-88, Apogee Quartet, iCON Platform Nano, Genelec 1032a and Westlake BBSM4 monitors, Gibson HR Fusion III. rickcornish.net
Re: Dangerous Key Commands
BTD has always had such bad press here that I don't use it often enough to know the key command. My templates are usually set up to record directly in real time into audio tracks.
But it sounds like fun.
But it sounds like fun.
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