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Is it possible to assign Key Commands to Board Layouts? This would be helpful to me. Right now I can't find any way of doing this, but I thought I'd ask just in case.

Thanks.

Darn, I was hoping someone would jump in here and tell me it could be done. Seems strange that I can assign key commands to just about anything else but board layouts, including saved window sets. Must be some technical reason why they left this out. Oh well... Thanks anyway.

Yeah, it would be nice.

No key commands that I know of yet, but track folders can be used to enhance your board layouts, and to make huge changes in the blink of an eye. Between folders and savable mixes, we actually DO have quite a bit of control.

Shooshie

Shooshie wrote:No key commands that I know of yet, but track folders can be used to enhance your board layouts, and to make huge changes in the blink of an eye. Between folders and savable mixes, we actually DO have quite a bit of control.

Shooshie

Yeah, that's what I use now, Track Folders. And that's cool, but I'm fighting for space on a 17" Powerbook (on which I use a low resolution because of poor eyesight), and I want to keep the mixer's track list closed and just call up groups of faders as I need them without having to mouse around. Anyway, it's fine. I was just wondering. Thanks.

Have you tried this: go to the preferences for consolidated windows, and select the option "Scroll The Mixing Board To The Selection". This lets you open the mixing board with just the tracks you want to see. I have a quickeys macro set so that when I select a track, or tracks, in the main window, hitting SHIFT+M will open my mixing board focused to just those selected tracks. This only seems to work in the Tracks window though (not in Sequence or MIDI editor).

tripi

wurliuchi wrote:Is it possible to assign Key Commands to Board Layouts? This would be helpful to me. Right now I can't find any way of doing this, but I thought I'd ask just in case.

Thanks.

I can't imagine running my Macs without Quickeys...

Worth every penny and then some! (Will only run on one Mac at a time on the same local network - so if you have multiple computers you want to run QK on at the same time, get a multi-license ).

http://www.cesoft.com/products/qkx.html

Single user $80 (download). Solid as a rock!!!

Tripi wrote:Have you tried this: go to the preferences for consolidated windows, and select the option "Scroll The Mixing Board To The Selection". This lets you open the mixing board with just the tracks you want to see. I have a quickeys macro set so that when I select a track, or tracks, in the main window, hitting SHIFT+M will open my mixing board focused to just those selected tracks. This only seems to work in the Tracks window though (not in Sequence or MIDI editor).

tripi

Thanks. I do that already, but not with Quickkeys.

When I'm in the Mixer, I want to be able to switch quickly to different fader groups: Vocals, Guitars, Drums, Keys, Strings, Pads, Masters, Returns, etc... If I group everything with track folders this works great, but I have to have the track list open on the left and I want to be able to close it and not have to use a mouse to load the different groups. If I could assign key commands to the different board layouts, this would have been the solution.

Thanks again.

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:

wurliuchi wrote:Is it possible to assign Key Commands to Board Layouts? This would be helpful to me. Right now I can't find any way of doing this, but I thought I'd ask just in case.

Thanks.

I can't imagine running my Macs with Quickeys...

Worth every penny and then some! (Will only run on one Mac at a time on the same local network - so if you have multiple computers you want to run QK on at the same time, get a multi-license ).

http://www.cesoft.com/products/qkx.html

Single user $80 (download). Solid as a rock!!!

I'm assuming you mean you can't imagine running your Macs withOUT QuicKeys, right? Well, me either for that matter. QuicKeys has been my companion since about 1987, and I've automated just about everything you can imagine with it. It's essential stuff.

Remember when OSX first came out, and the QuicKeys they released for it was all messed up? They'd put features in drawers and added crazy extra steps and stuff that made even the simplest "short cut" quite difficult to program. To top it off, Menus didn't work. You couldn't do the simplest QK shortcut of all: a menu selection! I was really worried. I had promised them I'd write a review for a magazine, but I couldn't do it, because QK sucked! They assured me it was Apple's fault, and when the next release of OS X came out, they were finally able to add menu support, and they lost the drawers, thank goodness! I was a beta tester by this time, so I gave them some good feedback, and they kept improving it until it was essentially as good as the classic version was. I think the format has actually improved. It's never been so easy.

If there's anyone who doesn't have QuicKeys... GET IT! You may not see all its uses at first, but after while you'll be making macros for everything! There are webcams I like to visit, which show scenic views you can watch as the sun changes throughout the day. I programmed QK sequences to capture those every x seconds or minutes, store them in a folder, rename them all sequentially, and then to load them into Quicktime and make a movie of them. At the end of a day, I'd have a Quicktime movie of various events that happened all day. Sometimes I'd even make a movie showing the entire day going by in about a minute or less. With QuicKeys, almost anything is possible. Almost.

Shooshie

I stand corrected. Yes, I meant that QK is a MUST HAVE app for any serious user.

I don't recall a problem with OS X but I may have waited a while before going to Panther. Then I was mad at QK for not allowing me to use it on two machines at once in my network. I think the licensing thing got out of hand and greed took over. So now my wife doesn't use quickeys, but the OS provides what she needs in terms of shortcuts, so we're good. But I still think a single seat in a local network is a bit fu(ked up.

So today I migrate my wife's Mini to a 500GB My Book and install Leopard. What fun!

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I stand corrected. Yes, I meant that QK is a MUST HAVE app for any serious user.

I don't recall a problem with OS X but I may have waited a while before going to Panther. Then I was mad at QK for not allowing me to use it on two machines at once in my network. I think the licensing thing got out of hand and greed took over. So now my wife doesn't use quickeys, but the OS provides what she needs in terms of shortcuts, so we're good. But I still think a single seat in a local network is a bit fu(ked up.

So today I migrate my wife's Mini to a 500GB My Book and install Leopard. What fun!

Hey this is an older thread, but couple you tell how you get QuickKeys or Keyboard Maestro to do this?

As far as I can tell (please correct me if I'm wrong), the only place load-mixing-board-layouts appears is in the upper-right-hand-corner mini-menu of the mixing board window.

Do you do this geographically (mouse position relative to the corner of window) with QuickKeys/Keyboard Maestro, or is there another way?

Many thanks!

I abandoned quickeys long ago. KM is great once you wrap your brain around it.

I use consolidated windows and window sets so my windows are in the exact same position. That allows me to use the cursor location. KM has a feature "get" the location but you have to be quick as it only give you 5 seconds to switch to the app in question and hover the mouse where you want it. There are 3rd party apps that also display cursor location but you also have to be careful in KM to tell it the reference point (main window, active window, main screen, etc).

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I abandoned quickeys long ago. KM is great once you wrap your brain around it.

I use consolidated windows and window sets so my windows are in the exact same position. That allows me to use the cursor location. KM has a feature "get" the location but you have to be quick as it only give you 5 seconds to switch to the app in question and hover the mouse where you want it. There are 3rd party apps that also display cursor location but you also have to be careful in KM to tell it the reference point (main window, active window, main screen, etc).

Hey thanks!