VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Kristin Lennox]

I know many of the keyboard shortcuts for editing, and use them. And I believe there's a way to customize some, too... but I can't quite figure it out in Preferences.

I know I click on Preferences, click on Keyboard... then I know how to CHANGE the shortcuts, but I don't know how to add a new one.

Can anyone walk me through it...? I want to get shortcut keys for 2 or 3 different amplification settings.

Thank you!
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[BruceG]

Hi Kristin,

I was just cruisin' around and saw your post. I just opened up Audacity and figured out how this works. Here's what you do:

1) Open up Preferences, then go to Keyboard

2) Below the the scroll window that has the Command and Key Combinations you will see a text box with two buttons to its right labeled Set and Clear. Select this text box so that the cursor shows up inside. Then, enter the keyboard shortcut combinations that you want, such as "Ctrl + Shift + Up arrow".

3) Highlight the command that you want to add the shortcut to, then press the Set button. Your created shortcut is then added to the command that you selected. You will actually see the shortcut listed to the right of the command in the scroll window.

4) To take out the shortcut from a command, select the command, then press Clear - and poof! It's gone!
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[Kristin Lennox]

Thank you! That is EXACTLY the amount of walk-through I need...

And maybe I can't do what I really want -- is there a way to add a shortcut to a command that isn't listed...? For example, I want a shortcut to deamplify a highlighted section by -9dB -- can I set a shortcut for that, do you know?

I appreciate your help!
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[BruceG]

[Kristin Lennox]

Well, crud. Thank you for checking it out for me... :0)

I'm actually fairly good at Audacity, finally, so I really don't want to learn a new system, though it does sound like Audition might save me a tiny bit of time...

I will definitely keep it in mind, though... and maybe Audacity will add what I need in the next version!
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[BruceG]

I do like both Audacity and AA - there's great things about both platforms.

If you DO decide to take the plunge and try Audition, it shouldn't take too long to figure out after playing around with it. I know for me it was tricky for the first few days but then, after some practice, I found that Audition was, in some ways, EASIER to edit with than Audacity, as there are some tricks that one can use in Audition that Audacity doesn't have.

I guess all that matters is - whatever works best for you is what works best!
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[Kristin Lennox]