Tab found the next transient only on the first selected track, analysed
everything from the cursor to the end of the track on every press, and
Alt+Tab, Shift+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab ignored Tab to Transient (Shift+Tab
did nothing at all). The toolbar button used the Selector tool's icon.
- A new command, edit.tab {back?, extend?}, does what the Tab keys do, as in
Pro Tools: Tab and Alt+Tab (Option+Tab on a Mac, Ctrl+Tab on Windows and
Linux) move the insertion point to the next or previous clip start, end or
sync point on the selected tracks; Shift+Tab and Alt+Shift+Tab
(Ctrl+Shift+Tab) extend the selection. Alt+Shift+Tab pulls the selection
end back while a stop lies inside the selection, then grows its start.
- With Tab to Transient on, the stops also include the transients on every
selected audio track and the note-ons and note-offs on MIDI and Instrument
tracks. A transient within 10 ms of a clip boundary or note is that stop,
not a second one.
- Transients are detected in fixed 10-second blocks of each clip, so Tab and
Alt+Tab always find the same ones and a long clip costs one block per
press. Analysed blocks are cached while their clips, clip effects and audio
are unchanged: 0.5 ms a press across the demo's five audio tracks, 43 ms
without the cache.
- The Tab to Transient button gets its own icon, an arrow into a transient.
Cmd+Alt+Tab still toggles Tab to Transient. On Windows and Linux the desktop
takes Ctrl+Alt+Tab, and Pro Tools' Ctrl+Alt+T is Thin Automation here too, so
the button and the Options menu are the way there.
Commands that already worked but had no key get the ones Pro Tools uses,
on macOS, Windows and Linux alike (Alt is Option on macOS; Cmd is Ctrl
elsewhere):
- Shift+= and Shift+- step the Grid value to the next larger or smaller
one, and Alt+Shift+= and Alt+Shift+- the Nudge value, as the Pro Tools
Reference Guide gives them. `view.grid` and `view.nudge` take `step`.
`GridValue::stepped` walks the note values, keeping a dot or triplet, and
steps seconds, frames and samples by tens. macOS sends Alt+Shift+= as =
(the key under ±), so that arm takes = as well as +. Both commands list
the keys as descriptive shortcuts, like Nudge's Plus/Minus, so they show
wherever commands list their shortcuts; the strings don't parse, so the
registry never dispatches them and `shortcuts::fixed` handles the keys.
- Commands Focus: , and . nudge back and forward, M and / nudge by the next
larger Nudge value (`edit.nudge` takes `next`), 0 copies the Timeline
selection to the Edit selection and O the other way, [ and ] play the
Edit and Timeline selections, and Shift+Z redoes. Shift+P and Shift+;
add the track above or below the selection, keeping its range (P and ;
already move it). They run Extend Edit Up/Down, which now skip tracks
the Edit window doesn't show (hidden, or in a closed folder); before,
they could add an invisible track. Shift+; can arrive as :, so both are
matched.
- Playlists: Alt+Shift+Up and Alt+Shift+Down copy the selection to the
target playlist and to a new one, Alt+Shift+T and Alt+Shift+N move it
there, Shift+Right shows the target playlist and Cmd+Shift+Right
designates the shown one. The MIDI editor's piano roll moved notes on any
arrow key, whatever the modifiers; it now leaves Alt, Cmd and Ctrl arrows,
and Shift+Left/Right, to these shortcuts.
- F12 records, as in Pro Tools. Cmd+Space is Spotlight on macOS.
- Ctrl+Tab goes back to the previous clip boundary off macOS, where Windows,
GNOME and KDE take Alt+Tab; Pro Tools for Windows uses Ctrl+Tab too.
Cmd+Alt+Tab now toggles Tab to Transient: the Tab arm took it as Alt+Tab
and tabbed back instead.
- Windows: Alt+7 Universe, Alt+6 Clip Effects, Alt+= MIDI Event List,
Shift+K MIDI Keyboard, Cmd+Alt+J Window Configuration List, Alt+' Task
Manager, Alt+I Workspace, Alt+J Workspaces to Front.
Tests drive the keys through `shortcuts::handle` for each OS
(tests/pro_tools_keys.rs), plus the piano roll with modifier arrows held.
grovebit