OSX keyboard shortcuts for Ableton Live

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OSX keyboard shortcuts for Ableton Live

Post by esaruoho » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:20 am

System Prefs->Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Application Shortcuts
Add Live.app and then just start adding the currently-unconfigurable-in-Ableton-Live shortcuts that are missing.
This allows you to for instance re-assign Follow to something other than CMD-F, for instance, or
Quarter-Note Quantization
Sixteenth-Note Quantization
Plug-In Devices
Hot-Swap
Live Devices
Search in Browser
Clip
Track
Extract Groove(s)
Groove Pool
Hot-Swap
Freeze


It'd be absolutely mindblowing to be able to bind right-mouse context menu functions via this (or within Ableton Live, which would be nicer, of course :) ), but even this is a nice start.


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Re: OSX keyboard shortcuts for Ableton Live

Post by invol » Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:51 am

Yes, very cool. An often overlooked feature of OS X.

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Re: OSX keyboard shortcuts for Ableton Live

Post by esaruoho » Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:39 am

invol wrote:Yes, very cool. An often overlooked feature of OS X.

slice audioclip to new midi track is wonderful, I don't grok why it isn't automatically wrapped to a shortcut..
Should be native.

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Re: OSX keyboard shortcuts for Ableton Live

Post by esaruoho » Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:19 am

funken wrote:Is there a way to make a shortcut for the big window in Spectrum?
Not at least with this OSX Keyboard method - it only accesses live's regular menus, no context menus etc.

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Re: OSX keyboard shortcuts for Ableton Live

Post by esaruoho » Tue Dec 22, 2015 7:36 am

Funk N. Furter wrote:shame, I regularly use this window and a shortcut would be nice
Maybe you could make a feature request out of it - i.e. that there'd be more context-menu-only stuff available in the main top-bar menus. that way we could map anything anywhere.

I would absolutely kill for "Show in Finder" shortcut, f.ex. for a wavefile in an audiotrack in the session-view.

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