Interface, size and keyboard
Size and contrast
Section titled “Size and contrast”Cmd/Ctrl+= and Cmd/Ctrl+− make the whole interface larger or smaller, in steps from 85% to 200%, and Cmd/Ctrl+0 returns to actual size. The footer has the same as A− / A+, with the current size between them (click it for actual size). While the cursor is in the code editor the same keys change only the code font; View → Larger Code Font and Smaller Code Font do it from anywhere.
View → High Contrast (or the palette) brightens text and borders. The size, code font, contrast and the bar settings below are remembered between sessions.
- Cmd/Ctrl+\ or the ◧ button in the footer hides and shows the sequence bar.
- Cmd/Ctrl+J or the Track FX tab hides and shows the bottom dock (the selected track’s effects and automation).
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+B or ◨ hides and shows the right bar (project instruments and the sound browser). Cmd/Ctrl+B still opens the sound browser, showing the bar if it was hidden.
- Drag the edge beside a bar to size it, or focus the edge with Tab and use ← / → (Shift for bigger steps). Double-click an edge for the default width.
- Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+F is focus mode: only the toolbar and the grid. Press it again to come back.
Keyboard
Section titled “Keyboard”- Cmd/Ctrl+K (or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P) opens the command palette. Type any part of an action’s name, use ↑ / ↓ and Enter. Each action shows its key, if it has one.
- Cmd/Ctrl+/ or F1 lists the keys by area.
- Ctrl+1 … 5 jump to the grid, the sequence, the project instruments, the sound browser and the code. A hidden bar is shown first.
- F5 plays the song from the selected step, F8 stops, Esc turns record mode on and off.
- Esc also puts the cursor back in the grid, and so does a click on a button, tick box or slider, a choice made in a drop-down, or Enter in a text or number box, anywhere in the window, so the keyboard stays with the cell you were on and the keys sound and enter notes at once. (Arrowing through a drop-down’s options is not a choice, so it keeps the focus until you confirm with Enter.) Buttons that open something you type into (the command palette, the sound browser, the code editor) keep the focus there instead, and Esc inside the code editor leaves the cursor where it is.