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Shortcuts

General Shortcuts

Shortcuts Description
ctrl-1 brings the score tab into focus
ctrl-2 brings the orchestra tab into focus
ctrl-3 brings the tables tab into focus
ctrl-4 brings the globals tab into focus
ctrl-5 brings the project properties tab into focus
ctrl-6 brings the soundfile tab into focus
alt-right brings the next manager tab into focus
alt-left brings the previous manager tab into focus
F9 start/stop a render (equivalent to pressing the render/stop button)
ctrl-g generate a CSD file
ctrl-shift-g generate a CSD to screen (for previewing)
ctrl-o open a work file
ctrl-s save work file (must use "Save as" from file menu if a new work file)
ctrl-w close the current work file
alt-F4 close Blue

Rendering

Shortcuts Description
F9 Render project using project's real-time render options
shift-F9 Render to Disk and Play using project's disk render options and playing with Blue's builtin sound file player
ctrl-shift-F9 Render to Disk using project's disk render options
spacebar Render project using project's real-time render options when Score is in focus

Score Timeline

Shortcuts Description
spacebar Render project using project's real-time render options
ctrl-c copy selected soundObject(s)
ctrl-x cut selected soundObject(s)
ctrl-z Undo last action like re-scaling, moving, copying and pasting as well as deleting ScoreObjects and/or Automation Lines
ctrl-d duplicate selected soundObject(s) and place directly after originals
ctrl-r the repeat selected SoundObjects by copying and placing one after the other n number of times where n is a number value entered by the user (user is prompted with a dialog to enter number of times to repeat)
ctrl-click paste soundObject(s) from buffer where clicked
shift-click on timeline, paste soundObjects from buffer as a PolyObject where clicked, if only one sound object is in the buffer it will be pasted as the type it is and not a PolyObject
shift-click when selecting soundObjects, adds soundObject to selected if not currently selected and vice-versa
double-click if selecting on timeline, select all soundObjects on layer where mouse clicked
ctrl-t show quick time dialog
right click pops up a popup menu for adding soundObjects and other tasks
left click + drag creates a selection marquee for selecting multiple soundObjects (when Score mode)
1 switch to Score mode
2 switch to Single Line mode
3 switch to Mult Line mode
left nudge selected soundObjects one pixel to the left
right nudge selected soundObject one pixel to the right
shift-left nudge selected soundObjects ten pixels to the left
shift-right nudge selected soundObjects ten pixels to the right
up move selected soundObjects up one layer
down move selected soundObjects down one layer
ctrl-left decrease horizontal zoom
ctrl-right incrase horizontal zoom

Orchestra Manager

Shortcuts Description
ctrl-left click if on the column header of the instruments table, will enable/disable all instruments

In a text box

Shortcuts Description
right click pops up a popup menu that contains entries for opcodes as well as user-defined entries from the code repository
ctrl-space brings up a dialog that shows all possible opcode matches for the current word being typed in (code completion)
shift-F1 if cursor is within a word that is an opcode, attempts to look up manual entry for that opcode
shift-F2 if cursor is within a word that is an opcode, attempts to find a manual example CSD for that opcode and if found opens a dialog showing the example
ctrl-; comment out line or selected lines (prepends ";" to every line)
ctrl-shift-; uncomment out line or selected lines (removes ";" at beginning of every line if found)

Editing GenericScore, PythonObject, JavaScriptObject

Shortcuts Description
ctrl-T when the text area is focused, ctrl-T runs test on the soundObject (same as pressing the test button)