Keyboard Shortcuts
Shortcircuit XT ships with a set of shortcuts, and you can change any of them.
The shortcut editor
Section titled “The shortcut editor”Open it with Keyboard Shortcuts… in the main menu under the Shortcircuit logo, or with Alt/Opt+B.
Actions are listed under General, Screens and Selection and Clipboard. Each row is one action, with a switch on the left, its key, a Learn button and a Reset button.
- Learn takes the next key you press. Escape stops learning and keeps the old key.
- The switch turns an action off without losing its key.
- Reset returns one action to its default, Reset All returns every action.
- OK applies and saves; Cancel leaves everything as it was.
If the key you press already belongs to another action, the editor says so and waits for you to try another.
Your changes are saved in ShortcircuitXTKeyboardMappings.xml, in your user folder beside the
Patches and Themes folders. Only the actions you changed are written, so defaults which
change in a later release still reach you.
How a key finds its target
Section titled “How a key finds its target”Some actions are global: undo, switching screens, opening a screen. The rest act on whichever panel has the keyboard focus, so Copy copies a zone in the zone list and a group in the group list.
Clicking a row in the zone, group or browser list gives the keys to that list. Clicking a part card, a processor, a modulation row or the variant tabs gives the clipboard keys to that.
Text fields, and controls like knobs, take the keys first while they are focused.
The defaults
Section titled “The defaults”Cmd is the Mac key; Ctrl is Windows and Linux. Opt is the Mac key; Alt is Windows and Linux.
Anywhere
Section titled “Anywhere”| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Undo | Cmd/Ctrl+Z |
| Redo | Cmd+Shift+Z on Mac, Ctrl+Y elsewhere |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | Alt/Opt+B |
| Tuning Editor | Alt/Opt+T |
| Show Log, About Shortcircuit XT | unassigned |
| Edit Zones, Groups, Parts | Cmd/Ctrl+1, 2, 3 |
| Mixer Screen, Play Screen | Cmd/Ctrl+4, 5 |
| Swap Group and Zone Editing | Alt/Opt+G |
Selection and clipboard
Section titled “Selection and clipboard”| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Select All | Cmd/Ctrl+A |
| Select Previous, Select Next | Up, Down |
| Open or Load | Return |
| Collapse, Expand | Left, Right |
| Rename | Cmd/Ctrl+R |
| Copy, Cut, Paste, Duplicate | Cmd/Ctrl+C, X, V, D |
| Delete | Backspace on Mac, Delete elsewhere |
Where each one acts:
- Zone list: selects, renames, copies, cuts, pastes, duplicates and deletes zones. Up and Down step from the lead zone through the rows you can see, so zones inside a folded group are skipped. Left and Right fold and unfold the lead zone’s group. Paste lands after the lead zone, or at the end of the lead group.
- Group list: the same, on groups. Paste lands after the lead group. Deleting several groups is a single undo step.
- Mapping pane: select all, copy, cut, paste, duplicate and delete, on zones. In group editing only copy and paste act, unless Allow Zone Edits in Group Mode is on.
- Part card: copy and paste the whole part.
- Variant tabs: copy, cut and paste the shown variant. Paste puts the copy after the shown variant.
- Processor: copy, cut and paste the processor. Cut sets the slot to none.
- Modulation row: copy, cut and paste the row holding the focused control. Cut clears the row.
- Browser: Up and Down move through the list. Right enters a folder or opens an instrument file such as an SF2; Left closes it or goes up a folder. Return does what a double-click does.
Rename acts on the lead zone or group. Copy, Cut, Duplicate and Delete act on everything selected, and Cut is a single undo step.
While renaming a zone or group, Tab keeps the name and moves the rename to the next row, and Shift+Tab to the previous one.
In the browser, typing a name jumps to the first entry starting with it. Letters typed within a second build up the name; typing the same letter again moves to the next match.
Keys you cannot change
Section titled “Keys you cannot change”- Escape closes a dialog and cancels a type-in; Return confirms.
- Tab and Shift+Tab move the keyboard focus.
- On a focused knob or switch: Up and Down change the value, Shift for a finer step and Cmd/Ctrl for a coarser one, Home and End for the extremes, Delete to return to the default, Shift+Return to type a value, and Shift+F10 or the Menu key for the right-click menu.
- Text fields keep their own editing and selection keys.