There are a bunch of new features and shortcuts in Pro Tools 2018.1 announced today at NAMM. Yes, the version numbers are different now and reflect year dot month of release. Anyway, below is a brief look at the new shortcuts and their functions but first, the big news:
The track record button now accurately reports when it is selected. No more having to read the button multiple times to verify whether it's armed or not because of it flashing on and off. The same applies to the Global Record button in the Transport. This has been an issue from day one and I asked that this be made a priority fix last time I visited Avid and it went through a few iterations in beta before they got it right but they did nail it. Yay for fixes! Designate current playlist as target playlist Command+Shift+right arrow Any playlist can now be designated as the target playlist to which clips or selections from any other playlist can be copied or moved. When a playlist is selected, pressing Command+Shift+Right Arrow designates that playlist as the target playlist. Copy selection to target playlist Shift+Option+up arrow Let's say you've created a track called Vocal and you've recorded a number of takes on playlists. Let's assume you have four recorded takes on playlists named Vocal.01, Vocal.02, Vocal.03 and Vocal.04. Let's say you've designated Vocal as the target playlist. For clarity, let's assume you renamed the playlist Vocal Comp and your goal is to compile a series of clips or selections from the various takes to put on the comp track. Let's say you decided that take 3 was the overall best take. Using Shift+Up/Down Arrows, you'd select the Vocal.03 playlist, select the entire range of the timeline and simply press Option+Shift+Up Arrow to copy it to the target playlist, Vocal Comp, without having to copy, then select the Vocal Comp playlist and paste. It's just one shortcut. Of course, you'll still be on Vocal.03. So, now, let's say you know that the first phrase in verse 2 is better in take 4. You can Shift down Arrow to get to vocal.04, select the phrase in question and hit Option+Shift+Up arrow to send it to Vocal Comp. Essentially, this workflow replaces the use of playlist lanes where one would have to click in a lane, solo it to hear it and then press Control+Option+v to copy to the Main Playlist. The Main playlist is the currently selected playlist and, now with the introduction of a Target playlist, one can essentially send from any playlist to any designated target playlist. Move selection to target playlist Option+Shift+t If, instead of copying a clip or selection to the target playlist, you'd rather move the selection to the target playlist rather than copying, Option+Shift+t is your friend. Flo Tools users will recognize that this Keyboard shortcut is the the command to Speak Selected Tracks. The new version of Flo Tools now uses a different shortcut. Refer to the What's New in Flo Tools document to find out more. Toggle recent playlists Shift+left arrow Pressing this shortcut will simply toggle quickly between 2 playlists Show target playlist Shift+right arrow No matter how many playlists you have or which playlist is currently selected, pressing Shift+Right Arrow will select the Target Playlist. Cycle in audio from previous playlist Command+Shift+up arrow Cycle in audio from next playlist Command+Shift+down arrow These two commands are perhaps the most powerful playlist editing shortcuts. what these commands do is cycle in audio from other playlists when a selection range is made. Without having to switch playlists, it's now possible to audition audio from other playlists in context. Let's say you were on your Vocal Comp playlist and you had your previously recorded 4 takes and you had chosen take 3 as overall best take, just like the previous scenario. Let's say the song was "Mary Had a Little Lamb." So let's say you had your chosen take copied into the target playlist and you're listening to the first line and the word "little just doesn't sound right. What you can now do is select the word "little" in the playlist and press Command+Shift+Down Arrow. Now, the word "little will be the performance from Vocal.01. Everything else remains the same and unchanged. Only the word "little" has changed. Pressing Command+Shift+Down Arrow again will now cycle in "little" from Vocal.02. You can continue to audition the selected range from each available playlist until you're happy with the performance. When you're satisfied, you can simply continue on. The entire time, you've never left the Target playlist and only the selected range was cycling through the other available playlists. Think of this as sort of selecting a different playlist for only the selected range rather than the entire timeline. It's extraordinarily powerful and, if you use Pre/Post Roll, you can audition the target playlist in context so you hear the result of the edit before committing to it. As long as your selection range stays in tact, you can keep cycling up or down. When you're happy with the choice, simply move on. Retrospective MIDI record Shift+c Some of you will remember the trick of hitting record at the end of a rehearsal take to be able to expand the audio in the buffer. Whenever people say, "Oh, I wish we had been recording," as long as the transport is still rolling when they say it, you can easily retrieve the performance. Well, now the same thing exists for MIDI. Press Shift+c to capture the MIDI performance that was happening while the transport was engaged. Transpose Selected MIDI note up/down by half step up/down arrows When a MIDI note is selected in Notes View, pressing Up/Down Arrow will transpose it on the fly by a semitone. This is great for quick MIDI note editing. Thing is, this is also the shortcut for capturing the current time code into the Start Counter. Down Arrow will still do this when in an audio track and will also work in a MIDI track if there's no note selected. Otherwise, if you press down arrow while the transport is engaged, what you'll actually do is transpose the selected note down again by one half step. The bottom line is that there are a number of shortcuts now in Pro Tools that do one thing in an audio track and a different thing in a MIDI track. Be careful and stay aware of what is currently selected and you'll be fine. Transpose Selected MIDI note up/down by octave Shift+up/down arrows Same rules apply as above but instead of semitone, notes are transposed by octave. Transpose Selected MIDI Note Up/Down in Key Control+up/down arrow This command relies on key signature and chord recognition which is not yet accessible but, by default, you might have some success. Essentially, rather than chromatic tranposition, notes will increment based on chord. Note that adding the Option modifier to the above transposition shortcuts will duplicate the selected note before transposing. In other words, if you have b3 selected and you press Option+Up Arrow, the b3 will remain and a new note with the pitch c4 will be created at the same point in the timeline. Pressing Up Arrow again will transpose the c4 to C Sharp 4. This is a fast way to stack notes to generate chords in place. You can think of the following shortcuts as equivalents to the shortcuts used to trim the left and right edges of selected clips only this works for selected MIDI notes. Trim note on by current nudge value Control+left/right arrow Trim note on by next greater nudge value control+Shift+left/right arrows Trim note off by nudge value Option+left/right arrows Trim note off by next greater nudge value Option+Shift+left/arrows The following shortcuts provide a quick way of raising or lowering MIDI Note On values on the fly rather than typing in a value. Increase/decrease velocity by 5 Command+up/down arrows Increase/decrease velocity by 15 Command+Shift+up/down arrows Save track preset Option+Shift+p Track Presets are new to Pro Tools and it's beyond the scope of this email to cover how track presets work. You'll need to refer to the What's New pdf to get the scoop on that. Hope this helps, Slau -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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