Essential Short Cut Keys?

Help, Support & Bugs Beginners Questions - Renoise
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I would love to know just a few which people find really helpful…

I know a few (Skip Octaves) / up *down

Skip Patterns ctrl and arrows

Instrument Selection alt and arrows

i know its lazy not to look through the manual… but its huuuuge!

just like one or two apart from the ones i mentioned that you find using the whole time…

regards

boy with a slow workflow

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There are loads of useful shortcuts. Depends on the situation.
Ctrl + Home (PgUp/PgDown) are also really nice navigation shortcuts.
Left Shift + Right Ctrl to play from cursor position.
And my favourite combinations are [Shift + Alt + Z] [Shift + PgUp/PgDown] for fast selecting and [Alt + 1/2/3/4] to switch between clipboards.

And the more I get used to every kind of shortcuts the more I understand what’s the main feature in Renoise - workflow.

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I watched a Grooving in G video last time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMBLYDmPU6Q) and he mentioned the Shift + Return short cut to jump to the used instrument in the instrument box. This is a complete game changer!

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can you tell me the timestamp? i.e. if you’re in a pattern and you run shift-return, what happens, does the instrument box get focused and the sample get selected?
if so, you might like this “Capture Nearest Instrument & Octave (Jump)” in Paketti
it does this:

  1. tries to find the nearest note on the selected track
  2. sets selected instrument to the instrument on the note
  3. if you run it a second time, and your selected instrument is the one that’s the nearest instrument on the pattern, it takes you to sample editor to display the sample
  4. if you then run it a third time, you get kicked from sample recorder to pattern editor.
  5. if you’re on the phrase editor, it will create a new phrase for that instrument.

enjoy.

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The instrument box not getting focused. Where do I find “Capture Nearest Instrument & Octave (Jump)” ?

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here, @lilith

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instrument box focus type stuff can’t be controlled by API at least not today. maybe in the future.

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