SUMMERY:
Pro Tools has a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. I can't possibly show you all of them but I will go through some of the most important ones, or at least I think they are. Practice them if you want to become more efficient and work faster in Pro Tools.So here they are!
1. Zooming Shortcuts
Zoom Commands. There are a couple of ways of quickly zooming in on your tracks in Pro Tools. You can use the numbers in the Edit Window and store them as favorites:
You can use the Zoom Tool:
but the way I like to do it as it's really simple is just by hitting either R or T. That way I can zoom in precisely where I want and it only takes a couple of taps on the keyboard.
2. Activate or Deactivate a track
Typically the way we activate or deactivate a track is to go to the Track Menu and do this but I want to show you a quick shortcut on how to do that.
On Mac is going to be Control and Command on PC it's going to be Start and Control and your going to click on this little Track Type Icon here:
This one indicates that it's an Audio Track and there are others that indicate it's a aux track like this one here:
There are other types also but these two are the kind we typically tend to use. So all you do is once again, Control and Command Click on either of these two Icons on a Mac or Start and Control on a PC.
3. Reset To Default
This Command or Shortcut let's us reset any control to their default state. So let's say our volume fader is on -5db and we want to quickly reset it back to zero, all we do is on Mac hit Option, on PC hit Alt and click on the Volume Fader to set it back to zero.
You can use this keyboard command on any control within Pro Tools. Pan, Sends etc etc.
4. Volume, Peak and Delay
For this next one I want to show you how to toggle between the views on your track display. As you can see the track displays in Pro Tools are set to display volume.
Well there are two other displays we can view. Peak (headroom) and Channel Delay or Sample Delay. Hold down Command (Mac) or Control (PC) and click on the display. This will show you Peak (headroom)
and if you click again this will show you Delay. (Sample Delay)
These two displays are good for seeing how much headroom you have on a track or to see if any of your plug-ins are causing any sample delay. If you want to do this to all your tracks all you have to do is add Option or Alt to the process.
4. Deactivate Sends and Plugins
If you want to bypass a send or a plugin for the use of saving DSP, then bypassing a plugin won't do it. What you have to do is actually deactivate the plugin. To do this hit Control and Command, on PC hit Start and Control and click on the plugin.
Now it will save some DSP. Do the same for a send.
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