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-layout: default
-title: Default Keyboard Bindings
-menu-title: Key Bindings
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-
-<p>
- Almost every available function in Ardour can be bound to a keyboard
- shortcut (and those few that cannot will usually respond to an <a
- href="/using-control-surfaces/controlling-ardour-with-osc/"><abbr
- title="Open Sound Control">OSC</abbr> command</a>). Ardour comes with a
- rich set of default <dfn>key bindings</dfn> for the most commonly used
- functions.
-</p>
-
-<p>These bindings strive to be <dfn>mnemonic</dfn>, that is, easy and intuitive
- to remember, and follow widely accepted conventions. As a general rule,
- the first letter of an operation will be used for as a shortcut, if
- available. This does not necessarily lead to the best ergonomics for
- rapid editing — there are alternative binding sets for that —
- but it does make it simpler for newcomers to remember some of the most
- useful ones, for example<br />
- <kbd>S</kbd> for <kbd class="menu">Region > Edit > Split"</kbd>
- or<br />
- <kbd>P</kbd> for <kbd class="menu">Transport > Playhead > Playhead to Mouse</kbd>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- Existing key bindings in menus are listed on the right side of the
- menu items. To create a custom key binding for a menu item quickly, navigate to
- the relevant (sub-) menu, hover over the item with the mouse and press
- the desired combination of modifiers and key.
-</p>
-
-<p class="warning">
- Ardour will silently re-assign the binding if you use a key
- combination that is already in use, possibly removing a standard
- keyboard shortcut without warning you. That might lead to confusion
- when you ask other users for help, and they explain something in terms
- of a standard key binding, which will then have a completely
- different effect on your system.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- Almost every key binding in Ardour can be looked for and/or changed in
- <kbd class="menu">Window > Key Bindings</kbd>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
- The conventions for using modifier keys (<kbd class="mod1"> </kbd>, <kbd
- class="mod2"> </kbd>, <kbd class="mod3"> </kbd> etc.) differ among platforms, so we
- provide different default bindings for each.
-</p>
-
-
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