Ableton Live 10 and 10.1 introduce some really useful keyboard shortcuts that can drastically improve your workflow. I’ve put together a PDF file that you can print for easy access. While there are tons of keyboard shortcuts (here is a complete list from the Ableton Live manual ), this document foc. The space bar is the play/stop command in every DAW. But pressing shift at the same. Discover the basic keyboard shortcuts of one of the most popular digital audio editing programs Ableton Live 10 is a complete digital audio editing studio. It's incredibly popular among musicians, editors, and audio professionals because not only is it an excellent tool for composing, creating masters, recording, and mixing; it also allows working with live music, both for DJ sets. Ableton Live 10 Keyboard Shortcuts Every DAW out there has a set of keyboard shortcuts to speed things up when using them. As one of the favorites among the producer community, Ableton Live has its own. Ableton 10 has a lot of new keyboard shortcuts in it that are great for speeding up your workflow. There are some incredible ones that are so useful you will never want to look back at Live 9. You can toggle automation on and off with A, you can show all tracks by pushing S, and that is just to name a couple.
But I have a lot of 'muscle-memory' (actually, cerebellum-memory but let's not be pedantic) invested in Cubase, and I would like my keyboard shorcuts in Live to match those in Cubase.
Now, I always thought this was possible on a Mac, but I'm not having any luck. I thought it was done throught the Accessibilty part of System Preferences, however this won't let me assign alpha keys on their own to a function, there must be a modifier key held down as well. (On Cubase, using the f, g and h keys I can very quickly follow an audio file, zoom in, edit, then zoom out and follow again, all without using the dreaded mouse).
Ableton does allow you to customise both Key and Midi control for whatever you can see on the screens (both Arrangement view and Session view) but this does not apply to the drop-down menus.
Any suggestions?