Add additional Key Command targets for Channel Settings window (a.k.a. track editor)

In the Channel Settings window, please add Key Commands for

  • Go to last edited channel
  • Go to next edited channel
  • Select an input
  • Select an output
  • Show output chain

This would make navigating through huge setups much more convenient, especially in case of Projects that need to be taken over pre-routed. Right now, using the mouse is obligatory.

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PS: … and while you’re at it …

Shortcut(s) for Copy/Paste of plug-in settings? - #7 by Dietz

Thx!

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and request here again…issue is once you know its there you want to use it….

Good things take time. :-]

We waited 25 years for the introduction of volume as header-info in audio tracks (which appeared in Cubase 15), so there is still hope, only four years after my initial suggestion of these features … 8-/

I couldnt be bother waiting so I wrote a script that manages it from my mouse

Steiny could make it soooo much easier for peeps to get on with it using AHK if they would just expose the windows/widgets…like most others do or follow reaper…the scripting on that is great. Actually the python on Ableton is actually better, cleaner and there are 3rd party editors eg remotify

100% agreed

yep, nothing for:

Control Under Mouse Position
ClassNN:
Text:

While we wait (perhaps indefinitely), even making an Autohotkey script would be more elegant with these visible, no need for the coordinates.

It’s a such a shortcoming not having these navigations as key commands. And 2026 is on its way……..Cubase 15 already here (doubt anything has changed in that version)

So frustrating

I did a lot of workflow improvements because of constrained api access etc for large companies on expensive software…ahk was the saving grace. At least practically all of it was exposed :slight_smile:

Apparently most dev frameworks can do this quite easily

Yes it is frustrating, but despire AHK being an excellent and genuinly useful tool (I use it too) we really should not have to use something like Autohotkey to acheive this, going back to @Dietz original post…….there need to be key commands added to these navigation points.

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I’m only referring to the first request on the list, next or previous channel, since you have to select the channel to view it in the channel settings window, the up and down arrow keys will achieve this already.

Thankfully there is also already an assignable key command for Show output chain, but within the channel editor for previous/next channel using up and down keys which are not directly linked to ‘go to previous/next edited channel controls’ this can be a bit clunky going to and from the output chain back to the previous channel.

I’ve used a controller for years so just touching the fader is how I switch views. Not everyone has one of course.

I would be happy with just the last/prev edited as I’m pretty sure even protools and def ableton does not have this

I use a matrix of 8 folders with 8 tracks as my base template. Each folder is named so holding xbutton 1 and pressing a number jumps me to the 1st track in that group and banks the faders but once I’m done there, being able to use the mouse wheel to scroll back through the last edited tracks can jump me 60 tracks back with a couple of clicks which isn’t just time saving but minimises fatigue when some jobs need a lot of cleanup and tweaking

I do like the track nav in channel settings because it reliably scrolls the mixconsole from any window

Totally…but even that is a hack because of the framework insulation.

Even the remote midi api is half baked and seems written by coders who don’t understand actual implementation for mixers…but its funny that eucon has access…eg pressing an insert on avid hardware pops open the inspector but api only has next/prev inspector