TIP: Clear stuck screen objects (i.e. Metronome dropdown form)

Once in a while the Metronome dropdown form will be stuck open and the screen will appear frozen, but it’s not. Just the Metronome dropdown form is stuck open and nothing else on the screen will respond to any touch (taps, pencil, or mouse).
The way I’ve found to clear this stuck screen object is to:
Press cmd+. (period).
cmd plus the period key sends the Esc key code to iPadOS.
Apple Smart Keyboard for my iPad doesn’t have an Esc key, so I found this equivalent looking through Mac keyboard shortcuts. In fact, there are a number of keyboard shortcuts for Mac which work on iPad OS, even though they’re not documented anywhere in iPad docs. This is true in Apple Numbers, Pages KeyNote and probably other Apple apps made for both Mac and iPad.

When needed, this is very helpful.

This is untested in Cubasis 3 running under Android.

Hi @Johne1

Thanks for your message.

Please let us have the exact steps leading to the issue, to allow our engineering further evaluating the problem.

Thanks
Lars

Hi Lars,
Unfortunately, this only happens occasionally. It’s intermittent and it’s not something new in just the latest versions. When it happened I was in a brand new project with only 2 MIDI tracks and working on writing a new song.

I posted my solution so others (with a keyboard) could get unstuck, if it happened to them, without losing their work. More of a TIP than a bug report, Lars.

John

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