speed up ezkeys chord entry with keyboard shortcuts

[muzer]

when using ezkeys a lot, having to use the mouse for almost everything limits the speed of my workflow.

i would love to use ESCAPE to leave the circle of 5th’s – instead of having to mouse click aside of it

and while in the circle of 5th’s, it could be very handy to just use TAB to go to the next chord (and of course shift-TAB to go to the previous chord)

automatically using arrow keys to go to next or previous chord from outside the circle of 5h’s comes to mind
and also entering chord names with the keyboard – not the inversions of course – would really speed up things for me
Cm-TAB-Dm to get | Cm | Dm |
and:
Cm-COMMA-Dm-TAB to get | Cm Dm | <-- in same measure Also:
control Z or cmd-Z for undo of last action
DELETE to remove the chord on the right side of the cursor
BACKSPACE to remove the chord on the left side of the cursor
control-X or cmd-X to cut the chord at current position of the cursor without removing the measure
control-V or cmd-V to paste that chord to the current position of the cursor with or without (?) inserting a measure

I hope you find this useful aswell.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Thanks for the ideas – they are noted! It’s a complicated procedure to design plugins – since they have some limitations compared to regular software. For example – pressing “delete” is by default taken over by the host, meaning that if you press delete in a plugin – you actually delete what’s selected in the host. We are, however, looking into including keyboard shortcuts since it’s a vital part of the workflow. It’s not an easy task – but we are on it 🙂

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

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