![]() ![]() Command Creating or uncreating (not deleting!) things.Alternatively, utilizing Left-Option and Right-Option to distinguish? REAPER doesn’t do this though.Default command is left/in/up/previous, adding option is right/out/down/next.Many of these are similar or mutually exclusive or non-independent, so they can be grouped together: Bi-lateral distinction (left/right? in/out? up/down? previous/next?).Ignore a dimension of freedom (enforce a constraint). ![]() NeedsĪ brain dump of variations of things that I might do in audio software: Somewhat anachronistically, I already did this work ‘offscreen’ while writing the last post. What classes of modifications might I do in the software, and how can I generalize them? Knowing that shift has a specific meaning allows me to make sense of commands which I lack knowledge, or to apply my “ shift does selection things” knowledge to commands.īefore thinking about what modifiers might “mean”, I need to know what I need. If I know that x crossfades somehow, but I don’t remember what it crossfades, then I can reason that it will not crossfade a selection, because shift-x would do that. This is a bidirectional extension of knowledge. ![]() If I know that shift always means adjusting/changing/creating a selection then I know that for all key-presses with shift, I’m doing some sort of action on a selection. If adding shift to a key always does the same thing, then that’s 1/4 (or 1/8 if we’re splitting L/R variants) the number of things we need to remember. Can we reduce the cognitive load? Assign consistent meanings to modifiers. That might sound incredible, but it presents a problem: remembering 1,000+ things is hard. If we differentiate between left and right modifiers, then nearly 4,500 commands are possible! Include the number pad and we’re north of 5,500. That means your average keyboard can execute well over 1,000 commands without issue. These are keys that allow us to use a single key for up to 16 different commands. To start this out I’d like to discuss the fact that we use keyboards with Modifiers: Control, Alt/Option, Command/Win and Shift (and possibly others!) Project Template, Preferences and Mouse Modifiers.Now I need to think about what they mean in the context of hotkeys. In the last post I changed what hotkeys mean in the context of mouse modifiers. ![]()
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