Keyboard Shortcuts

A grouped reference of every default keyboard shortcut. Most shortcuts listed here are rebindable — open Settings → Shortcuts to reassign any action to a different key or chord. (The Live Override shortcuts at the bottom are the exception; they are fixed, and so are the Panic chords in the Transport table and the Cue Pad trigger keys, which are assigned per pad in the pad editor instead.)

On macOS Cmd is the Command key.

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Transport

The four Panic chords are the ones in Transport ▸ Panic. They are fixed, not rebindable.

Space is GO only when nothing else has claimed it. On every screen except Run Mode, the Show Editor and Track Prep, Space plays or pauses the Local Audio track instead of firing a cue whenever a local track is playing or paused. (An open context menu, a text field or a dialog takes the key before either.) In Run Mode Space is always the show's GO, even after you have clicked another button there; in the Show Editor it is Play / Pause in DRY and REHEARSE+ and does nothing in SHOW mode — see the Show Editor table. Holding Space down counts as one press.

GO belongs to the show, not to the window. A pop-out answers Space for the show whenever the main window is on Run Mode. A Show Editor pop-out never fires a GO (its Space is that surface's own Play / Pause).

Esc backs out one step at a time. It does not stop running cues. It takes the first step that applies: a latched Blackout is released first, even with a dialog open or a deck expanded (Freeze and Manual Override are left alone); an expanded deck collapses; an open dialog handles it; a pad drag is cancelled, a clean pad editor closes, Edit Layout mode ends, or a pad selection clears; in Run Mode it stops the show (double-press); in the Show Editor it deselects the cue; in Performance it leaves Performance Mode; otherwise a selected cue is deselected. With none of those to do, the last step resets the cue stack: fired progress is cleared and the playhead goes back to the top. That sends nothing to the rig. If the stack has any fired progress it first asks Reset Cue Stack?; on an untouched stack it resets without asking.

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Navigation

Go to section

Jump straight to any section from anywhere. Sections outside your edition do not appear in the menu, and their shortcuts are inactive.

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Cue Control

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Cue Pads

These shortcuts are active when the Cue Pads section is focused. Some are also available in the Performance view.

Pads can also be triggered by keyboard keys assigned in the pad editor. Common defaults use the number row and QWERTY rows, counted from the left of the grid: row 1 1–8, row 2 Q–I, row 3 A–K, row 4 Z–,. A bank narrower than 8 pads uses only the first keys of each row (a 4-wide bank reads 1–4, Q–R, A–F, Z–V). Those keys fire pads only where pads are on screen: Cue Pads and the Performance view. In Run Mode, which shows no pads, the same keys are left to Hotkey-triggered cues.

Transport ▸ CuePads and the command palette (Cmd+K) have Edit CuePads and Perform CuePads, the same switch as Cmd+L.

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Palette

These shortcuts are active while the Palette's look board is on screen. The release pair uses the same keys as Cue Pads' stop pair. When no look is live, they fall through to their other meaning, so Cmd+Shift+. still stops all audio.

The same verbs are in Transport ▸ Palette and the command palette (Cmd+K). On an Auto grid layout, the pad keys follow a fixed 8-wide block. Choose a Grid layout from the bank menu to make keys match the rows you see.

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Show Editor

The inspector has no toggle key: it opens on selection and closes when you clear it (Esc, or the ✕ in its header). Use Pin in the inspector header to keep it open with nothing selected.

These are rebindable too. They sit in Settings → Shortcuts under Show Editor, alongside a row for each of the ten capture slots.

Several of them share a default chord with an action from another part of the app — Cmd+N (New Project), Cmd+G (Create group), Cmd+Shift+S (Save As), Cmd+Shift+L (Seek forward), Alt+↑ / Alt+↓ (Move cue in stack). That is deliberate: only one of each pair is active on any given screen, and Settings shows both rows so you can tell them apart.

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Run Mode (Theatre)

In Run Mode, Space, Enter and keypad Enter do only what they are bound to — they never click the button that has focus. Rebind GO in Settings ▸ Shortcuts and Space stops firing it. Keypad Enter counts as Enter. A text field or dialog in another window (a popped-out Cue List, say) does not switch these keys off.

P, L, R and Space are reserved by the run surface: a cue bound to one of them cannot fire from Run Mode, and the cue editor says so when you bind it.

Bare number keys differ by surface: in the Show Editor they punch capture cues; in Run Mode they fire Hotkey-triggered cues.

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Cue Editor (Track Prep)

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Audio Transport

Cmd+Shift+. is answered by whichever surface you are on. In Cue Pads and the Performance view it stops every active pad across every bank; anywhere else it is the audio panic above. There is one chord because there is one gesture — "stop the thing that is making noise" — and only ever one thing it can mean where you are standing.

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View

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File

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Live Override (Performance view)

These shortcuts are active only while the Performance view is open and are not currently rebindable in Settings. They are written for macOS (Cmd); the Windows build now in development uses Ctrl in the same places. While Performance is open, Cmd+K is Skip, not the Command Palette, and Cmd+Z undoes the last live action, not a project edit — the Command Palette, Undo, Redo and Reset Cue Stack rows in the menus carry no shortcut there, but still work when clicked. The Command Palette belongs to the main window, so its menu item is off in a pop-out.

A skip or a fired moment cannot be taken back: Undo is greyed, and Cmd+Z answers "Can't undo a skip" or "Can't undo a fired moment" instead of reaching past it to an earlier pause. On the Performance panic toolbar, BLACKOUT, FREEZE and MANUAL are latching switches (a second press releases that state alone), and RESUME AP (Cmd+Shift+P) gives Auto Pilot back, ending a Manual override, without lifting a standing Blackout or Freeze.

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Waveform View (Devices / DJ Home)

The same = / - / 0 zoom keys also work on the Pro Deck waveforms: they act on the expanded deck, or on every deck when none is expanded.

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Related

• Settings — rebind shortcuts in Settings → Shortcuts
• Cue Pads — assigning keyboard keys to individual pads