Pro Tools First Keyboard Shortcuts

Single Key Shortcuts

[ Play Selection

/ Nudge Play Selection Later By Next Bigger Grid

\ Nudge Play Selection Earlier By Grid

‘ Move Edit Insertion To Next Edit

; Move Edit Insertion To Next Track

6 Play To Edit Start

7 Play From Edit Start

8 Play To Edit End

9 Play From Edit End

A Trim Clip Start To Cursor

B Clear

C Copy

D Duplicate

E Zoom Toggle

F Crossfade With No Dialog

G Fade Out From Cursor To End Of Clip

L Move Edit Insertion To Previous Edit

M Nudge Play Earlier By Next Bigger Grid

N Toggle Insertion Follows Playback

P Move Edit Insertion To Previous Track

Q Show Selection Start

R Zoom Out Horizontal

S Trim Clip End To Cursor

T Zoom In Horizontal

V Paste

W Display Timeline Selection End

X Cut

Z Undo

Shift+Z Redo

- Toggle Track View Mode

Playback

␣ Start/stop playback

⇧ ␣ Half-speed playback

⌥ [ Play Edit selection

⌘ ⌃ P Dynamic Transport Mode toggle

Recording

␣ Stop Record

⌘ . Stop record and discard recording take

⌘ ⌥ ␣ Enable/disable online record

⌥ L Loop Record toggle

⌘ ⇧ P QuickPunch toggle

⌘ K Enable/disable pre/post-roll time

Numeric Keypad Transport Shortcuts

0 Play/Stop

1 Rewind

2 Fast Forward

3 Record Enable

4 Loop Playback Mode On/Off

5 Loop Record Mode On/Off

6 Quick Punch Mode On/Off

7 Click On/Off

8 Countoff On/Off

9 Midi Merge/Replace Mode On/Off

Edit Modes and Edit Tools

⇧ F4 Enable Snap To Grid while in another Edit mode

F1 F4 Enable Snap to Grid and Shuffle mode

F2 F4 Enable Snap to Grid and Slip mode

F3 F4 Enable Snap to Grid and Spot mode

⎋ Cycle through Edit tools

Edit Selection, Definition, and Navigation

⌘ ⌥ ⇥ Enable or disable Tab to Transients command

⇥ Locate cursor to next transient

⌥ ⇥ Locate cursor to previous transient

⇥ Locate cursor to next Clip-boundary/sync point

⌃ ⇥ Locate cursor to previous Clip boundary/sync point

⌃ ⇥ Go to and select next Clip

⌃ ⌥ ⇥ Go to and select previous Clip

⌃ ↩ Go to Song Start

⇧ ⌃ ↩ Extend selection to Song Start

⇧ ⇥ Extend selection to next Clip-boundary

⌥ ⇧ ⇥ Extend selection to previous Clip-boundary

⌃ ⇧ ⇥ Extend selection to include next Clip

⌃ ⇧ ⌥ ⇥ Extend selection to include previous Clip

↩ Return to start of project

⌥ ↩ Go to end of project

⇧ ↩ Extend selection to start of project

⌥ ⇧ ↩ Extend selection to end of project

↑ ↓ Set selection start/end during playback

⌘ ⌃ ⌥ ' Move selection forward by the selection amount

⌘ ⌃ ⌥ L Move selection backward by the selection amount

⌘ ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ ' Double length of Edit selection

⌘ ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ L Halve length of selection

⌘ ⌥ ⌃ ↑ ↓ Fit all shown tracks in Edit window

⇧ R Record enable tracks that contain Edit cursor or Edit selection

⇧ I Track Input Monitor enable tracks that contain Edit cursor or Edit selection

⇧ S Solo tracks that contain Edit cursor or Edit selection

⇧ M Mute tracks that contain Edit cursor or Edit selection

↓ Move insertion to beginning of Edit selection

↑ Move insertion to end of Edit selection

⌃ ↑ ↓ Increase or decrease height of any lane that contains Edit cursor or Edit selection

Editing, Nudging, Trimming

⌃ ⌥ + or - Change Grid value

⌘ ⌥ + or - Change Nudge value

⇧ + or - Nudge start/end data to right/left by Nudge value (keeps underlying audio and moves start/end)

⌃ + or - Nudge data within current Clip to right/left by Nudge value (keeps Clip start/end and moves underlying audio)

⌥ ⇧ + or - Nudge left selection boundary right/left by Nudge value

⌘ ⇧ + or - Nudge right selection boundary right/left by Nudge value

⌥ + or - Move left edge of Clip to right/left by Nudge value

⌘ + or - Move right edge of Clip to right/left by Nudge value

Zoom

⌘ [ or ] Zoom in or out

⌥ A Zoom to show all clips

⌥ F Zoom and scroll timeline

File Menu

⌘ N New Project

⌘ O Open Project

⌘ ⇧ O Open Recent

⌘ ⇧ W Close Project

⌘ S Save

⌘ ⌥ B Export Audio Mix

⌘ ⇧ I Import

Edit Menu

⌘ Z Undo

⌘ ⇧ Z Redo

⌘ X Cut

⌘ C Copy

⌘ V Paste

⌘ B Clear

⌘ A Select All

⌥ [ Play Selection

⌘ D Duplicate selection

⌥ R Repeat selection

⌥ H Shift selection

⌘ ⇧ E Insert Silence

⌘ T Trim Clip to Selection

⌥ ⇧ 7 Trim Clip Start to Insertion

⌥ ⇧ 8 Trim Clip End to Insertion

⌘ ⌃ R Trim Clip to File Start

⌘ ⌃ Y Trim Clip to File End

⌘ ⌃ T Trim Clip to File Boundaries

⌘ E Separate Clip at Selection

⌘ H Heal Separation

⌘ U Strip Silence

⌥ ⇧ 3 Consolidate selection

⌘ ⌥ Z Restore Last Selection

Memory Locations and Markers

⌤ Create Memory Location

⌃ N Toggle Timeline Insertion/Play Start Marker Follows Playback preference on/off

Automation

⌥ - Toggle Track View on all tracks

⌃ ⌥ ⌘ ← → Change to previous/next Track View on all tracks

Fades, Fades Dialog

⌘ F Create Fades (open Fades dialog)

⌘ ⌃ F Apply crossfade without opening Fades dialog

⌥ D Fade to Start

⌥ G Fade to End

␣ Audition start/stop in Fades dialog

⌃ ↑ ↓ Cycle up/down through Out Shape parameter options

⌥ ↑ ↓ Cycle up/down through In Shape parameter options

↑ ↓ Cycle up/down through Link parameter options

⌃ ← → Cycle up/down through preset Out Shape curves

⌥ ← → Cycle up/down through preset In Shape curves

Clip Menu

⌥ ⇧ F Bring to Front

⌥ ⇧ B Send to Back

⌘ ⌥ G Group Clips

⌘ ⌥ U Ungroup Clips

⌘ ⌥ R Regroup Clips

⌘ ⌥ L Loop Clip

⌘ , Identify Sync Point

⌘ 0 Quantize Clip to Nearest Grid

Clip List

⌘ ⇧ A Select All Clips in Clip List

⌘ ⇧ U Select Unused Clips

⌘ ⇧ B Clear selected Clips

⌘ ⇧ R Rename selected Clips

⌘ ⇧ Y Export Clip Definition

⌘ ⇧ K Export Clips as Files

Elastic Audio

Step Input

1 Whole note

2 1/2 note

4 1/4 note

5 1/8 note

6 1/16 note

7 1/32 note

8 1/64 note

. Dotted note

3 Toggle Tuplet on/off

Enter Next step

0 Undo step

Plus (+) Nudge forward

Minus (–) Nudge back

Equals (=) Select Main Location indicator

/ Edit Selection indicators

Plug-In Inserts and Sends

⇧ A Bypass (or unbypass) all inserts on selected tracks

⇧ 2 Bypass (or unbypass) inserts A–E on selected tracks

⇧ E Bypass (or unbypass) all EQ plug-ins on selected tracks

⇧ C Bypass (or unbypass) all Dynamics plug-ins on selected tracks

⇧ V Bypass (or unbypass) all Reverb plug-ins on selected tracks

⇧ D Bypass (or unbypass) all Delay plug-ins on selected tracks

⇧ W Bypass (or unbypass) all Modulation plug-ins on selected tracks

⇧ 4 Mute (or unmute) Sends on selected tracks

⇧ Q Mute (or unmute) all sends (A–J) on selected tracks

Workspace: Global Shortcuts

⌥ ; Open the Workspace browser if no browser is currently open

⌥ ; Cycle through open Workspace browsers

⌥ I Open a new Workspace browser focused on Volumes

⌥ O Open a new Workspace browser focused on the Project

⌥ O Move up one level in a browser

⌥ ' Open the Task Manager window

⌥ J Bring all browsers to the foreground

⌥ ⇧ J Send all browsers to the back

⌘ ↓ Open a selected folder in the current Workspace browser

⌘ ⌥ ↓ Open a selected folder in its own new Workspace browser

⌘ ← → Cycle to previous/next browsers

⌘ F Simple search

⌘ ⇧ F Advanced search on a selected or checked items in the Locations pane

⌘ ⇧ F Switch from advanced search to simple search or vice versa

⇧ + Add row of search criteria to Advanced search

⇧ - Remove row or search criteria from Advanced search

⌃ 1-5 View presets in Workspace browsers

Workspace: Auditioning

␣ Browser Item: Start or stop auditioning from head

⌥ ␣ Audio Import dialog: Start or stop auditioning from head

␣ Audio Import dialog: Start or stop auditioning from head

⌥ ␣ Browser Item: Start or stop loop auditioning from head

⌘ P Start or stop preview when browser is front-most window

⎋ Stop preview when browser is front-most window

⌘ P Import Audio dialog: Start or stop auditioning

Workspace: Delete or Duplicate

delete Clip List: Delete selected Clip from the timeline

delete Browser Item: Delete items from the browser/disk

⌘ delete Delete locked files selected in a browser

⌥ delete Delete any selected browser item, and suppresses any warning dialog

⌘ D Create duplicates of any selected files