Piano is easy to remember and reminds you that you're playing an instrument. 'But Resolume, that's not how a piano works at all!' Yes, you're right. All buttons in Resolume can be set to Piano mode, which means that they will be on for as long as you hold the key down, and turn off when you release the key again. Still, it has one option, namely 'Piano'. The Composition Bypass is a very basic control, it can either be on or off. You can also choose different options for your selected control. In this tab, you can see all your keyboard shortcuts in a handy list. This tab is only visible while you're in Shortcuts mode. In the bottom right of the interface, you'll see the Shortcuts tab. Go back into Keyboard Shortcut mode, and select the Composition Bypass again. Press the Escape key to exit the Shortcut mode, and you can now bash that spacebar to toggle the Composition Bypass on and off. Now press the spacebar, and voila, you've assigned your first shortcut! If the Bypass button was big enough, you could even read it had the spacebar assigned to it. So find the Composition Bypass button in the top left of the interface and click on it with the mouse. Shortcut-ception! ToggleД®verything blue can have a shortcut assigned to it. You can also use CTRL-SHIFT-K as a shortcut to enter Shortcut mode. The interface will now turn partially blue.

You create shortcuts by opening the Shortcuts menu, and choosing which protocol you want to create a shortcut for. This is useful as a sort of panic button ('oh no, get it off mah screen!'), or to create tension before a big drop. So when we press spacebar, the whole output should go black. We want the spacebar to be a blackout button. Let's start with a simple keyboard shortcut. If you're running Arena, you can also use DMX input from a lighting desk. Resolume supports external control via your computer keyboard, MIDI controllers and OSC messages. Except this time, you get to decide what the shortcuts are. Sort of like how CTRL-C and CTRL-V are shortcuts for copy-pasting. You use shortcuts to assign a button on your computer keyboard or MIDI controller to a control in Resolume. Sometimes, you want an exact thing to happen at an exact moment, without having to scroll and search for it with the mouse. But during a live performance, you'll want to have more control than what the mouse can offer. You can access every parameter and set it with precision.

If you use them in your web browser, youвЂ™ll open your browserвЂ™s associated dialogs.Controlling Resolume with the mouse is great. These function keys are common to most text-editing applications. Image Credit: Tess Watson on Flickr Functions If you donвЂ™t have text selected, the shortcut will toggle the associated formatting option. If you have text selected, the shortcut will apply the formatting to your selected text. You can really speed up text-editing by using the Ctrl keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste text.Д¬trl+C, Ctrl+Insert вЂ“ Copy selected text.Д¬trl+X, Shift+Delete вЂ“ Cut selected text.Д¬trl+V, Shift+Insert вЂ“ Paste text at cursor.ДЇormatting shortcuts only work if the application or website youвЂ™re using supports text formatting. Image Credit: James_jhs on Flickr Editing For example, you could press Shift+End to select the text to the end of the current line, and then press Shift+Down to also select the line below it.ДЄfter selecting text, you can start typing immediately to replace the text вЂ“ you donвЂ™t have to press Delete first. You can use several of these shortcuts to fine-tine your selected text.

Shift+Page Up вЂ“ Select a frame of text above the cursor.

Shift+Page Down вЂ“ Select a frame of text below the cursor.

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