{"id":3172,"date":"2010-01-12T22:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T09:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2010-01-12T22:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T09:19:38","slug":"shortcuts-ii-using-a-second-usb-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicofsound.co.nz\/blog\/shortcuts-ii-using-a-second-usb-keyboard","title":{"rendered":"Shortcuts II: Using a Second USB Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve ranted before about how important learning shortcuts is for sound editors (SD101: shortcuts)<\/a> & I’ve also posted about a nifty USB device which enables you to assign shortcuts to dedicated keys in any layout you like (the Ergodex<\/a>) but recently I found out about a means of adding dedicated physical keys that must be the most cost effective yet: simply plug in a second USB Mac keyboard!
\nNow like me you probably thought of this long ago & discovered it wasn’t possible. I had dreams of using gaffer tape to permanently hold down eg the control & command keys on a second keyboard & thereby have a whole new set of 100+ keys to assign shortcuts to. But I soon discovered that to hold down the command key on one keyboard equated to holding it down on both keyboards, so I wrote off the idea as fundamentally flawed, and so I bought my Ergodex (which I like, but I don’t use it as much as I imagined I might)
\nAnd then Quickeys version 4 was released and all that changed!<\/p>\n

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In Quickeys 4 there is a menu item for DEVICES, which lists all the USB devices connected and by choosing “Use this device exclusively with Quickeys” you can preclude it from having any effect on anything else on your Mac, other than as a means of triggering Quickeys! Brilliant! (And thanks to Emile for pointing out this new feature!)<\/p>\n

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Also of potential interest, Quickeys 4 supports the iPod Touch\/iPhone, so you can trigger Quickeys shortcuts or scripts via wifi – check the iTunes App Store<\/a> for more info…. but thats not all, check this:<\/p>\n

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So any time I play a tritone it can dim the lights? Handy….<\/p>\n

A small sidenote: Quickeys<\/a> 4 requires OSX 10.5+ which I have finally made the leap to… So I’m also now on ProTools 8, which I am still getting used to…. and after migrating all my plugins and applications, guess which was the only company that required me to completely reinstall the plugins AND the libraries & then totally reauthorise? Native Instruments… FFS! I’ve only updated my home Mac & PT LE – I still have to go through the same painful process for my studio PT HD… Grrrrrrrr! Native Instruments get my vote as having the worst authorisation process!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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