Keyboard Shortcuts

[jan1]

A few days ago I spent some time in the hotkey editor of Mistika (accessible via the login screen) and discovered a myriad of interesting keyboard shortcuts, some of them quite useful.

I started compiling some of the key ones for my own reference in a Google Sheet. Just a fraction of it, but gives you a flavor.

Today I was looking to see if there's a better way to scroll up/down in the parameter tab on the left in the Visual Editor. I know you can scroll with 'right click - scroll'. That works great with a mouse or the pen. But doesn't work on the Wacom in touch mode so well. 

So I was looking for any keyboard short cuts to scroll the parameters up/down, and in the process discovered something even better:

Ctrl+PgUp toggles full-screen on the on the bottom half of the visual editor. It hides the image and clips and expands the graph editor and parameter tab to full-screen (see screenshot). That's fantastic. So you can see everything at once while looking at your reference monitor ....   Now that I know this feature, I realize there is a 'Max' button in the top right of the pane I never noticed. It does the same. But keyboard is faster.

We should collect more of these useful keyboard shortcuts.

But if someone know the one to scroll this up/down via keyboard, that would be great.

 

Edited December 5, 2019 by jan1

[Cristobal Bolaños]

On 12/5/2019 at 1:42 PM, jan1 said:

I was looking to see if there's a better way to scroll up/down in the parameter tab on the left in the Visual Editor

I'm afraid there's no such shortcut that enables the possibility to scroll up/down the parameter menu. 

On 12/5/2019 at 1:42 PM, jan1 said:

We should collect more of these useful keyboard shortcuts.

Great idea. I'd happily collaborate with these excel. If we reach a consensus to a really neat shortcut compilation for working, we could make a nice designed shortcut  cheat sheet made for printing for the users. 

Just as a friendly reminder (also for people who do not know this feature) , in the Tangent Mapping there's the possibility to make a Shortcut button. You could make the Control+PgUp shortcut an even faster access with the Tangent:

 

[jan1]

On 12/8/2019 at 1:09 AM, cbolanos@sgo.es said:

I'm afraid there's no such shortcut that enables the possibility to scroll up/down the parameter menu. 

That might be something for the feature request list then. While the Ctrl+PgUp solution is handy, making scrolling of this more easy for a variety of tablets/mice would be very helpful as Mistika goes onto a broader range of systems. It's one corner of the UI that you definitely have to interact with frequently and that's cumbersome at the moment.

 

I will keep adding to the shortcut spreadsheet over time. Or maybe if that is hard to collaborate on, we can start a forum thread where people can report helpful shortcuts they've found (or created) and then we summarize in a few weeks/months.

[Cristobal Bolaños]

Hey Jan!

I found a really cool shortcut that may be of well use. I already added it to the sheet. 

If you press "T", you will create a Preset. It is not the "Create Auto" function, which will create automatically a preset without the possibility of writing a name for it. I recall you lack this option in the Tangent Mapping software. You can now add it by selecting a keyboard shorcut for a button. However, as all shortcuts in Mistika, the use of this depends on the focus of the mouse. So, to use it, the focus of the mouse has to be on top of the fx preset menu.

 

I hope it helps! ?

 

Cheers,

Cristóbal 

[JanMaarten]

My favourite super simple shortcut on the Timeline is holding 'Cmd' while dragging segments up and down.
It keeps everything locked on the Y-axis so I don't accidentally move it in time.