Keyboard Shortcut "Delete" Disappearing

[Rich Breen]

Originally Posted by Benny_Cha_Cha

...Rich, you are assigning keyboard shorts cuts to menus in pro tools via kybd maestro?? How do you do this?

sure - that's what it's made for! Keyboard Maestro easily allows for menus, buttons, long sequences, whatever you want really. Just download and give it a try.

[walter rohrbach]

Originally Posted by Spanzor

Hey all-

I've just moved from PT 10 to 12.

Since the beginning of time, I have used "Control+F" as an OSX keyboard shortcut for "Delete" in Pro tools, meaning I could select the tracks I wanted, and using this shortcut, delete them without having to "right click" or "command+click" or go through any menus. Bam! The tracks were gone, and it was great.

I tried to delete a track in 12, and noticed this shortcut was gone, and no longer working. I deleted the shortcut from my OSX menu, and added it again with pro tools open...no big deal.

Then I quit pro tools, and relaunched. It's gone again. I can get this to happen consistently! Every time I quit and then open Pro Tools again, the shortcut is no longer applicable and doesn't show up in the "Track" dropdown menu next to "Delete".

Pro tools 12 is the only version of Pro Tools I have installed on my machine.
Is there a box I need to tick to make sure this doesn't keep happening?

Please help!

thanks-

Hi Spanzor

same issue here,
check menu: Track > Delete
this one changes from "Delete" to "Delete..." (with 3 dots) depending if the respective track contains Clips vs no Clips (empty)

AVID changed this (I beleieve) in PT11

I had to add another shortcut to Keyboard Maestro for this

best
Walter

[Benny_Cha_Cha]

Originally Posted by Rich Breen

sure - that's what it's made for! Keyboard Maestro easily allows for menus, buttons, long sequences, whatever you want really. Just download and give it a try.

I own Keyboard Maestro and use it all the time, but usually for macros.


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[Rich Breen]

Originally Posted by walter rohrbach

Hi Spanzor

same issue here,
check menu: Track > Delete
this one changes from "Delete" to "Delete..." (with 3 dots) depending if the respective track contains Clips vs no Clips (empty)

AVID changed this (I beleieve) in PT11

I had to add another shortcut to Keyboard Maestro for this

best
Walter

Yes, I have both menu items "Delete" and "Delete..." in the same KM delete track macro, and the macro is set to *not* notify on failure - that way it just does "Delete", if it's not there it moves on to "Delete..." Works fine.

[walter rohrbach]

Originally Posted by Rich Breen

Yes, I have both menu items "Delete" and "Delete..." in the same KM delete track macro, and the macro is set to *not* notify on failure - that way it just does "Delete", if it's not there it moves on to "Delete..." Works fine.

brilliant idea, thanks
Walter


btw: love your work with Billy Childs…

[Benny_Cha_Cha]

Originally Posted by Rich Breen

Sounds more like a system issue than a Pro Tools issue. Nothing comes to mind, though I've personally had inconsistent results trying to use keyboard prefs for shortcuts. Keyboard Maestro will handle all this kind of stuff well.

Ok now that I've RTFM, Rich, what kind of inconsistencies have you had?


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[Benny_Cha_Cha]

Originally Posted by Rich Breen

Yes, I have both menu items "Delete" and "Delete..." in the same KM delete track macro, and the macro is set to *not* notify on failure - that way it just does "Delete", if it's not there it moves on to "Delete..." Works fine.

Rich, I'm guessing you also have "failure aborts macro" off as well??



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