Make inactive / active shortcut

[cwsand]

Originally Posted by musicman691

The op is actually asking about a shortcut for the function and there isn't one. PT doesn't allow for creation of or customizing of shortcuts that I know of. You have to go about it outside of PT. There are daws that do allow such customization though. Digital Performer for one.

Yeah, I know - I assumed he meant creating one in the Mac preferences and since Make Inactive / Make Active is on the Track menu, you should be able to. If the OP would simply refer to the Pro Tools Reference Manual, most of his questions would be answered.

[cwsand]

Originally Posted by originalscottyg

The only way to make a MacOS shortcut is if the command is in the menus on the top of the screen. MacOS can't do custom shortcuts that are only available in right-click menus or other custom menus in other parts of the software (i.e. clip bin drop down, etc.)

Exactly.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by cwsand

Yeah, I know - I assumed he meant creating one in the Mac preferences and since Make Inactive / Make Active is on the Track menu, you should be able to. If the OP would simply refer to the Pro Tools Reference Manual, most of his questions would be answered.

Take this from someone who mucked around in System 6 Apple operating systems what the op wants would have been easy. But Apple has made it harder in what I would think is them protecting us from ourselves.

I don't know enough about Unix-based operating systems to do what the op wants to do but it should be possible.