"Back and Play" keyboard shortcut gone after update to 2023.6

[mr xy]

I've just updated for the first time in a couple of years and it seems back and play has been removed from the keyboard shortcuts?

It there another way to jump back a bar or so from a keyboard shortcut?

I find back and play very useful, I was previously using an artist transport for this when it was only available on control surfaces but then it became a keyboard shortcut a few years ago. I had Y assigned to it, which was great as I no longer accidentally moved clips to the start of the session accidentally, and it's generally a super useful function when mixing.

EDIT - found the answer - I changed to a subscription to studio, thinking it would be sufficient, but previously was using ultimate with a perpetual licence. It seems back and play is an ultimate only feature... I never saw mention of this before. Very annoying.

Any thought how I might replicate back and play behaviour with sound flow?

[simonchase]

I can't help but I offer sympathy. Of all the features they lock for ultimate this one seems very stingy.

[mr xy]

Thanks, yeah it's pretty mean IMO.

What annoys me is before I decided to go with a studio subscription instead of renewing support for my ultimate perpetual licence I carefully read through the extended comparison page: and it doesn't mention it anywhere, nor does it say that there are other differences not mentioned and to consult the manual or anything, so I felt pretty confident.

I must hit back and play several hundred times a day so I'm probably going to have to go ahead and update my perpetual licence anyway and will have wasted the money on this studio sub.

[ReverbHead]

Originally Posted by mr xy

Any thought how I might replicate back and play behaviour with sound flow?

Just create a macro that does:

COMMAND+K
SPACE BAR
COMMAND +K

that should behave about the same as back and play.

[wwittman]

Originally Posted by ReverbHead

Just create a macro that does:

COMMAND+K
SPACE BAR
COMMAND +K

that should behave about the same as back and play.

Depending on how preroll is set

There’s nothing about ‘back and play’ that requires hardware.
It’s simply ridiculous that it’s an ultimate only feature.

[ReverbHead]

Originally Posted by wwittman

Depending on how preroll is set

There’s nothing about ‘back and play’ that requires hardware.
It’s simply ridiculous that it’s an ultimate only feature.

Agreed, definitely a workaround, it’s the closest without paying extra for ultimate.

[daeron80]

In any version, hitting 1 on the numpad will move your cursor back by one bar if your Numeric Keypad pref is set to the default of Transport. I've been using 1-Space on vanilla since PT 6.x.

Caveat: it only does one bar when your main ruler is Bars|Beats.
For the Min:Sec ruler, it moves back one second.
For the TC ruler, it moves back one frame.