Only add one or two per week until you are comfortably using them on a regular basis. But I had forgotten about them because I didn’t use them regularly. The first two I created when I first started using Twisted Wave were “Move to Selection Start” and “Move to Selection End” (which will also go all the way to the Start/End if nothing is selected). In order for this to be helpful, you have to actually remember these keyboard equivalents! That means if you have Izotope RX tools, or other plug-ins which appear under the Effects menu, you can call them up from the keyboard rather than mousing your way through the Effects>Audio Units & VST>Flat List (three mouse layers down.ugh!) Keep In Mind… But, you can also select any other effect which is loaded into your system. I mentioned “Normalize” earlier, it’s actually a Twisted Wave function, so it makes sense that you can assign a keystroke to it. Pressing Option A will now immediately open the Analyze tool.Īnother useful way to use this is to assign a keystroke to specific Effects. I type “Option A” (holding down the Option key while pressing the “A” key). When I select Analyze from the menu, this pops up – Then you simply select the menu item you wish to enhance… in this example, I’ll select “Analyze” because I use it frequently.Īs you can see in the image below, it has no keyboard equivalent in the stock/default configuration: When you select “Edit Keyboard Shortcuts…”, a small menu will pop up on screen:
Luckily, Twisted Wave and many other DAW’s provide a way to tune this to your needs.ĭown at the bottom of the Twisted Wave EDIT menu is a function called “Edit Keyboard Shortcuts…” This lets you change or add specific keys (or key combinations) to almost anything which appears on the Twisted Wave menus (specifics for Audacity and Ocenaudio are in the “Notes” section at the end of this article.) Those get used a lot in my workflow and have always mocked me with their inaccessibility from the keyboard. Normalize has no keystroke, nor does the Analyze function. “F” for Amplify, “S” for Silence, “Shift-S” for Insert Silence have probably saved me hours of extra mouse moves. To really tune your recording workflow, learn the fast keyboard equivalents inside Twisted Wave. All of those will let you cut down the amount of time you spend on projects.
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Other good ones to know include switching windows if you have multiple files open (typically “Command ~”), switching between different apps/programs (Command TAB) and Redo (Shift Command Z). That includes Save, Save As, Copy, Cut, Paste and (of course) Undo. Having basic commands “under your fingers” helps things move more efficiently when getting auditions out the door or keeping projects on schedule.Ĭore functions, which are the same in all programs, are good tasks to concentrate on first. If every time you want to “Save” a file, you reach for the mouse, click on the “File” menu and then scroll down to the “Save” command, that may seem like a minor movement, but those detours add up over the course of a day. While the mouse is an elegant interface for using computers, it can actually slow things down. With a few key changes, you can become quicker when editing projects or auditions. Make your voiceover recording workflow more efficient by using keyboard equivalents to reduce your dependency on menus. Spend less time at the editing desk and more time in your booth.Ĭommon steps buried in menus? Make your recording workflow more efficient.
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