#Renoise keyboard shortcuts how to

Left Alt + F3: Cut current selection in pattern.Left Ctrl + Left Shift + Left/Right arrow: Remove/add note or effect column.Left Ctrl + Left Shift + Insert: Insert clean row into column and push all data in current column down.Left Ctrl + Left Shift + Delete: Delete note under cursor and scroll column beneath current note up.Insert: Insert clean row into track and push all notes and effects in current track down.Backspace: Delete all notes and Effect Commands at the current line in the track and scroll everything beneath the current line up.Left Ctrl + V: Paste contents from clipboard to target.Left Ctrl + C: Copy selection to clipboard.Left Ctrl + X: Cut selection to clipboard.Left Alt + Up/Down Arrow Keys: Decrease/increase slot selection in the Instrument Selector.Left Alt + Left/Right Arrow Keys: Jump up/down a page in the Instrument Selector.

Numpad 1-9: Select instrument from instruments visible in the Instrument Selector.

Numpad - +: Decrease/increase slot selection in the Instrument Selector.

Numpad / *: Decrease/increase keyboard octave.

Numpad Enter: Activate Block Loop and start playing.

Right Shift: Start playing the song with Edit Mode enabled.

Right Alt: Start playing and looping the current pattern.

Enter: Only play the line that the cursor is on (play step by step).

The current keyboard Focus is also saved with the preset. Tip: You can save and customise the layouts by right-clicking on the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 buttons at the top right of the Renoise interface.

F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8: Activate Window Layout Presets.

Renoise also supports most of the common shortcuts that apply to any application: 'Left Ctrl + X' (Cut), 'Left Ctrl + C' (Copy), 'Left Ctrl + V' (Paste), 'Left Ctrl + Z' (Undo), 'Left Ctrl + Y' (Redo). To print the shortcuts, simply click the button at the top-right of the menu:īelow is a list of the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts (Mac users: Replace 'Control' with 'Command' and 'Alt' with 'Option' below): Using the menu panel 'Edit > Preferences > Keys', you can customise any keyboard shortcut and also print out a list of the currently set shortcuts. The keyboard Focus will not move around as you click on different parts of the interface, though you can change this via the 'View > Lock Keyboard Focus' option in the Upper Status Bar. The idea behind this is that the main components of Renoise (such as the Pattern Editor) should always be ready for editing. Notice that the orange corners now surround the Disk Browser and the arrow keys move around to select files and folders. Now left-click somewhere in the Disk Browser while holding down the 'Left Alt' key, which will set the Focus to the Disk Browser. If you use the arrow keys then the Pattern Editor's cursor will start moving around. When you start up Renoise, the Pattern Editor is focused by default.

#Renoise keyboard shortcuts how to

Here is a small example on how to use the Focus: Use the shortcuts 'Left Control/Command + TAB' or 'Left Control/Command + Left Shift + TAB'.Right-click anywhere in Renoise and choose '(Set Keyboard Focus Here)' from the context menu.Left-click anywhere in Renoise while holding down the 'Left Alt' key.Click anywhere in Renoise with the middle mouse button.To change the Focus area, you can either: The currently focused area is indicated by small corners that are coloured orange by default: Those are referred to below as 'Local', while the others are 'Global'. Renoise utilises a shortcut Focus system for the keyboard, which means that most keyboard shortcuts only apply to a specific region of the interface. Besides those, there are many other shortcuts available and even unassigned shortcuts, which you can customise yourself if they fit well into your work-flow. Renoise features an enormous amount of keyboard shortcuts, but in the previous topics we often only noted a few of the important ones.