Keyboard & Mouse
Shortcuts and gestures.
- Wheel over the canvas: zoom (keeps the point under the cursor fixed).
- Wheel over Live Data: scroll the list.
- 1–8 with a Router selected: set active input. 1–4 with a Matrix: recall preset.
- Shift+drag (background): rubber-band select. Shift+click: Toggle selection.
- Drag a node: Moves just that node (multi-selected nodes move together). Hold Shift while dragging: The node's whole downstream subtree comes along.
- Delete/Backspace: Remove the selected node(s), downstream nodes stay, wires drop. Shift+Delete: Remove the node(s) AND everything downstream.
- ⌘N / ⌘O / ⌘S: New / open / save a show (.skshow, the working copy auto-saves too).
- Ctrl+Esc (anywhere): lock / unlock the machine.
- Patch view strip (right edge of the node graph): zoom in / out, centre, align-snap (hold ⌘ while dragging to place a node freely).
- Cue Editor: C = a one-cell cue at the needle (needle to its end); ⌘C / ⌘X / ⌘V act on clips when a lane / clip was clicked last, on cues otherwise; double-click an empty cue-lane cell (zoomed in) = a one-cell cue; drag a cue mark under the ruler = move that cue.