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Keyboard shortcuts at a glance

The most important keys in Droplit at a glance. On a Mac use ⌘, on Windows use Ctrl.

Good to know

Everywhere

? opens and closes the help.
Keys don't work while you're typing in a text field.

Studio and Fixtures & stage

⌘ / Ctrl + click: add a fixture to the selection or remove it again.
⇧ + click: select a range of fixtures.

Fill bank

Space: pause and resume. T: tap the tempo.
← → (or ↑ ↓): select the previous or next slot.
H: turn ♥ “Keep” on or off for the selected slot.
Delete or ⌫: remove the selected slot from the suggestion.
In “Scenes live”: 1 to 8 play the variants of the highlighted row, ↑ ↓ switch rows, H puts the variant you tapped last into the bank with ♥ or takes it out again.
More in Fill bank.

Effect lanes

Space: play and pause.
⌘Z / Ctrl+Z: undo. ⇧⌘Z / Ctrl+⇧+Z: redo.
⌘S / Ctrl+S: save to SoundSwitch.
These keys work after you've clicked into the timeline:
- S: split the selected clips at the playhead (with nothing selected, all clips under the playhead).
- ⌘D / Ctrl+D: duplicate the selected clips.
- ⌘C and ⌘V / Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V: copy clips and paste them at the playhead.
- Delete or ⌫: delete the selected clips.
- ← / →: move the selected clips by one grid step.
In the chase generator: ⌘Enter / Ctrl+Enter inserts the chase with “✓ Add to timeline”, ⌘Z / Ctrl+Z undoes the last step, Esc closes without changes.
All Effect lanes keys: Undo, redo and keyboard shortcuts.

3D visualizer

⌘K / Ctrl+K: open the “What do you want to do?” search. It finds every function, location templates and building blocks (see The workbench).
⌘D / Ctrl+D: duplicate the selected fixture, that is, add copies at the same DMX address (see Duplicate fixtures).
In “Aim” → “Set mover positions”: ⇧-click on the target points all movers there, ⇧-click on a ring makes all of them beam straight up.
With “Take a seat”: W A S D or the arrow keys to walk, Esc to stand up.
In the “Choose a location” gallery: Esc closes it and keeps the old room.

Edit setup (3D visualizer)

⌘Z / Ctrl+Z: undo. ⇧⌘Z / Ctrl+⇧+Z: redo.
⇧-, ⌘- or Ctrl-click: add another object to the selection.
Delete or ⌫: delete the selected object.
Arrow keys: move the selected object by 10 cm, with ⇧ by 50 cm. If several objects are selected, they move together.
Esc: clear the selection.
⌥ while dragging: move only the fixture, without snapping.

Live mode

T: tap the tempo. R: set the downbeat.
↑ / ↓: tempo ±1 BPM, with ⇧ ±0.1 BPM.
Space: next step in the running order, otherwise pause or resume.
B: blackout. U: UV. M: hold movement.
Hold X: strobe. Hold W: full white.
N / P: next or previous Autoloop. L: repeat loop.
V: full screen. Esc: looks, color and position off.
In “Perform” and “Stage”: 1 to 8 start the bank's Autoloops (with ⇧ slots 9 to 16), A S D F G H J K the Static Looks, ← / → switch banks.
In “PRIME 4” and “Control One” the pads use the same keys, but laid out differently. All pad keys are listed in Keyboard shortcuts in live mode, and in Live mode behind “?”.

Questions

What about the mouse in the 3D view?

Dragging rotates the view, dragging with the right mouse button pans it, scrolling zooms. Clicking a light shows its details.

Are there shortcuts in the Studio?

Apart from selecting fixtures with ⌘ / Ctrl and ⇧, no. In the Studio you do everything with a click or a tap. Only the fill assistant has its own keys (see above).