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Appendix A — Keyboard Shortcuts

Every default binding. The Command Palette (⌘/) shows the live bindings if you remap.

To remap: View ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts… (also Preferences ▸ Editing ▸ Keyboard shortcuts…). Click a command's chord, press the new one, and it takes effect immediately; the ✕ beside a chord clears it, and Reset to defaults puts everything back. Your changes are saved as differences from the defaults, so they survive relaunches — and a command you never touched still picks up a new default if a later Zammoth changes one. The File and View menu commands (New, Open, Save, Export, Zoom…) keep their standard chords and aren't listed.

Transport

KeyAction
SpacePlay / pause (stopping snaps back to where play started)
⇧SpaceContinue — resume/stop at the actual stop point
F9Record
OMetronome on/off
CRecord-arm the selected track
ReturnLaunch the selected Loop Deck slot

Application

KeyAction
⌘NNew Project…
⌘OOpen Project…
⌘SSave Project
⌘⇧RExport…
⌘,Preferences
⌘= / ⌘−Interface zoom in / out
⌘⌥0Interface zoom to actual size
⌘/Command Palette

Editing

KeyAction
⌘Z / ⇧⌘ZUndo / Redo
⌥⌘ZUndo agent move (the brain's own ledger)
⌘C / ⌘X / ⌘VCopy / Cut / Paste (clip if one is selected, else the focused track)
⌘DDuplicate (a highlighted time selection → its span copied to the selection's END on those lanes, rippling those lanes' automation with the clips but never the song's tempo map; else the clip; else the focused track. Clicking a clip clears the highlight, so ⌘D always acts on the thing you touched last; grabbing a clip's trim edge, fade handle or curve diamond under a highlight keeps it — a multi-lane highlight is the group those edge drags ride)
⌥⌘LMaster safety limiter on / off (same as clicking the CLIP lamp)
⌥⌘TShow / hide the arrangement's bottom time ruler (View ▸ Time Ruler)
Delete / ⌫Delete (selected device → bus/return → track → clip/selection, in that order)
⌘ESplit clip at playhead
RReverse clip
⌘⌥FCreate fades on selection
⌘JConsolidate
⇧⌘JCrop to selection

Time (all tracks at once)

KeyAction
⌘IInsert silence
⇧⌘X / ⇧⌘C / ⇧⌘VCut / Copy / Paste time
⇧⌘DDuplicate time
⇧⌘⌫Delete time

Tracks

KeyAction
⌘TAdd empty audio track
⇧⌘TAdd MIDI (instrument) track
⌘RRename track
SSolo
0Mute
⌘ASelect all tracks (in the piano roll: all notes)
⌘GCreate bus from the selection · with devices selected in the dock: group them into a rack
⇧⌘GUngroup the selected rack (its devices go back on the track)
⌘BBounce selection to a new track
U / ⌥UFold group / unfold all groups
⌥= / ⌥−Grow / shrink track height

Grid

KeyAction
⌘1 / ⌘2Grid narrower / wider
⌘3Triplet grid
⌘4Snap on/off
⌘5Fixed ↔ adaptive grid

Arrangement view

KeyAction
= / −Timeline zoom in / out
Z / XZoom to selection / zoom back
W / HFit width / fit track heights
⌥⇧FFollow playhead
⌘LLoop the selection
⇧⌘LSelect the loop's material
← / →Playhead one grid step
⇧← / ⇧→Playhead one bar
Home / EndPlayhead to start / end
↑ / ↓Previous/next track (or Loop Deck slot)
AAutomation Mode
BDraw Mode (pencil)

Panels

KeyAction
⌘⌥BBrowser
TabLoop Deck
⌘FBrowser search
⌥⌘IIn/Out section in the mixer
⌥⌘DTrack Delay row in the mixer

MIDI

KeyAction
⇧⌘MInsert empty MIDI clip at the selection
⌘UQuantize

Piano roll focus overrides: ⌘A selects all notes · Esc deselects · Delete removes notes · ⌘D duplicates notes after their span · ←/→ nudge notes by a grid step · ↑/↓ transpose a semitone (⇧ = octave). The roll keeps that focus when you touch a mixer or track-head key.

Loop Deck

KeyAction
⌘6 / ⌘7 / ⌘8 / ⌘9Loop length 8 / 4 / 2 / 1 bars
⌘0Loop length Free
ReturnLaunch selected slot

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