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Are there keyboard shortcuts in Real Band? I looked for about 45 minutes through 75 years of forum posts (Really, set these up so 5 year old posts scroll off. Or improve the boolean search. Have you ever tried to search forums on the keyword "keyboard" or "shortcut" and see what you get? 200 posts that contain the word "keyboard" is like shooting darts in a hurricane and trying to his a triple 20.)
I have started working with virtual instruments a lot. The music keyboard is to the right of, and 90 degrees perpendicular to, my computer keyboard. In order from me to switch from track 1 to track 4, I have to reach over with my left hand (I am right handed like 90% of the world), scroll my mouse to track 4, and click. All while not missing a beat in the song. It would be great if alt-4 (or SOMETHING 4) changed to track 4. That may already exist but I couldn't find it in that PG version of "War and Peace" that the help files have become.
THIS is why I asked earlier about having some kind of MIDI thru emulation so I could set up a bank of say 8 virtual instruments on tracks 1 thru 8, and on MIDI channels 1 thru 8, then just changing channel on my controller. As it is now, I can set it up that way but can only play the selected track. I CAN use the TTS-1 synth and select my instruments, but there are way better sounds to be had by using dedicated plugins. I have an organ VST that just destroys anything in the Cakewalk TTS-1, for example.
I know that Real Band is not meant to be used in a "live" situation like that, but it would be nice if it could be. A dedicated VST for each sound - piano on 1, organ on 2, strings on 3, 12 string on 4, accordion on 5, male voices on 6, female voices on 7, distortion guitar on 8..... etc. I also know that I may be the only user you have that cares about this and I don't expect you to rewrite code just for me, so....
I smashed the hell out of my car today. When the cops came I told him "Officer, that guy was BOTH texting and drinking a beer." The cop said "Sir, he has every right to do that. I mean, it's HIS living room..."
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You can create any hot keys and action you need with AutoHotKeys the up/down cursor key will select any track, so with AHK you can get it to go to track 1 the send down 1 to go to track 2 down 2 to got to track 3 down 3 to go to track 4 set each track to it's own hot key. You can also select a track with the up/down cursor keys, set this action using C0=up arrow D0=down arrow or C7=up arrow D7=down arrow on your music keyboard. MIDI Hotkey Portable http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Audio/MIDI-Hotkey-Portable.shtmlFunction Keys & Hot Keys The function keys provide quick access to some of RealBand's commands. The following is a list of each of the commands that you can access via the function keys. (Note: This isn’t a list of every shortcut in RealBand.) F1 On-line Help F2 Open a new Event List Window ALT+F2 Open a new Notation window SHIFT+F2 Open a new Big Lyrics Window CTRL+F2 Open a new Audio Edit Window CTRL+ALT+F2 Open new Lead Sheet Window CTRL+ALT+P Open a new Piano Roll Window F3 Open file F4 Save file F5 Tempo CTRL+F5 Preferences F6 Go to Time F7 From = Now SHIFT+F7 Open Next File SHIFT+CTRL+F7 Open Previous File CTRL+F7 From = Value ALT+ F7 Now = From F8 Thru = Now CTRL+ F8 Thru = Value ALT+ F8 Now = Thru SHIFT+ F8 Open Next File SHIFT+CTRL+F8 Open Previous File F9 Panic F11 Run .DLL or .EXE Shift+F11 Select .DLL or .EXE Ctrl+1 Tracks Window Ctrl+2 Bars Window Ctrl+3 Chords window Ctrl+4 Tempo Map Ctrl+5 Comments Ctrl+6 SysEx Window Ctrl+7 Guitar Window Ctrl+8 Mixer Ctrl+9 Meter Map Ctrl+M and Ctrl+U will let you mute/unmute a track in the Mixer and Bars windows. [ and ] hotkeys change the tempo by 5. Ctrl – (Ctrl Minus) changes playback speed to half speed Ctrl = (Ctrl Equal sign) changes playback speed from half speed to full speed P Play CTRL+P Play from Start R Record Ctrl+ R Record from Start S Stop W Rewind
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You rock, bro!!! Quick batch file and I am good to go!
THANK YOU!!!!!
I smashed the hell out of my car today. When the cops came I told him "Officer, that guy was BOTH texting and drinking a beer." The cop said "Sir, he has every right to do that. I mean, it's HIS living room..."
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Hi Eddie,
You can also find all the shortcuts in the PDF manual. Appendix B: Keystroke Commands is one of the last items in the table of contents, and is found on page 324.
Thanks Kent PG Music
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