Fender Studio Pro 8.1 - Discussion Thread

[Kisnou]

And over here - ALT-S for me - highlights the "Session" command when that combo is first pressed and then if I press the combo again - the "Studio Pro" command on the main menu is highlighted. And I can go back and forth all day long.

ALT-S <> any kind of Zoom here.

VP

That's exactly why it took me some time to understand what was going on at first. The reason for that is that when you first press alt, the focus changes to the context menu (the root of the problem), if you press it again the focus goes back to where it was earlier. Basically ALT works like a toggle.

 

[freddiphin]

That's exactly why it took me some time to understand what was going on at first. The reason for that is that when you first press alt, the focus changes to the context menu (the root of the problem), if you press it again the focus goes back to where it was earlier. Basically ALT works like a toggle.

For what it's worth I find all the the FSP stock ALT... keyboard shortcuts (the ones listed at Help - Keyboard Shortcuts, or Ctrl+Shift+K) to work exactly as intended (on Windows 11, on previous ver. of FSP and the current 8.1.2) whenever the context is appropriate and otherwise, or if not assigned, they default to the Windows ALT combos invoking the menu bar items (File, Edit, View, Help, etc.), which is what I assume you mean by "Context menu" (which is more accurately the Right-Click popup menu) .
In other words, if the action you are trying to invoke with the shortcut, for example ALT+T (Transform Range) is not appropriate to your context (because there is no automation range to transform), then you will get the Windows default of Menu bar>T-letter item (i.e. "Track").

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you see me using first the ALT+X (for a Split action), then awkwardly choosing a selection and an ALT+S (for Zoom to Selection Horizontally), then toggling between that and ALT+Z (full Zoom), and then "inappropriately" choosing ALT+T and getting the menu bar item, then correcting that to create an envelope, choosing a range and then ALT+T again and getting the appropriate action (Transform Range).
These and all other FSP stock shortcuts and those that I create work every time as long as the contextual conditions are met.