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.
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freddiphin
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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").
In this video
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.
I wish it was just a matter of context, but I can confirm that all this time I've been performing those actions in the right context, and they do not work as intended. Just to give one example again, I recorded the screen and pressed alt+t to transform range. The menu 'Track' opens up. Hopefully you can see the video here
freddiphin
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Nuts! Sorry about that. I guess it working as intended for me just means it's probably not a bug.
Do you have any kind of mouse or keystroke overlays (AutoHotKey, etc.) that might confuse it ?
Nope, never had any of those. I tested this on my second computer, and other friends (and users here) have the same issue. I wish someone from Presonus could chip in and tell us what's going on.
I experience it with and without alt, depending onwether I used alt before. It seems that alt (unintentionally) now triggers the menu, as in the golden days of Win XP. I had it several times that I copied a note with the alt modifier, and then, with alt released, tried to duplicate a fewselected notes, but instead the file menu opens. Which makes sense, because in my language, the file menu starts with a D, and alt + d was the Windows mnemonic to open the menu.
And I can repeat this error and provoke it. Just hit alt while moving a note. let go off alt and then hit a letter that used to open the menu, the file menu with d, the edit menu with b, the session menu with s, and so on. @Kisnou is right. It's a bug.
And I can repeat this error and provoke it. Just hit alt while moving a note. let go off alt and then hit a letter that used to open the menu, the file menu with d, the edit menu with b, the session menu with s, and so on. @Kisnou is right. It's a bug.