The keys feel substantial, somewhat chunky which is no bad thing in this world of super light ultrabook keyboards.
The feel of the keyboard is “different” there’s no sculpting of the keys and the key caps feel tactile, resistant to your fingers rather than the smoothness you get from a regular keyboard.
So that’s what I’m reviewing today, the Editors Keys backlit Presonus Studio One shortcut keyboard!
#STUDIO ONE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS PRO TOOLS PC#
Editors Keys has undercut their rival quite convincingly and are able to offer a range of keyboards for both Mac and PC and have just released one for Presonus Studio One – but not only that, they’ve decided that it really should also light up. So I’m very familiar with the task and challenges of designing a shortcut keyboard for keyboard shortcuts… as it were.Ī company called Logic Keyboard had until recently cornered the market on media/DAW shortcut keyboards, they were mostly aimed at Apple users and had prices to match. Our intention was to lay out as many shortcuts as we could and while this was awesome it also resulted in a slightly crowded keyboard with some very small writing. I spent many hours going through every Cubase, Sonar and Logic shortcut to capture the perfect combination of keystrokes and we came up with a colour coded way of indicating which modifier keys were used. At the time it seemed only video editors and Pro Tools users had access to these sorts of things. Back in the year 2000 at Carillon Audio Systems we developed shortcut stickers for all the major DAWs that could be stuck onto your keyboard, and we gave them away with every system. I’ve got some history with keyboard shortcuts. Here’s the video version, the text carries on underneath. If you’re a visual person and don’t want to waste brain space remembering things then I can highly recommend checking out the Editors Keys range of keyboards with keys festooned with easy to read shortcuts ready to go. Once discovered you’d be amazed at how it releases you from the mouse, how you straighten up, find something helpful for your left hand to do and suddenly feel in control of your DAW rather than spending all your time searching to find things.
But I would suggest that in the mystery of keyboards shortcuts can be found an immensely speedy way of working, one that resists the urge to filter through menus and places common tasks right at your fingertips. To the second group of people the mouse is king and they find themselves increasingly absorbed into the single, linear mouse handed way of working – nothing wrong in that, except perhaps for the RSI and propensity for hunching. The combination of keys here may not seem intuitive but if you look carefully the semicolon/colon ( /:) key is just below the P key and the L & apostrophe (') keys are on either side of the semicolon ( ) key, creating a kind of a triangle, similar to the arrow keys on the keyboard.For many people keyboard shortcuts are essential to their way of working, to others they are a mystery that seem to require too much research to make them worthwhile. This will work irrespective of whether the 'tab to transient' mode is ON or OFF. If the cursor is not within a clip, these keys will navigate to the clip boundaries. The L key will navigate the cursor to the next transient in the clip while the apostrophe (') will navigate the cursor to the previous transient in the clip. If you are a fan of the 'tab to transient' feature you will love the L & apostrophe (') key functions. Keep in mind, this will not move the content from one track to another. If you have a selection on the track, it will navigate to the other track, keeping the same selection duration. P and will navigate the cursor up or down a track respectively.
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