Keyboard shortcuts

The full reference. The pages for the sequencer, the drum editor, the guitar editor and the FlowPad explain what the shortcuts below actually do.

Shortcut	Action
Space, in the arrangement	Play or stop the whole song, every track sounding
Space, in an editor	Solo-play the current track, other tracks muted. Stops at the end of the last note.
Arrow Left, Right	Select the adjacent note. With no note in that direction, a navigation cursor appears at the next grid position.
Arrow Up, Down	Select the note at the adjacent pitch. With no note there, the cursor moves one semitone.
Home	Scroll to the pattern start
End	Scroll to the pattern end
Esc	Close a popup or control

Editing

Shortcut	Action
Shift + Arrow Left, Right	Move the selection by one step
Shift + Arrow Up, Down	Move the selection by one row, a semitone in the piano roll
Ctrl + Shift + Arrow Up, Down	Move the selection by one octave
Ctrl + Arrow Left, Right	Shrink or grow the selection's duration
Ctrl + Numpad plus, minus	Grow or shrink the selection's duration
Shift + plus, minus	Grow or shrink every note in the pattern by one step. Respects the ripple toggle.
Ctrl + Arrow Up, Down	Adjust the selection's velocity
Ctrl + A	Select all
Ctrl + D	Duplicate the selected notes. The copies land after the selection and become the new selection.
Ctrl + C	Copy the selected notes
Ctrl + V	Paste at the insert cursor. The pasted notes become the selection.
Delete, Backspace	Delete the selection. With nothing selected, deletes the last note in the pattern.
Ctrl + Delete, Backspace	Delete every note at the selected note's time position
Ctrl + M	Split each selected note into two equal halves
Ctrl + Z	Undo
Ctrl + Y, Ctrl + Shift + Z	Redo
plus, minus	Increase or decrease the note draw duration
Alt + Arrow Up, Down	Change the keyboard octave

Shortcut	Action
Numpad 0	Insert a rest at the current duration
Numpad plus	Increase the insert duration
Numpad minus	Decrease the insert duration
Numpad Del	Undo the last inserted note
Numpad 5	Toggle chord and note mode, on both the FlowPad and the Circle
Numpad 1 to 9	Select a chord or note from the FlowPad
Numpad slash	Cycle the theory panel between FlowPad and Circle

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl + R	Regenerate every unlocked note, preserving the locked ones
Ctrl + Shift + L	Lock every note in the current pattern
Ctrl + Shift + U	Unlock every note in the current pattern

Piano, bass, strings and wind.

Shortcut	Action
1 to 5, top row	Set the note duration, from a sixteenth up to a whole note
Q W E R T Y U I O P	Play and insert notes
G	Toggle the note guides: scale focus, melody tint, chord emphasis
Numpad Del	Undo the last edit

In the piano roll only, F sets the articulation on the selected notes.

Shortcut	Action
Space	Solo-play the current track
Delete, Backspace	Delete the selected chord
plus, minus	Increase or decrease the snap duration
Numpad 5	Open the chord picker in append mode

Shortcut	Action
Space	Solo-play the current track
Ctrl + A	Select every active step
Ctrl + Arrow Up, Down	Adjust the velocity of the selected steps
Delete, Backspace	Delete the selected steps
Escape	Clear the selection
Enter	Commit a note number edit
Escape, during an edit	Cancel the note number edit
Backspace, during an edit	Delete the last digit
0 to 9, during an edit	Append a digit to the note number

Shortcut	Action
A W S E D F T G Y H U J K O L P ;	Play notes on the QWERTY piano, a tracker layout covering seventeen semitones
F6, Z	Shift the QWERTY piano an octave down
F7, X	Shift the QWERTY piano an octave up

These work from anywhere in the application, including when focus is on a system media panel.

Key	Action
Play, Pause	Toggle full-song playback. Plays from the first section, or stops if already playing.
Stop	Stop playback
Next track	Skip to the next section, restarting playback if it was playing
Previous track	Skip to the previous section, restarting playback if it was playing