Kiwisonic Keyboard & Mouse Shortcuts
Playback and navigation
| 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. |
| ←, Right | Select the adjacent note. With no note in that direction, a navigation cursor appears at the next grid position. |
| ↑, 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
| Shift+←, Right | Move the selection by one step |
| Shift+↑, Down | Move the selection by one row, a semitone in the piano roll |
| Ctrl+Shift+↑, Down | Move the selection by one octave |
| Ctrl+←, 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+↑, 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+↑, Down | Change the keyboard octave |
Theory panel
| 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 |
Lock and reroll
| 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 |
Melodic editors
| 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 |
Guitar editor
| 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 |
Drum editor
| Space | Solo-play the current track |
| Ctrl+A | Select every active step |
| Ctrl+↑, 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 |
Session composer
| 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 |
Media keys
| 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 |
Piano roll mouse gestures
| Left-click empty space | Add a note there |
| Left-click a note | Select it |
| Left-drag a note body | Move the note |
| Left-drag a note's right edge | Resize it |
| Ctrl + left-drag empty space | Rectangle selection |
| Scroll wheel over a note | Adjust its velocity |
| Right-click a note | Delete it |
| Shift + right-click a note | Open the note effect menu |