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Summary: Pro Tools and the Control 24 are known for great shortcuts which are quick hand strokes on the control surface to perform a simple task such as copy, paste, cut or save. Use these shortcuts to record and edit music easily with this Digidesign Control 24 feature and tips from an experienced producer and engineer in this free video.
"One of the more helpful tools than anything, I mean, you could have a board and everything, but, one of the even better thing to know is just shortcuts period. With any keyboard there's a lot of things you can do just by using the Apple whatever key. So enable for you to actually use these, officially you need to know which ones are which. So you can do this by going into the help column, and going help preview. Actually no. You go to help and you go to keyboard shortcuts. This keyboard shortcuts is going to bring up a whole new screen that allows you to look at each thing and set up different shortcuts. You can see like which shortcuts are available to you and how to use them. This is going to help you definitely move along the, it's going to help you move through the program a lot quicker. It's going to also help you find all the shortcuts so that you're saying you don't have to exactly reach over to the board, you can just do it with the fastest thing possible. Like one of the easiest things to know is like three on the num pad is going to help you to record. By pressing three it's going to let you record. That's probably one of the easiest ways of doing it."