Philosophical reason to learn your favorite software shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are something every good producer knows as good as the palm of his or her hand, and there's a reason to it.
Time in economy is known as one of the more important assets that every person has. Your life will end some day, therefore your time is limited, therefore is very precious and should be administered with efficiency.
Now let's suppose you don't bother to learn a few shortcuts, and instead go all the way with the mouse cursor, the amount of time you'll lose traveling the whole screen again and again will add up(not to mention the unconfortable task to find the desired window), and even if it is just a half of a second you'll be doing this for a long long time, in my case more than 7 years in the practice of FL Studio. Got the point?
Enough talk, let's save some time for our lives:

The ABC of FL Studio

F5: View Playlist
F6: View Step Secuencer
F7: View Piano Roll
F8: View Browser
F9: View Mixer

These will be the more recurrent ones, so much that you can even erase the little inscriptions on your buttons.
Each of these shortcuts will bring a window to front, wich will have some sub-shortcuts itself, all these will be less recurrent, but a few are a must-know.

Playlist:
            Tools - Draw (P)(must-know!)
                    Paint (B)(must-know!)
                    Erase (D)
                    Slip (S)
                    Cut (C)
                    Select (E)(must-know!)
                    Zoom to selection (Z)
                    Add time marker (Alt+T)


Step Secuencer:
                    Graph editor (G)
                    Keyboard editor (K)
                   
                   
Piano Roll:
            Quick Tool Menu - Riff machine (Alt+E)
                              Quick legato (Ctrl+L)
                              Articulate (Alt+L)
                              Quick quantize (Ctrl+Q)(must-know!)
                              Quantize (Alt+Q)
                              Quick chop (Ctrl+U)
                              Chop (Alt+U)
                              Glue (Ctrl+G)
                              Arpeggiate (Alt+A)
                              Strum (Alt+S)
                              Flam (Alt+F)
                              Claw machine(Alt+W)
                              Limit (Alt+K)
                              Flip (Alt+Y)
                              Randomize (Alt+R)
                              Scale levels (Alt+X)
                              LFO (Alt+O)

              Tools Menu -  Draw (P)(must-know!)
                          Paint (B)(must-know!)
                          Erase (D)
                          Mute (T)
                          Cut (C)
                          Select (E)(must-know!)
                          Zoom to selection (Z)
                          Playback (scrub) (Y)

                         
Browser:
        Browser menu -  Find (Alt+F): Find exact phrase(find samples and features the easy way!)(must-know!)
                        Smart find: (Ctrl+F): Allows the use of advanced search functions. EG: * and ?.
                        Find previous (F2): Usable when searching(must-know!)
                        Find next (F3):  Usable when searching(must-know!)
                       
                       
Mixer:
        Main menu - Rename mixer track (F2)(must-know!)
                    Mixer track solo (S)(must-know!)
                    Open audio editor (Ctrl+E)
                    Open audio logger (Shift+E)
                    Link selected channels to selected mixer track (Ctrl+L)(must-know!)(must-know!)(must-know!) so recurrent...
                   
All these shortcuts are present in FL Studio 9 XXL (the current version I'm using at the time of writing this article), for more future and necessary shortcuts come back here everytime FL Studio changes it's version.


Until next time, live musically!


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