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Keyboard shortcuts

GLOBAL KEYS

ESC - back out of menus, unselect, recenter blocks view, cancel dragging

` - all off (ends all midi notes etc)

space - play button

ctrl-space - load next song

ctrl-s - save

CAPS LOCK - when on, the qwerty keyboard is 2.5 octaves of notes, starting at Z up to M for the first octave, then from Q to ]. To go up and down an octave use L and ,.

F1 - panels view

F2 - blocks view

F3 - waves view

F4 - open the selected block's custom edit page on the main part of the screen. Press again to hide the sidebar and enlarge the edit page.

F6 - sidebar block settings page

alt-F6 - open the selected block's voice max patcher for editing.

F7 - sidebar connections list page

F8 - files page (save/load/merge/choose song folder)

F10 - toggle between showing all wires or just those of the selected block (improves performance/reduces GPU load on slow computers)

F11 - toggle fullscreen

F12 - show resource usage page

ctrl-alt-F12 - hard restart benny

BLOCKS PAGE

shift-drag - for a selection rectangle

shift-click - to multi-select blocks or wires

ctrl-click - to mute blocks or wires

ctrl-shift-click - (when unmuting only) holding shift too also 'unmutes the tree' - any muted blocks connected to this one and any muted blocks connected to those, etc.

alt-click - to bypass blocks

drag - to connect blocks

scroll - to zoom

ctrl-scroll - over a wire, adjust connection level

alt-shift-scroll - make space: push (or pull) all blocks away from (or towards) the mouse cursor

home - center view

- or + - change the polyphony of the selected block

ctrl-m - toggle mute for the selected blocks

ctrl-r - toggle record arm for the selected blocks

ctrl-a - select all

ctrl-c - copy

ctrl-x - cut

ctrl-v - paste. 

- You can copy and paste single or multiple blocks in the blocks view.

- To copy parameter values from block to block: copy a single block, select a target block of the same kind and then paste.

ctrl-alt-V - paste blocks including their connections. For example, if you copy an oscillator that is connected to a mixer and a midi source, then the pasted duplicate will have the same connections.

ctrl-z - undo

del / backspace - delete everything selected

shift-del - 'delete tree' - deletes the selected blocks, then any blocks that were only connected to/from a deleted block, recursively.

shift-T - 'select tree' - selects what delete tree would delete. useful for saving a part of a patch out as a template. by default select tree, delete tree and mute tree all ignore connections to core.input.control.* blocks when counting connections but the config key TREE_SELECT_IGNORES_CONTROL_BLOCKS can change this.

alt-left arrow - back to previous sidebar view

alt-right arrow - forward to next sidebar view

alt-up / alt-down - if you have a wire selected these will take you to the block at the start or end of the wire.

insert - if you have a wire selected, insert a block into the connection

enter - if you have a wire selected, collapse source / destination input and output menus.

enter - open the new block menu

tab - toggle between blocks / panels views

up / down / left / right - move selected blocks, +shift for fine movement.

PGUP / PGDN - zoom in or out

ctrl-T - in fullscreen mode benny shows a clock in the top right corner. This key switches to showing a set timer (that starts the first time you press play). ctrl-alt-T resets this timer.

? - show help

/ - to start searching amongst blocks in the current song

any other keys - start typing the name of your chosen block to bring up the new block menu.

PANELS PAGE

ctrl-m , tab ,-, + work as on the blocks page.

scroll / drag - to adjust sliders, zoom scopes etc. +shift for fine, +alt+shift for extra fine.

ctrl-hover your mouse over sliders to select an individual voice. scroll+alt+shift to tilt individual voice values around that voice.

alt click - to return a slider to its default value (or to the value saved in your songfile).