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Key Commands (PC)

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Key Commands (PC)

In addition to below key commands, many commands are also accessible using mouse right-click

Space – Play/Stop
A – Show all of waveform (Zoom out Full)
C – Copy file to Transfer Path
D – Set focus to 1st Search Box
E – Hide/Show Left Sidebar
F – Set focus to 2nd Search Box
G – Set focus to 3rd Search Box
H – Set Focus to 4th (bottom/right) Search Box
L – Loop Selected/Zoomed Region
M – Insert CUE marker in waveform window at play position / Insert REGION markers if range selected
O – Open Containing Folder
P – Hide/Show Right Sidebar
Q – Reverse Playback
R – Rename BWAV Description for selected file and Inject it into the file.
S – Spot to Track
T – Add to Tag List
V – Toggle Process Rack processing (bypass effects)
W – Open in Wave Editor (Hold Ctrl for 2nd Wave Editor)
X – X-fer to Pool/Bin in Target App(If available for target app)
Z – Undo one Level of Zoom
? – Play a Random Sound

` – Re-Trigger Playback (The tilde Key below ESC and above TAB)
ESC – Re-Triggers Playback also now
BACKSPACE – Show Previous Search
CTRL + BACKSPACE – Show Next Search
ALT+A – Open About Screen
ALT+B – Show File Browser Page
ALT+C – Show Online Page
ALT+F – Show Folder Contents of Selected File
ALT+O – Show Options Page
ALT+R – Show Results Page
ALT+S – Open Setup Window
ALT+T – Show Tag List Page
Shift+H – Spot with Handles (ON/OFF)
Shift+I – Spot In-Line (ON/OFF)
Shift+M – Sum to Mono
Shift+R – Reference File When Possible (ON/OFF)
Shift+S – Spot Checked Items on Taglist to Track in Target App
Shift+T Thesaurus (ON/OFF)
Shift+X – X-fer Checked Items on Taglist to Target App Pool/Bin

Arrow Left/Right – Navigate wave by 1 second
Ctrl+Arrow Left/Right – Navigate wave by 10 seconds
Ctrl+C – Set focus to UCS Browser Category Search
Ctrl+D – Set focus to 1st Search Box
Ctrl+E – X-fer to Wwise
Ctrl+F – Set focus to 2nd Search Box
Ctrl+G – Set focus to Bottom Left Search Box
Ctrl+H – Set focus to Bottom Right Search Box
Ctrl+I – Import Files (or DnD files to the Results Page)
Ctrl+N – Create New Database
Ctrl+O Open Database
Ctrl+Q – Quit BaseHead Ctrl+S – Split Stereo into Dual Mono
Ctrl+R – Reverse File
Ctrl+S – Save Destructive Edited file
Ctrl+T – Tag Referenced
Ctrl+Shift+T – Trim File Destructively (when yellow range is selected)
Ctrl+Shift+T – Select a Transfer Path (or drag a .npr .cpr .ptf or .ptx file to the results page)
Ctrl+Shift+W – Set Wave Editor
DEL – Delete selected Region Destructively (when yellow range is selected)
Ctrl+DEL – Delete Record in DB
Ctrl+Shift+DEL – Delete Record/File(s)
Ctrl+Shift+ALT+DEL – Delete Record/File(s) Silently (no warning dialog)
Ctrl+Shift+C – Clear All Search Boxes
Ctrl+Shift+F – Force Show All Records

Ctrl+Click – Set playhead to position in waveform without playing
Ctrl+Shift+Click – Insert CUE marker in waveform window at clicked position
Ctrl+M – Insert LOOP marker at selected range in waveform
Alt+Click – Insert SYNC POINT in waveform

F1 – Online User Manual
F2 – Quick Access Panel
F3 – Metadata Viewer Panel
F4 – Chunk Panel
F5 – Redraw Waveform
F6 – Burn In Metadata Panel

MouseWheel (over waveform) = Increase Waveform Gain
MouseWheel + Shift (over waveform) = Zoom In/Out
CTRL+MouseWheel = Pitch Slider Up/Down

Keypad 0-9 – plays sound at different semitone pitches.
(Press Add/Subtract to toggle between pitch positive or negative)

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 (numbers above QWERTY on keyboard) – Extract Individual Channel (Ultra only)

SoundFlow Users

Michael Keeley made a marcro template for SoundFlow that can be downloaded from their AppStore.

Thx Michael!