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Key commands
2. Click the Save button next to the Presets pop-up
menu.
A dialog appears, allowing you to type in a name for the preset.
3. Click OK to save the preset.
Your saved key commands settings will now be available in the Preset
pop-up menu for your future projects.
Loading key command presets
To load a key command preset, simply select it from the
Presets pop-up menu.
Ö Note that this operation may replace existing key com-
mands!
The key command settings you load will replace the current key command
settings for the same functions (if any). If you have macros of the same
name as those stored in the preset you load, these will be replaced too.
If you want to be able to revert to your current settings again, make sure to
save them first, as described above!
Loading saved key commands settings from earlier
versions of Cubase
If you have saved key commands settings with a previous
version of Cubase, it is possible to use them in Cubase 4,
by using the “Import Key Command File” function, which
lets you load and apply saved key commands or macros:
1. Open the Key Commands dialog.
2. Click the “Import Key Command File” button to the
right of the Presets pop-up menu.
A standard file dialog opens.
3. In the file dialog, use the “Files of type:” pop-up to
specify if you want to import a key commands file (Win-
dows file extension “.key”) or a macro commands file (ex-
tension “.mac”).
Key commands files included any macro settings and were saved with
the file extension “.xml”. When you have imported an older file, you might
want to save it as a preset (see “About key commands presets” on page
478) to be able to access it from the Presets pop-up menu in the future.
4. Navigate to the file you want to import and click “Open”.
The file is imported.
5. Click OK to exit the Key Commands dialog and apply
the imported settings.
The settings in the loaded key commands or macros file now replace the
current settings.
About the “Reset” and “Reset All” functions
These two buttons in the Key Commands dialog will both
restore the default settings. The following rules apply:
• “Reset” restores the default key command setting for
the function selected in the Commands list.
• “Reset All” will restore the default key commands for all
commands.
About the default key commands
As mentioned before, there are numerous default key
commands. These are listed in the section “The default
key commands” on page 480.
!
Note that the “Reset All” operation will cause any
changes made to the default key commands to be
lost! If you want to be able to revert to these settings
again, make sure to save them first!