Keyboard Shortcuts
All keyboard shortcuts in LTCast are listed below, grouped by category. Shortcuts cannot be customized in this release. On macOS, use Cmd in place of Ctrl where both are listed. Most shortcuts are ignored while the cursor is in a text box (press Esc to leave the box first); Ctrl+Shift+P (Panic) is the exception and works everywhere. The ? button in the status bar and Settings → Workflow → Keybindings show a shorter, searchable list of the same keys.
Transport
| Shortcut | Action |
Space | Play / Pause the current song. It never starts a preselected song. |
Enter | GO — load and play the preselected (STANDBY) song, cutting the current one. Does nothing if no song is preselected; while chasing it only shows a message. See Preselect & GO. |
↑ / ↓ | Preselect the previous / next song (it becomes STANDBY; nothing starts or stops). Skipped songs are stepped over and the selection stops at the ends of the list. Ignored while chasing. |
Esc | Stop — always, even with a song, marker or cue selected (the selection is cleared at the same time). If an Esc fade is set (in Settings → Outputs, or in the song's own settings) it fades the music first, and a second Esc cuts at once. In the full-screen view, or in the lyric Timeline mode, the first Esc leaves that view. See ESC fade-out. |
Ctrl+Shift+P | Panic — stop everything and silence downstream gear. Works even while you are typing. See Panic. |
F11 | Toggle the full-screen view — the Workstation layout or the Operator face, whichever you used last (see Fullscreen TC display) |
→ / ← (hold) | Scrub the playhead point to point, for rehearsal. Release to land. Ignored while chasing. |
Ctrl+Shift+C | Turn chase on or off (same as the CHASE pill) |
Setlist
| Shortcut | Action |
Ctrl+C | Copy the selected songs |
Ctrl+X | Cut the selected songs |
Ctrl+V | Paste — linked to the copied songs |
Ctrl+Shift+V | Paste as an independent copy |
Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Next / previous setlist variant |
Ctrl+A | Select every song in the list |
Delete | Delete the selected songs (asks first) |
Copy and paste work on the songs you have selected, and only when the setlist was the last panel you clicked (so Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V on a cue or marker is not mistaken for them).
Navigation
| Shortcut | Action |
Ctrl+← / Cmd+← | Jump to previous marker |
Ctrl+→ / Cmd+→ | Jump to next marker |
J | Previous marker |
K | Next marker |
1–9 | Jump to song N in the setlist — while a song is playing the key only preselects song N, and Enter starts it. Settings → Workflow → Appearance (Number keys 1-9) can change it to jump to marker N of the current song. With Cue Sync on (the default) and Pro (a licence or an active trial), keys 1–8 drop Quick-Cue markers instead; without Pro they keep their normal action. 9 always selects song 9. |
Loop
| Shortcut | Action |
[ | Set Loop A (start point) at the playhead |
] | Set Loop B (end point) at the playhead |
A must be before B; otherwise the point is not set and a message says so. See A/B Loop.
Audio
| Shortcut | Action |
D | Talk-over DIM — the music is ducked while you hold the key and restored when you release it. In Settings → Outputs → Talk-over DIM you can change it to Toggle (press to duck, press again to restore). See DIM. |
Cues and regions
| Shortcut | Action |
I | Set IN — add a cue with a region at the playhead (Pro) |
O | Set OUT — end the selected region at the playhead (Pro) |
S | Turn region snapping on or off (Pro) |
Ctrl+C / Cmd+C | Copy selected cues |
Ctrl+V / Cmd+V | Paste cues at playhead |
Ctrl+A / Cmd+A | Select every cue in the list |
Ctrl+D / Cmd+D | Duplicate the selected cues |
Delete / Backspace | Delete the selected cues (asks first) |
Ctrl+Z / Cmd+Z | Undo last cue edit |
Ctrl+Shift+Z / Ctrl+Y | Redo (Cmd+Shift+Z on macOS) |
The cue copy, paste, select-all, duplicate and delete keys work when the Cues panel is showing, you last clicked the Cues panel or the waveform, and no text box has focus. The same selection and clipboard keys work in the trigger list — see Per-song trigger lists.
Tour view
| Shortcut | Action |
1–8 | Drop the matching Cue Sync slot at the tour playhead |
Shift+1–Shift+8 | Drop slots 9–16 |
Ctrl+S / Cmd+S | Save the show |
Ctrl + wheel | Zoom the timeline (Cmd + wheel on macOS) |
Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z / Ctrl+Y | Undo / redo, department edits included |
In the Tour view the number keys drop cues instead of jumping to a song.
Offset adjustment
| Shortcut | Action |
Shift+, | Offset −½ beat |
Shift+. | Offset +½ beat |
Ctrl+, / Cmd+, | Offset −1 beat |
Ctrl+. / Cmd+. | Offset +1 beat |
These need a song loaded and a known tempo (a tapped BPM, or one LTCast has detected); without one a message tells you which is missing. They change the song's own offset when it has one, otherwise the global offset.
Interface and files
| Shortcut | Action |
Ctrl+L / Cmd+L | Toggle UI lock; it works in the Tour view too. While locked, only Space, Esc and F11 of the keys on this page work, together with Ctrl+L itself, Panic, Ctrl+Shift+C and the interface-zoom keys. See UI lock. |
Ctrl + / − / 0 | Zoom the interface in, out, or back to 100% (Cmd on macOS) |
Ctrl+N / Ctrl+O / Ctrl+S / Ctrl+Shift+S | New show / Open / Save / Save As (the File menu items; Cmd on macOS) |
Lyric timing
While the lyric timing (tap) mode is on, Enter stamps the cursor line at the playing position and moves on, ← / → nudge the line you just stamped by one frame (Shift for five), ↑ / ↓ move the cursor, and Tab jumps to the next line that has no time yet. See Adding and timing lyrics.
