Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts

Main Shortcuts

• Space: Play / Pause
• Command-Z: Undo
• Shift-Command-Z: Redo
• Command-S: Save
• Shift-Command-S: Save As
• Command-O: Load
• Command-P: Print
• Command-E: Export to Sibelius/MuseScore (MusicXML)
• Shift-Command-N: Open the Song Chart Builder
• Command-Delete: New empty groove
• Escape: Exit full-screen notation

Grid Editing Shortcuts

• E: Toggle eraser mode
• 1: Quarter note
• 2: Eighth note
• 3: Sixteenth note
• 4: Thirty-second note

Grid editing shortcuts only run when you are not typing in a text field.

Song Chart Builder

The usual shortcuts act on the window you are in. In the Song Chart Builder:

• Space: Play the chart
• Command-S / Shift-Command-S: Save / Save As
• Command-O: Open a chart
• Command-P: Print
• Command-E: Export for Sibelius or MuseScore
• Command-Delete: Clear the chart
• Left / Right arrow: Select the previous / next bar
• Up arrow: Back to bar 1
• Shift-click: Select a range of bars
• Command-Z / Shift-Command-Z: Undo / Redo

While a bar's beat editor is open, Space, undo, redo, Command-Delete, E and 1-4 act on that bar's beat.

Use Help > Keyboard Shortcuts inside BeatBake to show the same list in the app.