Use Quickeys/Keyboard Maestro/Autohotkey to enhance Cubase

Exactly. This started for me because I wanted to have the Listen and Mute functions in the Score Editor.

Now I have “partial solo mode” like Digital Performer, and consequentially, key commands to select tracks directly.

Using Keyboard Maestro, here are a missing functions I “added” to Cubase

  • a Suspend Snap function that does not interfere with with Tool Modifiers
  • “Find Next” in the Key Commands window
  • Activate Midi Input in Key and Score Edit only while key (or pedal) is held down
  • Same for step entry
  • nudge cursor right/left by quantize value in Score Edit
  • Key commands to scroll horizontally in Score edit view

Keyboard Maestro cannot see palettes such as Score Settings and other Score Edit windows, and in Cubase, key commands open them, but don’t close them if they don’t have focus, and, there’s no way to give them focus except by clicking on them.

So I use Quickeys for that type of thing.

Makes Cubase much less “clicky”.