Using the menu panel 'Edit > Preferences > Keys', you can customise any keyboard shortcut and also print out a list of the currently set shortcuts. The keyboard Focus will not move around as you click on different parts of the interface, though you can change this via the 'View > Lock Keyboard Focus' option in the Upper Status Bar. The idea behind this is that the main components of Renoise (such as the Pattern Editor) should always be ready for editing.

Notice that the orange corners now surround the Disk Browser and the arrow keys move around to select files and folders. Now left-click somewhere in the Disk Browser while holding down the 'Left Alt' key, which will set the Focus to the Disk Browser.

If you use the arrow keys then the Pattern Editor's cursor will start moving around. When you start up Renoise, the Pattern Editor is focused by default. Here is a small example on how to use the Focus:

Use the shortcuts 'Left Control/Command + TAB' or 'Left Control/Command + Left Shift + TAB'.

Right-click anywhere in Renoise and choose '(Set Keyboard Focus Here)' from the context menu.

Left-click anywhere in Renoise while holding down the 'Left Alt' key.

Click anywhere in Renoise with the middle mouse button.

To change the Focus area, you can either: The currently focused area is indicated by small corners that are coloured orange by default: Those are referred to below as 'Local', while the others are 'Global'. Renoise utilises a shortcut Focus system for the keyboard, which means that most keyboard shortcuts only apply to a specific region of the interface. Besides those, there are many other shortcuts available and even unassigned shortcuts, which you can customise yourself if they fit well into your work-flow.

Renoise features an enormous amount of keyboard shortcuts, but in the previous topics we often only noted a few of the important ones.

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