Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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The Hidden Hierarchy of Hotkeys & Shortcut Scopes (Rapid-fire REAPER Tutorials Ep73)

Hey folks! This episode is about a little something I like to called the hidden hierarchy of hotkeys in REAPER. Knowing this will hopefully help eradicate some behaviours that may currently be annoying the hell out of you!

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:16 Quick Overview of Shortcut assignments
0:32 Sections in the Action List
1:25 Typing/Hotkeys inside 3rd Party Plugins
2:14 Setting Hotkeys’ Scope to Global
3:22 The problem with windows containing text fields
3:57 Setting Hotkeys’ Scope to Global (+ text fields)
4:35 What scope to assign to which hotkeys?
5:36 Review of the Hotkey Hierarchy in REAPER
6:10 Exceptions to the Hierarchy
6:38 Outro + Discord Plug