The hotkey for this 'panic' button is Shift+Esc. That fires up the task manager in google chrome.
SJC> Yes I don't think you can re-define the MT Pro defined hotkeys or use them for anything else. If you can send MIDI messages, however, you could have a incoming MIDI message with an outgoing action of Stop processing.
So I have to bring MTP to the forefront to use the panic button. ? Can I make some kind of translator that the output is Shift+Esc, then MTP will read that and panic itself off?
SJC> I don't think so but again, you can use the "Stop Processing" output at which point only a "Start Processing" triggering event will enable things again.
So globally on the computer, regardless of what I'm doing, I can push a button on my keyboard and enable this panic button. But usually when I'm using the internet. Which is google chrome. But that hotkey is already taken.
SJC> Yes, as I said, the original keys are not suppressed so any application that uses that particular shortcut, will still fire. Again, you may have some luck with AutoHotKey in suppressing outgoing keystrokes and remapping ingoing to different outgoing keystrokes. This is definately beyond the scope of Bome discussion, however.
The character map keys aren't working, I've tried a couple. Alt(0161) and Alt(0162). Instead of MTP doing the translator, in both cases FL Studio asks me if I want to save the project (Ctrl+S).
SJC> Right FL Studio is probably trying to interpret these keys (because they don't get suppressed).
If you want to take up another discussion about key suppression or key remapping using AutoHotKey, just drop me an email and maybe I can help you under paid services.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
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