Hotkeys

SwitchX is built for fast, keyboard‑driven triggering during a live show. Each clip card can be bound to a key — press it to fire the clip to Deck A, or hold Shift to fire it to Deck B.

How clip triggers work

• When you add a card, SwitchX auto‑assigns it the next free key from the grid below. The key shows as a small badge on the card.
• Press the key → the clip goes to Deck A.
• Press Shift + key → the clip goes to Deck B.
• Bindings are saved with your session, and SwitchX remembers a clip's key by its media so the same clip tends to get the same key next time.

The trigger grid

Keys are assigned from this pool, left to right, top to bottom — the same layout as a typical keyboard, so triggers fall under your fingers:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
Q W E R T Y U I O P
A S D F G H J K L
Z X C V B N M

So the 1st clip is 1 (Deck A) / Shift+1 (Deck B), the 11th is Q / Shift+Q, and so on.

Editing bindings

Open View → Edit Hotkeys… (Ctrl+Shift+K) to assign, change, or clear which key triggers each clip. Each key can only be bound to one clip at a time.

Live control keys

These keys are always available during a show, independent of clip triggers:

Key	Action
B	Blackout — cut the program to black (toggles the Panic Blackout button).
P	Pause — freeze the program on the current frame (toggles Panic Pause).
Ctrl+M	Drop Marker in the active recording.

Note: because B and P are reserved for Blackout and Pause, those letters aren't used for clip triggers.

Menu shortcuts

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl+S	Save Session
Ctrl+O	Load Session
Ctrl+Shift+K	Edit Hotkeys
Ctrl+Shift+F	Freeze Frame Capture
Ctrl+M	Drop Marker

Cheat sheet

You want to…	Press
Fire clip n to Deck A	its key (1–0, Q–P, A–L, Z–M)
Fire clip n to Deck B	Shift + its key
Black out the program	B
Freeze the program	P
Mark a moment while recording	Ctrl+M
Save / load the show	Ctrl+S / Ctrl+O
Re‑assign keys	Ctrl+Shift+K