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Overview

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Global Shortcut

The Open Assistant shortcut works even when Sample Vault isn’t the active window — useful for jumping from your DAW into the assistant without switching windows manually.
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Open Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts

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Click the shortcut field

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Press up to 3 keys (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+S)

The shortcut saves automatically.

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Application Shortcuts

These work when Sample Vault is the active window, as long as no text input is focused. The copy shortcut only fires when no text is highlighted — otherwise the standard text copy behaviour applies. Skip back and forward move the playing sample by a few seconds a press, and repeat while held, so you can travel a long way into a multi-minute recording. They apply to whatever is playing, wherever it is playing from. Because they take Shift, they stay clear of the Map view’s arrow-key navigation below. The library search shortcut works from anywhere — even while another input is focused — and opens a Library panel first if none is open. The assistant-bar shortcut also works from anywhere and is rebindable under Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts. Audio shortcuts are automatically disabled while you’re typing in a search or chat input. Selection shortcuts work in every list of samples — the Library, Deep Search, File Browser, Similar Samples, and AI Assistant chat chips. See Multi-select & batch actions.

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Section Shortcuts

Shortcuts that only fire inside specific parts of the app.

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Library search input

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Search overlay

Summon the search overlay with its configurable global shortcut (default Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Space), even when Sample Vault isn’t focused. Once it’s up, these keys act on it: The single-letter keys fire only when the search field isn’t focused, so they never collide with typing a query.

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Sample Map

When the Library panel is showing the Map view and is the active panel, the arrow keys jump to the nearest visible sample in that direction and play it. The viewport recentres on the new sample if it would otherwise fall off-screen.

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Troubleshooting

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The global shortcut isn’t working

  1. Check no other application is using the same combination
  2. Use 2–3 keys (e.g. Ctrl+Shift+S) — single-key shortcuts conflict with system input
  3. Avoid common system shortcuts (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc.)
  4. Restart Sample Vault after setting a new shortcut