Ardour Shortcut Profile + Icon Pack

The complete Ardour keyboard shortcut pack for Stream Deck.

201 shortcuts across 12 categories — organized, scored by importance, and ready to install on Stream Deck Classic / MK.2, XL. Stop memorizing key combos. One tap, one action.

What's included:

• Tools (28): Object mode, Range mode, Cut mode, Content mode, Timefx mode, and 23 more • MIDI (25): Select all notes, Clear note selection, Invert note selection, Select next note, Select previous note, and 20 more • Edit (24): Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, and 19 more • Playhead (21): Playhead to start marker, Playhead to end marker, Playhead to previous grid point, Playhead to next grid point, Nudge playhead backward, and 16 more • Transport (20): Toggle roll, Start recording, Engage record, Play edit range, Play from edit point and return, and 15 more • Regions (20): Split or separate, Set region sync point, Add a region or cue marker, Mute or unmute, Move to original position, and 15 more • Windows (18): Show mixer window, Show recorder page, Show cues page, Show meter bridge, Show virtual MIDI keyboard, and 13 more • View (17): Expand track height, Shrink track height, Zoom to session, Fit selection vertically, Toggle last two zoom states, and 12 more • Select (14): Select all objects, Invert selection, Select all visible lanes, Select all after the edit point, Select all regions enclosed by range, and 9 more • Session (10): Open a new session, Open an existing session, Open a recent session, Save session, Snapshot session, and 5 more • Workflows (3): Loop the selection and play, Split then fade the range, Mark, then arm and record • Help (1): Open Manual

Features: • Read from Ardour's own binding file, not from a wiki page • Both platforms, with Ardour's abstract modifiers resolved from its build script • Folders mirror Ardour's own shortcut groups, which is what disambiguates the keys • A full MIDI note editor page: transpose, quantize, velocities, note splits • A distinct icon on all 201 keys

Install: double-click any .streamDeckProfile to import. The App binding is pre-filled to Ardour — auto-activates on focus. If it didn't pre-fill, set it manually under Stream Deck → Preferences → Profiles → App.

Also included: the 603-icon Ardour icon pack (201 icons in 3 finishes), as a .streamDeckIconPack you can install with a double-click. Every key in this profile, available to drop on any action you like.

Learn more about Ardour: https://ardour.org

Setup (required for some keys)

Folders mirror Ardour own shortcut groups, and that matters more here than anywhere. Ardour reuses keys hard across contexts: Q is previous marker in the editor but Quantize in the MIDI editor, V is the region sync point in one and note velocities in the other, S splits a region and also splits notes. Use the folder that matches the window you are in.

Ardour modifiers are abstract, and they are not the same on the two platforms. Its binding file writes PRIMARY, SECONDARY, TERTIARY rather than actual keys. Ardour’s own build script resolves PRIMARY to Ctrl on Windows and Cmd on macOS — but SECONDARY to Alt on Windows and Ctrl on macOS. So a shortcut printed Alt+M on Windows is Ctrl+M on a Mac, and that is correct, not a mistake.

Redo is on three keys and this profile ships one. Ardour accepts Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+R and Ctrl+Shift+Z for redo. Ctrl+Y ships; the other two stay free for whatever you want.

Super key shortcuts are not included. Ardour’s LEVEL4 modifier is the Windows key, which the OS intercepts before the app ever sees it.

The macOS app path carries the major version, and that is Ardour doing. Its packaging script builds the bundle as Ardour9.app, not Ardour.app, so that is what Smart Profile targets here. When Ardour 10 lands the folder name changes with it — repoint the profile from the Stream Deck app’s Application dropdown, or the profile will simply stop auto-activating.

First release. 201 bindings across twelve folders: Transport, Session, Edit, Regions, Select, View, Playhead, Tools, Windows, MIDI, Workflows and Help.

This one was not transcribed. Ardour is open source and keeps its keymap in gtk2_ardour/ardour.keys.in, in an unusually good format every line carries a group, an action,

Also left out: the Windows-key bindings, which the OS swallows, and the mouse gestures, which a deck cannot send.