Reference
Keyboard shortcuts
Practising means keeping your hands where they are. Everything on the looper has a key, and the ones you need mid-phrase are all reachable without looking.
Shortcuts are ignored while the focus is inside a text box, so nothing fires while you are pasting a link or renaming a section. Click the page background to hand control back to the player. Press ? on the looper to bring this list up without leaving the page.
Transport
- Play or pause
- Space+K
- Back 5 seconds
- J
- Forward 5 seconds
- L
- Back or forward 1 second
- ←+→
- Back or forward 10 seconds
- Shift+←/→
- Jump to A
- Home
- Jump to B
- End
Loop
- Set A at the playhead
- [
- Set B at the playhead
- ]
- Turn looping on or off
- R
- Reset A and B to the whole video
- C
- Save the current range as a section
- S
- Nudge A or B back 0.1s
- Shift+[ / ]
- Nudge A or B forward 0.1s
- Alt+[ / ]
- Play saved section 1–9
- 1+…+9
Sound
- Slow down by 0.05×
- Shift+,
- Speed up by 0.05×
- Shift+.
- Back to 1× speed
- 0
- Mute or unmute
- M
- Volume up or down
- ↑+↓
App
- Jump to the link box
- /
- Show this list
- ?
- Fullscreen the video
- F
The three that matter most
If you learn nothing else: [ marks the start of the loop, ] marks the end, and Space plays and pauses. Everything else is refinement.
The next most useful pair is Shift with a marker’s arrow keys, which trims by five hundredths of a second — enough to land a loop cleanly on a beat — and the number keys, which jump straight to a saved section along with the speed it was saved at.
On a touchscreen
There is no keyboard, so the same actions live on buttons: the large A and B buttons mark the loop points, the four small buttons under each timecode nudge them, and the flags on the timeline can be dragged with a finger. Dragging the middle of the loop moves the whole range without changing its length.
Try it on the thing you are actually working on.
Paste a link, press A, press B. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.