Keyboard Shortcuts
Project OutFox has quite a few keyboard shortcuts to make certain tasks easier.
These shortcuts work everywhere in OutFox unless otherwise specified (or used in another section).
F1: Insert Coin
F2: Reload metrics, textures, noteskins & code detector cache (Does nothing in edit mode)
Ctrl+F2: Reload theme scripts (Does nothing in edit mode)
Shift+F2: Reload metrics, noteskins & code detector cache (Does nothing in edit mode)
Ctrl+Shift+F2: Reload overlay screens & metrics (Does nothing in edit mode)
F3: Show debug menu
Scroll Lock: Operator Button (Go directly to the theme’s operator menu screen. Will not work if the current screen doesn’t allow the operator menu button)
~ (tilde): Broadcasts “ToggleConsoleDisplay” globally
PrintScreen: Take a screenshot
Shift+PrintScreen: Take a high quality screenshot (If HighRes Screenshots are off by default)
Shift+PrintScreen: Take a low quality screenshot (If HighRes Screenshots are on by default)
Alt+Enter: Toggle fullscreen
` (accent): Slow the game’s tweens down
Tab: Speed the game’s tweens up
PauseBreak: Toggle “Mute Actions”
These shortcuts only work in the edit screens.
Up: Scroll up one ’line’ (If 4ths are selected, you go up one 4th, if 8ths are selected, you go up one 8th, etc.)
Down: Scroll down one ’line'
F1: Show the help menu
; (semicolon) / PageUp: Scroll up by 4 beats
’ (apostrophe / single quote) / PageDown: Scroll down by 4 beats
Ctrl+; (semicolon) / Ctrl+PageUp: Scroll up by the number of beats in a measure
Ctrl+’ (apostrophe / single quote) / Ctrl+PageDown: Scroll down by the number of beats in a measure
Home: Scroll up to beat 0
End: Scroll down to the last beat of the chart
. (period): Scroll down to next note in the chart
, (comma): Scroll up to previous note in the chart
Ctrl+. (period): Scroll down to next chosen chart segment type in the chart
Ctrl+, (comma): Scroll up to previous chosen chart segment type in the chart
Shift+Up / Shift+Down: Create a section from where shift was held
Space: Set the start and stop points of a selection
p: Play the selected section of the chart (plays from start if no selection)
Ctrl+p: Play the chart from the start
Shift+p: Play the chart from the current beat
Esc / Start / Enter / Back: Open the edit menu (When previewing the chart)
Esc / Start / Enter / Back: Exit the play mode (When practicing / recording / playing the chart)
Up: Scroll up one measure (Overrides all other modes)
Down: Scroll down one measure (Overrides all other modes)
Left: Lower the scroll speed
Right: Raise the scroll speed
Left: Go to the higher snap (8th to 4th, etc.)
Right: Go to the lower snap (4th to 8th, etc.)
F4: Show timing menu
F5: Move to the previous chart for the Song
F6: Move to the next chart for the Song
F7: Lower BPM at current beat
F8: Raise BPM at current beat
F9: Decrease stop length at current beat
Shift+F9: Decrease delay length at current beat
F10: Increase stop length at current beat
Shift+F10: Increase delay length at current beat
F11: Decrease beat 0 offset
F12: Increase beat 0 offset
[: Decreases the music sample’s starting point
]: Increases the music sample’s starting point
Shift+[: Decreases the music sample’s length
Shift+]: Increases the music sample’s length
l: Play the sample music for the song.
b: Open the Background Change menu for layer 1
Shift+b: Open the Background Change menu for layer 2
Ctrl+Insert: Shifts all timing changes down
Ctrl+Delete: Deletes timing segments and shifts the later ones up to the beginning of the deleted areas
q: Decrease the amount of time a column has to be held to create a hold in record mode
w: Increase the amount of time a column has to be held to create a hold in record mode
e: Reset the amount of time a column has to be held to create a hold in record mode
r: Turn off the ability to create a hold in record mode
0-9: add notes to columns 1-10 (holding while pressing Up / Down creates a hold)
Alt+0-9: add notes to columns 11-20 (holding while pressing Up / Down creates a hold)
Shift while creating a hold: Create a roll
n: Switch to the previous note type
m: Switch to the next note type
Ctrl+n: Switch to the previous segment type
Ctrl+m: Switch to the next segment type
Ctrl+Up: Increase the scroll speed
Ctrl+Down: Decrease the scroll speed
Left: Go to the higher snap (8th to 4th, etc.)
Right: Go to the lower snap (4th to 8th, etc.)
Enter (when not in a menu): Open the area menu
a: Open the alter menu
Alt+b: Bake in a random video from the song group
Ctrl+b: Bake in a random video from the song’s group or genre
Ctrl+r: Go into record mode for the selected area
Insert / \(backslash): Inserts a beat and shifts everything after down
Delete: Deletes a note/selection, and shifts the later notes up to where the deleted note/start of deleted section was
Holding Alt when adjusting a value: Use a smaller adjust amount
Ctrl+s: Save (Windows, Linux, Pi, etc.)
Meta+s: Save (Mac OS)
u: Undo the last action
/ (slash): switch which player is being charted for in a couples chart
t: Switch between chart timing and song timing
Alt (during Record mode): Remove notes
Shift (during Record mode): Add rolls
p (During Record Paused mode): Play selection
r (During Record Paused mode): Record from the current beat
Ctrl+r (During Record Paused mode): Record the selection
These shortcuts only work in gameplay screens.
F4: Revert sync changes
F6: Autosync
F7: Toggle Assist Tick
Shift+F7: Toggle Metronome
F8: AutoPlay (+Alt = hide autoplay text)
Shift+F8: AutoPlayCPU (+Alt = hide autoplay text)
F9: Decrease song BPM
F10: Increase song BPM
F11: Decrease global offset
Shift+F11: Decrease song offset
F12: Increase global offset
Shift+F12: Increase song offset
These shortcuts only work in the music wheel screen.
F9: Toggle between actual titles and transliterated titles.
Ctrl+Shift+r: reload the currently selected song
Ctrl+a-z: Sort the songs by letter and go to the group of all songs that start with that letter.
Ctrl+Backspace: Delete the song from the system. (Actually deletes from the drive!)
Ctrl+Shift+Backspace: Delete the selected chart from the system.