"As a full-fledged professional level print music creator/editor, Finale is a complex program with many functions buried two or three levels deep in submenus. It also has a total of some 25 different tools I have to select for different uses, and there are many functions, such as transposing a selected passage up or down by any of 12 different intervals, that are multi-step procedures involving my two least favorite activities: mousing and menus. To take the hassle out of all that, I have some 200 QuicKeys Shortcuts set up just for use in Finale alone. For me, QuicKeys is far more than a convenience, it is part of the Finale application. I’ve forgotten where many of Finale’s functions are located, because the shortcuts made possible by QuicKeys have long since taken the place of burrowing among the submenus."

"Someone found an in-dash VGA monitor with a USB touchpad for sale on the net at http://digitalww.com/DWW-7VGA.htm. I bought one, installed it in my car, ran VGA and USB cables to the trunk, and installed [a laptop] there. The [laptop] is running iTunes. I needed a way to drive iTunes from the touch screen. Enter QuicKeys. I set up a toolbar at the bottom of the touch screen using QK and now I have full control, thanks to quick keys.

Add power and functionally to QuicKeys for Windows with the new iTunes Plug-in. Free to registered users of QuicKeys for Windows 2.5 (requires Windows XP!), the iTunes Plug-in consists of 8 different sets of actions that allow you to automate iTunes. For more information or to download this plug-in, head on over to the QuicKeys for Windows product pages located here.

The iTunes plug-in offers dozens of new ways to directly communicate with and control iTunes from QuicKeys, but it doesn't stop there. This plug-in is also user-extensible; you can write your own scripts to add to this plug-in if you know a scripting language and you're not afraid to get your hands dirty. Here's an example script that let's you set the play count of the current song. This is useful for iTunes Smart Playlists which can make use of such song data as your star-rating and the number of times it's been played.

I use it on a PC that is regularly synched to the atomic clock, and QuicKeys plays a wave file over the PA system to announce the start and end of each shift, breaks, and lunches.

Below is a series of helpful hints about productivity in the music notation software Finale® (by MakeMusic) through the use of QuicKeys® (by Startly Technologies). I suppose that most of it applies to any program, but these are things that I've found greatly enhance the QuicKeys functionality within Finale, and therefore most of the examples reflect that. I personally believe that Finale can do anything regarding music notation. A lot of it requires third party workarounds or a lot of extra work, but it is all possible. QuicKeys can help take some of the work out of the repeated tasks when they do arise. ... (more)