Command Palette (⌘K)

The Command Palette is one place to reach everything in Orbit by typing: a page, a window, a Preferences pane, a setting, a transport command, a marker, an object, or a file you opened recently. Press ⌘K, type a few letters, press Return.

Opening it

• Press ⌘K anywhere in Orbit — including over Preferences and the export windows.
• Click the ⌘K button in the top bar, just left of the master fader.
• Choose Orbit → Command Palette… from the menu bar.

Press ⌘K again, Esc, or click outside the palette to close it.

What you can find

Type	Examples
Pages	Go to: Overview, Playlist, Timeline, Video, Monitor, Analyser
Preferences	Preferences: Loudness, Preferences: Audio & Monitoring, … — every pane
Windows	Show Log, Show Marker List, Speaker Configuration, Routing Patchbay, Show History
Settings	Monitoring: Binaural Headphones, Panner: LBAP, Head Tracking, Grid Snap, Footer Loudness, Theme
Transport	Play / Pause, Return to Start, Set Region In / Out, Toggle Loop
Markers	Add Marker at Playhead, Next Marker, and every marker in the file by name
Objects	Every object in the loaded file, to solo it
Files	Open File…, and anything in your Open Recent list
Export	Export Audio…, Export PDF Report…, Export IAMF / Eclipsa…

Settings rows show their current value with a tick, so the palette doubles as a quick readout: type monitoring to see which mode you're in before you change it.

Typing and choosing

• Matching is forgiving: loud finds Preferences: Loudness and Footer Loudness; go mon finds Go to: Monitor. Keywords count too — LUFS finds the Loudness pane.
• ↑ ↓ move the selection, Return runs it, Esc closes. Clicking a row runs it.
• With nothing typed, the palette shows the commands you used most recently first, then everything by group.
• Nothing you type in the palette triggers the app's single-key shortcuts; Space, I, O, L and the solo keys stay put until you close it.

Rows that look different

• Dimmed, with a reason — the command can't run right now (Load a file first, Set a region first). It stays in the list so you can see why.
• Lock — the command is part of Orbit Pro. Choosing it opens the Orbit Pro page.
• Confirm: — destructive commands (Clear All Markers, Clear Region, Close Session) ask for a second Return on the same row before they run.
• If a command fails, the palette stays open and shows the reason in red under the search field.

Notes

• The palette never activates, deactivates or signs out a licence, and never deletes routing presets or speaker groups. Those stay in Preferences, where they belong.
• Marker names, object names and file names only ever appear on your Mac. Orbit's usage telemetry records which command ran, never what it ran on. See Data & Privacy.

New in 1.6.0 (beta)

The Command Palette arrives in beta 6.