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Jonathan Perkins

Since many like myself are used to the spacebar being what we hit to "play" a track, like in mnay apple apps or in Premiere, allow us to switch from TAB to the spacebar, or even better, both!

February 11, 2020

Andrew Mason

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We are actually working on this. Join the beta program in Discord if you want to test it out. https://discord.gg/AYe6sBd

Laura Kwerel

@Andrew Mason: thank you Andrew! I clicked the link and it's not clear to me how to test it out...can you share some instructions on where to look in discord?

Kevin McCarthy

@Andrew Mason: 🙏🏻

Kevin McCarthy

I wholeheartedly agree. The developers are quite reticent to implement this, even as a user-configurable option. 
There are three feature requests in total on this subject. I would encourage y'all to up-vote them all. 
https://feedback.descript.com/feature-requests/p/allow-spacebar-for-play-button
https://feedback.descript.com/feature-requests/p/option-to-use-protools-key-controls
https://feedback.descript.com/feature-requests/p/make-the-space-bar-start-and-stop-not-the-tab-button
A workaround I have found is to use a USB transport control (jog/shuttle controller, I use the ShuttleXpress) and map the function buttons on an app-by-app basis so that you achieve consistent behavior across editing tools.