Twisted Wave Transfer: An Easy Fix – Tuesday VO Tech Tip

This past week, I dug more deeply into setting things up on the new laptop. That meant a succession of app installs and system restarts, digging up needed passwords plus a couple of license keys, and making sure that the various software versions I planned on using with the current MacOS Ventura would still play nicely with the slightly older OS on my studio computer. Everything continued to drop nicely into place, with some noticeable performance improvements since I no longer had to maintain “legacy” versions running on the now-retired Macbook Pro.

Twisted Wave installed and licensed with two easy clicks. Then I tapped a couple of quick keystrokes to access a core function and… crickets. Nothing happened.

At this point I realized how much keyboard customization I’d added over the years to my Twisted Wave workflow. With the “clean” install of the recording software, Twisted Wave now only had the “stock” keyboard equivalents. That meant tools like “Normalize“, “Analyze”, and even my quick access to frequently used Effects now lay nested in the menus, forcing a mouse-based approach until I re-entered all of those shortcuts using the “Edit Keyboard Shortcuts…” tool.

Or maybe not…

I recalled recovering those before by working with the Twisted Wave “Preferences” file. A quick email to Thomas confirmed: moving those to a new computer required only a simple copy and paste from one computer to the other. Within a few minutes, a quick restart of Twisted Wave presented me with all the workflow tweaks I’d evolved, as well as the presets I’d set up to access my Effects. It was that simple. 

In the above image, you can see where I’ve replaced the default keyboard shortcut for “Special Paste” with just the “V” key. I talk about that helpful adjustment in my editing workflow in more detail back in this earlier post: Faster Audio Editing Workflow.

Up and running once again! Thanks, Thomas!

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