App preset
Audacity: controller layout for Mac
Audacity can be driven from a game controller, a MIDI pad, or an adaptive controller on a Mac. InputConfig sends real keyboard and mouse events, so the app sees an ordinary keyboard and mouse. This is the layout the app's Smart Preset Maker builds for it: Record, play, and edit audio by hand.
Get the preset in two clicks
- Open InputConfig and click Smart Preset Maker on the welcome screen.
- Search for Audacity and pick it. The layout below is created as a preset in your sidebar, named and ready.
- Press Activate. Every row can be changed afterwards: the editor's Scan button rebinds any control the moment you touch it.
The preset can open Audacity.app for you when it activates.
The full button map
| Controller | Sends | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| A / Cross | Space | Play / Stop (Space) |
| B / Circle | R | Record (R) |
| Y / Triangle | P | Pause (P) |
| X / Square | Command (Left), X | Cut selection (Cmd+X) |
| LB / L1 | Command (Left), Z | Undo (Cmd+Z) |
| RB / R1 | Command (Left), Shift (Left), Z | Redo (Cmd+Shift+Z) |
| Start / Options | Command (Left), V | Paste (Cmd+V) |
| Back / Share / Select | Command (Left), C | Copy (Cmd+C) |
| L3 (left stick click) | Command (Left), F | Fit project in window (Cmd+F) |
| D-pad left | Left | Move cursor / selection edge left |
| D-pad right | Right | Move cursor / selection edge right |
| D-pad up | Up | Move focus to previous track (Up) |
| D-pad down | Down | Move focus to next track (Down) |
| Left stick left | Left | Nudge cursor left |
| Left stick right | Right | Nudge cursor right |
| Right stick up | Scroll up | Scroll tracks up |
| Right stick down | Scroll down | Scroll tracks down |
| Right trigger | Command (Left), 1 | Zoom in (Cmd+1) |
| Left trigger | Command (Left), 3 | Zoom out (Cmd+3) |
Button names follow the Xbox / PlayStation pair shown in the editor, so A / Cross is the bottom face button on either pad. On a Switch Pro Controller the bottom button is labelled B; the mapping still fires on position.
Tips
- A starts and stops playback; B begins recording and Y pauses.
- Right trigger zooms in and left trigger zooms out on the waveform.
- X cuts the current selection, and Back/Start map to Copy and Paste.
Make it yours
Nothing here is fixed. Rows can be re-scanned to a different control, given hold and double-tap actions, chords, turbo, macros, haptic or spoken feedback, and per-binding deadzones and sensitivity curves. The binding editor guide covers every option, and the controller map shows what each control is called.
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