By Neil K. Hess

RECORD: I use the G7 button to start the recording.   

CLEANUP and COMPRESSION: My G8 button is my money button. I have a series of Izotope RX6 cleanup effects, compression, EQ and all of the usual stuff. As a result, pressing this button, especially on a longer take, ends up taking a while. But the amount of time I save having to clean up the smaller stuff in the track is worth its weight in gold.   

CUT: My G9 button is my cut button. Using this key on the mouse makes cutting out bad portions super fast and easy.  

VOLUME CUT: My G4 key is set up to apply a favorite effect (Ex. -30db cut) to remove or reduce an awkward breath, or to hide a place where two cuts were spliced together.  

NORMALIZE: My G5 key is set to normalize the track to -3db when all of the other editing is done.  

EXPORT: My G6 key is set to export the track.  

G10 and G11: These two buttons can be a variety of things depending on the project I am working on.  Sometimes, one is set to just export a highlighted selection. Other times I use it for other things.  

1. Open up your mouse customization interface and click on the little arrow, which will give you a list of options for that button. (If this is the first time you are changing the function, you will want to select "Assign command".)   

2. Since most Adobe Audition/DAW commands require multiple keystrokes, you will probably want to select "Multi Key".  

3. When you get to this step, you will want to click "Start Recording".  Once you click that button, the mouse software records whatever buttons you push (in the case above, for my -30db cut, I click "Shift+3".) When you see the down or up arrow next to the name of the key, that just tells you that the key was pushed down, or released up. If you just hit the keys as you normally do, you should be just fine.  

4. If you want to program in just one keystroke, just hit the "Keystrokes" button.

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