Capo keyboard shortcuts: the full list and how to rebind

Reaching for a mouse mid-phrase is the fastest way to lose a practice loop. Shortcuts exist so you do not have to.

Key takeaways

• Every action ships with a default key in both scopes — plain keys such as Space, the arrows and V in the popup, Alt combos such as Alt+↑/↓ and Alt+V on the page. Only page-level play/pause and seek start unbound.
• Page-level shortcuts work with the video focused, no popup needed.
• Every binding is edited inside Capo, in Settings → Keyboard shortcuts.
• They cannot work on chrome:// pages, where extensions do not run.

Page-level keyboard shortcuts

Open the list from the popup. The defaults are already in place — plain keys such as Space, the arrows and A/B while the popup is open, Alt combos such as Alt+A/B and Alt+↑/↓ on the page. Only page-level playback — play/pause and seeking on the page — ships unbound, so assign those if you want them.

Each action can be scoped to the page or to the popup, using the toggle at the top of the list.

Page-level shortcuts work while the video has focus, which is the whole point of them.

Workspace keyboard shortcuts

The workspace adds formant, preserve voice, reverb, vocal reducer, varispeed and marker controls to the same system.

How to rebind a Capo shortcut

Every binding is edited inside Capo: open the popup, then Settings → Keyboard shortcuts. The one exception is the browser-level key that opens Capo itself, which lives on the browser’s extension shortcuts page and ships with no default.

If a shortcut does nothing, check the page is not a browser settings page and that Capo is attached to the tab.

The two shortcuts worth memorising

Learn two: transpose up and transpose down. Those two cover most of what people open the popup for.

For an even faster route, the right-click menu carries nine pitch presets.