Multi-Press Macros

[noisneil]

Hotkeys & USB Device Keys

Macros & Notes

Hotkey-USB - Press Detection.kmmacros (70 KB)

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Hotkey-USB (Caller Template).kmmacros (34 KB)

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• The Caller serves as a template for your macros that can be duplicated. The Press Detection macro is a subroutine that all callers will reference.

• You will need to set two triggers per hotkey or USB Device Key in the Caller macro. One for is pressed and one for is released.

Options:

• Trigger: Leave this as it is.

• Multiple Taps:

  • Sets the number of multiple taps to detect.
  • The maximum is 5. This could be increased by adjusting the submacro.
  • If this value is left blank or set to less than 2, then multiple taps will not be detected. This is recommended if you only want to detect short/long presses, as it will make things slightly more responsive.

• Long Press:

  • If this is set to any value except 0 or No, then long presses will be detected.

• Tap Gap:

  • This sets the maximum length of the gap between multiple taps. Increase this value if you would like slower taps to be accepted.

Stream Deck: KM Link Plugin

Macros & Notes

KM Link - Press Detection.kmmacros (50 KB)

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KM Link (Caller Template).kmmacros (42 KB)

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• NB: The Caller serves as a template for your macros that can be duplicated. The Press Detection macro is a submacro that all callers will reference.

• You will need to select the Caller macro in KM Link's macro selection dropdown. If you add a Parameter value to the plugin, it will be accessible as Local__KMLinkParameter in the Caller.

Options:

• Tap Speed:
  • This sets the maximum length of the gap between multiple taps. Increase this value if you would like slower taps to be accepted.

• Multiple Taps:
  • Sets the number of multiple taps to detect.
  • The maximum is 5.

MIDI

Macros & Notes

MIDI - Multi-Press.kmmacros (77 KB)

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MIDI - Short-Long Press (Snappy).kmmacros (40 KB)

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• Single/double/triple tap and long press templates.

MIDI - Detect Release (Leave Disabled).kmmacros (34 KB)

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• Momentarily watches for MIDI release triggers. Any MIDI multi-press macros you create from the above template will reference this single detection macro; there's no need to duplicate it.

Hold-to-Repeat

Macros & Notes

Repeat - Basic.kmmacros (31 KB)

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• Basic action repeat loop.

Hotkey - USB - Repeat.kmmacros (39 KB)

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• Repeats an action until the trigger is released, at which time another action can be triggered.

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Hotkey - USB - Repeat (Speed Up).kmmacros (40 KB)

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• Repeats an action until the trigger is released, at which time another action can be triggered. The speed at which the first action repeats increases the longer the key is held.

[_jims]

@noisneil, these a really slick. Thanks to @DanThomas and you for sharing these techniques!

[NaOH]

Just for reference, linking this 2014 thread from shortly after Double Tap Control was added.

Double Tap Control

Keyboard Maestro supports double tapping a modifier key by using the USB Device Key trigger. Double Tap Control New.kmmacros (2.2 KB) [image] Prior to version 7.0, Keyboard Maestro did not support the tapped twice modifier for Hot Key and USB Device Key triggers, but there are two ways you can accomplish this if desired. Either way, you use a USB Device Key trigger to trigger on the press of the control key. The first way is to keep track of the time the macro last fired, and only perform …

[noisneil]

Oops... Just seen your comment now.

The limitation of tapped triggers that if, for example, you have one macro that triggers on tapped once and another on tapped twice, tapping twice will trigger both macros. The templates above are a neat way around that problem.

[noisneil]

Updated the original post to include a much improved version of the main Hotkey/USB Device Key version of the Multi-Press Template.

[noisneil]

Updated the KM Link macros to be far more intuitive in terms of setup.