Ardour has many available commands for playback control that can be bound to keys. Many of them have default bindings, Some of the most used are found below.
Those keybindings are shown in the corresponding menus. Memorizing at least the most frequently used can be a great time saver.
| Space | switch between playback and stop. |
|---|---|
| Home | Move playhead to session start marker |
| End | Move playhead to session end marker |
| → | Playhead to Next Grid |
| ← | Playhead to Previous Grid |
| 0 | Move playhead to start of the timeline |
| space | Start recording |
| space | Stop and forget capture |
An exhaustive list of the default keyboard bindings can be found in the Appendix.