27. Windows - Transferring the keyboard focus on the DAW

Clicking on the MP Host and/or the hosted plugin in the MP Host will cause the keyboard focus to be transferred there and not on the DAW.

Using UPDD:

In UPDD enable this setting: "Reset keyboard focus after a gesture action ends"

Note that "Reset mouse cursor after a gesture action ends" will take the mouse cursor back to it's previous position before the gesture was made.

Using Auto Hot Key:

We have created a small app for a few popular DAWs to transfer the keyboard focus back to the DAW by pressing Win key & z together.

You only need to run the app once. You can add it to your Startup folder so that it starts automatically with Windows

You can download the app for each DAW from here

Zip file password is 123456

More information:

The apps to transfer the keyboard focus were created with Auto Hot Key. A great free scripting platform for creating automation on Windows.

We have included the ahk script in the web folder, in case you want to extend it for more automation.