Using the Computer Keyboard in a Plugin

I have plugins where I need to use the keyboard - e.g. to register Tonoracy. Unfortunately, I can’t type anything with the keyboard and Ardor reacts to certain keys (e.g. Space key), even though I’m in the dialog box with the cursor. What can I do?

I dont have the best answer, but I have had to register other plugins using a different DAW. Reaper always works.

https://www.reaper.fm/download.php

So, if you get the keyboard working in Ardour, the registration may not work. It may be my systems permissions on Linux. Maybe yours will work fine.

Top right in every plugin UI there is a “keyboard focus” toggle to pass keyboard events to the plugin.

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