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Every shortcut

The noise control shortcuts are in the Headphones menu, and only the modes your headphones report are available. The same menu has an Equalizer submenu and DSEE and Speak-to-Chat switches, without shortcuts. More about the modes in noise canceling on a Mac.

Scenes on ⌃⌘1 to ⌃⌘9

A shortcut can apply several settings at once if you put them in a scene: noise control and the ambient level, the equalizer, DSEE, Speak-to-Chat and Pause When Taken Off. The first nine scenes in the Scenes menu get ⌃⌘1 to ⌃⌘9, so put the ones you use most at the top.

The three starter scenes are a good first set: Deep Focus, Out & About and Conversation. See scenes for creating your own and for triggers that apply them by themselves.

Keys inside the window

• Arrow keys move the focused slider one step, such as the ambient level or an equalizer band.
• Return saves and Esc cancels in the scene editor.
• On My Device, the arrow keys turn the 3D model of your headphones and Space resets it.

When the shortcuts work, and the menu bar

These are the app's menu commands, so they work when Open Sound Connect is the active app; they aren't global hotkeys. To change something while you're in another app, click the headphones icon in the menu bar. The panel has:

• the noise modes your headphones have, plus the ambient level and Focus on Voice in ambient sound;
• an equalizer preset picker, and DSEE and Speak-to-Chat switches where your model has them;
• every scene as a button;
• a Connect button when the controls aren't connected.

The icon dims when the headphones aren't connected. If you don't see it, turn on Show in Menu Bar in Settings (⌘6).

Apple Shortcuts and Raycast

Open Sound Connect doesn't currently provide actions for Apple's Shortcuts app or a Raycast extension. Two things work today:

1. Change a key combination. macOS lets you give any app's menu command a different shortcut: open System Settings → Keyboard, choose Keyboard Shortcuts…, then App Shortcuts, click the add button, choose Open Sound Connect and type the menu command's name exactly as it appears in the menu.
2. Trigger the menu commands from another tool. Any automation tool that can bring an app to the front and press a keyboard shortcut can switch noise control or apply a scene this way.

For changes that should happen without a key press, scene triggers apply a scene when the headphones connect, on a schedule or when a chosen app comes to the front.

The headphones' own buttons

Your headphones' buttons and touch panel keep working while you use the app, and on some models you can choose what a button does from the Wearing page (⌘4). See Sony touch controls on a Mac.