# How many use Keyboard Maestro?
**URL:** https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [September 12, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009 "2025-09-12T19:12:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@dragsquares](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/dragsquares)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/1 "2025-09-12T19:12:59Z")
I’m wondering how many of us use it. It’s fairly central to things I am working on, so that’s why I’m asking.
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### Author:  [@drym](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/drym)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/2 "2025-09-12T21:06:50Z")
I´m using it, but i think i just scratched the surface right now.
Nonetheless it´s doing a few helpful things already. Will dig in deeper over time, combined with Metagrid i think it can be extremely powerful.
What are you using it for?
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### Author:  [@dragsquares](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/dragsquares)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/3 "2025-09-12T21:24:55Z")
[Articulation selection from a grid.](https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CtfZq3UdX/?)
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### Author:  [@Ben-Z](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/Ben-Z)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2025, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/4 "2025-09-20T06:00:48Z")
I’m a huge fan of KM. Can’t believe I went as long as I did without getting into it. It is an invaluable tool for my setup. So glad MGP allows me to incorporate KM macros into my MGP setups.
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### Author:  [@McDub](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/McDub)
#### Post date: [September 20, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/5 "2025-09-20T13:55:26Z")
It’s one of the most amazing apps you can put on a Mac, no contest. I consider it a full-blown partner app to MGP.
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### Author:  [@Ben-Z](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/Ben-Z)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/6 "2025-09-22T21:50:55Z")
I should be arrested for the number of times I was told to get Keyboard Maestro and I ignored it.
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### Author:  [@David](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/David)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/7 "2025-09-23T07:49:32Z")
I use it all the time. A lot of the macros I use have conditional elements - for example checking to see if Menu Items are present or enabled etc. I found it too difficult to build macros in two locations so in the end I went exclusively for Keyboard Maestro.
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### Author:  [@JTB](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/JTB)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/8 "2025-09-23T10:08:16Z")
I’m using Bome MIDI Translator Pro here. It allows me to use the same grid/buttons/faders to control completely different parameters in Cubase. An example would be my Fab Filter Pro Q grid where one Q fader controls the Q for 7 different bands.
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### Author:  [@EmmCeeSq](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/EmmCeeSq)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2025, 11:48am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/9 "2025-10-27T11:48:39Z")
I use it to do things like switch between visibility configurations in Cubase, process MIDI data (quantize, fix velocity etc). I don’t use it with MGP though, that seems to me to be adding an extra step (when you can just invoke the KM palate via a keyboard shortcut).
I might be missing something though, is there some use case that combines MGP and KM that I’m missing? I do all the stuff shown in the linked video above, just cutting out the middleman (so to speak) and running everything from KM.
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### Author:  [@dragsquares](https://forum.metagrid.app/u/dragsquares)
#### Post date: [November 7, 2025, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.metagrid.app/t/how-many-use-keyboard-maestro/1009/10 "2025-11-07T04:28:05Z")
Any way that you like to work is the best way. I like having those things on grids - I’m not calling up a palette because generally it is just right there because of Dynamic Focus Tracking. But I use a mixture of key commands and MetaGrid Pro because I don’t want to lift my hand for some things. My visibility grid is on another iPad.