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Keyboard Volume Keys: half-steps? Quarter Steps?

Is it possible to change the amount of increase / decrease the keyboard volume keys cause? Right now, tapping F11 or F12 just once turns the volume up or down a LOT more than I want it to. Subtle changes are impossible.

Is there any way for me to change this so that pressing F11 and/or F12 only changes the volume a little?

2.53 ghz Mac Mini, 4 gigs of RAM., Mac OS X (10.6.2), I heart my Apogee Duet.

Posted on Jan 13, 2010 1:53 PM

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V.K.

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Posted on Jan 13, 2010 2:24 PM

you can hold shift and option while pressing volume up and down key. that will make them increment by one quarter step.

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Jalpuna Author

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Jan 14, 2010 3:19 PM in response to V.K.

WHEW! I found a better way. Actually, I didn't find a better way, but there's a bug in OSX that prevents Services from being assigned to function keys in the keyboard control panel, so I found another way to accomplish my goal of having more control over system volume.

I downloaded Spark and created applescripts to raise/lower the volume by 1, and then, in Spark, I assigned hotkeys to those.

Easy!

In case anyone finds this and wants a step by step guide, I posted it on my blog:
http://jalpuna.com/archives/2010/01/better_keyboard.shtml

Cheers!

Jalpuna Author

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Jan 14, 2010 3:20 PM in response to Jalpuna

P.S. I should have added: for anyone who owns an Apogee Duet (or something similar), this could be really handy.

Keyboard Volume Keys: half-steps? Quarter Steps?