;made this incase someone else wants to learn basic autohotkey stuff
;anything after a semicolon is just a comment to explain what i did

#IfWinActive, ahk_exe Ableton Live 10 Suite.exe ; makes this script only run when your ableton window is active (when you're "using it"). you can have separate script files with unique hotkeys for different applications with this code. just use the windows spy to find the process name. for example, for chrome it would be "ahk_exe Chrome.exe"

;some basic hotkeys below

^w:: ; makes ctrl+w perform delete because i hate reaching over to the delete key lol
    Send, {Delete}
    Return

!q:: ; makes alt+q perform ctrl+u (quantize) because i use it a lot. ctrl+u is way too difficult to reach.
    Send, ^u
    Return

!a:: ; makes alt+a perform ctrl+j (consolidate) because i also use this a lot and it's annoying to reach
    Send, ^j
    Return

F1:: ; here i set F1 to search and insert serum for me. you can make it work for whatever vst plugin you want. just make sure it's the only search result that appears.
    Send, ^f
    Send, "serum.vst" ; put what you want to search in the ableton search bar here
    Sleep 300 ; waits for 300 milliseconds because sometimes ableton is slow
    Send, {Enter 2}
    return