Shortcut Manager

[Astraios]

will we ever see something like this in any DAW...?

[Glenn Stanton]

several plugins (samplers, synths etc) have search and filtering as well as marking several types of favorite marking levels so organzing your often used samples and instruments is faster than mindless scrolling... in CbC and Sonar you can organize your own favorite FX and instruments - but it's not adhoc. i do use the filter on the FX browser and media browser to reduce the effort to find something...

[Sock Monkey]

Cakewalk is a bit clunky. Other Daw’s I use I find most are as simple as open the keyboard shortcuts in preferences, find the function and just type my own shortcut It will warn you if it is already in use, Click yes. Done. And instantly useable. 
I did this for almost every Daw I was trying out because I’m so used to using the W key to restart. Muscle memory is hard to break. 

[Amberwolf]

 

7 hours ago, Astraios said:

Thread title:  Shortcut Manager

will we ever see something like this in any DAW...?

 

If you mean the "shortcut manager" you specify in the title of the thread, Cakewalk has had one for a very long time, as far back as I can remember.   It's under Options KeyBindings in my version. 

 

It doesn't show a keyboard as your graphic for Unity does, and it's kinda unrefined and not as easy to use as it could be, at least as of the old version I use, but it's there, and you can assign or reassign most of the shortcuts in the program to suit your needs. 

 It even has presets to emulate other DAWs' shortcut arrangements, and you can save your own setups and switch between them as needed.  (so you could have a setup that makes all the stuff you need instant access to for a specific workflow like recording / comping / etc in easy, then another that makes workflow like midi editing easy, etc).  

 

If you mean something else, then be as specific as you can about what you're after.