By
Fanu
Thu Nov 21, 2013 8:33 pm
when you zoom in, please let Ren keep the focus on the playhead!
happens so often that im playing thru my track and i hear something i want to fix.
i zoom in using the hardware, but it zooms in out of where the song is going.
annoying.
also, when you have really short midi notes, i'd still love to be able to stretch it without having to zoom in.
maschine is good at this. it's annoying when you have to zoom in to stretch a midi note.
and, as for zooming, lemme copy+paste my zoom-related suggestions from the thread i did (which, to my surprise, hasnt received any comments).
1) Better zooming. IMHO, shift + <> is just too clumsy. I always find myself switching from the hardware to software to zoom. I really dislike the hardware zoom.
TBH, I can't understand why, e.g., shift + jog wheel doesn't do it?
I know that handles contrast, but how often per session do you have to do that, anyways, really…
2) Better browsing back and forth (in main view etc).
IMHO, when you want to move around in main view, using << and >> would be OK as it is – if the screen followed your browsing. Page Mode doesn't extend to manual browsing when your song isn't playing (it's only scrolling while playing), so I'd make it follow manual browsing, too.
Also, in track mix view, you cannot move around in the view using hardware at all? You always have to use your computer for that. It's weak.
I know we have Locate, but that's just for certain points in a song.
3) I'd like to be able to take bigger steps than one bar; maybe by pressing Tap Tempo + <</>> (maybe make shift + tap tempo display a menu for user-definable step size?).
That could be user-definable; 4 bars, 8 bars, etc. Sometimes jumping around in one bar steps feels like work.
4) As I enter track or track mix view, it doesn't remember where I was when I left the view the last time; it always displays the very early section of my song. E.g., I enter track mix view, scroll to display the very last bars of the song, enter main view, then enter track mix view again, and it displays the start of the song again, and I have to scroll to the end again (using software, d'oh!) if I wish to see it.
5) I wish when the playhead is out of the screen and I activate page mode, it brought the focus to where the song actually is! I have to stop and start to get there.