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@Zynewave wrote:

Follow focus track is nice too, but as expected, it doesn’t work with the embedded editor.
I thought about suggesting the tracks view should scroll to the focus track whenever it gets out of view (unless you manually scroll away from it, of course) – if you didn’t want that, you could just disable follow focus track on the ‘Editor’ editor profile.
…However, this poses another problem, as the event opened in the editor is not necessarily on the focus track at all. 😕

So the best solution I can think of right now would be reworking it to just “Follow Selection” – as in follow whatever is actively selected (track or event)… I think that’d work very well. :-k

The purpose of the “Follow focus track” option, is to link track navigation between the mixer and the tracks region. I think extending it to react to event selection can result in mysterious scrolls, as long as it is possible to select events on other than the focus track.

I’m saying this because I think having the edited parts in view is important to be able to edit them in context with the rest of the arrangement surrounding the event… uhh, I don’t know how to put this right. 😉
Even more so if you use the “shared timeline” editor.

I thought about automatically setting key focus to the mixer/EE region when you switch to a profile that has either of them. If the mixer always received key focus upon opening it, this would override any event selections and set focus back to the track.
Unfortunately, this idea wouldn’t work with the embedded editor… 🙁

Anyone else think this is important? Not important?

@ronin wrote:

A small feature request which doesn’t really fit in this: can we have something like “loop selection”? I often edit a specific part/event and want to loop that. It would be nice to select a part/event and loop that with a single keystroke.

Press Alt-L! Or select “Set Loop Around Selection” from the right-click menu on the loop region above the timeline.

I, in turn, would welcome a “zoom selection” function. I think this is only possible with segment selections at the moment.

@Mike G wrote:

– I still keep thinking that the editor profile buttons belong at the top next to all the other “view” options/menus etc…
What do other people think?

Hmm, I think they’re fine where they are now…
Both the editor and mixer are residing in the lower half of the screen, meaning all the mouse movements will probably happen in the lower half while you’re working with one of them. I think if the editor profile bar was at the top, there’d be some extra mousing required, as you would click “mixer” in the menu, move the mouse halfway down the screen to be able to use the thing you just opened, and then move the mouse back to the top to close the mixer again. But since it’s all so nicely customizable, it shouldn’t be a problem, even for new users, to move the buttons wherever they like.

– When trying to zoom out past the ends of the current selection It’s harder to zoom out, much harder than it was with a scroll bar. I will just add the scroll bar back in. But can you think of a way of making this work in the navigator in an intuitive way?

Not sure I understand right – did you mean past the end of the whole arrangement, perhaps? Otherwise I find the navigator is best used with the scroll-wheel. I almost never use the handles myself.
But also allowing the zoom pane to just slide to the right, past the end of the arrangement would be very handy.

A little weirdeness again: If you adjust an audio event’s volume handle and while dragging, move the cursor near the edge of the tracks region, it will start scrolling lightning-fast: Example GIF (the same happens if you increase volume on a track further down, of course). The area in the example is very cramped, but this happens to me sometimes when I’m on the mixer page, where the tracks view only gets ~40% of the screen. Of course it should scroll if you try to move an event up or down, but not while dragging handles, I think. Edit2: A similar thing occurs when you’re resizing a track near the bottom edge. The grabbed edge of the track doesn’t follow the cursor anymore after you hit the scroll area at the bottom: Example GIF.

I’ve also got a question related to this: What’s the point of being able to scroll down far, far below the last track, almost into infinity? Shouldn’t it behave more like the navigator, stopping when only the last track is visible anymore? Edit: Oh yeah, after you scrolled down so far you no longer see any tracks, the navigator still falsly displays events on the bottom track as visible.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

I noticed, since 2.23 I think, that Podium reacts a little slow. Try this with feew 16th notes in loop, mute and unmute the track while it’s playing and you will see that the cursor has to move around 1bar or more until the mute/unmute/modified note take effect.

I downloaded another host to test, same drivers, and I hadn’t this problem.

In my experience Podium has always taken a little time to process MIDI again after unmuting a track or moving parts around, regardless of buffer size. Audio events play immediately after unmuting for me.
When bypassing just the instrument, and not muting the whole track, it works like that with MIDI events too – as I said, all in my experience.

If you actually never had this delay after unmuting before 2.23, then I’d be curious if I’ve been doing something wrong. :-k

Love the zoom snapshots! It’s great that the vertical zoom setting is also stored – this is extra nice as you can, for example, use one snapshot for precise editing. But to be honest, with the track height setting I used up until now, a maximum of 200% zoom is much too small for this kind of editing.

My suggestions are these (one for me, one for you :wink:):

1. I set my tracks’ default height much larger from now on and try to use a vertical zoom level smaller than the default for normal arranging. Then I can zoom in as far as I like during editing. The disadvantage is that I have to set up two extra things, and I can’t use Ctrl-click on the zoom slider anymore.

2. The max. zoom amount is increased some more again.

I think it’d also be very helpful if “follow focus track” could also be in the arrangement view about now. The problem is that there’s almost always an extra step now to get to the track you want.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll try again now: Always display pop-up help for the favorite folder buttons, even if both help options are disabled. I don’t think I would remember the locations of up to 9 favorite folders, and turning help on just to see which is which would not make me happy in the long run. 😛