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Let me put the suggested key shortcuts into perspective, by listing the new arrangement edit menu commands (with shortcuts) I’m planning to do later on:

Snap to the Left (Shift+Left)
Snap to the Right (Shift+Right)
Nudge to the Left (Ctrl+Left) (already implemented)
Nudge to the Right (Ctrl+Right) (already implemented)
Shuffle to the Left (Alt+Left)
Shuffle to the Right (Alt+Right)
Move to Previous Track (Ctrl+Up)
Move to Next Track (Ctrl+Down)

And for the piano roll, drum map, curve and sound editors (both embedded and window):

Go To Sequence on Previous Track (PageUp)
Go To Sequence on Next Track (PageDown)
Go To Sequence on Parent Track (Shift+PageUp)
Go To Sequence on Child Track (Shift+PageDown)

While working this out, I was considering electronica music genres, where you often construct the song by laying out repeated patterns, with fill patterns injected at various places. With these new key shortcuts, users that work in this genre can quickly lay out the foundation of the entire song using only the keyboard.

The “snap to the …” commands will move selected events so that they join either the previous or next event on the track. If the edit cursor is placed before the previous/next event, then it will snap to the edit cursor (both start and end of events). As an example, this can be used to align the end of a reverse cymbal sound to the start of a bar.

The “shuffle…” commands will reorder events on the track, so if you have a fill pattern in the middle of a line of repeated patternes, you can quickly move the fill pattern left/right without having to manually move both patterns that should swap places.

The “Go To Sequence…” commands will be a very convenient way to quickly navigate among the sequences that are playing in the part of the timeline you are currently zoomed in on. It supplements the sequence switching shortcut of Alt+Clicking ghost notes in the piano roll. The PageUp/PageDown commands will switch only between sequences on the same group level. If you want to edit parameter tracks of the sequence you are currently showing, then you press Shift+PageDown.

Is this all too much?

I’ve browsed the documentation of some other hosts, and they all support edit commands similar to the snap, nudge and shuffle commands.

Personally I’m looking forward to having the PageUp/PageDown shortcuts. These will be useful in any kind of music genre.

@H-man wrote:

One thing tho, kind of related and the above may resolve the issue for me but …the lack of any vertical lock on the navigator drives me nuts.

Are you aware that you can click above or below the zoom pane to start dragging with vertical lock?

If you didn’t know about this, then would you consider this sufficient?

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

Frits, there is a small bug when you adjust timming. Don’t know how to reproduce it, but I have a pod file that I could send you if you want:

Please send the pod file, and tell me what your adjust timing dialog settings are.

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

1. The original note, with an example snap setting of 1/16th
2. First snap point – the note is extended to a length of 1/16th
3. Second snap point – relative snap
4. Third snap point – grid line
Steps 3 and 4 can then be repeated for every 16th step.

Is this by design? I kinda expected the note to first snap to the .3 grid line (as it’s the closest point to snap to) instead of getting quantized to the snap setting, but it seems it won’t snap to this particular grid line at all.

Yes. The minimum resizable length when snap is on, is one grid unit. If you want it shorter, then either disable snap, or reduce the grid size.