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@kyran wrote:

Lets take ctrl+drag and alt+drag as an example. I think most people will have a preference to either phantom copies or hard copies depending on the sort of work they do most of the time. (I find myself using phantom copies most of the time and am happy to use the right click menu to make a phantom copy unique) This would free up the ctrl modifier for my usecase.

Thanks for the input. I also almost exclusively use the phantom copying, so your suggestion made me think of another solution:

Dragging with the control key will make phantom copies. I’ll add Ctrl+Q as a shortcut for converting a phantom to a unique copy. Thus, after you have dragged a phantom copy with Ctrl held down, it’s a quick tap on the Q key to convert it to a unique copy. That frees up the Alt key to be used for the drag x/y locking, and the Shift key can then exclusively be used for overriding snap mode. No need for the Shift key option in the snap menu. This will work across all editors.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

I’d like to report a bad behavior timming notes: When you undo timming notes only the selected note is undoed. I hope it helps 🙂

That is on purpose. As with all editing commands, only selected events are affected. If you want to revert the timing of all notes, select all, before using the command.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

@thcilnnahoj wrote:

I also LOVE the right-click cancel action, and wouldn’t want to be without it! 8)

I start to see it useful too. Middle click while dragging is the way, well, I think 😉 it doesn’t do nothing (while dragging), right?

Middle-clicking on the timeline area sets the position of the edit cursor. On my mouse the middle-click is done by pressing down the mouse-wheel. It’s hard to do this without accidentally scrolling the wheel, so I wouldn’t be comfortable with using middle-click for often used actions.

Anyway, I think I’ve come up with a solution that pleases all:

The old quantize menu (now renamed to grid/snap menu, shortcut Alt+G) is extended with the options: “Absolute Snap to Grid”, “Relative Snap to Grid” and “Use Shift Key to Override Snap”. Thus you can select whether you want the shift key for overriding snap, or for the old default x/y drag lock. These options are set for each editor.

Just a quick halfdone mockup to illustrate my idea:

The small outer circles would contain an icon that illustrates the action. Upper half, left to right, would be: Resize start, fade-in, gain, fade-out, resize end. Moving the mouse over the small circles will show detailed info text in the center circle.

So, it can be used both as a quick way to get info about the properties of the event, as well as an easy access to drag adjusting the properties. It can be useful when the normal drag handles on the event are hard to access, such as when zoomed far out, as in the screenshot, and when zoomed far in so that the handles on the event may be outside the display range.

@LiquidProj3ct wrote:

Why do we need Editor button? the squares don’t clutter the parameter list and I cannot see any advantage in to have it turned off. Are I missing something or this button could be eliminated?

I made the display of the checkboxes optional, both to be able to save space for longer parameter names in the list, and also to prevent accidental clicking of the checkboxes.