The hell of using multiple DAWs: mouse wheel gestures

[antic604]

While using multiple DAWs I can somehow quickly adjust to different workflow and even keyboard shortcuts, but the thing that I keep tripping over is mouse wheel actions for scrolling & zooming. Out of curiosity I decided to compile them for the DAWs I own and - unsurprisingly - they're all over the place, with only S1 and Reason being the same:



I know some DAWs let you actually change that behaviour (Reaper, Mixcraft), but - AFAIK - none of the above does.

I'm sharing a link to Google Docs document, so if anyone's interested they could add other DAWs for comaprison.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

[apoclypse]

The best pointing device to use, especially on a Mac, is a trackpad. You avoid pretty much all of this as most daws use the consistent pinch to zoom and for horizontal zooming it’s a mix between alt+ two finger swipe or cmd + two finger swipe.

[antic604]

The best pointing device to use, especially on a Mac, is a trackpad. You avoid pretty much all of this as most daws use the consistent pinch to zoom and for horizontal zooming it’s a mix between alt+ two finger swipe or cmd + two finger swipe.

Indeed, somehow it's less disctracting with a touchpad, even on Windows. But I found out - watching my own videos doing something in a DAW, actually - then I require many more swipes & am less precise with a touchpad. Maybe it would be different on Mac, as I hear they're much superior in this regard

[jancivil]

haven't used a mouse in like 6 yrs. At first I was not so good with the trackpad, now I wouldn't want a mouse. On macbook pros. Pretty sensitive, actually the whole computer is which is kind of irritating for klutzy me, because things may be actuated touching the side of the machine.

In Cubase horizonal zooming is simply hit G for out and H for in, wherever you are. I only need vertical for a waveform and have that assigned to zoom one step via control-H (and 2 finger swipe-scroll), it's shift-G to zoom out in the default key commands.

[pdxindy]

Shift + MW also works in Bitwig for horizontal scrolling.

I use the Trackpad for navigation generally (Mac).

[bharris22]

Have you tried this: https://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMo ... ontrol.htm?

From the website: "X-Mouse Button Control (XMBC) allows you to create application and window specific profiles. This in turn, allows you to re-configure your mouse behaviour for individual applications or windows. For each profile you can also configure up to 10 'layers' of different button configurations which you can switch between using hot-keys or mouse buttons."

I use this and it works well. I think you should be able to create a standard set of mouse button controls that you know and like, and then assign each of the application-specific actions in your chart above to your one preferred set of controls.

[antic604]

Shift + MW also works in Bitwig for horizontal scrolling.

It doesn't on Windows

[WasteLand]

While using multiple DAWs I can somehow quickly adjust to different workflow and even keyboard shortcuts, but the thing that I keep tripping over is mouse wheel actions for scrolling & zooming. Out of curiosity I decided to compile them for the DAWs I own and - unsurprisingly - they're all over the place, with only S1 and Reason being the same:



I know some DAWs let you actually change that behaviour (Reaper, Mixcraft), but - AFAIK - none of the above does.

I'm sharing a link to Google Docs document, so if anyone's interested they could add other DAWs for comaprison.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

haha i have the same thing, the scrolling behavior... the hell? the hell is the other DAW.

and some standalone applications, do it also, sometimes i must think what was it again, shift/alt or ctrl, first i must check it...

or some vst plugins... so the hell is bigger than you think...

[EnGee]

In Cubase horizonal zooming is simply hit G for out and H for in, wherever you are.

Exactly! I use this the most for zooming. Very fast workflow

[MuzikFreq]

Live I have to say was the easiest to remember because there's no ctrl+X+MW combos

[bharris22]

I think the link I included above would solve these problems, and it is free .

[antic604]

Live I have to say was the easiest to remember because there's no ctrl+X+MW combos

Indeed, but it's infutiating that horizontal zoom (Ctrl+MW) is super sensitive, while horizontal scrolling (Shift+MW) is very sluggish. With Live touchpad is the way to go for me.

[EvilDragon]

I can very much agree with the premise of this thread. It's ridiculous there aren't options for this in every DAW.

I have two mousewheels on my mouse (Logitech MX Master 2S) - the normal vertical one and a thumbwheel for horizontal zoom. So this is how I scroll around. I press Alt and then both wheels are doing zoom in their respective directions. Only works in Reaper, so I guess that's where I'll stay forever.

[apoclypse]

Shift + MW also works in Bitwig for horizontal scrolling.

It doesn't on Windows

For the most part on Macs the behavior is pretty consistent. I'm not sure why Window is all over the place.

[Kinh]

shit, I didn't know you could move horizontal and zoom with the wheel in ableton, thanks