Thanks alot for sharing this. Already knew this, and i also know about holding the ALT key to stay with the normal selection. However, this doesn't solve the issue for me. The Alt-Modifier key is not the same as giving the option to have real manual tool-switching, as it forces the user to a completely redundant and unnecessary modifier step. Having to press Alt just to be safe from accidentally adjusting the time-selection of selected notes would be no convenient workflow - and having to press small track height wouldn't even work in that scenario.Funk Dracula wrote: ↑Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:45 pmThis too was kind of driving me bonkers, but then I RTFM and hidden within there was the solution.nowiamone wrote: ↑Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:38 pm
- In every DAW except Bitwig, when you want to select several clips in the arranger, you can trust this to happen, independently from where you start drawing the selection box. In Bitwig, you must start the selection box from the upper half of a Track-lane – otherwise you’ll get the time-selection. There must be an option to disable this. And instead have a fixed default tool (like the pointer tool), while of course maintaining the ability to quickly change the tools via shortcuts (1-5).
Go to settings -> shortcuts -> and look up "Toggle Large Track Height" and assign a shortcut key to it. Toggle it on/off and take notice of what it does. It shrinks the track height and clips, but what it also does is change the behavior of the pointer tool to be an exclusive pointer tool!
I assigned the Tilde key to it because it's right there where my left hand is hanging around over the keys when arranging and I can flip it on/off quickly as needed.
So in Bitwig, you toggle really quick to the tiny track height, which shows more clips in your view, and you use this mode to grab tons of clips easily and without error of the multi-tool context positioning, and then freely move clips around.
Hope that helps. Cheers
-edit- I just wanted to add that there were a ton of things I thought Bitwig was missing, and alot of the times it turns out it was just already there and I hadn't learned about the feature yet. One example was that I sorely missed the velocity tool in Logic's piano roll, and it turned out Bitwig has it by holding down ctrl+shift with the pointer tool in it's piano roll. I'm constantly learning little tidbits like this haha.
I agree, that often times people (me included) are too quick to think that a DAW they are learning should behave like a DAW they already know. However, i already am using Bitwig since 2 years now, and i know it very well in the areas which i use most and therefore know what i would appreciate to be changed. In some cases, i adjusted/adapted to the "Bitwig way", because it makes sense and is quick - like the Browser which can be opened in so many contexts, and the custom collections which can be made, and Bounce in Place, hybrid tracks, and the post recording functions, and more! But those are functions which make sense and offer a quick workflow. Some issues i listed in my huge post here are all issues which, imho, are prime examples of issues which are NOT solvable by adapting to Bitwig, because it's technically and logically impossible to be well adjusted to something like "press Enter to confirm renaming", as it makes zero sense. Other issues i listed are partially solvable by adapting to Bitwig, like getting used to pressing ALT in the Arranger to prevent accidental time-selections - but those are the kind of "getting used to something which is annoying and slows down" adapations which i highly dislike. Resignedly getting used to a workaround for an unpolished feature is neither a solution to the problem, nor is it very fun.
