Can mouse scrolling input be disabled for parameters?

[Henrik]

I am using a normal wired mouse with a scroll wheel with Studio One and I would like to NOT have parameters react to mouse wheel scrolling, when the mouse pointer is hovering over a parameter. Parameters are panning, volume, etc. Is that possible to configure in Studio One?

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[SwitchBack]

I don't think so. Short of disabling the wheel completely (mechanically or maybe a system preference/driver setting) the only way is to be more precise/careful when and where to use the wheel. Or maybe there are mice available with more detailed config options, like requiring e.g. shift or alt to activate the wheel?

 

[Henrik]

I really wish I could scroll horizontally in the mixer with the mouse scroll wheel, without fearing hovering over a parameter and changing it unknowingly. I never use the scroll wheel for changing parameter values. Good tip on looking into the mouse setup, but that would be system wide, unless I look into profiles on the mouse.

 

[SwitchBack]

Maybe adopt the habit of placing the mouse over the name labels below the faders before shift-scrolling? Think of it as the scroll row

 

[Henrik]

It's too stressful doing that ... carefully placing the pointer on a label and then NOT move the mouse when scrolling the wheel. Plenty of energy goes into mixing and I'd rather not have to worry about it. And too risky if something gets nudged while scrolling. I guess I'm intolerant, as I don't ever see people complain about it. And I have more gripes with Studio One... but one gripe per thread is enough
But I love Studio One regardless.

 

[Trucky]

I really wish I could scroll horizontally in the mixer with the mouse scroll wheel, without fearing hovering over a parameter and changing it unknowingly. I never use the scroll wheel for changing parameter values. Good tip on looking into the mouse setup, but that would be system wide, unless I look into profiles on the mouse.

I don't know if this works for Mac users but in Windows you can scroll horizontally in the mixer by press and holding the [Shift] key and moving the wheel mouse without it affecting any (pan, fader, etc.) parameters.

 

[SwitchBack]

Yep, same. So that's what I hinted at.

 

[Henrik]

Guys, I forgot about that! It works on macOS as well.

But, I stopped using it, because not every parameter ignores Shift+scroll. Panning is still affected.

I am holding down Shift here (Pan mode = Dual):

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[scottyo7]

I'm using a different Bluetooth mouse now but my previous one had a scroll wheel that moved right and left which allowed Horizontal scrolling. I've contemplated switching back to it but grabbing the bottom horizontal bar is nearly as quick and I don't use Horizontal scrolling that much.

 

[Edu]

To avoid unwanted scroll wheel actions, you can set up some keyboard shortcuts for moving left/right in your DAW and, using the free XMouseButtonControl tool, map these keys to scroll wheel up and down actions.

If you want, the XMouseButtonControl tool also lets you create keyboard shortcuts for combined mouse actions, such as right-click + wheel up/down, which I use for vertical movements.

 

[faceless]

I can’t keep losing hours fixing mixes because a simple scroll changes parameters (faders, knobs, etc.) without feedback.

This behavior makes the software unusable in a professional environment. It’s unbelievable that there’s still no option to disable this « scroll-to-change » behavior.

Calling it a « feature » is misleading, it’s a source of silent hidden errors.

I’m done with this, and I’m going back to Cubase for this reason.

 

[OFS]

I can’t keep losing hours fixing mixes because a simple scroll changes parameters (faders, knobs, etc.) without feedback.

This behavior makes the software unusable in a professional environment. It’s unbelievable that there’s still no option to disable this « scroll-to-change » behavior.

Calling it a « feature » is misleading, it’s a source of silent hidden errors.

I’m done with this, and I’m going back to Cubase for this reason.

I completely agree with you but only very recently (I think only in version 15, maybe 14 but not earlier for sure) were you able to have this option in Cubase. It was much worse than Studio One because there was no option to use shift to activate scroll instead of changing parameters. If you happened to use the mouse wheel in the wrong place by accident, which was very easy to do in the Mix Console, you could easily change things by mistake.

I've gotten used to the Shift Scroll thing in S1 and rarely screw up nowadays, it has became muscle memory, but I agree that there should be an option to disable it completely. It's an old request even from the Presonus forums time.