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How do you deal with S1's slow horizontal scrolling?

madFloyd

madFloyd

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I've always been puzzled why S1's horizontal scrolling is sooooo slow. Navigating along the timeline is such a fundamental activity and it just seems to be at odds with S1's (otherwise) super fast workflow. It actually drove me to try and switch to Cubase at one point out of frustration... but of course otherwise I love Studio One.

I'm curious if anyone else feels the same about this. I dealt with it (successfully, I might add) by having a dedicated (horizontal) scroll wheel with modified sensitivity. I've recently switched to a Slimblade Pro (trackball) where I have a programmed a button to put the trackball into scrolling mode with fast sensitivity.
 
SwitchBack said:
Have a look at this video :)
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I've seen that before (and always good to have a refresher) but there's nothing in there that's helpful to me in terms of the issue I have.

Let me paint a more clearer picture: I can navigate the Arrangement window fine, it's inside the piano roll where I'm zoomed in to my comfort level (seeing note names etc.) and am constantly scrolling back and forth horizontally. I don't want to move the cursor, I just want to scroll.
 
Not sure if you're on the Mac or PC. But, I use both, so...

On the PC, never found a good way. What I do instead is set up the view to see the entire track, then use the magnifying glass zoom tool (Hold [Shift][Alt]) to select the section I want to see. If you then [Shift][Alt] and click, it will "undo" the previous zoom, which in this case, shows the entire track again. I know that this isn't what you want, but once you get used to it, you can navigate really quickly.

On the Mac, the Magic Mouse allows you to swipe on the top surface of the mouse to scroll really quickly, and if you're on a laptop, the track pad does the same. I know there's a lot of haters of that mouse out there, but it works really well for me. In the arrange window, pressing the shift key while swiping will let you zoom in/out both horizontally and vertically.

I don't have experience running Studio One on a PC laptop, but I suspect that the trackpad would behave the same. If that's the case, getting an external trackpad for the PC would do the trick.
 
The mouse can effect this too. I have just got into the Logitech Master 3S currently. The horizontal control wheel can be set through software to move through horizontal scrolling faster than normal that is for sure.
 
Jemusic said:
The mouse can effect this too. I have just got into the Logitech Master 3S currently. The horizontal control wheel can be set through software to move through horizontal scrolling faster than normal that is for sure.
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Yes, that's exactly what I did - works great.


Again, my point wasn't just to get a solution to the issue; I thought it would be interesting to learn WHY it is slow by design.
 
As a Windows user, that's the one thing that annoys me the most about Studio One. It's a rather known issue, I don't really get why it hasn't been tackled already. I'm not a developer, but I'd assume it's something that should be easy to fix.

The Studio One Plus script helps a bit since it swaps Ctrl+Wheel and Shift+Shift+Wheel.
 
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Sombreuil said:
As a Windows user, that's the one thing that annoys me the most about Studio One. It's a rather known issue, I don't really get why it hasn't been tackled already. I'm not a developer, but I'd assume it's something that should be easy to fix.

The Studio One Plus script helps a bit since it swaps Ctrl+Wheel and Shift+Shift+Wheel.
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Yes, it would be very easy to change, but my guess is they don't see this as something needing fixing.

I'm also on Windows btw.

I don't quite understand your last sentence, can you elaborate?
 
It swaps vertical and horizontal focus/zoom, which makes the left hand work a bit less with meticulous zooming.
 
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