Mouse scrollwheel Zoom - A SOLUTION!

Hopefully Cakewalk will implement a sensible way to configure scrollwheel zoom natively.

In the meantime, here is a solution that should appeal to Vegas, Acid, and Tracktion users
who appreciate the power of the scrollwheel zoom.

I found this shareware utility that will map the scrollwheel to keystrokes.

I configured it to map scrollwheel-up to ctrl-rightarrow and scrollwheel-down to ctrl-leftarrow.

It works perfectly!

http://www.ardamax.com/info_mwc.html

I have no affiliation with this shareware company and can't say anything about it other than
it works perfectly for this application.

I may be closer to becoming a Sonar 4 user. I need to go dig out my old Cakewalk 3 license from
ten years ago so I can qualify for an upgrade price...

Randy

how is your setup in sonar keybindings and the little mouse wheel program?

right now i can either zoom in/out or (if i deactivate it) scroll but not at the same time scroll and zoom

what i want to have is something like:

shift + wheel --> zoom horizontal
alt + wheel --> zoom vertical
ctrl + wheel --> scroll horizontal
wheel --> scroll vertical


thanks, planist

It works great and better yet if you press down the scrollweel button you scroll up - down.

That's even better than Vegas....

Thanks a lot Randygo.

>It works great and better yet if you press down the scrollweel button you scroll up - down.

Hey that is really cool, I didn't know that.

In general, I have never cared about using the scrollwheel to actually scroll while editing. It is much more powerful to use it to zoom. For example, if it is set to zoom, you really don't even need horizontal scroll, because you can simply zoom-out, click on a new location in the track, and zoom in. All with the right hand and barely moving the mouse! For vertical scroll I have been more that satisfied using the scrollbar, or in Vegas, using Ctrl-scrollwheel.

When I edit my tracks, I like to work FAST. Hundred of edits an hour in some cases. With scrollwheel zoom my right-hand rarely needs to leave the track pane. My left hand can perfrom the splits, copies, moves, etc., while I fly around the clips in the tracks with ease, often zooming into a few samples to fix a micro-glitch.

Randy

For example, if it is set to zoom, you really don't even need horizontal scroll, because you can simply zoom-out, click on a new location in the track, and zoom in. All with the right hand and barely moving the mouse!

Autocad added that feature a few releases back, and now I can't even use versions of the program from before the scroll-wheel zoomed...

I played around with the Z+ mouse zooming - that is pretty sweet.

I will get used to this quickly, I can tell. Amazing what you can learn after being told 27 times.

That and the navigator view is going make project navigations very fast and easy.

Now - if only cakewalk coud add an option to make automatic, intelligent snap-to-grid resolution changes depending on the zoom level. *That* would make editing SO much faster and easier.

sweet as! bump!

Now we just need the "chopper" from Acid and we will have assimilated that apps uniqueness and added it to our own.

ORIGINAL: Al

1st- thanks Randy ! a really nice find

is this the keybinding to assign or the wanted configuration?

( EDITED ... oops...was a mistake by me)
it's the key modifiers to use in combination with the letters/digits/special keys... control of the output and not the input - i wish it was more flexible and could use modifier keys in combination with the mousewheel

I FOUND HIM!!! here's my lost puppy!

Hi,

Please would you explain how to configure the app to easily use the scrolling wheel. I'm little confused...

Thanx