How To Deactivate Scrub Tool

Press F5. That should take you back to the Smart Tool. Or one of the other F-keys if you want something different.

I'm not sure, but maybe pressing T and selecting from the HUD works too.


Hope at least one of these suggestions work for you

Right, I remember someone posting a thread about that. I thought it might be some setting somewhere telling Sonar where to send the "scrubbed" signal, e.g. a bus or master output. If this is set to some other output on your soundcard or something then you'll of course see the signal but not hear a thing. However, I tried it my self and the scrubbing worked so I forgot to check if you can select the output for scrubbing. Not at my Sonar DAW at the moment so I can't check, but maybe this is something to look into.

Sorry for not reporting back earlier, but yup, F5 (or selecting SMART tool) worked.

I don't know why, but when I was playing around with the features, I found the keyboard shortcut to activate it but didn't mentally associate that it was actually a TOOL, and is selected by the command bar tools... Duh

Another easy way to pull up the HUD is to press the Middle Mouse Button. I find this easier than reaching for T on my QWERTY.

Ah, it must be your mouse's software re-routing the Middle Mouse Button to a different key or command. You can always disable or uninstall said software if you want, or just manually remap it back. I use Microsoft's Sidewinder mice on several of my computers and have never installed its custom software and the mouse works fine without it.

Or use T, whatever works for ya.

Yes this is important. On Vista the middle mouse button is for changing apps that are running. I made my Logitech mouse use one of the side buttons for that and left the wheel button for the HUD. Or is it the other way around? Anyway you need to setup your mouse for all the stuff it can do. BTW this mouse is a tilt wheel mouse, very handy. One can scroll up down left or right simply from the wheel.

Good to have you back Seth.

Sweet news ProjectM! And it's good to be back, John (still shaking off bits of NAMM debris).

Ha ha, sure is Seth. Now the only matter is getting used to useing it. We'll see how that goes.

DJHart: I concur, Set Point is actually pretty cool. I've never looked around in it very much. I've pretty much just set up a few things for my keyboard(s) which is the obvious type of things (I keep breaking them all the time so if I don't buy the same model I need to do stuff in there). My mouse that I've had for 8 years or so just works so I never knew I could do all these cool things with it:p

Old thread I know, but...
 
The help file only says how to activate it:
 
SCRUB TOOL
To scrub a single track - Hold down the J key to temporarily enable Scrub mode and drag over the track.

To scrub all displayed tracks - Hold down the J key to temporarily enable Scrib mode and drag in the Time Ruler.

Note: The Scrub tool is invoked by pressing the J key. There is no Scrub tool button in the Control Bar or Tools HUD.
 

SCRUBBING
1. Hold down the J key to activate the Scrub tool.
 
2. Click and drag the pointer over an audio track.
 
Tip: To hear the clips in all audio tracks, drag with the Scrub tool in the horizontal ruler.
 
My experience:
1. Holding the J key while dragging the mouse works as advertised. When you're done just release the J key.
 
2. Hitting the J key quickly, activates it permanently. To deactivate, select one of the Smart tools.
I've noticed that sometimes hitting the J key again will deactivate it, but this does not work often enough to be reliable. STRANGE!
 
3. Dragging the mouse in the Time Ruler does NOT work for me at all. Is this feature broken?
 
 
Steve

I was trying to use it in the PRV. It only works on audio that way.
 
Steve