I forget... Is there a "Smooth Scrolling" Now Time option?

Okay, just poking around the manual and some of my notes and I think I already went through this before to find that this option is not available in Sonar. If this is indeed the case I'd like to propose a feature request for this and perhaps some more advanced Now Time marker options.
 
The particular behavior I am referring to is basically this...
 
1) Start Playback
2) The screen will remain unchanged until the Now Time Marker reaches the center of the current view.
3) Once the Now Time Marker reaches the center of the current view it remains centered and the view scrolls smoothly to the right as the project plays back.
 
This is particularly helpful when zoomed all the in on something you want to audition for editing. It lets you keep an eye on the data as the section plays instead of jumping to the next section where your eyes (and brain) have to dart around trying to find the problem area.
 
This works well in conjunction with combinations of the Rewind On Stop function enable/disabled. Basically if it is disabled then once you get to the problem area you can stop playback and that spot is centered on screen. If you have to scroll around to center the area when you are zoomed in it is difficult to be precise... especially if that spot has already jumped offscreen. Of course there is the option of center zooming on that point with the absolutely excellent (IMO) Time Ruler zoom but it is an extra step.
 
If I am completely mistaken and there is a smooth scrolling option please point me in the right direction as it will really help my editing workflow.
 
This is not a complaint... it is a question/suggestion.
 
Don't flame me, bro. ;-)

It does seem like smooth scrolling is overdue. Maybe at one point it was considered too much of a resource hog, but enough people are rocking high powered DAW's these days to at least make it an option. I think the full version of Pro Tools has smooth scrolling. Anyway it annoys me most in the PRV when I'm trying to visually track notes as they're playing. Even though I know the screen jump is coming up, it always throws me and I have to realign my eyes with the notes. 

Okay, so I'm not crazy. I didn't realize this was a resource issue but yeah, that seems like it wouldn't be such a problem these days. It's funny though because my old system is a complete joke compared to this one (although it was very nice at one point) and I never had any problems. I guess I got kind of spoiled by and/or accustomed to some of the features on that DAW even though it is very basic and rudimentary compared to Sonar X series.
 
I will be trying to be more proactive in regards to feature requests instead of just pontificating here so hopefully the Bakers don't view that as an attack. I just want to help. I'm sure something like this would be difficult to code as it's probably embedded deep into the core of the program but it would be pretty sweet IMO.
 
And Sharke... PRV editing is exactly what I'm doing right now and why I brought it up but I do find myself getting tripped up in the Track View as well. I didn't realize I had picked up so many habits/preferences from my old days of hackery.

I agree.
 
I would love to be able to view the notes that are about to be triggered, especially with complex orchestral programming

Pre-X series it used to be holding down the 'G'-key. Dunno if it's still in there somewhere...

A BIG +1 for smooth scrolling!

"G" will do it, but only per instance each time it's hit. SONAR doesn't have a "mode" for it. Used to be only Digital Performer had this feature but it's ubiquitous now so yeah, I would also like to see it. When doing editing work trying to audition the jump is very tedious. You CAN hold the G key down and it will basically mimic that feature, which is a poor man's workaround.

...wicked
"G" will do it, but only per instance each time it's hit.

I can't make "G" do it.  In TV or PRV.  I just searched KBSC and the only "G" is Go To Time. 
 
Can you elaborate?
 
Thanks

Ah yes... supposed to be Go To. Not sure why it got stuck or it didn't behave the way Go To is supposed to. Meh. I don't think smooth scroll is there in the X series, guys. I've moved on. Just disabling scroll is good enough for now. It's the first thing I do when I start messing with a project because the screen jumping thing is just far too distracting. I manually scroll when need be.
 

Ah, it's bindable. "center view on now time". I just bound it to my "Y" key.
 
 

I finally got around to putting in my feature request.  I would not want it to be the new default, btw.  It should be lockable on or off.  It could be annoying if you couldn't turn it off!!!!!!!  

+1
 
It would be helpful.

stevec
http://www.amazon.com/Precision-Balance-Scale-Calibration-Weights/dp/B009C0QCIS
 

 

soens
Interesting thread. Never thought about this before. Nice it can be bound to a key. Unfortunately you have to hold the key. It should stay locked when hitting the key and released when hitting it again.

I agree, this would be a nice feature!

I assigned the "center view on now time" command to the period key some months ago. Soon after that I decided to use a different key for the command so I removed it from the period key, but, strangely, when I hit the period key it still works as "center view on now time."
 
The only way to fix it is using [Zap All] (I tried assigning a new command to the period key, and the "Do Nothing" command, too). But I don't want to re-bind everything I've bound to date, so I contacted support. And it's been about 2 months since then with no reply....
 
So I don't recommend binding the "center view on now time" command.
Anyway, you have to hold down the key to make it work so it's not really usable...