Smooth Scrolling of Tracks

Hit your keyboard pause key.

Upper right of qwerty keyboard, near Scroll Lock & print screen...

HTH,
Ed

The pause key forces Sonar into CPU conserve mode so updates happen less frequently. Try it and you will see what it does, but I don't think that is your problem. From your description it sounds like you want Sonar to scroll the tracks while keeping the now time in the center of your monitor. That is not possible in Sonar. Your only option is to zoom out horizontally so that the screen doesn't have to update as often as the now time goes from left to right. One other option is to use the scroll lock key to turn off following of the now time. That can be helpul sometimes when your playing back while working on a part. However, I agree with you that it would be nice if Sonar could be configured to do the kind of scrolling your talking about.

EDIT:

I think I misunderstood the question. Are you talking about track view or console view?

Maybe I'm not being clear. Sorry. When in main view, when I scroll up and down all the tracks I have in the song, it jumps one full track at a time. If I have a track or track set up so it is viewed tall, then I have to scroll a ways, then all of a sudden it pops onto my screen, which I find awkward for navigation. I want the tracks to scroll up and down *smoothly*. So in other words, I want to be able to have half a track visible when I'm scrolling. I'll try the pause button when I get home.

Now that I think about it, I had a hard time getting used to that in Sonar 7 console view. I just checked in Sonar 4 and horizontal scrolling is smooth in the console view. So when ever they redesigned the console view used in Sonar 7 that behavior changed from smooth to jumping in track size increments. However, the vertical scrolling in track view in Sonar 4 also jumped in track size increments. Perhaps there is a way to change that behavior in Sonar 7? If someone knows please chime in.

I'll try the pause button when I get home.

That wont help I don't think. Not for this. Well it might if you have it on. Turn it off and see. Sonar has these keys mapped at the bottom of the screen N S P Num Lock Scroll Lock and Pause. My screen scrolls smoothly up and down. It may be how you scroll. Are you using the arrow keys or the side scroll bar? The new mixer has auto resize and that is what contributes to unsmoothness there. It is a feature don't you know. Its been enhanced too. LOL

The vertical scrolling of tracks is weird.

when you have more tracks than can be seen in one view of the track screen and you want to scroll up or down through the tracks. each scroll movement is determned by the size of the top most track.

If you now have say 20 lanes showing in that track instead of being able to scroll through them the whole track disappears from view when iot becomes the top most or bottom most track.


When all the tracks are the same minimum height and you have say 100 tracks it gives the appearance of scrolling smoothly but just open up a few tracks to show more info and then scroll and you'll see how the display jumps at the rate of the vertical size of each track rather than just a smooth scrolling motion . You can't display part of a track vertically. Its all or nothing. The size of the top track in the display determines if any subsequent track is viewed wholly or partially. You just can't scroll to the middle (vertically) of a track.

Using the mouse scroll wheel the way Wicked describes it is the way it works for me. It still is a smooth scroll though. The top track is never cut off. The bottom ones are if the divider for the bus pane is set in a way where the screen can't display all full tracks. The same scroll is done in the bus pane. I don't see this as an issue but a feature. I am using Areo under Vista. This may have an impact on the smoothness I see. The arrow keys do the same thing The scroll bar also acts that way.

20 or 40 lanes in one track? That's a lot of lanes. For that I don't have an answer but perhaps the maximize button may be helpful. Or it could be 20 to 40 % better with a huge display screen.

It is smooth in how it scrolls for me. I guess it is a question of how fast it jumps on a given system. Fast enough and it appeasers smooth.

I think the point is, some people would rather have the top track get cut in the middle if they're dealing with 10+ takes/layers on the track. The scrolling really gets wacky when there are lots of takes. Then you're trying to drag the good take down to the next track, but you scroll, WHOOPS scrolled too far, scroll back, WHOOPS TOO FAR. Reapeat, ad naseaum...

I agree with the OP, the scrolling has always been a pain in the ass for me.

Recently, I've been making more & more use of the M key and simply hiding the tracks I'm not currently interested in or working with.
not an ideal solution I know, but a workaround - especially if you use folders to group tracks into - all you have to do then is hide/unhide the folder itself.

M > Click > Ok.

3 key presses.

Yah but the alternative is that the top track then gets cut off, and I can guarantee you that will becoming annoying far quicker than a subsequent track, or the jump in a track stretched very tall. I'd just minimize then manually stretch out the track you want. Or get a bigger monitor, the problem is simply real estate.

ORIGINAL: ...wicked

Yah but the alternative is that the top track then gets cut off, and I can guarantee you that will becoming annoying far quicker than a subsequent track, or the jump in a track stretched very tall. I'd just minimize then manually stretch out the track you want. Or get a bigger monitor, the problem is simply real estate.

Maybe annoying for you. That's why I'd love to see it as a "user selectable" option.

Do me a favor-- go and record 20 short (10 sec) passes onto the same track. Now open the layer pane and stretch the track open. Now create 2 tracks underneath it and try to scroll between the three tracks. Not very fun at all-- especially if you're recording a weak vocalist who may need ever MORE takes. (!!!!) I'd love to see Sonar scroll as smooth as this forum web page does. Tell me what is so bad about that...

Hrm... okee I stand corrected.

Couldn't you still just manually adjust the height of the "many-layered" track so it doesn't take quite so much space? You're not gonna see everything anyway with the scrolling the way you're suggesting. Or, maybe this is just a case needing to "see" it to really "see" it. :-)