in X1 I could highlight an area and move or delete in 2 seconds
now I have use key strokes to change to the select tool...in piano roll and it makes me want to scream....so slow
can I get it back the way it was, please?
also
does anyone else's piano roll stop rolling(curser through the song) after u edit.....I pulled in the 3b update and it started working then stopped again.
thanks

IIRC the change for the smart tool was from X1 to X2. AFAIK apart from take lane use the smart tool hasn't changed in X3 from X2.
 
Try right click and drag to lasso select, or single left click for individual selection.
 
The scroll lock while editing is an option you can turn on or off. TV---->Options--->Click Behaviour--->Left click locks scroll. It's to stop the notes or clips you are editing disappearing when editing.
 
To restart scrolling right click in the top half of the time line. Personally I find it great once you get used to it.
 
HTH

It needed to be smarterer.
 
Seriously though, when the ST isn't fitting in with my workflow I use the Toggle Tool key binding to bounce back and forth between a static tool and the ST or two static tools. Usually the ST plus a traditional combo is enough. I specifically have to do this when inputting data to the PRV because double clicking all the time just to drop a note is dumb and leads to inaccuracies.

Beepster
....I specifically have to do this when inputting data to the PRV because double clicking all the time just to drop a note is dumb and leads to inaccuracies.

Set Mouse button = double click.
 

 

The smart tool took a post graduates course. And now its really smart.  
 
 
 
See I didn't go to post grad school and thus my spelling is awful. Edited for really bad spelling!

I am still considering doing that for one of my extra buttons but they may be better used mapped to other functions. The toggle is pretty simple as I generally have my left hand over the QWERTY keyboard anyway. I think it's kind of cool zipping around with the trackball and pecking away at the keyboard. Like driving stickshift... kind of... even though I've never driven stick... but that's what it would be like... yup. Stickshift.
 
;-p

Huh.. I never thought about it like that before, but I think you're right...   I haven't driven stick in years, but when I did I never had any problems coordinating the moves (drummer in a former life).   So now I just do the same with the mouse and keyboard.  
 
 
 
 
 
... though I still have one of my mouse buttons mapped to a double-click.   Works well for opening files too.   It's like, all multi-purpose and stuff.
 

I've also been getting better at using my keyboard controller for more tonal input and I'll be spending some time getting more proficient with my padkontrol for drums (although I'll have to do two swipes... one for upper kit and the second for kick drums which might be weird but I think it will work). So doing that with Input Quantize, slowing down tempos for input or outright step recording I'll likely end up spending very little time meticulously inputting data into the PRV with the trackball. Just editing and tweaking.
 
We'll see though but creating drum parts in particular with the PRV isn't nearly as much fun as hammering away with my hands.

John
The smart tool took a post graduates course. And now its really smart.  

Actually nobody changed it.  The tool has become so smart, it is now changing itself.  It cannot be stopped.

Beepster
It needed to be smarterer.
 
Seriously though, when the ST isn't fitting in with my workflow I use the Toggle Tool key binding to bounce back and forth between a static tool and the ST or two static tools. Usually the ST plus a traditional combo is enough. I specifically have to do this when inputting data to the PRV because double clicking all the time just to drop a note is dumb and leads to inaccuracies.

Hi Beepster...
 
Dbl-click to add a note? I didn't even know that... I've been using Alt-click...
 
Keni