Well heheheh....here's the thing....it turns out I was totally confused about the length of the notes I was having trouble editing. Guess I thought I had a different grid resolution 


What I mean, when I talk about skinny notes, are the STACCATO notes you get from dragging the end of a note to the left until it's naught but a thin 2-tick wide line. These notes sound great with a raspy synth bass by the way! I just wish they were easier to manipulate. 

If 30 ticks would suffice, you can get the grid resolution to 128th notes - and you can STILL easily grab the right hand edge, and everything will snap into place

sharke

stevec


I haven't used it myself in a long time, but assuming it's still there I wonder if the Microscope tool might help?

That's what I originally thought too, but it seems the microscope only really increases the height of the notes, it doesn't affect the width. 

I'd forgotten all about the microscope. You can change the  horizontal magnification via the Cakewalk ini file.

MicroscopeHZoomMax changes the maximum horizontal zoom, set between 2 & 8, default is 3 so there;s plenty of scope to increase it.
MicroscopeHZoomThreshold sets the horizontal threshold before it kicks in.

See the manual for more details.

Interesting. I wonder why they don't give you that option in the preferences? 

Yeah does seem a bit strange. TBH I can't get on with microscope mode, it blows my mind too much.

I use my workround and sometimes separate screensets at different zooms. Either way it's just a keypress.

They do:

Sorry, I just realised that's something different.

Ignore me - I'm hungry.