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Old 10-30-2017, 09:14 AM   #87
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Originally Posted by EvilDragon View Post
I noticed something here.

When one MIDI editor per project is active, and these options enabled:

Active MIDI item follows selection changes in arrange view
Selection is linked to editability
(Optionally) Selection is linked to visibility


Then if you zoom out enough to see multiple items, zoom is preserved as you select different items for editing... that is UNTIL you select an item that is outside the MIDI editor viewport, which Reaper then messes up and zooms into the selected item, instead of just scrolling to it!

Another problem is that depending on item selection, and probably also contributing to the problem here: Reaper simply truncates the MIDI editor ruler - for example, if you have a bunch of items, and you select items starting from bar 20, you can never scroll back to bar 1 in MIDI editor after that! This "ruler truncation" also happens if you use horizontal scrolling action - even if the ruler wasn't truncated automatically when selecting a different set of items! That's pretty bad (and also not something that happens with the main arrange view - so why can't MIDI editor behave the same?)...

Seems like a relatively simple thing to fix - just SCROLL to the items, never ZOOM, and while at it, also NEVER truncate the ruler! After all, arrange view has a stable zoom level as last one used is remembered, and even when selecting different items from Project Bay, it just scrolls to the one you selected, instead of re-zooming into it!
Yes, lots of people have complained about this. The auto-zoom behaviour to items outside current view is awful.

I made a bug report thread about it ages ago...

https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=180610

A bug report because auto-zooming might be what the program does, but it can't be intentionally designed specifically to auto-zoom 1/2 bar or 1000 bars to fit the screen if the user clicks on something. It makes the MIDI editor feel like it's under the control of an annoying goblin at times.
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