This re-centering tracks behaviour when clicking on a track

[ferropop]

this specific "centering" behaviour that happens when you click on a track is a constant battle. Maybe the current behaviour in some use case is desirable, but I thikn a lot of people would benefit from disabling whatever's happening here:



Just wanna zooom into a specific detail of the track, and have the view stay completely stable, unless intentionally moving the view.


I would almost exclusively want things to move the screen as little as possible, in a pretty strict way, unless triggered by actual Scroll LR/UD to intentionally shift the current view in some way.

Was there some way to disable what happens above? (Clicking a track recenters it to the top). So clicking on a track resulted in the screen not shifting view in any way.

Envelopes working identically. Just want to zoom in on something of interest and be able to work on that area of tracks, reliably without the view darting off unexpectedly.

Thank you sm!

[ferropop]

Anybody else struggling with this?

When doing detailed cut/chop/mute/stretch type work - it's very disruptive when you've centered the view to exactly what you want, and then it suddenly flies off unexpectedly.

[smandrap]

Any chance you have some scripts running that may be responsible for this? It's not happening on my end

(sorry bad gif)

[ferropop]

My MM for TRACK:LEFTCLICK is:

Custom:
-move edit cursor to mouse cursor
-select track under mouse


If instead of the above Custom Action I just use the default, it stays put like you demonstrate.

But I have specific and important reasons for running the above Custom Action, and don't see why either Move Edit Cursor to Mouse Cursor or Select Track Under Mouse should trigger a recentering.

[smandrap]

Yeah seems like select track under mouse is the one triggering scroll to view...

[FeedTheCat]

Had the same thing happen with some other actions.

[ferropop]

Originally Posted by FeedTheCat

Had the same thing happen with some other actions.

Thanks for linking this FeedTheCat, I also found this to be excruicating in Fixed Lanes when zoomed in and working on like, lane 33 adjusting a tiny crossfade, then boom the view changes.

[MonkeyBars]

Yes have noticed this many times over the years, thanks for writing it up Ferro!

Fix in latest dev