Currently if you have Show Event Names enabled for the Project Window, the beginnings of the events are often hidden, which can often be a big workflow killer when trying to edit in the Project Window. Is there any way to adjust this that I might not know about?
If not, let’s have the transparency of the names adjustable in a way that you can always see what’s behind them if you want. See Pro Tools and most other DAWs for examples on how this would work.
This often becomes an issue, so that’s why (for the time being) I have assigned Shift+/ to be my key command for the preference Event Display - Show Event Names, and I just tap the keys to temporarily hide all event names if I need to edit something near the very start of the event.
There have been some requests for the event name labels, to have them move out of the way, to have them become more transparent, to be dynamic in some way once the mouse cursor approaches. All is fine with me as long as we get that extra visibility.
But, until then I just use the key command.
Since we’re on the topic, it would be super if Show Event Names were separate from the status icons on the right side of an event. I personally don’t care about event names but I do like to know if I’m looking at a ghost copy etc.
Good idea, for a workaround until/if it gets changed.
The problem is that the big announcement that you’ve changed it comes up for too long and can block what I’m looking at.
Yes, that’s a bit distracting, even though I don’t recall the last time it bothered me. Maybe I got used to it eventually, or did they change it so that the preference affects these notifications too? (Sorry, I’m away from Cubase at the moment.)
Show notification when Switching Tool Mode with Key Command
Thanks! Unfortunately that only affects when you’re switching tools, not any of the other many functions that have notifications. It’s lots of the little things like this that get in the way of fast workflow that could use work in Cubase.
True. The official explanation is that all this stuff is low priority. But I don’t know. There’s quite a bunch of them. I wouldn’t be against such a “low effort-low priority” pass of such details that add even just a bit of quality of life, they’re actually nice touches. Of course it’s not as sexy a feature as something that you can showcase with a nice picture and a single title, but I know I would greatly appreciate this type of mini-improvements.
Agreed! These are arguably some of the most important things about working on a DAW. They should be much higher on the priority list – I think almost all people would appreciate changes like this far more than they might be aware of when it comes to actual use.