It would be useful to be able to adjust the height of all the tracks vertically at once to make them all larger, or smaller.
This is currently not possible, as tracks within folders are not changed when using the ‘global’ vertical zoom. This is really annoying, as I keep ending up having all the tracks different sizes, and every ten minutes I have to open all the folders, then open all the sub folders within them, and use the alt drag on a single a track to change the size, then adjust the global zoom again.
I just want all the tracks to stay the same height.
That is the problem, as I have to open all the folders and subfolders within them before adjusting the height of tracks. This can take a while sometimes.
The expected behaviour of a windows global zoom control should be predictable, and not require time consuming checking for special cases, such as checking and re-configuring all the open and closed folders in particular ways.
So, I think my request is to repair the bug, and make it perform in the normal and predictable manner.
The main problem with the existing situation is that if you ever use the global zoom control with closed folders, you will always get the zoom out of sync for different tracks, and always have to manually correct them. This should not be the responsibility of the user, as it takes time to repair by hand.
The function isn’t called “Global Zoom” and in fact is not global at all. It works per zone or window, and can be vertical or horizontal…
The rule is s a simple one. Tracks in closed folders don’t change height.
You made a feature request, so now you should wait for SB to implement it in some future version, or for others to weigh in with their support, or not.
Cubase provides tools to create custom commands using the Project Logical Editor and Key Command Macros, so you can probably create the function you are after.
The horizontal global zoom works properly, so the vertical global zoom should have the same behaviour. It would be equally annoying if the horizontal zoom only affected certain tracks.
I haven’t found a way to workaround the bug using macros, I think it will require patching the code itself, or reverting to an earlier version before the bug was introduced.
I wouldn’t call this a bug, but that’s beside the point, and not really interesting. However, I have to agree with @phil2 that I would also want all tracks (or even lanes) to stay the same height, so that my project view doesn’t get messy when I change the zoom level when certain folders or lanes are closed. Better still - make it an option, so that everyone’s satisfied…?
I took a stab at it but wasn’t able to come up with a satisfying solution. Either I would loose the state of open and closed folders or it didn’t work on nested folders.
A function to temporarily save and recall the current folder states, similar to Zoom MEM/ZAP, would be great but that’s a different feature request.
Making it an option would be fine for me, and then I’ll stop calling it a bug.
I don’t really get why the tracks in closed folders were ever treated differently here though, it seems more of an oversight than an intentional UI decision.
It’s very rare, maybe only once a week that I might want to see multiple tracks simultaneously with different vertical sizes. Possibly just when lining up a midi note with an audio waveform transient or something like that. It’s not essential for that either.
I’m squarely with phil2. I have zero interest in seeing tracks end up in random heights - what use is this to anyone? Sessions quickly become a mess when you use folders, and track heights require resetting several times a day.
I can see the benefit of the ‘zoom in on selected track’ option - though I don’t use it myself as normal zoom in/out functions work well enough.
What would maybe please all parties is a ‘Reset track heights’ button or key command as seen in Logic.
