Annoying interaction between Project window and lower editor with drum maps

Cubase
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Right, this happens in both Cubase 12 & 13 on windows 10.
Best way to explain is to recreate.

  1. Open new project
  2. Create midi track
  3. Set drum map for track to GM
  4. Create a part on the track in project zone
  5. Open drum editor in lower zone for newly created part
  6. Move divider in drum editor to the right to view all parameters
  7. Move divider in project zone to left so it’s not in line with the one in the editor below
  8. Create an audio track
  9. Double click in the project zone to create an audio part.

The project window should have jumped to a different view.
If you now click between the midi part, and the audio part it changes every time.

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I don’t know if this is meant to happen or not, but it is very annoying.
I was trying edit a project, and every time I clicked on a different part to move it the whole view changed.

2

In other words:
Cubase always tries to align the track start points between the Project Zone and the Lower Editor Zone (with more or less success…). If the track start points are in different positions in different Editors, the track start point is moved in the Project Zone when switching between tracks with different Editor types (Key vs Drum); it jumps back and forth visually, so to speak.
This annoying visual jumping of the track start point could be avoided, if the automatic alignment function could be switched off (similar to Link Project and Lower Zone Editor Cursors).

3

Yes, that’s it, better put than I.
Twice I’ve lost my thread on a project and spent ages trying to work out what was going on.
Maybe I’m just too easily distracted?
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