Cubase 14 | New Range Tool Issue!

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Happy Release day everyone!
Exciting Update we’ve got there.
Just started working with it and unfortunatly beside a lot of useful stuff I found out that editing with the new range tool just got a lot worse.

My problem:
When selecting and deleting (audio) regions with the range tool the range stays selected after deletion.
That then makes applying fades with the range tool a real pain, because you first have to click somewhere else to de-select the range, as the selected range from before is in the way.

Hope that makes sense.
There could be an option the deactivate this behavior, but I wasn’t able to find anything. Maybe it’s a bug.

But a the moment a small dealbreaker for me.

Otherwise great work Team Steinberg!

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You are right , I have the same issue , and it drive me crazy , Did you find any solution?

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Not yet unfortunately.
I’m also not sure if it’s a bug or if it’s intended to behave this way. I don’t see what would be the benefit of that, because if you delete the region, the selected region itself becomes useless because theres nothing there anymore.

It’s just weird that such a fundamental handling behavior would suddenly change after being the same for as long as I remember.

Would be great if someone could clarify if it’s a bug or intended this way.

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In this youtube video from time stamp 1:05 to 1:41 he does mention how the range tool does now keep its selection, but he does not demonstrate it in the same context of your issue though.

So I believe this is how it’s intended to work now, and that the solution to your issue would require Steinberg to implement a new preference setting for the range tool.

For Example:

Range Tool:
Keep selection after editing operation - Yes / No

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I see. Thanks for bringing that up!
That actually makes a lot of sense for this kind of editing.
They then would just have to disable this behaviour for the “delete” action where there’s no benefit to this behaviour (at least none I can think of) to have the best of both worlds.
Would be interesting to hear how other people doing heavy editing think about this.

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A macro will solve this but only if you want to assign Range Tool to a key:

Range Selection Tool
Select None

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Thank you Humbucker to bring that up, I don’t get why they changed that (for the deletion, I get it for the other cases)
I made this short video to show what we don’t want :slight_smile:

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That’s exactly it. Thank you for the effort!
Seems pretty easy to fix. I hope this gets enough attention though.

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In that case you might wanna add the tag feature request :wink:

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how we add tag feature request?

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Hi,
you can click on the pencil next to your title and add another tag by clicking in the tag field. Unfortunately, you cannot edit your posts at the moment until you have reached the next trust level.
I added the tag “feature request” for you, in case you are wondering how it got there.

EDIT:
@Humbucker I have just realised, that you are the OP. If you wanna remove the tag - you know what to do;)

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