A long standing issue with Cubase 8 from initial introduction to it being superseded by 8.5 is that the locators do not react to the mouse properly.
The issue is that when you click and drag the locator and the mouse goes down under the timeline, the mouse will no longer be placed on the locator. In essence, a 2cm movement of the mouse horizontally across a screen will equal less than 2cm of horizontal movement of the locator. This makes it impossible to set the locator in the right place as there can be sometimes 4cm of screen space between the mouse and the locator.
Question 1:
Is this issue fixed in 8.5?
Question 2:
Will the issue be fixed for 8.0.3 users?
I couldn’t take a screenshot as it hides the mouse pointer but attached is a general image from Google image search. The pink blobs are where the mouse would often need to be in order to get the L&R locators in the position they are in
In Cubase 6, I could click and drag the locator, and move the mouse pointer down to a certain track so I could line the locator with a specific part of a waveform.
In C8, moving the cursor down the screen causes misalignment.
That behavior as shown by a posters video in the thread you linked to is quite similar to what I experience when trying to adjust locators and have the mouse move down the screen.
No fix shown in that thread and a report that it wasn’t fixed in C8.5.
I’ve been pushed to a move to Reaper or back to C6.5 due to these quality control errors from Steinberg. I was really hoping for a fix
In the thread I was told that this new behavior is possibly a feature and was banished to the “issues/suggestions” forum, which I still can’t understand. It’s really become a major PITA with editing having to do more clicking and mouse maneuvering/locating and I don’t understand why it hasn’t been addressed in the last year and 3 updates.
Well hopefully Steinberg can give an insight into this. They do not man their Twitter for support, so asking them any questions there won’t get a response but hopefully there will be something here soon.