I personally find it extremely frustrating and annoying beyond any reason that I have to “hunt” for the bar every few seconds when I’m working with the manager, especially since it’s so thin and requires a little bit of precision to grab (like everything else in Cubase)
Does anyone know what is the reasoning behind it? Is there a way it’s supposed to make the workflow better? Is it saving some prescious space for something else? Am I missing something?
A scroll wheel on your mouse? 
p.s. I’m only half joking. I find working without a (real or virtual) mouse wheel on a modern computer very frustrating. And when having to use a touch pad, I always enable two finger swiping as a scrolling gesture.
Doing that spares me the frustration of having to get involved in the battle with hiding scroll bars.
I find these disappearing scroll bars extremely annoying throughout Cubase. In the inspectors, there’s often not even a need for a scroll bar, but they’ve shoved one of these things in just for the hell of it.
They should stick to OS built in controls, but we’re shouting at walls.
Disappearing scroll bars is a modern UI disease, it’s not just Cubase, unfortunately. I guess they don’t teach about affordances in UI school anymore 
Is this still a problem in C14?
Here’s my penny’s worth:
I’m finding the Cubase GUI increasingly frustrating to use with each so-called ‘upgrade’. The font size, the font clarity, the colour scheme, the lack of differentiation between areas, the cramped working environment, the insistence on far too much information being presented at one time, the inability to set up truly personalised working spaces, the overall darkness of the underlying schemes and, of course, the disappearing scroll bars!
I’ve a 32" monitor and STILL I have to squint at the interface, actively search for certain areas I need to work with, and ensure I’m inside an active window before scrolling because it remains abysmally unclear.
I know there’ll be the Cubase fan-boys out there who won’t have a thing said against the tool - and will make excuse after excuse for Steinberg - but I’ve been using it since the Pro 12 days on the Atari and, while I still rate it highly as one of the best tools out there, I have twice almost moved away from it solely because of this worsening of the GUI.
To be honest, the only reason I’ve never been a fan of Halion is because of the GUI … and I’ve spent small fortunes on third-party plugins simply because they more closely represent what a musician wants from a creative environment. Halion is not musician-friendly, IMHO: it’s like a science lab for a mad coder, IMHO!
The Cubase workspace is fast-becoming a laboratory to be used and explored by specialists, whereas many of their competitors are actively making their software appeal to ‘creatives’, as opposed to tech nerds.
I think Steinberg could vastly increase Cubase’s market share if it threw away the hubris and intransigence and, instead, actively listened to its users on improving the GUI. Now THAT is something I would willingly pay for.
It’s absolutely infuriating and shows that Steinberg never test their software for user experience in any serious way. Cubase is in essence a perpetual Beta software that is financed by it’s users to remain in Beta forever while we Beta testers are ignored by the developers… funny old world.
To answer the question posed in the title of this thread - I don’t like that the scrolling bar disappears when the mouse moves away - I feel the same way as your quote.
Could you please enlighten me about “pro 12 days on the Atari?”
Again, Im feeling left out.
I too, prefer scroll bars that don’t vanish.
At least the Windows OS allows the option to this “feature” off.
A gui that is used for many hours straight should be bland and fashion/fad-free.
Where oh where is that, @Googly_Smythe ?
Are you saying “Windows Rules” @Googly_Smythe 
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Why the question mark @Nico5 ?
Haha, no, no, no - please no Windows vs Mac debate!!
Nah, I was just kidding!
I thought that was obvious. I don’t recall that there were serious debates here about Win vs Mac apart from the occasional my-Win/Mac-rig outperforms every other rig I ever had. Sooo reliable!
Seriously, there’s enough going on right now. There’s a reason why religion and politics must be left at the door step in this forum. Nobody is looking for another unnecessary battleground over something so unimportant as the choice of their preferred OS to be creative.
Long story short: Nope, no intention to incite a debate.
Further to my post, I was kind of implying that if Microsoft could add the option to Windows to have hidden scrollbars, so maybe Steinberg can do the same for Cubase (and presumably Nuendo).
I’m saying WINDOWZ RULEZ!!! Ha ha! 
OFF TOPIC!
There’s this football chant by the follwers of Millwall - I can’t help but replace Millwall with the bogeyman of the day…
