Drag Delay doesn't work

[krupartea]

1. In Preferences, Editing, set Drag Delay option to, for example, to the maximum value, 500 ms.
2. Try to click and drag on any event → it still moves.

Cubase 12 Pro (in trial period), Windows 11

[almaelectronix]

You realize that 500ms is half a second right?
That said, of course events will still move.

That’s not the purpose of the drag delay. Quoting from the manual is “To avoid accidentally moving events when you click them in the Project window”

You can of course lock the track(s) instead so nothing moves. Add a key shortcut and you got it easy lock/unlock any track.

[krupartea]

@almaelectronix

To avoid accidentally moving events when you click them in the Project window

As I understand it, it means that every movement that was done to an even within a timeframe shorter than the drag delay value should not be applied.

Try to rapidly click and drag an event (quicker than 500 ms), it will still move.

Also, looks like it is a known issue:

Bug? Drag Delay parameter not working

Experienced an annoying “feature” called “Drag Delay” which is supposed to minimize the risk of moving parts accidently buy delaying the dragging action. When i turned to the manual I was relieved to see that you could turn it off. However, changing the delay time in the Edit part of preferences does absolutely nothing. Can anyone confirm this? I run Cubase 6.0.3 for Mac.

Does it work on your machine?

[almaelectronix]

@krupartea

every movement that was done to an even within a timeframe shorter than the drag delay value should not be applied

Yes, it will not move at all, you will try dragging it but will stay put.

Here it works as supposed, i.e. I am dragging an event and will not move immediately.
Also adjusting the milliseconds is indeed altering the response time of the dragging.