[issue] A Key Command won't work in DrumEditor

Cubase
#1

A long time ago I moved the Key Command for “Marker 1” with the default assignment of [NumPad1] to [Home] because that way I get two more KC for markers and it made sense to have [Home] & [End] used for Position to left or right locator.

For some reason this works like a charm in all places but not in the Key Editor. [Home] does nothing there? But if I assign it back again to [NumPad1] it works again.

And for the screaming majority of Cubase users this doesn’t matter but anyway, I’d like to point this out and maybe even get a reaction from Steinberg??? :mrgreen: Funny guy, eh? :blush: Oh, well!

#2

Home/End should be for the start and finish of the song.

#3

(sorry for the OT, but)
I started to test this, but came up against something really strange (and I really don’t see how I could have never noticed this in all the years I’ve been using Cubase!.. maybe it is specific to Mac, or only to Intel-Mac, or only to Mac OS X 10.6?)…
My “Home” and “End” keys are still assigned to the default “Top” and “Bottom” KCs. I simply tried them inside the Key Editor… here, they both cause selected notes to nudge up one step! :open_mouth: (and I’ve just checked that in Cubase 5 and even Cubase 4… it’s doing the same thing there!)

#4

In the project window are they assigned to zoom functions?

If so, as Ulf has pointed out they’d be better being assigned to locator type functions, of which I suggest the beginning and end of the song by default.

#5

No, they are assigned to the default “Top” and "Bottom’ (i.e. 1st track/last track).

Anyways, it isn’t the keys that are the problem, it is the commands themselves (I tried assigning different keys to those functions, with the same result).

#6

Yes, but the question will always be what is the most appropriate assignment?

For me I install the software and barely even customize it, since often I must trash preferences anyway, so anything that Steinberg can do to review default assignments and modify them as necessary is a good thing.

#7

(once again, these are the Steinberg defaults for those two keys :wink: )

#8

Yes, and I submit that they change them to something that I see would be more useful.

Does anyone else agree?

#9

I don’t have any particularly strong feelings about it. Your suggestion certainly makes sense, but on the other hand, those two keys, in say, a text editor, do indeed navigate to top and bottom, respectively.

Anyways (sorry for having gotten off-topic)…
So I liberated the Home and End keys, then assigned them to Left and Right Locator, tried them inside the Key Editor… worked just fine.
Then I re-read the title of this topic, where in fact you talk about the Drum Editor, so I tried there…
… and you are right!.. It instead navigates to top and bottom of the drum list (even though I had disconnected them from those two key Commands)

#10

Exactly vic

The point is the behavior is inconsistent, so therefore my view is steinberg should look at this behavior in general, eg you double click on a part at a given point in a project and yet you are “transported” to wherever the locator currently is, whether the sequencer is playing back or is stationary.

P.S. I know Ulf loves his KC’s so I doubt he’d mind a discussion about them in his thread.