I’m pretty sure this is a bug, but before I ask support about it, I want to make sure it is, and not some random preference.
When I open the key editor and I have the visibility pane on the left, it opens with the part you had selected in the project window, which is fine. But say you click that pane to enable another track or tracks.
For example, you may have one violin track from some MIDI you downloaded, that has too many notes at different octaves, so you’d rather separate those into two tracks, one with the lower notes and another with the higher notes.
Well, if you select both in the visibility pane and start using the selection tool to draw marquees and then delete, you will delete those notes in both parts. So you have to deselect one of the tracks in the visibility pane.
When you do that, each and every time, the cursor stays where it is, but the view changes to the very beginning. It’s incredibly annoying and wastes a lot of time.
So is this a bug or some hidden setting somewhere?
Thanks, Martin, that’s what I’ve been doing, but it’s super annoying and takes you away from the workflow. I mean, it’s a workaround, which after doing it dozens of times it gets really old.
Of course, this is not a bug, it’s a limitation of your knowledge of the software. You should find the workflow based on what Cubase can do rather than a subjective preconception about how it should work.
Use macros, and key commands, and create commands you need using the Project Logical Editor, and assign keystrokes.
This particular question has multiple topics in the forum, have a search.
I’m very happy to agree when something doesn’t work that it is a limitation of my knowledge, since I haven’t used Cubase for even a whole year.
But feel free to explain to me how this particular issue is that, and not a bug or just flawed design. No software is perfect. Furthermore, after posting my original message, I noticed that this happens not every single time, but most times, and some times it doesn’t do it.
Regardless of that, if you’re working in the key editor, and when deselecting a track suddenly the focus shifts to the beginning of the timeline, that doesn’t make any logical sense, there’s no point in the key editor showing one part of the track and because you deselect it, suddenly it shows the beginning of it.
So it’s either a bug, or a flaw in design.
I did a search before posting, but I found people asking the same or similar questions, no answers, but maybe I missed something.
Regardless, I’m going to send it to Steinberg as a bug.