Hello everyone,
is there a way to scrub on the timeline with the keyboard? I figured out the jog and shuttle features are more or less there for that, but they’re not quite what I’m looking for / pretty tedious to use even with a midi controller.
What I’m looking for is a way to move the timeline cursor that shows the current playback position (“playhead”) to the left and right with the arrow keys on your keyboard in predefined millisecond steps (or frames) and hear the respective frame (or like 100-300ms) of the current audio of all tracks combined.
This is apparently possible using the mouse, I could find enough information about this on the net / I can also recreate it, but is this also possible using the computer keyboard? (I would find this much more comfortable).
Back in the day I used to do a lot of video editing with Kdenlive, there keyboard scrubbing as described above was a standard feature / I don’t even think you could deactivate it somehow, and I was really surprised when I found out that keyboard based scrubbing doesn’t seem to exist in virtually any other video editing software or DAW… All the audio work I’ve had to do so far I’ve always carried out in Kdenlive for this very reason, even though the application wasn’t really designed for a task like that.
I keep hearing complaints such a feature would be way to CPU heavy and could possible cause crashes of the DAW, but somehow Kden also managed to accomplish said behaviour and the jog / shuttle features probably require a similar amount of processing power? As for Cubase I’d rather blame the JVM / the Java development stack if that’s actually an issue, but then again… Using anything JVM based as platform for a DAW is already a mistake in and of itself imo.
I’d argue other C++ driven DAWs struggle much less with performance / stability issues during scrubbing. But yeah, this isn’t something we can easily change of course.