ChrisPolus:
hey wheels. no, unfortunately it’s not. the option you point out is so clip volume or clip fades could be adjusted with the mouse wheel.
but the problem is the duality of the scroll wheel. the scroll wheel of the mouse, for one, scrolls windows. it scrolls the arrange window, it scrolls in the mixer when you have lots of channels, it scrolls within the inspector if that is very long and all the elements are open.
the thing is that on the other hand the scroll wheel also adjusts settings. it moves the fader for example and there are other active areas where the scroll wheel adjusts stuff.
so now, when you are in the inspector for example, and you scroll down to look at something, and then want to scroll up again, if your mouse happens to stop over the fader, INSTEAD of scrolling up again as you would expect, it suddenly starts moving the fader up and down. so i constantly need to think, OH, where was that fader’s position? reset the position, move the mouse out of the fader and then scroll up. it’s a mine field where you constantly have to watch out where you turn your mouse wheel.
i think the mouse wheel is for scrolling in windows! THAT’S IT! everybody has their mouse speed differently and you cannot do precise changes with it on a fader where the value jumps 2-3dB for me per mouse wheel click. it’s totally useless and is a source for constant errors and time spent re-adjusting values and looking for errors. oh, did I accidentally change a value here? why does it sound so weird. oh I didn’t realize I moved the fader again.
and this happens all the time everywhere, because the mouse wheel adjusts settings instead of just doing what it is supposed to do. scroll wheel = scrolling!
Amazingly, considering all the scrolling I do over (sometimes) 4 monitors, I just ran into this yesterday. A very nice feature that PT has that Nuendo doesn’t have yet is that undo’s actually move faders and mutes etc back to their original position.