SOLVED: How to dock the Transport bar

Some video tutorials on Cubase show the Transport bar docked nicely to the bottom of the screen. I’d love this. But with Cubase 10.x I can’t for the life of me see how to dock the Transport bar. So it’s always sitting on top of something that eventually I need to see or get to, and have to move the bar out of the way. This normally is not a hard thing with other apps but oddly really difficult with Cubase.

You are talking about the “floating F2” transport? You can right click on the bottom “row” and enable or disable whatever you want. Or, maybe I am not understanding correctly …

Use the Setup Window Layout button, and/or create/use a Key Command :wink:
DockedTranport.gif

Ah, yes. I guess it helps to make it visable first before selecting which things you want displayed :slight_smile: .

:+1:

Yes, the only transport bar I know of is the floating one. I would love to dock it at the bottom (or ideally the top) of my project window. When I right-click on it there are no such options to dock. Dragging it and holding it over an area that I’d like it to dock into doesn’t dock either. So the problem is that the only way I see the transport bar is when it’s floating on top of something I inevitably need to see. Mostly if I could just get the tempo field to show up somewhere else docked that would be most of the solution.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, an animated GIF is worth a book! Thanks so much! I was clicking on the gear icon to the right of that, never noticing the smaller gear icon! Wow. I really appreciate that, Steve.

:+1: :wink:

Cubase 14 Pro - the Transport Bar and the Transport panel are 2 different things that (to me) have the same functional content. The Transport Panel is a floating panel (that oddly stays open when you close the main interface), but the Transport bar is docked and available via the window layout. I only became aware of this after closing the Transport Panel, which was covering the Transport bar.

Hi and welcome to the forum!

That’s correct. In case you are looking for the key command to open/close the floating one which was assigned to F2 in previous versions:
Edit/key commands/transport/panel.
It is by default not assigned to a key command anymore in C14 so you got to do it on your own.

That is a disservice to companies like logickeyboard who designed their product based on protocol that spans across several generations of software. That’s the problem with Cubase, and why it will never dethrone Pro Tools has the number one professional studio software. I believe Cubase is the best all in one DAW already, but unfortunately they want to be all things for all people and that’s not how it works in a professional studio environment. It’s too bad they didn’t make their little tweaks on the Artist version and leave the Pro version alone.