Vertical Zoom with Mousewheel+Key [Achieved]

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If you are on a Mac you can program this by using BetterTouchTool. Just use Alt and Mouse wheel up / down to trigger Cubase Shift H and Shift G. Works perfect.

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+1
Coming from the 3D graphics software world I canā€™t understand how such an important workflow feature for quick visual navigation is missing in a professional tool like Cubase. Please Steinberg, do something! :slight_smile:

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Iā€™m on mac. Decades ago I started programming my key commands to use option + arrows to zoom both horizontal and vertical incrementaly. It was more intuitive than G / H keys and easier muscle memory. I can do it with one hand without taking my eyes off the screen.

In recent years Iā€™ve taken to using the magnifying glass tool with the standard mode (horizontal only) turned off so I can zoom in both horizontal and vertical. Then double click to go back to the previous view. I usually donā€™t need any other zooming techniques unless Iā€™m trying to zoom OUT a massive project. Then my old ā€œoption + up arrowā€ work wonders.

All that said; zoom vertically with a scroll wheel modifier would be nice.
so, +1

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+1, would be really useful

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Spent so long trying to figure this out before realizing itā€™s just not a feature. Seems so, so basic to be missing from software like this

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yeah. to be honest its kind of absurd considering how easy it should be to add in.

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As it been implemented?

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Still not a feature. One of the most basic of basic features in a DAW - still not in Cubendo.

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Definitely, Sometimes it just shocks me to realize that Cubase lacks some of those SUPER basic feature that other DAW have, such as full screen mode. When ever i have to zoom vertically with Shift+G/H it reminds me of the fluency that logic and studio one used to give me.

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I was just looking this up. How surprising.

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I am very surprised this simple feature hasnā€™t been added @Cubase
Now is the time!

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I have been trying to convert my colleagues from Audition to Nuendo. This is the most basic thing that Nuendo/Cubase lacks. Do it already! Cmd+Alt+Scroll for Vertical Zoom!

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Take a look here:

Iā€™m happy to say that all users in this thread confirm that it just works: All zoom types supported in Cubase, Nuendo and the like!

ATM, PinchBar enables continuous pinch to zoom using trackpad:

  • no modifier + pinchā€“> horizontal zoom
  • CMD+pinch ā†’ vertical zoom
  • ALT+pinch ā†’ waveform zoom

Iā€™m currently adding support for the feature requested here, i.e. Magic Mouse & conventional mouse wheel support:

Which modifiers would you like to see for which zoom modes? Be assured, that all of these will be configurable. Though at first, that has to be done via Terminal as I didnā€™t have time to implement a proper settings GUI yet. This will be added next.

Iā€™m also working on a prototype that is able to detect and map CMD+ALT+scroll to conventional macOS zoom as it is produced by pinch gestures on Magic Trackpads. See this feature request if you want to participate in testing.

ATM, Iā€™m extending PinchBarā€™s architecture to detect and map all of this and some extra stuff like two finger scroll on Magic Mice, too. I have tested alot on my own machine and can summarize that every little thing already works on its own, but the challenge is to bring all of this together into one project you can just download, use and adapt to your own workflow.

Iā€™m a Cubase user by myself and aim to develope PinchBar to be as ready-to-use-out-of-the-box as possible, but everyone has different approaches to making music, so I know configurability is important. Itā€™s just not that easy, even for a computer scientistā€¦

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I am a new user to Cubase, googling to see where to find this feature, vertical zoom with mouse + modifier key. Why oh why would you make this feature for horizontal scrolling, but neglect to do this for vertical?

CTRL + SHIFT + Mousewheel would work perfectly for me. Steinberg, please implement! :pray:

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Autohotkey workaround:

!WheelUp::Send, +h
!WheelDown::Send, +g

Full script:

SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%
#SingleInstance Force
#Persistent

SetTimer, AppCheck, 100 ; Check if a Cubase Window is frontmost. This in the autoexec section (top of script)

AppCheck:
    }
  if WinActive("ahk_exe Cubase12.exe") ; title of the window here
    {Suspend, Off
		return
    }

!WheelUp::Send, +h
!WheelDown::Send, +g
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For those on Mac, steermouse is an amazing mouse customizer, you can change the behavior globally as well as per program. You can assign to keyboard shortcuts as well as anything you can think of.

https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

Initially I bought it because the accelerated scroll on MAC is awful with the Corsair mouse I use & it enables you to make it linear, but since then itā€™s become a big part of my computer life in dozens of ways.

Here I have assigned vertical scroll to option+mousewheel:

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Hey Steve!
That AppCheck timer is not needed if you use:

#ifWinActive ahk_exe Cubase12.exe
!WheelUp::Send, +h
!WheelDown::Send, +g
#ifWinActive
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Yes, true. But I have multiple scripts running, so for ease of readability, and to allow dynamic exclusion of apps based on the active app, I use this method so I do not have to specify the app to test for in new shortcuts.

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In Studio One, I can zoom on tracks vertically by simply holding down the ctrl key and scrolling up to zoom in and down to zoom out. Is there a way to do this in Cubase with the mouse wheel and for instance the ctrl key or alt key etcā€¦ I understand I could use SHIFT-G or SHIFT-H, but Iā€™m looking for something more intuitive for the mouse.

I think this was asked previously, but it seemed like users just dodged answering his question and kept giving key commands that donā€™t use the mouse wheel. Please do not respond if that is what you plan on doing. As mentioned above, I already know how to use the key commands, but thatā€™s not as fluid and quick as using the mouse and just holding down one key.

I came up with a slightly better option using the ā€˜forwardā€™ and ā€˜backā€™ buttons on my Logitech M720 mouse by assigning the shortcut keys mentioned above, but itā€™s still not as fluid and easy as using the mouse wheel. I couldnā€™t figure out a way in Logitech Options to zoom in/out on tracks using the mouse wheel.

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Grego Ondo goes thru different zoom options. hopefully this will help for what you wanna do

Different Techniques for Zooming in Cubase | Q&A with Greg Ondo - YouTube