First off, I love love love the additional zoom features. I love these things in particular:
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When switching between the main views Waveform, Spectrum and Loudness, the views retain your current vertical and horizontal screen settings. (Not so in WL7.)
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Vertical zoom to specific time length options. (500ms, 1s, 2s, 5s, etc).
There are a few things that I have questions about though. Before posting here, I searched the Wavelab manual, the Zoom Menu and other menus, and the Steinberg Wavelab 8 forums. I was not able to find the answer.
Here are my questions:
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Is there way to set a macro for a custom vertical zoom time length other than the options shown (500ms, 1s, 2s, 5s, etc)? I seem to remember PG talking about this option coming with WL8 in a WL7 forum.
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Is there a way to alter the amount of zoom with each ctrl-mouse-wheel-scroll? I am aware that I can alter my scroll wheel sensitivity in Control Panel . The problem is, I have it set to the most sensitive position (in my case, 1 out of 10), and it still zooms farther than I’d like, especially when the waveform is zoomed in very close for precision zero to zero cutting. (Also, when I have the Control Panel vertical scroll set to 1, the scroll in the WL menus and in other programs is WAY too slow.) If there were a WL menu item that said something like, “for every ctrl-mouse-scroll, zoom in ___ samples per screen point,” that would be AMAZING. Ideally, I’d like this to act independently of mouse-wheel-scrolling left or right on the waveform (i.e. NOT holding down ctrl). But come to think of it, that would be another great feature: A menu item that says, "for every mouse-scroll on the waveform, move __ distance.)
I anticipate this question: “But don’t you know changing the sensitivity in Control Panel mouse settings, will alter your Wavelab customized scroll sensitivity?”
Yes, I am aware that changing, for example, Control Panel scroll setting from 1 to 2 will probably multiply the WL customized scroll settings times two. But I am ok with this. Once I figure out my preferred settings, I won’t mess with them.