In general, the behavior of the zoom appears to be completely tied to the state of the thumb view. This means there's no ability to zoom in on a selection. I show this in the video where my play head is placed on measure 1 and the horizonal zoom is zoomed completely out. Now, I'd like to zoom in on the first few measures of the song (where my play head is located and even where my edit range is defined).. I zoom in once and bam!, the arranger view is shifted quite a bit over to the right and I'm dropped into the middle of the song (roughly 8 minute track at 97BPM). In other words, zoom in works as designed but the design doesn't serve the user... instead, the user has to serve the design.
Basically, I think there's room to associate the zoom with what is selected. That would go a long way in terms of serving the user and avoiding work-flow disruption.
My other ideas would be to make it possible to toggle between zoom horizontal and zoom vertical. If that could be done, a keybinding could be assigned to the toggle and the user would be able to very easily control those modes with a single action rather than having to remember and correctly use 2. Of course, a toggle capability only makes sense if the currently selected zoom mode were made visible somewhere. Perhaps a ______ for horizontal and a | for vertical.
Additional zoom modes would also be very welcome:
zoom out full (based on selected zoom mode as described above)
zoom in full (same)
I'm not even sure zoom reset is living up to its real potential. Perhaps the user could define (in some way) what that should actually do? Like, perhaps a % setting?
Video plays fine but I'll try to describe
In general, the behavior of the zoom appears to be completely tied to the state of the thumb view. This means there's no ability to zoom in on a selection. I show this in the video where my play head is placed on measure 1 and the horizonal zoom is zoomed completely out. Now, I'd like to zoom in on the first few measures of the song (where my play head is located and even where my edit range is defined).. I zoom in once and bam!, the arranger view is shifted quite a bit over to the right and I'm dropped into the middle of the song (roughly 8 minute track at 97BPM). In other words, zoom in works as designed but the design doesn't serve the user... instead, the user has to serve the design.
Basically, I think there's room to associate the zoom with what is selected. That would go a long way in terms of serving the user and avoiding work-flow disruption.
My other ideas would be to make it possible to toggle between zoom horizontal and zoom vertical. If that could be done, a keybinding could be assigned to the toggle and the user would be able to very easily control those modes with a single action rather than having to remember and correctly use 2. Of course, a toggle capability only makes sense if the currently selected zoom mode were made visible somewhere. Perhaps a ______ for horizontal and a | for vertical.
Additional zoom modes would also be very welcome:
zoom out full (based on selected zoom mode as described above)
zoom in full (same)
I'm not even sure zoom reset is living up to its real potential. Perhaps the user could define (in some way) what that should actually do? Like, perhaps a % setting?
Thanks for the discussion :)