crock80 wrote:
It was from November 2014. And guess what? My tiny suggestion never got implemented. As I said its a standard blabla answer what we get to hear, even if its a small thing like mouse wheel support they aint able or simply dont want to implement it. Others can do such easy things just by the way. But ableton? Nooooooo impossible - maybe it takes too much resources
Thank you for sharing, crock80. My review of the response you got is that your suggestion was well received and that Ableton as per usual could not guarantee to implement it as there are plenty of other suggestions and that there is "
nicht immer ausreichend Zeit oder Arbeitskräfte gibt, um alles zu realisieren". From this you make the erroneous conclusion that your suggestion wasn't implemented because Ableton can't find the man power. What you fail to take into account is all the other improvements in the pipeline.
Given the quality of
Live updates since 2014 with some hefty milestones released, I think Ableton still have done plenty with fixing some long standing really
major issues with
Live 9. I'm not suggesting they couldn't have done more, but I feel this is out of our hands. We can complain about the amount of updates, but what goes into those updates is likely determined both by the level of user requests for certain features and how the development team evaluate needed input for implementation vs benefit for the user base. I'm pretty sure Ableton knows whether we use mouses or trackpads via collected data.
While I agree the functionality we're discussing would be really nice, I find it hard to consider it a major issue.
crock80 wrote:
And again: This topic here is about mouse scroll wheel support. If you want something bout trackpads, feel free to make a new topic. Of course you can write bout it also here but dont say in the same time mouse wheel support is antiquated, because thats no fact its just your opinion and that dont mean its true!
I was being provocative because of the small mindedness of thinking "mousewheel! Only mousewheel!" without any reflection instead of a more broad perspective considering the different input tools available today.
Maybe it's because I have a background as developer that
I find it obvious that the functionality discussed when implemented doesn't have to be limited to only mousewheel support. You see to assume that Ableton will have to program their own mousewheel routines. I think you're wrong on that account.
But, I also think that the lack of certain common types of controls in the
Live GUI is a somewhat conspicuous omission. It's very possible that for some reason the GUI controls have been made in a non standard way at some point, that possibly requires that OS level, or driver level, routines are overridden or made inoperative. That would explain why controls that work everywhere else won't work in
Live where expected.
