UI element mouse sensitivity fine adjustment

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golemus
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UI element mouse sensitivity fine adjustment

Post by golemus » Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:00 pm

Certain UI elements in Ableton are too sensitive for fine mouse adjustments. The ones that annoy me the most:

Transpose of Simpler
Envelope of Simpler (down-right from transpose)

Track delay



If I click these controls with mouse and adjust them, I often need to draw mouse a few times up and down before I end up to the value that I desire. Even when holding ctrl down I still have this problem


I would start to try by reducing sensitivity to half (lets say that now it takes 2mm of mouse movement holding ctrl down to change a single step of transpose control, I would start by changing this to 4mm)




Track delay is far too sensitive. It is almost impossible to hit the right value by dragging mouse up/down. It also seems to ignore holding ctrl down. 1ms or 2ms can make a significant difference to sound in certain use cases and still it is very hard to set the value with such a precision (unless you write it from the keyboard which is kind of slow).

Developers should try Fabfilter Pro-Q. It excels in these kind of things ;)

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