MOUSE: THE OTHER HALF PLEASE (OUR BASIC RIGHT-CLICK)

availability · Post by **availability** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 3:03 pm

More than half actually. There are infinite uses for everyone's basic right-click. Thanks..

Spiralgroove · Post by **Spiralgroove** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 3:17 pm

absolutely essential since v1.0

why has it not been implemented?

rEalm · Post by **rEalm** » Wed Sep 08, 2004 5:26 pm

I agree, would be so much easier in almost all cases!

toneroll · Post by **toneroll** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 12:19 am

i'll tell ya why (please lets not start a war).. MAC snobbery......

"well mac users dont have a second button so lets not even bother...

its true tho init???? how much more easier could you get if you could route audio thru a right click window.. or choose between pencil mode and selct mode etc.. (at least give us a modifier)

but i do sort of understand.. it does make you HAVE to learn the keyboard shortcuts.

still , would make live even more intuitive

Komplex · Post by **Komplex** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 1:38 am

yeah, or at least the option to key assign stuff to any mouse buttons...

futureproof · Post by **futureproof** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 8:10 am

When I used to use a Mac I ALWAYS used a windows style mouse.

eerrrmmm ctrl click uhhhhh ctrl click

Sharkcellar · Post by **Sharkcellar** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:09 pm

Good suggestion. I can only see one problem with your "for macs" hyptothesis. On the mac you can still hold down the ctrl button with a click to normally get the "right-click" menu. The astounding thing is that Live has no right-click menuing at all. I really appreciate their spartan design aesthetic, but yes, not having submenuing is pretty maddening and perplexing.

jasefos · Post by **jasefos** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:26 am

futureproof wrote:When I used to use a Mac I ALWAYS used a windows style mouse.

eerrrmmm ctrl click uhhhhh ctrl click

With MacOSX and the current Cubase family it is possible to simply connect a PC-style wheel mouse and, without having to install any drivers, start making use of Cubase SX's right mouse button context menus without any further configuration.

this is a very cool thing ...

jASeFOs

futureproof · Post by **futureproof** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 8:28 am

exactly what I did.....bought a wheel mouse and plugged the damn thing in. simple, but yet to this day some of my (mac using) friends keep ctrl clicking away!! LOL!

gfisch · Post by **gfisch** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 5:33 pm

I also have a Logitech 7!!!! (serious) button mouse (MX510) on a G5.
Works perfect and I love it.

BUT what I miss even more is scroll wheel support in any VST application (and Live).

Wouldn´t it be cool to change values with the scroll wheel?

gfisch

Peropaal · Post by **Peropaal** » Mon Sep 13, 2004 6:03 pm

gfisch wrote: Wouldn´t it be cool to change values with the scroll wheel?
gfisch

Primarily sitting in front of PC's, but I do really remember a Live version that supported the use of the scroll wheel to apparently dial the dialers...

I think it was in version 2. And I thougth it was really silly that the app didnt support it when 4 came about.

Thinking about it, could it be something to do with a special mouse-driver translating dial movements to up and down keystrokes (directed to the component of focus of course)..?

kent_sandvik · Post by **kent_sandvik** » Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:26 am

I think one thing to remember is that Live is designed for 'live' environments. Using a mouse or something similar makes it less easy to use Live 'live', especially if the right-mouse features are not part of the standard key-command set. I would actually like to see more support for both keyboard and MIDI-mapping of the Live functionality so good keyboard and MIDI controllers would be designed around the features.

Besides, seeing a DJ use a mouse onstage with Live is so boring :-).

--Kent
PS: Sasha mentioned something similar in a recent interview as well, and he's constructing a personal controller for his use of Live when DJ:ing.

buttercup · Post by **buttercup** » Sat Sep 18, 2004 8:40 am

I am using the right mouse button all the time with Ableton Live. I even use 3 buttons.
Left button is usual click, right button is Alt click, and middle button is Shift click. If I needed it differently I'd just re-assign the buttons. On a Mac that is. Scroll wheel support would be nice though, as would be context menus in some situations.