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For the love of pete!

Mousewheel support for VST/VSTi plugins would be a dream come true.

Mousewheel to zoom in and out (without requiring Vitamin L) would be even better!

Why is it that Live is such a wickedly great application but fails to handle the most simple thing like a mousewheel?

Orion does this with absolutely no problem, even in plugins that are notoriously horrible for mousewheel support like SampleTank.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE fix mousewheel support to work

Why is it that Live is such a wickedly great application but fails to handle the most simple thing like a mousewheel?

...you know, ingenious kids often have a turn to be a bit autistic

in fact, the only way i can explain to myself this and other obvious shortcomings of Live:

Programming DAWs is probably the hardest programming task at all. It's as *REAL TIME* as it can be, and if you count by the nanoseconds there is little air left to do anything else. So they bypass a lot of the usual Operating-System stuff in favour of a very tight system of their own.
Unfortunatly this leads to a very conservative approach, just *DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING* which migth be even remotely critical!
No Mousewheel, no MIDI-Programchanges, no more than 128 parameters and so on ...
(..or may be they are locked in, because one of the responsible programmers has left ....)

I have to say I don't like zooming with the wheel. I really like the way it is (drag in the "tempo line" obove the arrange and pull down/up. works great for me.

I want my wheel for other stuff.

mr.ergonomics wrote:I have to say I don't like zooming with the wheel. I really like the way it is (drag in the "tempo line" obove the arrange and pull down/up. works great for me.

I want my wheel for other stuff.

yes, so do i, i want my wheel for other stuff. For the most obvious of all, editing the controls of the GUI.

The sliders, knobs, selectors. The things you do a trillion times!
I mean, how do you edit a slider or a knob in Live right now?

1. you point on it with the mouse, which means: move your arm
2. you click on it with the mouse, which means: move your finger back and forth
3 you drag it up or down to the desired value, which means: move your arm

instead of 2. and 3. you could as easily just scroll the wheel, which means; just move your finger, ... somewhat!

And, you know, its just so much easier to move just a finger, than to move the whole arm, is'nt it?

Add a right-click to switch between scrolling in large increments and scrolling in fine steps and you're done.

And remember, you do that a trillion times, so how much RSI (repetitive strain injury ) could be prevented with just this simple thing?
So, come on Abes, move your braincells !

Yes, Please...!

I'm now about 1 year old, in Live years. In learning how to get around this amazing Sequencing Instrument, I've asked myself many times how come I can't move these controls with the mousewheel. But, being a noob, I figured it was probably supposed to be that way, and that I should be spending more time with a controller, and less time with a mouse.

Only that, after a year, I'm settling into a workflow that is pretty mouse-intensive, and not so much with controllers. Lots of quality time with Live's devices...with Operator...with the tiny little sliders and their tiny little numbers.

It seems a shame not to be able to change these controls by rolling my finger. It would be a very welcome addition if it ever appeared.

I've got one of these ergonomic touchpads... http://www.ergonomictouchpad.com/ergono ... QgodzXo1mQ

Just double-tap the pad then move your finger up/down to adjust the value!