Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
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Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
Wasn't there once a way in DP to reverse the direction the faders move when you use a scroll wheel? The default direction may make sense with a mouse, but with a trackpad, it's backwards. Drag down, fader goes up.
And is there a way to adjust the ratio of movement between the scroll wheel and the fader? Now, dragging about 20% of the vertical distance of the trackpad moves a fader from the bottom to the top. With the Command key I have to cover the distance of the trackpad 4 times to get the same distance. So a smooth fade is impossible in both cases. Some sort of middle point where one span of the trackpad moves the fader from bottom to top would be great. Maybe there's some sort of third party utility.
And is there a way to adjust the ratio of movement between the scroll wheel and the fader? Now, dragging about 20% of the vertical distance of the trackpad moves a fader from the bottom to the top. With the Command key I have to cover the distance of the trackpad 4 times to get the same distance. So a smooth fade is impossible in both cases. Some sort of middle point where one span of the trackpad moves the fader from bottom to top would be great. Maybe there's some sort of third party utility.
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Re: Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
With the Trackpad (or any mouse, for that matter) you can always work with the system settings. There, the scrolling direction can be reversed, too, but as you probably know, it always works opposite in DP. Set the scrolling in the System Prefs for "natural" scrolling (window moves same direction as fingers), and the faders in DP will move the opposite way. Set it for the old kind of scrolling, where windows move opposite to the fingers (which I've got 30 years of muscle memory telling me is right), and DP's faders will move the same direction as the fingers.
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Re: Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
Yes, I knew that, but I just want to reverse the fader direction. Want to keep window scrolling as is.Shooshie wrote:With the Trackpad (or any mouse, for that matter) you can always work with the system settings. There, the scrolling direction can be reversed, too, but as you probably know, it always works opposite in DP. Set the scrolling in the System Prefs for "natural" scrolling (window moves same direction as fingers), and the faders in DP will move the opposite way. Set it for the old kind of scrolling, where windows move opposite to the fingers (which I've got 30 years of muscle memory telling me is right), and DP's faders will move the same direction as the fingers.
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Re: Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
I wish this could be set on a per application basis. That would solve it.
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Re: Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
Better Touch Tool does have per application setups, but I'm afraid that conventional window scrolling and fader scrolling would conflict in the same application.
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Re: Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
I went with the "disable scroll wheel control of faders" approach; saved me lots of messed up unintentional fader moves.
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Re: Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
+1HCMarkus wrote:I went with the "disable scroll wheel control of faders" approach; saved me lots of messed up unintentional fader moves.
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Re: Using a Scroll Wheel on Faders?
I had done that too in V8, so I guess I've tried this before, but it came on by default in V9. Too bad -- the large trackpad size is just about right for decent fader travel if it could be set up properly.HCMarkus wrote:I went with the "disable scroll wheel control of faders" approach; saved me lots of messed up unintentional fader moves.
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