Dumb question about the cursor

[supersonic]

Can we display a vertical line across the whole sequence that shows the position of the cursor at any given time when we edit automation or soundbites?

[stubbsonic]

Are you talking about the playback wiper? Yea, DP makes the wiper disappear during an edit-- (like dragging a note or soundbite) which is desirable at times, but there are times when it would be very useful to see it.

I'm not aware of a way to change that behavior.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Do marker lines stay onscreen during edits? I'll have to check. It is annoying to loose a reference line.

[stubbsonic]

Marker lines do stay on screen during edits. So that's an option. Might be a little tedious to drag around a marker for such purposes, but it's better than nothing.

[bayswater]

Agree, and I asked MOTU to fix it some time ago. Not only to allow the cursor to stay visible, but to also show a ghost of the waveform in a soundbite being moved, rather than just a box. The combination of the two would make it easy to move a specific point in a Soundbite to a specific point in the timeline without the current trial and error approach.

[stubbsonic]

Agree, and I asked MOTU to fix it some time ago. Not only to allow the cursor [wiper] to stay visible, but to also show a ghost of the waveform in a soundbite being moved, rather than just a box. The combination of the two would make it easy to move a specific point in a Soundbite to a specific point in the timeline without the current trial and error approach.

A ghost of the waveform is a great point. You want to see what the waveform looks like in the new location! It could be turned on or off in preferences.

[supersonic]

Are you talking about the playback wiper? Yea, DP makes the wiper disappear during an edit-- (like dragging a note or soundbite) which is desirable at times, but there are times when it would be very useful to see it.

I'm not aware of a way to change that behavior.

I mean the actual cursor, not the wiper.


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[stubbsonic]

Ah. Not sure how that would work.

[supersonic]

I would very much like to have that functionality as well as the usual graphic program snap to object etc functions, to be able to align faster different elements.

[bayswater]

I mean the actual cursor, not the wiper.

I misunderstood too, but see what you mean. That could be very useful. Maybe there is a OSX utility that would draw vertical and horizontal lines that intersect at the mouse position. I can remember seeing one, but not where or when I saw it. There is one for windows here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFlLWkD0H8I

One here for Mac, but it looks dodgy. I didn't try downloading it

http://download.cnet.com/Screen-Crossha ... 36906.html

Google/Bing Full Screen Cross Hair to find these

[stubbsonic]

... Maybe there is a OSX utility that would draw vertical and horizontal lines that intersect at the mouse position. I can remember seeing one, but not where or when I saw it.

This is really important. It falls squarely into the category of a utility I didn't know I needed until someone mentions it (and well it takes me however many days to realize that I didn't understand at first).

I'll check out those links and keep looking around. This is a cool thread.

[bayswater]

Check my update/edit

[stubbsonic]

Just found this one, but it turns out that the crosshairs are visible in a "measurement" mode, and can't be used in a general way. I've contacted the developer with a request to change its behavior:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/euclid/ ... 3396?mt=12

And this-- perhaps I can load a demo and test it.

http://xscopeapp.com

OMG. I've got a crap-ton of edits coming up. This could be really useful.

[stubbsonic]

Ok, the xscopeapp (linked above) does work. You can hide the coordinate field that follows the mouse and just have the crosshairs-- it does however replace the cursor arrow with a very tiny and hard to see icon.

At $50, it's too much (for me) to justify it. All those other features I don't need and wouldn't use. Perhaps I'll contact that developer and mention this thread.

I'll let you know if I hear anything back from the Euclid dev.

[miditime]

The cursor magically disappears as it glides into the MIDI editing window and turns into a tiny barely visible crosshairs that once are found, after moving the mouse back and forth, need to be carefully guided to the MIDI note - LEAVE THE CURSOR ALONE PLEASE - or at least have an option for it to stay the arrow. There probably is a fix by now (2022) Tons of other upgrades and fixes. thx!.
I'M GOING BLIND TRYING TO EDIT THESE PROJECTS.

Please MOTU- your target audience is getting pretty old and reading glasses can only do so much.

Thanks!!!