Request: Zoom out notes in piano roll

[ghanedan]

Hi,

Currently the only option to see all notes in piano roll is to zoom in and out manually. 

There is a "fit content" option under view menu, but it only zooms out vertically, not horizontally.

Similar to "zoom out whole project" option "F" shortcut in the track view, an option is needed to ;

1- zoom out all notes

2- zoom in to selected notes

in the piano roll.

Is this possible please ? 

Edited November 20, 2020 by ghanedan

[Canopus]

Unfortunately, no. I have been asking for such a feature for many years but it doesn’t seem to happen.

Twice in the old forum:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3493927 (2016)

http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3758173 (2018)

And once in this new forum:

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/1925-how-to-easily-fit-midi-content/&do=findComment&comment=15437 (2019)

I guess I've given up.

[ghanedan]

3 minutes ago, Canopus said:

Unfortunately, no. I have been asking for such a feature for many years but it doesn’t seem to happen.

I have been using other DAWs since the collapse of Sonar Platinum. Just out of curiosity, do the developers ever look at these feature requests anymore ?

[Will.]

Why dont you use Ctrl+Directional keyboard Arrows for now? 

[ghanedan]

24 minutes ago, Will_Kaydo said:

Why dont you use Ctrl+Directional keyboard Arrows for now? 

Because zooming in and out ( whether it is  done by a key combination or zoom buttons ) does not align notes automatically to the center.

So if you are already in an empty region of piano roll, where the actual notes are before ( to the left ) or after ( to the right ), you zoom out the empty space, or zoom in to the empty space.

There is a need to auto align all existing notes (  or selected notes ) to the center and zoom out auto to display all of them.

Edited November 21, 2020 by Y.G. Hanedan

[chris.r]

8 hours ago, ghanedan said:

Just out of curiosity, do the developers ever look at these feature requests anymore ?

From my experience, yes they do!

8 hours ago, Canopus said:

I guess I've given up.

I'd suggest not giving up, repeat your request or continue topic so it will stay near the top. When more people come into discussion and rate the topic there's much greater chance that Noel and the squad visit it and then something might happen.

Edited November 21, 2020 by chris.r