Mouse Wheel To Control Hovered Sliders

Ideas & suggestions
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How about making the mouse wheel control any slider (or even numeric value) currently under the mouse cursor?

Maybe even allow two resolutions:
Mouse Wheel - change in small increments
Ctrl+Mouse Wheel - change in larger increments

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3

yeah!

swap that though? would be more consistent with how moving automation envelope points works, anyway.

4

Yup. Consistency is important.

EDIT:
Just noticed that mouse wheel is used to scroll the effects panel.
This is a good behavior I am sure nobody wants to lose, so perhaps use modifiers for the sliders:
Wheel (scroll, as it is now)
Ctrl+Wheel (change slider)
Ctrl+Shift+Wheel (change slider fine movement)

(or whatever is consistent with other parts of course)

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+1

(edit: I see the star rating dropdown now!)

6

me 15 years later:

+1

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7

+1
More basic stuff that should be native…

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That clashes with the mouse wheel scrolling in most places where sliders are used e.g the DSP chains. Also this is pretty unprecise. That’s the reason we’ve never added this.

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On the other hand, trackpads “wheel scrolling” aka 2-finger-scrolling would work very precisely, currently that gesture is wasted to dsp chain scrolling, which doesn’t need any precision at all, IMHO. Maybe there could be an option for that?

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Still clashes with the mouse wheel scrolling, which is the main point. Scrolling content up down, left right is the main gesture for a scroll wheel, so it should have more priority. No matter how precise a touchpad is.

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Ok, maybe my point was more like that the very detailed scrolling on a (apple) touchpad is not used at all currently. Also the horizontal scrolling is steppy as using a scroll wheel, but it should be smooth instead. So with a lot of dsp devices, the scrolling is not accurate at all, hence I always tend do click the scrollbar handle then. Maybe the scrolling could be improved, providing pixelwise like scrolling and acceleration? Just like scrolling works in a browser like Firefox, for example…Or in Bitwig.

Also standard on a touchpad is direct scrolling, so the vertical gesture for horizontal scrolling is not needed and also confusing, imho.