Barry Beckham Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 This came up originally while making the PTE-9 Promo, but it surfaced again on another show I made. The ability to adjust critical sound volume in the Time Line when blending music, commentary and perhaps sound effects is still a fiddly and annoying aspect of PTE for me. I am a user of a Wacom Graphics Tablet and in all other respects it is far superior to any mouse for fine control, but not with PTE sound, but I suspect the mouse is just as fiddly. It is almost impossible to drag volume down to 6% and remove the pointer and have the value remain at 6%. The hand has to be so still to achieve it and I find I miss 4 times out of 5, often the volume will jump to 15%. I appreciate, the width of the music edit area can be increased, but I don't want to have to go into settings to achieve that. Three reasons: 1. It takes too long 2. It takes up too much real estate on screen and needs to be constantly reset. 3. In critical work I am making volume adjustment often and it gets painful to achieve I would like a value box so in critical adjustments I could change 6% to 4%. Try doing that without making the width of the wave file 400% and you will get frustrated. I would like to be able to click an audio key-point and have a value box open that I can ignore if I want to drag to change volume, or over-type the volume value if I don't.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donfoster Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 I agree with Barry, even using a mouse it can be a real pain trying to get the volume exactly where you want it. his suggested a fix would resolve the situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JEB Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 I also have this problem. I thought perhaps it was my lack of control over my Wacom but clearly not. john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cead Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Quote I too agree with Barry. It is a whole job to set the correct percentage of the audio track. Frans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt49 Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 In 2015 I asked for this feature (here), but my request was not successful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Does Ctrl+Shift+Scroll Wheel not help at all?? DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Beckham Posted May 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Not if you don't own one mouse on 4 computers it doesn't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denisb Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 Hello, I agree with Barry, It's not easy actually to set the value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonton Bruno Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 + 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davegee Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 So it is a Wacom problem? I thought that they were able to simulate scroll wheel. Looking at the specifications for various models I see "scroll" mentioned. Please note (EVERYONE) that I did not disagree - I merely pointed out the Hotkey available which is not "fiddly" at all and it takes less than a second to adjust the height of a track to around 400% (width in the southern hemisphere). A 1% increment is "easy-peasy" and return to 100% height takes less than a second again. Igor will be back soon and will probably do it for you immediately. DG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonton Bruno Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 I don't use my Wacom tablet and I found my Logitech mouse (MX Master) precise to adjust the sound level in a track displayed at 100%. I'm not asking for an emergency correction, but it would be more confortable to be able to enter a precise value for sound level. the present system is not easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jt49 Posted May 3, 2017 Report Share Posted May 3, 2017 20 hours ago, davegee said: Does Ctrl+Shift+Scroll Wheel not help at all?? It helps, to some extent. Nevertheless it is an unpleasant workaround! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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