Zoom Toggle

[musiconthepage]

For the life of me, I cannot figure out the zoom toggle button. I’ve read what it does, but it doesn’t seem to do what it says it does. I’ve spent about a half hour trying to figure it out, and I’ve officially given up. The simple definition says that it toggles the view between the current zoom state and a preset/defined zoom state. How do we define that preset/defined zoom state? (that’s my first question) My second question is - I can do all sorts of whacky zooming with the zoom toggle button off. I would assume, based on the definition, that if I select the button, that I would “toggle” to a different, predefined zoom state. But sometimes when I hit the button, absolutely nothing happens. Other times when I hit the button, it does one thing. Then I’ll turn it off again, do something else, zoom in entirely different ways, and hit the button again, and it does a completely different preset zoom than what it did before. I’ve about HAD it with zoom toggle. I don’t suppose you could offer a few words to help me figure this out?

[injectedsenses]

Sorry for the late reply. I try to check the site everyday. I must have missed your post.

To answer your questions:

1. Zoom Toggle presets are defined in Setup>Preferences and are under the Editing tab.

2. Yes you are correct that if you hit the toggle button it should jump to your predefined state. The reason (I suspect) that it keeps changing every time you hit it, is because the default setting for track height and zoom is "last used." Follow digi's recommendation that say:

"For audio editing, set the Zoom Toggle preferences as follows: Vertical Zoom to Selection, Horizontal Zoom to Selection, Track Height to Fit to Window, and Track View to No Change."

This should keep some consistency. And remember that if you trash your prefs or alter your prefs databases in some way that you might have to reset these. THere is a ton of stuff you can do with the Zoom Toggle but this is the simplest and I think the most effective use for it.

Oh yeah in command focus mode the short cut is 'E'