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Old 05-27-2012, 03:55 AM
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Default Possibility to change direction of mouse wheel ?

I'm using a number of third-party mouses (Speedlink etc).

Whats driving me nuts is that ProTools and Logic (I use both daily) have exactly OPPOSITE ways of zooming when I use the mouse wheel.

To be honest - in this case Logic's way makes by far more sense: scrolling the wheel upwards Zooms IN, scrolling downwards Zooms Out.
(Like it "feels" on the finger scrolling...UP = IN )

Besides ALWAYS doing it wrong for a while after switching DAW's, it would be great to be able to generally adjust PT to do it the same way.

Nothing found in Pref's (or manual) and the mouse maufactures don't offer any (apple-) software tools for config.

Is there a trick or perhaps a little Software App (for Snow Leopard) that enables one to decide how OS-X deals with the incoming data from the mousewheel (in Sys Config I can change the SPEED but not the DIRECTION...) ? So I can make OS-X -> and PT react oppositly ?

Anybody out there that can make me a happy bunny ? Thanx
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Old 05-27-2012, 12:24 PM
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I always just zoom with the R and T keys - I know there might be an easier way but that's what I do
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Old 05-27-2012, 01:16 PM
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The is a way in Lion anyway to reverse the scroll wheel. But there is software for snow leopard they will do it. Such as http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/37872/scroll-reverser
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Default Re: Possibility to change direction of mouse wheel ?

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To be honest - in this case Logic's way makes by far more sense: scrolling the wheel upwards Zooms IN, scrolling downwards Zooms Out.
(Like it "feels" on the finger scrolling...UP = IN )
My ProTools definately Zooms IN when I roll the wheel upwards.
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Old 05-28-2012, 11:03 AM
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Default Re: Possibility to change direction of mouse wheel ?

@ Bobby Dazzler:
Yes you're right, I described it the wrong way around reg. PT... same here of course ( up = in).
But problems stays: in LOGIC it's the other way round, so no chance to get "used" to one or the other when switching between them all the time

@necjamc: great tip, thank you ! Downloaded it and it works.... with one bummer I didn't think of: scroll direction can be changed very conveniently now, BUT: in PT as well as logic I need to press an additional key to Zoom (and not to move up & down the window)... so when the scrollwheel is set the way e.G. I want it it ProTools when I press "alt" & scroll (to zoom) --> when I don't press alt and want to move up and down in the window with the wheel... it's (of course ) the wrong way around then.

So I fear the scroll reverser would need additional configuration-possibilites (like reverse only when a certain key is pressed or not etc.)...

Seems like I want too much ... I mean if anybody has another software-tool suggestion -great !- if not... well I guess I just have to live with it (or ask in the logic forum for workarounds in logic ;-))) ...

Thanx anyways, and the scroll reverser might still come in handy on other occasions !
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Old 05-29-2012, 11:32 AM
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is there a custom driver that can be programed per app?
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Default Re: Possibility to change direction of mouse wheel ?

I just noticed something weird. This is for Windows users.
In Mouse (wheel tab) settings in Windows you can choose between scroll x lines, or scroll page.
I noticed that if it's set to scroll page, then it will in ProTools result in an inverted mouse, but if it's set to scroll x lines, then it's normal. At least when scrolling the tracks view up and down.
Almost drove me crazy before I understood what the problem was.
I never have it set to scroll a page at the time, but I must have accidentally activated it.
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