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  • Vienna Suite: responding to a mouse scroll button

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    I have a general question and an enhancement to Vienna suite (though I don't own it yet). I recentlly bought Griffin Technology's Powermate, which is a programmable "knob" that I have set to scroll. With it I can control any paramter, slider or knob in Cubase or plug-in (including power-core) simply by hovering a mouse over it. In effect it behaves like the mouse scroll wheel ... but ergonomically it is sublimley beautiful. I point with my mouse in my right hand, and turn a single knob in my left hand to control andy and all cubase and vst sliders, knobs, spinners eq points etc. No clicking and dragging, no mapping mapping parameters to controls, no wrapping software. (£30). http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate Except for the VSL software. Can anyone explain what software companies have to do to enable their software to respond to the scroll wheel. And why does the VSL software not respond to the scroll-wheel? Is there a sound reason? Is there anything that can be done to change this? Thanks
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    For the Vienna Suite we rely on our own custom graphics framework, so the controls are not normal "Windows" or "OSX" controls. However, normal mouseWheel events get handled for controls where it makes any sense

    I don't know exactly what the Powermate does. Could you please try first clicking a slider or valuebox in a vienna suite plugin, then turn the Powermate?
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    Hi Martin Thanks for the insight. In Vienna Suite, if I click a control, the Powermate will indeed be able to change the value. In Vienna Instruments, the same is true. In Cakewalk I have to click to pick a control I have not tested any MAC DAWs. In Cubase and Powercore, simply hovering over a control allows the Powermate to "sense" that scrolling it will change the value. i.e. no "clicking" .. it makes mixing a friction-less experience. Very smooth, very sublime. Incidentally, I came across the Powermate on a Cubase forum. I had just purchases the new CC121 Cubase controller, which has an "AI Knob" ... it allows the user to control all parameters in Cubase and plug-ins, just by hovering the mouse over it. Unfortunately it doesn't; it only controls Cubase and plug-ins written to the new VST3 standard (ie only Cubase's inbuilt VST) and it costs £300. The Powermate casts £30, or less. Its cool.