Questions for Ardour 9.2

A few questions I thought I would place in one post.

  1. Is it possible to disable the zoom feature in the overview bar at the bottom of the Ardour edit screen when attempting to move right to left? Accidentally moving the mouse up and down zooms in and out. It’s kind of driving me nuts. Can this feature be disabled?

  2. Back in December I had just finished making a color theme named Autumn and it worked fine from at least Ardour 5 to 8.12 but when 9 was released there were some changes made to the themeing element and my theme no longer works the way it did. In my notes I had mentioned that one of the developers had shared a document with me that showed/described these changes to Ardour 9’s theme element but I can’t locate this “document”. Does anyone know the actual differences between Ardour 9 and previous versions so I can make this Autumn theme compatible with Ardour 9?

  3. With an X-Touch as my control surface (Mackie protocol) using the FF/Rew buttons scrubs (plays the audio and is slow moving) rather than just moving the playhead. Is there any way to disable this scrubbing feature? I would really like it to just move smoothly back and forth with the Rew/FF buttons. This was not specific to Ardour 9, I think all version did this as well.

  4. When Ardour is playing and is in Follow Playhead mode, is there anyway to have this auto disable if you manually scroll out of the playhead view or does this have to be disabled manually? I find myself (likely because of Cubase I think) scrolling ahead a bit to check or see an up and coming part of the music and as soon as I let go of the mouse button, it will bring me back to where the playhead is playing from.

Thank you guy in advance.
chris

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