Dear Presonus, it's a pretty minor thing maybe, but the auto-save should happen in the background! While it's auto-saving I can do for some seconds nothing. But when I count all the seconds together I come a long at least a hour per week which is wasted, due to that it's a simple thing what most of the other DAWs can handle as background activity! Thanks for your attention!

The new grid appearance is a huge step backwards compared to V6. The grid is almost impossible to see, which makes it really difficult to edit drums and manually aligning things to the grid (without snapping). The fades being so bright actually makes it harder, not easier to see the fades and edit points. Please bring the option back to look like it did in V6. PLEASE.

Compared to SO6 (screenshot with green tracks）, SO Pro7's grid lines (especially the horizontal ones) are set to gray, which makes me unable to distinguish the horizontal grid even if I increase it to 100% in Preferences-Appearance-Arrangement-Contrast. The vertical grid brightness is also too low. When managing a large number of tracks, this will slow down the work progress.

I'm also a Logic user, I find the inspector section more user-friendly compare to S1. I would like to see a more "clean" version of the inspector section in S1.  The idea here is to keep the mixer section at the bottom and keep the track and events sections on the top using tabs or dropdown menus. Right now we have to drag up and down to get to all available options, it's not user-friendly at all especially on my MackBook Pro with a 13" monitor. (as you can see in the video below) Like this:  **Here is a video comparison of Logic and Studio One on a MacBook Pro with a 13" display (no retina):** https://youtu.be/KGaVkvj6rHY **Please vote for this feature if you will find it useful!** Thanks

This is the one thing keeping me from switching to Studio One from Pro Tools. In Pro Tools when you group tracks together it gives you an option to also include plugin parameters into the group. So for instance if you have 6 Background Vocal tracks and they all have an SSL Channel strip plugin on insert A you can group the plugin parameters on insert A across ALL those BGV tracks. How I tweak the SSL Channel strip on the BGV 1 track will ALSO apply to the SSL Channel Strip plugins on the BGV 5 through 6 tracks. Pro Tools also allows you to select WHICH inserts will be grouped. So you could link parameters on inserts A through E in the group but NOT parameters on Inserts H through J so that only certain plugins will be linked together and others will not. Pro Tools also allows you to optionally link the Bypass state of plugins across groups by insert as well. LOVE THAT. This is a HUGE timesaver in mixing and it saves you from having to tweak a plugin on one track in solo and then copy and paste that plugin to all the other tracks in the group. And if you want to change the parameters than you have to RE-COPY the plugin across all the channels. Its a real pain.

### Summary **tl;dr:** Studio One under-utilises the middle click and the right click. Most notably, **middle button panning** is badly needed. Hi all, this is a very simple but also very important workflow enhancement request. At the moment middle-click shows the tool picker, here's the tool picker:  The problem is **the middle button doesn't do anything else**. With the right button we see the same problem: it shows the context menu and, again, doesn't do anything else. Studio One could pack much more functionality into these mouse buttons by detecting if the mouse has/hasn't moved after the the click happens. ### Improvement suggestions In the clips area of Arrange View, the notes area of the Piano Roll and the waveform area of the Audio Editor: * **Middle-click + swipe:** **Pan view.** The user presses the middle button, then moves the mouse while holding the middle button down to pan the view left/right/up/down, then releases the middle button to stop panning. This is how it works in Bitwig, FL Studio, Cubase (I think) and actually loads of graphic design and CAD software. * **Middle-click (mouse doesn't move):** **Open tool picker.** Note: The tool picker is shown only after releasing middle button and only if the mouse hasn't moved. If the mouse moves **before** the  button is released, then Studio One is smart and understands that the movement is intentional and the user intends to pan the view (previous point above), so the tool picker is not shown in this case. * **Right-click + swipe:** **Delete clips**. FL Studio works like this, and it makes editing extremely fast. * **Right-click (mouse doesn't move): Show context menu.** The user presses the right button, then moves the mouse while holding the right button down over clips/notes to delete them, then releases the right button to stop deleting. * **Left-click:** Select stuff, etc—the way it works at the moment is fine. On the ruler: * **Middle-click + horizontal swipe: Pan view left/right.** * **Middle-click + vertical swipe:** Ignored. This gives the user a way to pan the view just horizontally without having to worry about messing up the zoom level. * **Middle-click (mouse doesn't move):** Alternate/toggle between full view (zooms out horizontally just enough to show the entire arrangement) and the previous zoom level. * **Right-click:** Shows context menu (current behavior, no need to change unless you want the swipe to do something else). We can see that the left click is already "smart" on the ruler, the way it works at the moment, so it makes sense that its siblings the middle and right click get the same smart treatment: * **Left-click + swipe:** **Combined zoom & pan view**. * **Left-click (mouse doesn't move): Move playback cursor** to click position. I understand keeping the mouse perfectly still while clicking the button can be difficult, especially after a double espresso, so by "mouse doesn't move" we could really mean "mouse doesn't move **more than a predefined number of pixels**". For example, if the mouse doesn't move more than, say, 3 pixels in any direction between the time the button is pressed and released, then Studio One would understand that "the mouse didn't move". Conversely, if the mouse did move more than 3 pixels, then Studio One would intelligently interpret this as "the mouse movement was too big to be an accident, therefore we'll treat that as a swipe". On **any other panel that features a scrolling view** (e.g. **Mixer**, **Browser**, **Track/Event inspector**): * **Middle Click + Swipe:** **Pan view**. ### Modifiers Combine the middle click with modifiers. For example, in the clips area of Arrange View, Ctrl + Left-click + Swipe could be used for **combined horizontal zoom and pan** a-la Ableton. Basically explore and exploit the possibilities. ### One more thing... Just one more small but **very important detail**: Once the tool picker is visible, if you **middle-click outside the tool picker** it doesn't go away! Strangely enough, the left button can be used both to pick tools **and** to close the picker by clicking outside, while the middle button can only be used to pick tools, which is inconsistent. When the picker is opened by accident, users will intuitively try to middle-click outside the picker to close it. This is an intuitive gesture commonly used in mobile apps, where you close a menu by tapping outside. Sorry for the long and boring post........ if anything isn't clear ask me any questions in the comments below. Thanks everyone for reading and please vote this FR if you like it.

There's very little way to eyeball a channel in the console and know if it's mono or stereo (a key piece of information!). Users basically have to play the audio and see whether 1 or 2 levels show up, which is far from fast & convenient - there should be a way to immediately know just from looking. For example, in Pro Tools, there are 3 key visual cues, none of which hold true in Studio One: 1. There are 2 pan dials; not 1 ([a lot of people want to see this in Studio One too](https://answers.presonus.com/3928/independent-left-right-pan-faders-knobs-on-stereo-channels)!). 2. The meter is twice as wide. 3. The meter has a clear dividing line in the middle of it.  Seeing any of these things in Studio One (or any other subtle, consistent cue that doesn't require playing the audio!) would be such a simple way to make people's lives easier. Currently, the only workaround is to check if there's 1 or 2 inputs, but this isn't a clear or reliable distinction, and doesn't work at all for virtual instrument channels.

I run a professional Studio in Ireland. Studio on is excellent and version 7 is fantastic. However the new GUI graphics are seriously offputting and the large boarders on highlighted tracks, curved edges on sections, small representation of midi notes and general DJ style home studio is causing me and my co-workers some concern as, far from being unobstrusive, they interup the work flow. Please can you update so that the looks of the GUI and especially the tracks, line thickness etc can be customised?

This feature is really handy when you're editing vocals and stuff like that. Also is very usefull for Content creators because makes the softwares look more engaging. Please add this feature ASAP!

It would be helpful to allow users to lock the height of tracks. At present, it is too easy to inadvertantly change the track height when using the mouse to zoom track horizontally in/out if the movement of the finger is even slightly off horizontal on the mouse.