Did you change the keyboard shortcut for vertical zoom on analog channels? I think it used to be ctrl+zoom, or alt+zoom. That shortcut now zooms both axes at once, I don’t see how that could possibly be useful, I would recommend reverting it.
My point is that I think it should be swapped to be more similar to previous versions (ctrl+scroll for vertical zoom, ctrl+alt+scroll for zooming both) because zooming one axis at a time is more predictable and useful. Unless you have come to the opposite conclusion through user testing?
In general more modifiers should map to less common actions or augmenting some simpler modifier action. In this case a simple Ctrl+scroll for vertical zoom could augment to Ctrl+Shift+scroll for zoom both. Zoom both is both less common (for me at least) and an augmentation of zoom vertical.
Personally I’d rather shift+scroll did the horizontal zoom rather than unadorned scroll. I’d much rather unadorned scroll scrolled the data horizontally. It causes me a lot of under the breath swearing when I switch between different applications that swap those two functions (zoom and scroll) for unadorned scroll. The fact that it’s called a scroll wheel should give a hint about its default role.
I disagree. The scroll wheel on a mouse, yes, is called a scroll wheel but many applications use it unmodified as zoom because that makes more sense in most contexts. For instance, I’ve never seen a 3D application use the scroll wheel to default as “pan”. They all use it for zoom. The only place I see the scroll wheel scrolling is in text interfaces like word processors, IDEs, and web browsers. I really think I’d be grossed out by using the scroll wheel to scroll in Logic. It feels very wrong to me, the default click and fling feels natural and right to me. I guess everyone is different.
But, I do agree that zooming both axes is the least useful and common so should have the most modifiers.
I understand where you are coming from. In practice zoom versus scroll seems to be a coin toss, even in applications such as Logic. Our company’s 25 year old data collection and analysis application uses the scroll wheel to scroll data and Ctrl+scroll to zoom. Our new re-immagining of the same application uses the wheel scroll for zoom!
The schematic capture and PCB design software I use does the scroll thing by default and uses Ctrl+scroll for zoom. And so on.
There is a simple answer: make it a configuration option/Preference.
