

If you zoom the Arrangement while Follow is enabled, Live will zoom to the playhead. Follow will start again once you stop or restart playback, or click in the Arrangement or clip scrub area. Follow will pause if you make an edit or scroll the view horizontally in the Arrangement, or if you click on the beat-time ruler. To have the Arrangement display follow the song position and scroll automatically, turn on the Follow switch, or use the Follow command from the Options menu.Using this method, you can zoom and scroll to focus around any part of the Arrangement with just one mouse motion. Note that you can also drag horizontally to scroll the display. To see a specific part of the Arrangement in more detail, click on it in the Overview and drag downwards to zoom in around that part.


To optimize the height of all tracks to fit the Arrangement View, click the Optimize Arrangement Height button or press the H shortcut key.Note that if the Arrangement contains a time selection, all tracks with selected content will zoom vertically. To vertically zoom a selected track, scroll inside the Track Display Area with the mousewheel or trackpad while holding the ALT modifier.Note that when zooming in multiple times using the Z key, the X key can be pressed multiple times to go back one step each time the key is pressed. (Note that if you select time on a single Arrangement clip, the Clip View display ( see 8.2.5) will zoom in on that selected time.) You can revert back to the previous zoom state by pressing the X key. To zoom in the current selection completely, press Z or use the View menu’s Zoom to Arrangement Time Selection command.

If nothing is selected, double-clicking the beat-time ruler zooms out to show the entire Arrangement. Double-clicking in the beat-time ruler also zooms to the current selection. To “pan“ the display, click and drag while holding the CTRL- ALT(Win) / CMD- ALT(Mac) modifier.
