How to Zoom in to my Play Head?

[Eary]

I find it extremely annoying that everytime I hold ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel, it zooms into the begining part of the song editor or piano roll. When I need to zoom in and check a specific part in the middle of the timeline, I would have to zoom in to the beginning and manually scroll to the part. This is very counterintuitive and annoying. Any idea how to do that? I Googled this but nothing seems to answer my question. There should be a way to zoom to my play head.

[musikbear]

I find it extremely annoying that everytime I hold ctrl and scroll the mouse wheel, it zooms into the begining part of the song editor or piano roll. When I need to zoom in and check a specific part in the middle of the timeline, I would have to zoom in to the beginning and manually scroll to the part. This is very counterintuitive and annoying. Any idea how to do that? I Googled this but nothing seems to answer my question. There should be a way to zoom to my play head.

It has to do with your choice in the transport-setting. The button to the right:

It has 3 states:
Default: Back to zero.png Back to Zero (default): the playhead returns to the beginning of the song (bar #1).
<< Back to start.png Back to start : the playhead returns to the position where this playback started.
>> Keep stop position.pngContinue : the playhead remains where it was stopped (i.e. it doesn't move).
and read: https://lmms.io/wiki/index.php?title=So ... k_Controls
So your playhead will jump to 0.0 in the default state. We btw plan to change that.
The state you want is >>
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[Eary]

Besides that, since you are new in Forum
Welcome Eary!

Thanks

So your playhead will jump to 0.0 in the default state. We btw plan to change that.
The state you want is >>

No, I think you don't understand what I mean. Yeah it's better to have the play-head staying where it is, but that's not what I was asking in this post. I was asking for the operation to zoom in to a particular part of the timeline, like the part where my play-head is currently at.

For example, here is my timeline:
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-\/-17-18-19-20------------
This "\/" is where my play-head is, it is in between 16 and 17.
I want to zoom in so that it looks like:
14—— 15——16—— \/—— 17——
But now if I hold ctrl and scroll, it does this:
1————— 2 (The play-head is on the far right off screen)
I need to manually scroll the view back to the play head after zooming.
I hope I describe the question clear enough this time, lol.
It is basically zooming in with the play-head being the zooming center point @musikbear

[musikbear]

I was asking for the operation to zoom in to a particular part of the timeline, like the part where my play-head is currently at.

..yea, i 'feared' you would say that :p
And thats a weakspot in lmms. We need to have not only methods to jump view to play-head position, but in fact to any position. We have it planned..
That and bookmarks / jump-to-bookmarks, as well
Zooming/ scaling on a selected area is also 'planned'
We have a lot planned 'stuff', but few devs 🙄

[Eary]

We have it planned..
That and bookmarks / jump-to-bookmarks, as well
Zooming/ scaling on a selected area is also 'planned'

Glad to know it's planned. I have found a workaround for now. If there is a pattern (even an empty one) at where the play-head is, I can zoom in and then hit space bar to play, then it automatically scrolls to the place. It does not work when the place does not have any pattern though.