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Feature Request: Option to disable plugin menu expanding with one mouse click

+54 votes
2,547 views
asked Feb 10, 2023 in Instruments and Plug-Ins by bradboatright (480 points)
recategorized Feb 10, 2023 by bradboatright
Sometimes I'm not quick enough with the double-click, and a single plugin's menu in the insert bay will expand, causing other plugins to drop out of view. While this feature can be useful for those who adjust parameters that way, it would be nice to have the option to disable it, since it occasionally disrupts my workflow.

15 Answers

+12 votes
answered Feb 13, 2023 by tothrec (32,280 points)
(Up-voted)

I don't try to adjust the parameters from that little window.  Instead, like you, I click on the title to collapse (seems like whack-a-mole).
+12 votes
answered Feb 17, 2023 by princeagrawal (13,900 points)
Agreed and upvoted. The current single click behavior hurts more than it helps.
+11 votes
answered Jul 5, 2023 by tombuur (770 points)
I find these accidental expansions very annoying. It happens to me all the time, and I never adjust plugins inside the insert slots. Please, make it possible to disable this feature. It shouldn't require much programming, right?
+4 votes
answered Jul 9, 2023 by jesseharradine (840 points)
edited Nov 29, 2023 by jesseharradine

yes
It's the most time wasteful annoying as bleep feature ever. GLOBAL SHUT DOWN NOW LETS goooooo

I'm sure they are too busy adding 5000 things to the show page or some other bleep instead of people trying to use this as a professional mixing DAW.

absolutely redic

+8 votes
answered Jul 12, 2023 by giovannibuchelli (360 points)
Upvoted.

I will never, never, use those tiny little controls. I want to open the plugin window with one click.
+7 votes
answered Aug 20, 2023 by waynelansdowne (330 points)
Upvoted and fully agree. I found this thread specifically looking for a solution to disable or change the default behavior. It should absolutely be user preference and I really hope it gets updated as such.
+4 votes
answered Oct 17, 2023 by shaywilson1 (420 points)
I totally agree...needs to have a toggle switch to have the feature tuned off
+3 votes
answered Nov 4, 2023 by karymwillemsen (220 points)
I agree 100%.

 This is a great option for those who like the windows.

But for me it is really killing my workflow. I absolutely hate it
+3 votes
answered Nov 5, 2023 by muwler (310 points)
I totally agree
+3 votes
answered Nov 5, 2023 by petergreeny (440 points) 1 flag
100% this.  Such an obviously needed fix.
–2 votes
answered Dec 6, 2023 by bradboatright (480 points)

Welp... OP chiming in again here. I just figured out that it actually can sort of be disabled, at least on 3rd party plugins. You just need to right click the plugin, and select "Setup Micro Parameters", and remove them. To select all, use the shift button and click the bottom parameter.

+1 vote
answered Jan 25 by Mikael Atterby (170 points)
This function is an absolute nightmare, it KILLS my workflow. Please make this a selectable option quick, I totally hate to fight with it 50-100 times per session. Plugins expand, then you cannot see/klick on other plugins without scrolling. The tiny view provided with the function is unusable for me, I never want to use it, and i would like to be able to turn it off forever.
+1 vote
answered Apr 21 by davidtedeschi1 (180 points)
"I love this feature!!!" - said no one ever

This is a total workflow killer. It seems such a simple thing to be able to add a 'disable' feature from this. PLEASE DO!
0 votes
answered Jul 15 by mysterydiner (350 points)
Yeah end up having to do this 100 or so times a day I think. Double clicking doesn't feel right to show plugins, viewing a plugin ui is the primrary function here, not the arcane params expansion view. Something with the mac magic track pad double click, makes the paramaters expand nearly 50% of the time. Almost frustrating enough to go back to pro tools. It's the little things in life ;)
+1 vote
answered Jul 21 by pbright (1,390 points)

This feature is wreaking my workflow.   When trying to mix and its constantly expanding because my double click is too slow and becomes a royal pain in the @#$#.   I spend more time having to keep collapsing this nightmare built in feature.   Please for the love of mixing Presonus Fix this broken workflow.

Please allow the user to reverse the single with a double click for expand and collapse.   Users are constantly going into plugins so make that the priority "single" mouse click  to "Open/Close a Plugin" and change that useless expand and collapse to a double click (secondary user action ).   If not that allow the user to disable it in options at least.

I LOVE doing music in studio one, but I HATE this unconfigurable feature in studio one.     I should be able to single mouse click on a plugin to make it come up, that's a quality of life fix and put this collapse/expand to a secondary roll requiring a mouse double click.  problem solved.

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