Scrubbing

Scrubbing is the process of "going through" the audio material at different speeds to find a specific location by ear. Here, Sequoia behaves like the "edit" mode of a tape machine: The motors are switched off, but the tape is still present at the tape head. By turning the tape reels by hand, the tape is slowly moved along the sound head to precisely approach a specific location.

By varying the playback speed, it's possible to quickly approach a position at first, but then also to arrive at the exact position at a reduced speed.

In Sequoia scrubbing can be done by dragging the mouse in a special Scrubbing mouse mode.

Activate the Scrubbing mode with the Ins/ 0 key on the numeric keypad or the key combination Alt + Shift + down arrow or by selecting the corresponding mouse mode on the upper toolbar .

If you click and drag into the project starting from the play cursor, you will hear the underlying audio material.

To scrub with the keyboard, use the keyboard shortcuts Alt + Shift + Left Arrow and Alt + Shift + Right Arrow.

You can also use the scrub control of the Transport console for scrubbing. The more you turn the knob to the right or left, the faster the playback will be in the respective direction. (However, this is actually only useful in combination with a hardware controller).

Scrubbing Modes

Different scrubbing modes can be set in the System options > Playback (keyboard shortcut P):

• In the default Scrub mode OneSpeed playback is at original speed. If you additionally press the Shift key, playback is at half speed. With the Ctrl key, the scrubbing speed set in the Speed field (default: 1/4 ) is used.

• Two speed: Two speeds are provided for scrubbing. Depending on the distance of the play cursor to the mouse position, the object is either played fast or slowly, whereby a speed of 0.25 is preset for slow scrubbing. Fast scrubbing is set to 1.0, i.e. original speed. Change the slow playback value in the Speed field.

• Shuttle: The distance between the play cursor and the mouse position is also used for tempo control, but the tempo control is continuous. So the play cursor follows the mouse movement quickly at first, and then the closer it approaches the mouse cursor position, the slower it moves.

• Absolute: In this mode, the absolute position of the mouse in the window is used to control the tempo.

  Mouse pointer on the left border	=	double speed backwards
  Mouse pointer in the middle	=	no playback
  Mouse pointer on the right border	=	double speed forwards

The Scrubbing for active track only option restricts scrubbing playback to the selected track.