Viewing the playlist is an organization tool that helps you to work on certain sections of your song. Generally, the more pieces and parts you have, the more often you will be resizing your playlist.
To start viewing the playlist and to change the vertical and horizontal zoom parameters, you simply need to have the playlist open with patterns inserted inside it. An easy way to bring up the playlist is to press the F5 key.
Let's look at how to zoom in and out of the playlist while looking from left to right:
Using the horizontal scroll bar directly correlates with the amount of patterns that you can view from left to right. Fig 5.11 and Fig 5.12 show the same playlist window zoomed out and in, respectively.
Fig 5.11
To zoom in or out horizontally, hover your mouse over the left or right edge of the horizontal zoom bar. This zoom bar is directly above the bar count area. In Fig 5.12, you can see that you can hover your mouse over the area above bar...