Mouse-wheel Zoom must be a Crutch

Learning Abelton Live is going okay, but I really miss mouse-wheel zoom in the Clip View. I feel simply retarded trying to drill down and precisely highlight pieces of the waveform using the click and drag design. I wish I could come up with some workaround. I have a gaming mouse that lets me assign custom functions to the mouse wheel, so maybe I should assign the +/- zoom to the mouse wheel. I googled this issue and found that people have been requesting this feature for a long time, but the developers are not listening.