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Forcing the cursor to start at the beginning of the song during playback
I am looking all over the place and I can't seem to find a simple, straight answer to this simple question:
"Is there a way to force the cursor to jump back to the very beginning of the song during playback?" Please don't give me a complicated lecture about cursor placement and all that stuff. I'm new at this and each time I attempt to manually place the cursor at the beginning of the song, it's not really the ("beginning") of the song - it's a few notes in. Apparently, to get the beginning of the song, I have to zoom in several times to truly place the cursor at the very beginning of the song. (which is a pain in the butt). Surely there is a simple ways to make the stupid thing start at the very beginning of the song? |
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Re: Forcing the cursor to start at the beginning of the song during playback
Unless your song starts somewhere after the session's start time... Return To Zero button -or- press [Return] on Mac or [Enter] on Windows.
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Re: Forcing the cursor to start at the beginning of the song during playback
Drop markers and learn about the quick locate function. For me, I drop markers at the following locations for 99% of music recordings:
1-count-in 2-Song start 3-V1(verse 1) 4-Pre1(pre-chorus) 5-C1(first chorus 6-TA(turn around or tag) etc, etc. If you're not using markers.... Then there's "Insertion follows Playback"(with keyboard focus enabled), the N key toggles this function. 1 way, playback starts from where you last stopped. The other way, playback starts from the previous start time. So, if you started at the song start, as long as you don't click in the timeline, which moves the cursor, playback will keep starting at the song start.
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Re: Forcing the cursor to start at the beginning of the song during playback
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I just want you to know that I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I'll definitely give it a go. As I'm figuring things out, I'm writing little inserting little clips and writing little MIDI parts in the first few bars, then dragging and copying them over to other bars down the time-line. This means I'm having to get the song to start from the very beginning over and over and its frustrating to have to zoom in every darn time to make certain it starts at the very beginning. |
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Re: Forcing the cursor to start at the beginning of the song during playback
I can't believe no one has mentioned this but:
pressing WIN+Enter (or CMD+ENTER) will return you to the song start marker (red diamond) unfortunately you can't program macros using the WIN or ALT key on Windows so hopefully you're on macOS... alternatively you can program a hotkey that uses the go to bar shortcut and takes you to bar 0 (NUMPAD * -> [Bar number] -> Enter/Return) |
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Re: Forcing the cursor to start at the beginning of the song during playback
The commands for return to session beginning have been mentioned, and that its not necessarily the start of the song. A suggestion. Drop a marker at the song start. Note it's number. (If its the first marker you dropped, it'll be #1) At any time, whether playback is running or not, you can have playback return to the start. Keystrokes on Mac or PC are period-[marker#]-period
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