Melodyne ARA & Song Start Marker
 

So in Pro Tools 2022.9 ... Melodyne ARA seemingly cannot cope with the Pro Tools Song Start Marker (red diamond) being anywhere other than the very beginning of the timeline, otherwise the Bars | Beats counter does not match between Pro Tools and the Melodyne Tab. I cannot find any workaround.

I typically like to have my Session Start at 00:58:00.00 (in the Session Setup window), and then put my Song Start Marker/Bar 1 at 01:00:00.00, etc. This is especially when dealing with either TV/Movie cues, or multitrack transfers where there is material/working space before the actual downbeat.

Is this the fault of Avid's implementation of ARA & Melodyne ?
A limitation of ARA ?
A limitation of Melodyne ?
A bug ?
anything I'm missing ?

P.S. and what's the deal with this increasingly gargantuan "Separations" folder in Macintosh HD/Users/name/Library/Caches/com.celemony.Melodyne/Separations etc ? . . . and if I trash it will I lose all of my programmed pitch corrections within every Pro Tools session ?
It's over a GB already and I've only been working on half a lead vocal track on one song. It's larger than the actual audio file.

Re: Melodyne ARA & Song Start Marker
 

Can't help with the first part of your post. As for the PS, you can test this easily. Move whatever files are in that folder to a temp folder before opening that session. If your edits are gone, close PT and move the files back to where they started. Once you are happy with your Melodyne edits, commit them(at that point, those files should be okay to delete, but do the same test to be sure).