The Now Time And How To Use It - CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual

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The Now Time and How to Use It

Every project has a current time, known as the Now time, which keeps track of where you are in a
project. The Now time appears as a vertical line in the Track view and is displayed in both the Large
Transport toolbar and the Position toolbar, in two formats:
The measure, beat, and tick number (MBT) identifies the Now time in musical time units. Ticks are
subdivisions of quarter notes and indicate the timebase of the project. For more information about the
timebase, see "Setting the MIDI Timing Resolution" on page 152. The other time format is the SMPTE
format, expressed in hours, minutes, seconds, and frames.
The current measure, beat, and tick
Here are some examples of times expressed in measure, beat, and tick (MBT) format:
Time...
1:01:000
9:04:000
4:02:060
The hours-minutes-seconds-frames format is commonly referred to as the SMPTE time. SMPTE is the
acronym for the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. In this format, time is measured in
hours, minutes, seconds, and frames. It's not necessary for a project to begin at time zero in this
format—any time can be used to represent the start of a project. If you are synchronizing SONAR with
an external device whose start time is not 0, you must offset SONAR to match the external device's
start time. For more information, see Chapter 18, Synchronizing Your Gear.
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The current time in hours,
minutes, seconds, and frames
What it means...
First beat of the first measure
Fourth beat of the ninth measure
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The 60 tick of the second beat of the fourth
measure
Meter, Key Signature
display