CAKEWALK SONAR User Manual page 105

Here are some examples of times expressed in this format (assuming that zero is the start time):
Time...
00:00:00:00
00:05:10:00
01:30:00:00
00:00:00:05
SONAR provides many ways to set the Now time. Here are just a few:
To Change the Now Time
• Click the desired time on the Time Ruler in the Track view, Piano Roll view, or Staff view
• In the Navigator pane, click anywhere in the view while holding down the Ctrl key to change the
Now Time to that location
• Click on the Now time in the Large Transport toolbar, enter the desired time, and press Enter
• Choose Go-Time or press F5, enter the desired time, and click OK
• Click on an event in the Event List view
You can also set the Now time by right-clicking in the Clips pane if you enable the Right Click Sets Now
option in the Track View Properties dialog. Right-click a an empty area of the Clips pane, and select
View Options from the menu that appears to open the Clip View Properties dialog.
When entering a time in MBT format, the beat and tick values are optional. You can use a colon, space,
decimal point, or vertical bar to separate the parts of the Now time:
You enter...
2
4 2 0
9
5|1:30
When entering a time in SMPTE format, you can enter a single number (hour), two numbers (hour and
minutes), three numbers (hour, minutes, and seconds), or all four numbers.
If you click in the Time Ruler while the snap grid is enabled, the Now time will be snapped to the
nearest point in the grid. By setting the grid size to a whole note or quarter note, you can easily set the
Now time to a measure or beat boundary.
You can also use the buttons and the scroll bar in either the Transport toolbar or Large Transport
toolbar (shown below) to adjust the time.
What it means...
The beginning of the project
Five minutes and ten seconds from the beginning
of the project
One hour and thirty minutes into the project
Five frames into the project
The Now time is set to...
2:01:000
4:02:000
9:01:000
5:01:030
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