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Time/Meter Scale and Ruler and Position Formats
Time/Meter Scale
By clicking the Meter Scale button you can decide if the display and the ruler
should show time or meter linearly:
• In a time linear display, each “second” on the screen occupies equal amount
of space, horizontally. This is convenient if you are working with time related
material, such as for example narration or sound effects to be matched to
video.
• In a meter linear display, each bar on the screen occupies equal amount of
space, horizontally. This the mode to use if you are working with musically
related material.
Ruler and Position Formats
By clicking on the mouse box you can determine whether the rulers and the mouse
position box should be displayed in time code (SMPTE) format or as bars and
beats, as in the Arrange window and some of the MIDI editors (see the Basic Meth-
ods chapter in the Getting Started book).
• Normally, you would match the Time Meter Scale and Ruler formats so
that they are both set to Time or Meter positions.
• If you set the display to Time Scale and the Ruler to Meter positions, the
ruler will not be linear.
That is, if you have tempo changes, there will not be equal spacing between
the measures. This is natural, since if the measures are played at different
tempo, they occupy different amounts of “real time” (minutes, seconds etc.)
• If you set the display to Meter Scale and the ruler to Time positions, the
same phenomenon occurs, that is if you have tempo changes, the ruler
will not be “linear”.
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