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• Apr 18, 2018 - 02:09

I'm a new user and using mostly for learning choral parts. I understand this isn't the key focus of the software, but I believe it is frequently used for this.

During playback and singing softly along it's common, in the learning process, to encounter a section where there are challenges. What I was missing was an ability to just, for perhaps a few times, bounce back say 4 measures to take a fresh run, possibly at a slower rate. This would be similar to a DVR remote control that featues 30 seconds forward on one button (to skip commercials) and then 10 seconds back on another (to go back just a bit when you've gone too far). I needn't be unduly complex as it's easy to learn to click it as many times as needed to get somewhere near the point desired.

I see that I can use the position-within-the-score slider, but it gives me no guidance about how much and, unless I have it massively magnified it seems a bit of a blunt weapon to do what I'm wanting to do. I end up generally too far if the score is at all lengthy.

I also think the brackets aren't really what's needed here. It can be done, but requires the setup each time, more laborious, I think, than a simple click on a control.

I'm guessing this should ideally be not far from the play/pause button as it will be common to backup and then pause for a moment and survey the section to be tried again.


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Meanwhile, though, try the loop feature. Select a region, enable the loop button on the toolbar, and you can keep playing that passage as often as you want.

Also realize the cursor keys work normally during playback, so for instance Ctrl+Left goes back a measure.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

And there it is. Thank you.
After some playing around with the brackets (I didn't find documentation and the control and movement of them -- and removal!! -- wasn't immediately obvious to me) I believe they, along with the arrows and ctrl-arrows should do the job.

For these purposes, though, still more funky than it might be, at least based on what I've been able to discover. Dropping brackets while playing works just fine. That can be a bit frenetic, though. It would be nice to drop one when stopped, even to be able to exactly position it, yes? As it is, when stopped the progress bar goes away and if you start a bracket at that point it actually gets placed at the beginning of the score.

Anyway, thank to all for the help and I do find the program pretty wonderful.

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

First, thanks for taking the time.

Second, very beginner-level question: what do you mean "select"? I see that I can mark a measure/voice. And with shift click I can expand this. I end up with a blue box around things. But pushing the play button in the toolbar or in the play panel just seems to use this as a starting point and plays beyond the box. Starting and stopping seem to just stop wherever it is playing and then start from there again. Sorry for being dense on this.

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