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Tutorial 1—The Basics
Tutorials
Do you hear music? If you don't hear anything, see the online help topic
called Troubleshooting for some troubleshooting tips.
The next several topics describe some playback options to give you a lot
more control over how you want to play back your project. If you want to see
a slightly more advanced tutorial about using software synthesizers, see
Tutorial 8—Using Soft Synths. This tutorial also shows how to convert soft
synth tracks to audio tracks, and then export your project as a wave file.
Exporting each project as a stereo wave file is how you create audio CDs.
After your projects are exported as stereo wave files, you can use your
favorite CD-burning software to make an audio CD from the collection of
wave files.
The Now Time
The Now time is the current time in the project—the time where playback is
occurring, or where playback will start up again if playback is stopped. The
Now time is indicated in the Clips pane by a vertical black line, which moves
as your project plays to indicate what part of your project is playing. When
playback is stopped, at the top of the black line you will see a green triangle
. This triangle, known as the Now time marker, represents the point at
which the Now time will snap back to after you stop playback or recording
(you can change this behavior in the Global Options dialog—select
Options-Global, click the General tab in the Global Options dialog, and
uncheck the On Stop, Rewind to Now Marker option).
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The Now time is also shown in the Transport toolbar, both in MBT
(measure/beat/tick) format and in time code format (hour/minute/second/
frame). During playback, the Now time increases in accordance with the
progress of the project.
You can set the Now time of the project by clicking in the Time Ruler in the
Clips pane, or (when playback is stopped) by dragging the Now time slider
in the Large Transport toolbar.
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