Reference Guide

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The Now time and how to use it
Controlling Playback
Here are some examples of times expressed in this format (assuming that zero is the start time):
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:
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.
Time What it means
00:00:00:00 The beginning of the project
00:05:10:00 Five minutes and ten seconds from the beginning of the project
01:30:00:00 One hour and thirty minutes into the project
00:00:00:05 Five frames into the project
Table 22.
You enter The Now time is set to
2 2:01:000
4 2 0 4:02:000
9 9:01:000
5|1:30 5:01:030
Table 23.