Reference Guide

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The Now time and how to use it
Controlling playback
SONAR with an external device whose start time is not 0, you must offset SONAR to match the
external device’s start time. For more information, see “Synchronizing your gear” on page 1153.
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.
• Drag the Position slider in the Transport module.
• Click the transport buttons in the Transport module.
• 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 Track view Options > Click Behavior menu.
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 15.
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 16.