Good to hear about the ‘Beats and measures grid’! It really looks good and useful on the instruction video. I wish it had worked as well in reality . . . no grid shows on my Audacity screen.
Audacity 3.4.2 Program build date: Nov 16 2023 on Windows 10 version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1766)
NOT working for me neither…
Hello iBenny, that’s a comfort . . . sort of. Better yet would be if the Audacity team had made their product on a par with the boasting instruction video.
If I remember correctly there used to be a user-coded (Audacity is after all open-source) add-on years ago when I asked for just such a utility here as I was very much into creating loops back then and had trouble getting the timing just right.
It appears to be a matter of milli- if not microseconds to getting it to sound just right w/o ‘hiccups’. It took hours of trial-and-error to hit the mark. Maybe I should have tried to get that then.
But then over all Audacity is a very good tool for the price and I haven’t contributed diddly, so who am I to belly-ache?
Good reply ! 
You only get the Beats and Measure if you select it in the Timeline dropdown menu:
And note it only shows in empty space in a track, i.e. space you can record into - not pre-existing audio.
Peter
Thank you Peter. I had selected Beats and Measures before I loaded ‘Serpentine Fire’ but of course there was no empty space on the track.
I realize I’m not clear on the subject 'cause I had thought the grid would somehow be superimposed on the music and automatically timed to it.
If I insert empty space before the playing begins, then select Beats and Measures , will that work?
Göran
There seems to be no ‘Insert Silence’ function in Audacity 3.4.2 like there used to be in earlier versions. 'Guess it’s time to downgrade from the ‘New And Improved’ version 3.4.2. I never did like it anyway.
Also, I don’t have a microphone and always work with existing sound files.
There seems to be no ‘Insert Silence’ function in Audacity 3.4.2 like there used to be in earlier versions.
I have Generate > Silence in my 3.4.2 on W10
If I insert empty space before the playing begins, then select Beats and Measures , will that work?
Not if you generate silence at the beginning, as the silence is audio (albeit silent). But if you click&drag in the track’s Clip-handle drag-bar then you’ll get beats&Bards graphics before the track starts:
I realize I’m not clear on the subject 'cause I had thought the grid would somehow be superimposed on the music
I was kind of expecting that too … but it’s not so
Peter
That’s a FUNDAMENTAL info to know !
Thanks a lot !!!
Right!
@iBenny
Regarding that ‘advice’ given me I think of what Charles Darwin is quoted as saying:
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
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