I can't find this in the Audacity application or in any of the forums, which strikes me as strange because it seems rather fundamental:
I'd like to request that the timeline, currently only available in min:sec, to have an option of showing bars and beats. One would have to know the bpm of a piece of audio, but if so, this would be helpful in editing, etc.
Thank you!
Peter
FR: timeline can display bars and beats
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Re: FR: timeline can display bars and beats
I've added your vote, thanks. You would be surprised how many of our users would never use an option for the timeline to display bars and beats.
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Re: FR: timeline can display bars and beats
The flip side is that we will rarely see users for whom bars and beats are a fundamental part of their working process. They are simply pushed away to other software due to the absence of a very basic feature.Gale Andrews wrote:You would be surprised how many of our users would never use an option for the timeline to display bars and beats.
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Re: FR: timeline can display bars and beats
Yes, but then Audacity isn't a sequencer anyway. Some of the users you are thinking of probably want beat matching and quantizing as well as the Timeline displaying bars and beats.steve wrote:The flip side is that we will rarely see users for whom bars and beats are a fundamental part of their working process. They are simply pushed away to other software due to the absence of a very basic feature.Gale Andrews wrote:You would be surprised how many of our users would never use an option for the timeline to display bars and beats.
I don't think the Timeline could display bars and beats by default. It would confuse grandma recording her cassettes.
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Re: FR: timeline can display bars and beats
A lot of our existing users want beat detection and more convenient time stretching.Gale Andrews wrote: Some of the users you are thinking of probably want beat matching and quantizing as well
No problem. I'd be happy for hh:mm:ss.xxx to remain the default.Gale Andrews wrote:I don't think the Timeline could display bars and beats by default. It would confuse grandma recording her cassettes.
I expect that Peter (OP) would be happy to just have it as an option - I know that I would
Not quite the same thing, but I think the closest that we have is a "Beat Per Minute labels" plug-in. It is available here: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 21#p155621ebtihal wrote:I'd like to request that the timeline, currently only available in min:sec, to have an option of showing bars and beats.
If you find it useful or have any questions regarding it, please comment in that topic.
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Re: FR: timeline can display bars and beats
Yes, I would just like it as an option. I'm not wanting Audacity to be a sequencer or a DAW. My desire for bars|beats timeline is for editing a single audio file. Ex.:
I have a four minute wav file open in Audacity, and measures 31-39 need a revision. I know its tempo is a constant bpm of 142. So here's my revised audio of meas. 31-39, I'd like to paste it over (replace) the existing meas 31-39. Lining up would be a cinch!
I have a four minute wav file open in Audacity, and measures 31-39 need a revision. I know its tempo is a constant bpm of 142. So here's my revised audio of meas. 31-39, I'd like to paste it over (replace) the existing meas 31-39. Lining up would be a cinch!