Markers can be used in a pretty much the same way as bookmarks - you can place them anywhere in a soundfile to distinguish certain areas of interest (e.g., areas requiring further processing) or to provide a quick way of jumping to specific locations. Markers are distinguished by green vertical lines displayed in soundfile windows (along with the corresponding labels) and on the overview strip. There is no upper limit to the number of markers (labeled with consecutive numbers) that can be associated with a single soundfile.
To set a marker:
1. Position the cursor anywhere in an active soundfile window.
2. Select the marker label. Each time you enter the Set/Remove markers dialog, the first free label is shown in the Label box. If you choose a number, which is assigned to an existing marker, this marker will be automatically removed when inserting the new one.
3. Click the Add button. The green marker lines (temporarily hidden under the yellow cursor lines) will be added to the active soundfile and to the overview strip.
4. Press the Close button to close the Set/Remove markers dialog.
In order to remove a marker, proceed as above but instead of choosing the Addcommand in step 4, click the Remove button. If you want to remove all markers, use the Remove all button in the same dialog.
To move to the area where a given marker was placed, open the Set/Remove markers dialog, select the marker label and click on the Go to button. Alternatively, choose the Go to new position (G
) command available from the Edit menu and type in ‘m’ followed by the marker label (e.g., after typing ‘m1’ you will jump to the marker labeled 1).
To move cursor to the next or previous marker use the Go to next/previous marker command from the Edit menu or press the > or < key, respectively.
Drop markers can be deployed in a soundfile during playback, e.g. to distinguish fragments that require further processing. All you have to do is initialize playback and press the ENTER
key each time you wish to mark the currently played fragment. Drop markers are labeled with consecutive numbers and can be handled (localized, removed) in exactly the same manner as ordinary markers.
NOTICE 1
For an average person it takes approximately 400 milliseconds to react to a sound stimulus. To compensate for this ‘response delay’ drop markers are placed in a soundfile with a 400 ms time shift. To change this time constant use the Response delay box in the Preferences dialog (available from the Options menu).
NOTICE 2
Markers are not permanent, i.e. the marker is not restored when the corresponding soundfile window is closed and opened again. However, you can save the current position of all markers by saving a group of soundfiles (choose Save as from the Group menu).